RE: East Kentuckian Library: Periodicals Sec. 900 Webster Street Fort Wayne Indiana 46802Vaughan Family
Letter from James E. Vaughan, Lee Rice Farm Delapline, Arkansas 72425, 24 Aug 1971 correspondance.
WILLIAM PATRICk VAUGHAN AND FAIR-A-DEE-LUNA (INDIAN NAME)
Accounts of marriage to a "Welsh trader" William Patrick Vaughan to an Cherokee Princes known as Fair-a-Bee-Lunah (known now as Western North Carolina).
This is told by Henry P. Scalf of Stanville, Kentucky when he was an editor of the Floyd Co., Times at Prestensburg, Kentucky. The story is told in the scalf's pamphlet titled VOICES OF OLD MEN, reportedly the result of the testimony of older Vaughan descendants during court proceedings in the case of Nellie Burchett Hokiase versus other heirs to the estate of clarence Hokiashe, an Osage Indian. It was Mrs. Hokiashe's intent to prove that she was part Indian - as a result of Cherokee blood from the Burchett side of ther family via the Vaughans. She was able to prove this, as detailed in Scalf's story, and thus preserve her husband's estate for herself and her only child. Fro this accoun, it seems the William Parrick and his Cherokee wife had three children of record - Ayres T. Vaughan, William Vaughan and Molly Vaughan and "others." Ayres T. was buried in the Vaughan cemetery near Patrick Swirl Kentucky. The headmarker at his grave carries the dates 1742 - Feb. 18 1842. presumably the birth and death dates of Ayres T Vaughan the son of William Patrick and Fair-a-Bee-Lunah who sired the "Upper Big Sandy Clan of Vaughan.s"
According to court testimony (and the Hokiashe proceedings took place around 1942-45, we believe) the other son of record, William Vaughan accompanied his brother-in-law Phillip Hart, to Northwest Arkansas Territory "around the turn of the century." The daughter Molly was a small child at the time. now Northwest Arkansas." They were credited with naming the Boston Mountains, although it is not clear to me wheather this was son William or "Old William Patrick." Molly Vaughan was said to have married a STONE, and it is my further understanding that the late Conn Pinckley Call of Eureka Springs was related to the Vaughans via her Great Grandmother Molly. Other information is available in Scalf's pamphlet and in the writings of Mrs. Call; however, these are the essential facts that I have been able to glean from these writings, as they seem to pertain to this particular Vaughan's lineage..Continued inside on page 18"
SORRY SOME OF MY PAGES THE BASIC POST EDITOR ISN'T WORINGK? DON'T KNOW WHY??
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