Vaughn.Lucinda.1905.Crittenden.NEWS

Lucinda Vaughn 1905 NEWS
Crittenden Record-Press 7 Dec 1905

Last Tuesday Mrs. Lucinda Vaughn, who lives with her
daughter, Mrs. Sarah Elder on the Salem road, came to the
city to have Joe Stewart take her picture in honor of her
92nd birthday, which comes on the 30th inst.

Mrs. Vaughn was born in North Carolina in 1813 and moved to
this county with her father when she was only 14 months old and
he settled near Crooked Creek bridge where the famous Cross
Keys Tavern was then located.

She was married to Harry Vaughn March 29, 1832, is the mother of
9 children, 5 boys and 4 girls, all of whom have preceded her to
the grave, excepting Mrs. Sarah Elder, of this county, and Mrs.
Nancy Newcom, of Blackford, Ky.  Mrs. Vaughn has had 35 grandchildren,
10 of whom are dead, and has 67 great grandchildren, and 7 great,
great, grandchildren.  She has been a widow since Nov. 18, 1872, and 
for more than half a century has been a consistent member of the
Crooked Creek Baptist Church.


Mrs. Bennett claimed her father was intimately acquainted with 
George Washington, and that she had often seen him riding with 
Andrew Jackson.  She remembered well when her half-brother and
stepbrother returned from the War of 1812.  The bed in which she
spent the last few months of her life is over a century old, and 
the old log cabin in which she resided had been her home since she
entered it as a bride over 70 years ago.  Mrs. Bennett was the
grandmother of Zed A. Bennett, County Superintendent of Schools of
Livingston Co.



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