Vaughn, Joseph bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 932, Vermont Township
Joseph Vaughn, farmer, sec. 24; P. O., Ipava; was born in Washington Co., Pa., in 1808. His father, Jas. Vaughn, was also born in Penn., and married Mary Schneider, by whom he had 10 children, Joseph being the eldest but one. When the latter was about 11 years of age the family moved to Ohio, and four years afterward to Virginia, where Joseph married Lavina Huff, daughter of John Huff. To those were born 9 children. Mrs. V. died in 1863, and in 1865 Mr. V. married Mrs. Margaret Mitchell, daughter of Robert Robinson and relict of John Mitchell. Of their five children four are living, - Mervin, Sarah, Lauriette and Robert.