~~VAUGHT*CROM*CRUM*JOHNSON*DEVORE*ROOSA~~
~~VAN VLIET*ROOSEVELT*HATFIELD*BROYLES~~1
Christian VAUGHT was born about 1720 in Prussia, Germany and died before 1782 in Derry Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was married to Hanna CRUM who was born April 12th, 1733 in Somerset County, New Jersey and died unknown. The children of Christian VAUGHT and Hanna CRUM were: Christian, Simeon, Gilbert, Abraham, John, Hannah, Christina and William VAUGHT.
~~The wife of Christian VAUGHT, Hanna CRUM was the daughter of Gysbert CROM who was born November 24th 1700 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York and Martha JOHNSON who was born about 1706 in Fredericks County, Maryland and died in 1784 in Fredericks County, Maryland. Martha was the daughter of J. Cornelius JOHNSON and Martha DEVORE. ~~
~~Gysbert CROM was the son of Willem CROM and Wyntje ROOSA. Willem CROM was born about 1679 in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York and died unknown. He was the son of Gysbert CROM Sr. and Girtie Van VLIET. Wyntje ROOSA was born October 15th, 1680 probably in Kingston, Ulster County, New York and died unknown. She was the daughter of Heyman Aldertse ROOSA and Anna Margaret ROOSEVELT. Research is continuing on these lines.~~
William VAUGHT Sr., was born in 1758 in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland and died unknown. He was the son of Christian VAUGHT and Hanna CRUM. Spouse is unknown at this time. the children of William VAUGHT Sr., were: Hiram, William Jr., Isaac, Elizabeth, ? Vaught, Catherine and John VAUGHT.
John VAUGHT was born after 1780 in possibly Tennessee and died in 1841 in Alabama. He was the son of William VAUGHT Sr. and UNKNOWN. He was married to Nancy HATFIELD who was born in 1786 in Alabama and died in 1844 in Alabama. The children of John VAUGHT and Nancy HATFIELD were: Benjamin Franklin, Malinda, Rebecca, John Berry and Samuel Caswell VAUGHT.
Samuel Caswell VAUGHT was born June 12th, 1814 in Cherokee Nation, Jackson County, Alabama and died July 28th, 1861 in Mountainburg, Crawford County, Arkansas. He was married to Sarah Ann BROYLES on August 6th, 1835 in Coffeetown, Jackson County, Alabama. Sarah Ann BROYLES was born in 1818 and died in 1904. The children of Samuel Caswell VAUGHT and Sarah Ann BROYLES were: James K. VAUGHT.
James K. VAUGHT was born about 1846 and was the son of Samuel Caswell VAUGHT and Sarah Ann BROYLES. He died on May 28th, 1886. He was married to Caldonia KILLINGSWORTH (See KILLINGSWORTH page) in 1866 by Squire Ben Dyer near Frog Bayou in Crawford County, Arkansas and 2. Elizabeth E SCHRADER on May 15th, 1870. Caldonia KILLINGSWORTH died on January 31st, 1870 of Consumption. James and Elizabeth went on to have 8 children. The children of James K. VAUGHT and Caldonia KILLINGSWORTH were: Sarah and Paralee Eleanor VAUGHT.
Paralee Eleanor VAUGHT was born on June 7th, 1869 and died July 21st, 1941. She was the daughter of Caldonia KILLINGSWORTH and James VAUGHT. She married Joseph Thomas TEAGUE (TEAGUE page under construction) on October 1st, 1885. Joseph was the son of Lorenzo Dow TEAGUE and Dicie Jane RAGSDALE. (RAGSDALE page under construction) The children of Paralee VAUGHT and Joseph TEAGUE were: Infant Teague, Ada Caldonia, Lorenzo (Lo) Aldophis, Esther Drusilla, Ruie Alta, Lillian Aleta, Lenora Gladys, Leo Burl, Infant Teague (twin of Leo), Sarah Alice and Beulah Irene TEAGUE. (See TEAGUE page)
INFORMATION REGARDING THE VAUGHT FAMILY
VAUGHT CEMETERY, taken from THE ARKANSAS HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Autumn, 1955.
The site of the Vaught Cemetery, which is about five miles northeast of
Mountainburg in the Big Frog Valley, will be covered with water when the dam
above Lake Fort Smith is completed and its reservoir fills. This dam was
authorized by the city of Fort Smith to create an additional water supply for
the city. According to the contract for building the dam, it will be completed
in early 1956.
This century-old cemetery has been used as their burial ground as long as the
present generation can remember. A report from B.A. McConnell who had the
contract for removing the graves, states that "488 graves were moved from the
original Vaught Cemetery and 18 graves from an old cemetery on East - making 506
graves in the new Vaught Cemetery." The site of the new Vaught Cemetery is three
and a half miles south of the old location. It is on Highway 71 and near the
Shepherd Springs road. This new cemetery was dedicated on Sunday, Aug. 28, 1955.
Many soldiers, one dating back to the War of 1812, are buried in this cemetery.
It was started on land once owned by Samuel Caswell Vaught. He settled near
Fayetteville in 1842 but removed to Crawford County in 1846 and established his
home on the road between Mountainburg (the Narrows, then) and what is now known
as Winfrey. About 1850 Caswell Vaught buried an old Cherokee Indian in one
corner of his land down by the Big Frog Creek. This Indian had attached himself
to the family and befriended them during their first days in the valley. Later
Caswell gave the plot to the community to use as a burial ground.
Caswell, himself, at the age of 47, was buried there in 1861 and all seven sons
(four of them soldiers) sleep near their father's grave. His wife survived him
many years and cared for her family through the hectic days of the War Between
the States and the Reconstruction Period. Her youngest son, Doctor Mitchell, was
but five years old at the time of his father's death. In 1953, records were
secured from the National Archives of the Adjutant General's Office, Washington,
D.C., which furnished the necessary data to secure a government stone for the
grave of Caswell Vaught. It bears this inscription:
Caswell Vaught, Pvt. Capt. Coffey's Mtd. Ala. Vol.
Indian Wars
June 12, 1814 - July 28, 1861
Sarah Ann Broyles, 1818-1904 "She raised his seven sons to manhood in this
valley".
Recently records have been secured from the Archives of the Arkansas History
Commission in Little Rock, which, with other necessary data, will form basis to
petition the Memorial division of the Quartermaster's Department to place stones
on the graves of two of Caswell's sons, John B. and Andrew Marion. These will be
placed in the new cemetery to which those buried in the Vaught Cemetery will be
moved. "Little Jim" the fourth son 15 years old at the outbreak of the war and
who enlisted in the Federal army at the age of 16, serving throughout the war,
already has a government stone.
THE VAUGHT STORY
Samuel Caswell Vaught (he was always called Caswell as it was a German custom of
that time to use the middle name) was born in the Cherokee Nation in that part
which later became Alabama. He was married to Sarah Broyles (born May 24, 1818)
on Aug. 6, 1835 near Coffeetown, Jackson County, Alabama. They were the parents
of seven sons, two of who were born in Alabama. These sons were: John B. born
1839, William born July 18, 1841: Andrew Marian (Mack), Oct. 13, 1844: James J.
(Corp. Jim) 1846: Allen: Jake: Doctor Mitchell, 1856-1900. Four of these sons
served in the War Between the States, three with the Confederate Arm and one
with Federal.
These sons grew to manhood and lived their lives rearing their families in the
valley above Mountainburg. The writer (Elsa Vaught, wife of Walter W. Vaught)
having lived for 22 years on Mt. Gayler, the west rim of this valley and being
well acquainted with folks in the area is of the opinion that half the native
population here has some Vaught blood in its veins. Since our pioneer, Caswell
Vaught, had a brother Berry Vaught (who had six sons and six daughters) who
settled near Caddo Gap about the same time and another brother, Ben settled in
Southern Missouri, there are many Vaughts now living in the Arkansas, Texas,
Oklahoma and Missouri.
As Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught of Oklahoma City, says in the "Partial History
of the Vaught Family", "One striking characteristic of the Vaught family aside
from their large families is found in the given names. Such names as Christley,
Casper, Caswell, Charles, Jefferson, Andrew, James, George, Peter, John appear
in almost every generation before 1850. "This history also disclosed that the
earliest Vaughts (Vought, Voght, Vogt, Faught, Vault) to arrive in America came
from the Palatinate in Germany. One Simon Vaught was a member of a party of
Lutherans headed by Rev. Josiah Kockerthall who sent to England in 1708 to
petition the English Monarch Queen Anne, to give them a tract of land in the new
world. A tract along the Hudson River was granted to them and in 1708 the first
shipload of these Palatinates, among them Simon Vaught, settled in New York. A
second shipload came in 1710. Later arrivals came to Pennsylvania in 1736 and
still other members of the family landed at Charleston, S.C. prior to 1750.
Letters show that from the S.C. Vaughts there were migrations to Florida and
other southern states.......
Other names found in the Vaught Cemetery are: Anderson, Cartwright, Conley,
Dyer, France, Hair, Hatfield, Johnson, Marlar, Miller, Moore, Mooney, Orlick(?)
(Orrucj), Parker, Pense, Peters, Rankin, Reed, Renfro, Sebourn, Shepherd,
Wakefield, Wells, Wright. There are many graves with native stone markers with
no inscription.
James Vaught
James Vaught
was in Co. A, 1st Arkansas Infantry. Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 14,
page 379, written by Elsa Vaught.
James "Little Jim" K. Vaught served in the Union Army. His Headstone bears this
inscription: Corp. Jas. Vaught, Co. A, 1st Ark. Inf.
The story handed down of Little Jim states that after his fathers death there
were bands from both North and South that were active in the valley. At one time
a company of Federals were camped not far from the widow Vaught's home. One
morning a Federal officer with some men rode up to the cabin on a galloping
horse, brandishing a gun and demanded food (drinking was going on continually at
the camp). Son Jim who was then 16 years old grabbed the gun, toppling him from
his horse, killing him. Jim was arrested and taken to Ft. Smith. He was tried
for murder, found guilty and sentenced to die. His mother rode horseback all the
way to Ft. Smith to plead for the life of her son. She told about the death of
her husband when he was only forty-seven and who had fought for his country in
the Indian Wars of Alabama: how he said when the war started that he didn't
think he could ever fight against the U.S. Three times this pioneer mother made
the trip to Ft. Smith on horseback. Each time her pleading brought a reprieve.
Finally a guard had compassion for this mother and her son, now 17 years old,
and he said to young Jim, "Why don't you run away? I won't be looking" But Jim
said, "What good? They'd just bring me back." "No" said the guard, "I'll tell
you what to do. Just head for Waldron where they are enlisting men in the army,
and you'll be all right." Next heard of, he is Corp. Jas. Vaught, Co. A, First
Ark. Inf. Somehow Jim got a bridle the day he ran away, and all the way down to
Waldron he was "looking for his horse". "Have you seen a stray mare anywhere?"
was his stock question. Being just a boy he made it and enlisted in the Union
Army, serving his country well through the war.
This is the version told by James Schrader of the imprisonment, brother of Elizabeth Schrader who became the wife of James Vaught after the death of Caldonia. According to James Vaught's Pension Records, he along with others were forced to protect themselves and their Mothers property by joining a company of boys and old men for home protection. Elizabeth Schrader's brother, James K. P. Schrader, told this story in his deposition. He said they were taken to Ft. Smith, AR. and there was a court martial, because the Union Army thought they had enlisted in the Confederate Army and now were in the Union Army. He (James Schrader) said they were acquitted and joined the Union Army. However, it is the belief that the Home Protection was Confederate, not Union.
Source:D. Clagg
JOHN BERRY AND SARAH VAUGHT
Courtesy of D.CLAGG