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Samuel Vaughn Cemetery

Laud Cem # 683      T2S, R12W, Sec 34            
Surveyed June 2016 by Robert Torbert            
            
Location:  From Florence, go W on AL 20; Lt on CR 14 just beyond Eleven Grove Church to mailbox 7976 on the Lt side of the Rd. Contact David Murphy at Murphy Brothers Landscaping for permission to visit the cemetery.  It is in the middle of the pasture to the N of the driveway, with a fence around it.  Two of the stones are broken, with pieces missing.  Another reported stone says 9 yr old boy killed in hunting accident            
            
Other Information:            
1850 Census of Laud Co AL                     1860 Census of Laud Co AL    
Samuel Vaughn   c1790  VA  Farmer        John P. Houston  c1830 TN  Phycisian    
Nancy                c1814 NC                     Virginia V. (Vaughn) c1840 AL    
Virginia              c1840 AL                     Lizzie A.   C1859  AL (7 months)    
Pleasant             c1885 VA Overseer            
Sarah Armstead  c1849  AL            
            
1870 Census of Laud Co AL            
Jennie Houston  c1840 AL            
Lizzie                c1860 AL            
Samuel             c1862 AL            
Ross                 c1864 AL            
Mary                 c1865 AL            
Nancy               c1867 TX            
Joseph              c1869 TX            
            
Virginia M. Vaughn married John P Houston 7AP1857 in Laud Co AL; she died in Waco TX in 1881 & is buried in 1st Street Cem.  John P. Houston c1831 TN died in 1871 & is buried in 1st Street Cem.  He served as Pvt in the 43rd Reg TN Inf in CSA. They had a daughter: Elizabeth Allen 14MY1860 - 28DE1935 who married Judge Benjamin Franklin Ballard & died in Laredo TX.            
 

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