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Charles Frank Vaughn, a farmer of Central Township, Jefferson County, was 
born near his present home, October 25, 1854, and is the only child of 
William and Caroline (Lee) Vaughn, the former a native of Southampton 
County, Va., who died in 1855.  Mrs. Vaughn afterward married E. J. Parker, 
by whom she had one child, Caroline (deceased).  Mrs. Parker died in 
February, 1874.  C. F. Vaughn was reared on a farm, which occupation he has 
always followed with the exception of three years spent in the lead mines 
near Vineland.  December 25, 1879, he married Annie E. Davis, a native of 
St. Louis, and a daughter of J. J. Davis, a steamboat captain. Mrs. Vaughn 
is a member of the Catholic Church. Mr. Vaughn owns 187 acres of land in 
Jefferson County, which he devotes to farming and stock raising.