The Surname Of Vaughn.

These are just little shorts, they may give some information you may not have known about your Vaughn ancestor.
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Martha Vaughn and Mrs. Louisa Jackman, then residents of Kentucky, in March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, did, by their patriotic exertions, save the State of Kentucky from great devastation of property and sacrifice of life by conveying information of the plans of the rebel General Pegram, then invading the said State, which they had artfully acquired, to Colonel Frank Woolford, of the Union Army; and Whereas the information thus conveyed did, in all human probability, save the State of Kentucky from rebel control; and Whereas, in consideration of such patriotic hazard and daring in conveying this valuable information, and the immense benefits secured to the nation thereby, in the property captured from General Pegram and his expulsion from the State, as well as the great sacrifices thus prevented, it is but right and proper that such acts should be encouraged by suitable rewards and national recognition
Note they each received $5,000, dollars.
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Annie Vaughn , received a pension she is the widow of Daniel Vaughn , who was a private in the 58th, Pennsylvania Volunteers,
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James Vaughn, was a First Lieutenant and Assistant Quartermaster in the Tennessee Volunteers.
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Claiborn Vaughn, on the pension list of Georgia, at $6, dollars per month.
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In 1874, Daniel J. Vaughn, was being nominated to be pension agent at Portsmouth, N. H.
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1867, Angus Vaughn, of Alabama, to be receiver of public moneys for the district of lands subject to sale at Mobile, Alabama.
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!868, The citizens of North Carolina, praying the removal of the disabilities imposed on William Vaughn, Frank Vaughn, of Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
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1851, Augustus M. Vaughn, William E. Vaughn, clerks in the post office at Norfolk, in the State of Virginia, asking for an increase of salary.
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1852, William P. Vaughn, administrator of E. Vaughn, deceased, praying for compensation for a horse lost in the Mexican service.
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1832, To refund to Thomas C. Vaughn, of Mississippi, the amount of money, and interest thereon paid, for so much of fractional sections number 30 and 37, of township ten, range one east, as was paid, the quantity of land over and above the true contents of said fractional sections; and that the said committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing Thomas C. Vaughn, or the legal holder of confirmed claim No. 29, of township 10, of range one east, in the district west of Pearl river, to locate so much of said claim on any of the unappropriated lands of the United States within the State of Mississippi, as has been sold and conveyed by the General Government to other persons.
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THIRD TENNESSEE REGIMENT, PROVISIONAL ARMY.
Colonel , John C. Vaughn, of Tennessee, to take rank May 3, 1861.
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1861, Richard C. Vaughn, of Missouri, to be receiver of public moneys for the district of lands subject to sale at Nebraska City, Nebraska Territory;
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1847, I nominate James Vaughn, of Tennessee, to be assistant quartermaster with the rank of captain, in the military service of the United States.
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COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT.
Major, Andrew J. Vaughn, of Maryland, 1861.
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1852, Phebe Vaughn, heir of John Mowry, Praying to be allowed land and other compensation for the services of said Mowry in the revolutionary war and in the last war with Great Britain.
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.C. S. A.

George H. Vaughn, Horace, to be captains, under act approved October 11, 1862.
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1863, C. S. A.

Capt. William H. Vaughn in relation to horses lost in the service.
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Major by Brevet, Thomas F. Vaughn, late captain of the Springfield, Illinois, Light Artillery, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
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1870, Elisha B. Vaughn, of Virginia, praying the removal of his political disabilities.
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1844, William B. Vaughn, of Kensington, in the State of Pennsylvania, for an extension of time to him for the performance of a contract entered into with the Board of Navy Commissioners for the delivery of live-oak timber.
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1863, Captain, George H. Vaughn, of Missouri, to be captain, to raise a company in Missouri, to rank from March 3, 1863.
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1858, Vernon H. Vaughn, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, of all legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of the amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
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1869, I nominate Edwin Vaughn, of New Hampshire, to be consul of the United States at Coaticook.
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Major by Brevet, Thomas F. Vaughn, late captain of the Springfield (Illinois) Light Artillery, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
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1837, Westley Vaughn, of the State of Missouri, praying for the passage of an act granting to him a pre-emption right in the purchase of one hundred and sixty acres of land, embracing his respective improvements.
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Side note. In the civil war there were 1,180, Vaughn for the north, and 1,357 for the south.