Brief Life History of James Daniel
When James Daniel Vaughan was born on 14 March 1821, in Virginia, United States, his father, Willis Vaughan, was 33 and his mother, Lievenia Phebe Fowlkes, was 18. He married Maryann Shipley Parker on 1 July 1848, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, United States in 1880. He died about 1895, in Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Gideon, Cherokee, Oklahoma, United States.
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- James Vaughan, "United States Census, 1880"
- James D Vaughan, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- James Daniel Vaughan, "Find A Grave Index"
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1824 · "Mary Randolph Publishes ""The Virginia Housewife"""
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
Name Meaning
Welsh: from fychan, a lenited form of bychan, a diminutive of bach ‘little’. This was often used to distinguish the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, typically the son of a father with the same name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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