Joel R Vaughan

Brief Life History of Joel R

When Joel R Vaughan was born about 1829, in Big Flats, Chemung, New York, United States, his father, Frederick Vaughan Jr., was 34 and his mother, Tryal Beebe, was 34. He married Mary Keyes on 26 January 1853, in Kane, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died in 1897, in Kansas, United States, at the age of 69.

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Joel R Vaughan
1829–1897
Mary Keyes
1827–
Marriage: 26 January 1853
Mary Vaughan
1851–

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  • Joel R. Vaughn, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"

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World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1836

Historical Boundaries 1836: Chemung, New York, United States

1854

Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.

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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