This Week On My Family History Calendar

 

Oct. 20~
  My paternal 4th great-grandmother, Emily Elizabeth (Vaughn) Dargan (1795-1863) was born 224 years ago. She lived most of her life in Sumter District, South Carolina, and may have been born there as well. Her parents were William Vaughn (1764-1857) and Alice (Cook) Vaughn (1774-1859).



Oct. 22~
  Loretta "Etta" (McManus) Daughrity (1894-1936), my maternal great grandmother was born 127 years ago in Sumter County, South Carolina. Her parents were William A. McManus (1854-1914) and Frances "Fannie" Virginia (McRady) McManus (1856-1903).  Etta is said to have been adopted. 

Loretta "Etta" (McManus) Daughrity
About 1904

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Oct. 20~
  My paternal 4th great grandmother, Emily Elizabeth (Vaughn) Dargan (1795-1863) was born 223 years ago. She lived most of her life in Sumter District, South Carolina, and may have been born there as well. Her parents were William Vaughn (1764-1857) and Alice (Cook) Vaughn (1774-1859).



Oct. 22~
  Loretta "Etta" (McManus) Daughrity (1894-1936), my maternal great grandmother was born 126 years ago in Sumter County, South Carolina. Her parents were William A. McManus (1854-1914) and Frances "Fannie" Virginia (McRady) McManus (1856-1903).  Etta is said to have been adopted. 

Loretta "Etta" (McManus) Daughrity
About 1904

Oct. 24~
    The 27th anniversary of the death of my paternal great grandmother is on this day. Emma Ruth (Baker) Early (1901-1993) died in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina from congestive heart failure at the age of 92.  She is buried in Sumter Cemetery, Sumter, South Carolina.

Emma Ruth (Baker) Early
Marker
Sumter City Cemetery, Sumter, South Carolina

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October 20-October 26

Oct. 20~
  My paternal 4th Great Grandmother, Emily Elizabeth (Vaughn) Dargan (1795-1863) was born 219 years ago. She lived most of her life in Sumter District, South Carolina and may have been born there as well. Her parents were William Vaughn (1764-1857) and Alice (Cook) Vaughn (1774-1859).



Oct. 22~
  Loretta "Etta" (McManus) Daughrity (1894-1936), my maternal great grandmother was born 125 years ago in Sumter County, South Carolina. Her parents were William A. McManus (1854-1914) and Frances "Fannie" Virginia (McRady) McManus (1856-1903).  Etta is said to have been adopted. 

Loretta "Etta" (McManus) Daughrity
About 1904

Oct. 24~
    The 26th anniversary of the death of my paternal great grandmother is on this day. Emma Ruth (Baker) Early (1901-1993) died in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina from congestive heart failure at the age of 92.  She is buried in Sumter Cemetery, Sumter, South Carolina.

Emma Ruth (Baker) Early
Marker
Sumter City Cemetery, Sumter, South Carolina

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October 13-October 19

Oct. 13~
  The 107th wedding anniversary of my maternal great grandparents, Manning David Daughrity, Jr. (1889-1931) and Loretta (McManus) Daughrity (1834-1936). David was 23 and Etta 17 when they married in Bishopville, Lee, South Carolina. 

David and Etta Daughrity
Marriage License 

   
 My 5th great grandmother, Mary (Strother) Dargan (1772-1822) died 197 years ago in Sumter District, South Carolina. 



Oct. 20~
  My paternal 4th Great Grandmother, Emily Elizabeth (Vaughn) Dargan (1795-1863) was born 222 years ago. She lived most of her life in Sumter District, South Carolina and may have been born there as well. Her parents were William Vaughn (1764-1857) and Alice (Cook) Vaughn (1774-1859).

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Tombstone Tuesday-Revolutionary War Patriot

William Vaughn, my paternal 5th great grandfather was born in May of 1764 in North Hampton County North Carolina.

He served as a private in the Calvary from Sumter District, S.C. during the Revolutionary War.

 From "The South Carolina Pension Report of Sumter District Residents, 1835", William is recorded as aged 80 with an annual allowance of $83.33. The pension began on 24, January 1834 and he had received a total amount of  $249.99.

A Bounty Land Application was filled out by William Vaughn on 2 April 1855 in Sumter District at the age of 90. 

William Vaughn
1855 Bounty Land Grant Application
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It's not known at this time if the land was granted to William. He did on 23 September 1857 and is buried in the Dargan Cemetery in Sumter, South Carolina.

William Vaughn Headstone
Dargan Cemetery
Sumter, South Carolina 

Obituary

“Death of a Revolutionary Soldier” Yorkville Enquirer, (South Carolina), 1 Oct. 1857, p. 2, col. 7, digital images, Chronicling America (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov: accessed 04 May 2015)

A wonderful description of the life of my 5th great grandfather. He was admired as a great patriot:

"It is said that his hatred for the tories was proverbial, and the the mention of them in his presence, even during the last years of this life, wold always draw from him some expression of this feelings toward them."

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October 16-October 22

Oct. 20~
  My paternal 4th Great Grandmother, Emily Elizabeth (Vaughn) Dargan (1795-1863) was born 219 years ago. She lived most of her life in Sumter District, South Carolina and may have been born there as well. Her parents were William Vaughn (1764-1857) and Alice (Cook) Vaughn (1774-1859).

Oct. 22~
  Loretta "Etta" (McManus) Daughrity (1894-1936), my maternal Great Grandmother was born 122 years ago in Sumter County, South Carolina. Her parents were William A. McManus (1854-1914) and Frances "Fannie" Virginia (McRady) McManus (1856-1903).  

Etta Daughrity
Sumter, South Carolina

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Oct. 18-Oct. 24

Oct. 20~
  My paternal 4th Great Grandmother, Emily Elizabeth (Vaughn) Dargan (1795-1863) was born 218 years ago. She lived most of her life in Sumter District, South Carolina and may have been born there as well. Her parents were William Vaughn (1764-1857) and Alice (Cook) Vaughn (1774-1859).

Oct. 22~
  Loretta "Etta" (McManus) Daughrity (1894-1936), my maternal Great Grandmother was born 121 years ago in Sumter County, South Carolina. Her parents were William A. McManus (1854-1914) and Frances "Fannie" Virginia (McRady) McManus (1856-1903).  Etta is said to have been adopted. 

Loretta "Etta" (McManus) Daughrity
About 1904

Oct. 24~
    The 22nd anniversary of the death of my paternal Great Great Grandmother is on this day. Emma Ruth (Baker) Early (1901-1993) died in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina from congestive heart failure at the age of 92.  She is buried in Sumter Cemetery, Sumter, South Carolina.

Emma Ruth (Baker) Early
Marker
Sumter City Cemetery, Sumter, South Carolina

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Oct. 19-Oct. 24

Oct. 20~
   Emily Elizabeth Vaughn Dargan (1797-1865), my paternal 4th Great Grandmother was born on this day 217 years ago. She was the daughter of William Vaughn (1764-1857) and Alice Cook Vaughn (1774-1859).  She may have been born in the Sumter County area of South Carolina.

Oct. 22~
   My maternal Great Grandmother, Loretta McManus Daughrity (1894-1936) was born in Sumter County, South Carolina 120 years ago. She was the daughter of William Amos McManus (1854-1914) and Francis Virginia McRady McManus (1856-1903).

Oct. 24~
    This day is the 21st anniversary of the death of my paternal Great Grandmother, Emma Ruth Baker Early (1901-1993), Ruth died  of congestive heart failure in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina. She is buried in the Sumter City Cemetery in Sumter, South Carolina.

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Tombstone Tuesday-Wm and Alice Vaughn: A Soldier and his Consort

Buried in the Dargan Cemetery in Sumter County, SC

William Vaughn

Photo Courtesy of Michael Dillingham 

 Sacred to the Memory of

Wm Vaughn who departed this life

 Sept. 23, 1857 aged 93 yrs., 4 mos.

                                                

  Alice Cook Vaughn

Photo Courtesy of Michael Dillingham 

Mrs. Alice Vaughn

Born July 24 1774   Died Mar. 8, 1859

Consort of Wm Vaughn Soldier of 76 of Sumter District

Age 84 years, 7 months, and 12 days.  

 These headstones are the last remaining stones in the Dargan Cemetery in Sumter, SC. The cemetery is now on private property and the other stones have been lost or removed by various people over the years. The current owners were kind enough to let the photographer, Michael Dillingham, take these photos to place on Find A Grave just a few months ago in order to fulfill my request for pictures.

©Cheri Hudson Passey