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Joseph Elkanah Vaughan, liveryman, and son of James and Matilda (Rader) Vaughan, was born near Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tenn., February 9, 1836. The father was a native of Eastern Virginia, a mill-wright by occupation, and the son of James Vaughan, Sr., who was also a native of Virginia, but who moved to Hawkins County, Tenn., at a very early period in the history of the State. Peter Rader, the maternal grandfather of Joseph E. Vaughan, was born in Pennsylvania, and was of German ancestry. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood in Washington County, Tenn., and spent some time in the livery business, at Wytheville, Va., where he was engaged in business at the opening of the late Civil War. In the latter part of 1862 he was appointed to the commissary department, Confederate army, of Virginia, and served in that State, Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee through the entire war, surrendering at Bristol Va. After Cessation of hostilities he engaged in the livery business at Bristol, Va., and after spending short periods in Kentucky and Tennessee he came to Arkansas in 1871, locating in Fayetteville, of that State, and engaged in his former business, which he has continued up to the present, and at which he has been very successful. Miss Mary E. Haun, daughter of Christopher and Mary A. (Scott) Haun, became his wife. She was born in Tennessee, and by her marriage became the mother of six children, three sons and three daughters: James C. (manufacturer, of Atlanta, Ga.), Robert Lee, Cordie, Rufus A., Mollie M., Daisy Ducker. Mr. Vaughan, his wife and eldest son are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and she is a member of the Ladies’ Missionary Society of the same. Mr. Vaughan has served in the city councils of Fayetteville, and he is a member of the I. O. O. F.