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Fielding Vaughn, Sr. (Green County, Kentucky, farmer.)

b. 1801-04-21 d. 1885-11-23

Green County, Kentucky, farmer. Green County, Kentucky, native. Son of Reuben Vaughn. Married to Eliza Gum Vaughn in Green County, Kentucky, on November 16, 1824. Father of Fielding Vaughn, Jr., Milton A. Vaughn, Elbert C. Vaughn, Granville H. Vaughn, Elizabeth J. Vaughn, Lucius C. Vaughn, Thadeus L. Vaughn, William S.G. Vaughn, and Martha E. Vaughn. Resident of Green County, Kentucky, in 1840. Owned seven enslaved persons in Green County in 1840. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Green County in 1848. Farmer in Green County in 1850. Owned twenty-nine enslaved persons in Green County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Green County from 1855 to 1857. Farmer in Green County in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Green County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, p. 215.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 80B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 641.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 64B.

Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954, Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, Green County Marriages, Film 000595013.

William B. Allen, A History of Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert, 1872), p. 394.

Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Richard H. Collins, 1877), p. 295.

"Fielding W. Vaughn (1801-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial 9595575, accessed March 31, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9595575.

Citation

Vaughn, Fielding, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280916 (November 12, 2026).

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