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The following obituary for Mary Ellender "Mollie" Evans, daughter of John Vaughn and Martha Jane (Parton) Vaughn, was published in the Wayne County Democrat in 1932.
Mrs. Evans Dies At Age Of 90
Mary E[llender] Evans passed away at Lineville April 23, 1939 at the age of 90 years. Funeral services were conducted at the home of where she lived for 56 years. Services were conducted by the Rev. E. C. Folchie of Me. Church, South assisted by Rev. Roy Donaldson of the apostolic church.
Funeral in charge of Greenlee Funeral home, interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
OBITUARY
Mary E[llender], daughter of John Vaughn and Martha, was born in Kentucky April 18, 1849 and passed away April 23, 1939 in Lineville at the age of 90.
She was married to James G[ideon] Evans the 16th day of March 1873 at the house of John Vaughn in Wayne County, Iowa.
Five children were born to this union, Charles Evans of Mercer: Ida Evans, Elizabeth Russil [Russell], Mary Evans, deceased, and James G. Evans also deceased.
She has lived her entire life in Wayne County and has lived in this house for 56 years.
She leaves to mourn the loss of a dear and precious mother, Charles Evans of Mercer, Elizabeth Russil [Russell] of Centerville and Ida Evans of the home. Also one brother Pete Vaughn [Arthur Francis "Pete" Vaughn] near Woodland.
The grandmother of 10 children and a host of sorrowing neighbors and friends. [sic] James Evans died October 8, 1880 so she had the care of her family alone of life journey. [sic] She gave her heart to the Lord in her youth and has served him continually up to the time she was called home. Her fellowship with her Master in her last days was one of continual days of fellowship with him, her Lord. [End of obituary]
In family records, I discovered this brief autobiograpical note: "Mary Ellender Evans was born April 18, 1849, . . . married to James G. Evans March 16, 1873, . . . born in Wayne County, Kentucky April 8, 1849. My father John Vaughn was born in Kentucky. My mother Martha J. Vaughn was born in North Carolina. My husband James G. Evans was born March 23, 1847 [in] Iowa or Tennessee. James G. died November 8, 1880 in Wayne County, Iowa. I come [sic] to Wayne County, Iowa, as the war closed in 1865."
Other sources record that the Vaughn family left Cole County, Missouri, at the end of the Civil War and settled just over the Iowa border in Wayne County, Iowa. Already established in Wayne County, Stephen Vaughn was John's brother and Stephen's wife Mary Jane Nicholas Vaughn was niece to John's wife. All these Vaughns and many of their descendants were buried in the Evergreen Cemetery on the north side of Lineville.
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