Addendum to
Elizabeth Vaughan Hunt's Biography
By Robert Jones
1. According to Elizabeth's
Birth Certificate, she was born in Quarrey
Park, St. Issells Parish, Pembroke County,
Wales. The "Stepaside
LDS Branch" was located in or near St. Issells Parish, and there is a
William Vaughan listed on the Branch Records.
(See
the Stepaside LDS Branch Records on Microfilm at the Family History Library.)
2. On the 1850 U.S. Census dated the month of
October, the Vaughan Family was living in Jackson County, Illinois, which is well
south of St. Louis. They are listed in the "South
District" as Family #293 on page 253.
LDS Church Archives has a Branch Record Book for the St. Joseph,
Missouri Branch which references visits to Brother Vaughan in May and June of
1852. According to Archives, there are
no references to the Vaughan Family after June of 1852.
3. In
Elizabeth's History it says that she and her
sister Martha attended a Catholic School operated by nuns while living in St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1853, a group of French nuns started a
girl's school called, "The Sacred Heart Convent School." The
Northwest Missouri Genealogy Society, located in St. Joseph, has some information on the
Sacred Heart Convent.
4. Elizabeth's
mother, Dinah Davies Vaughan, was sealed to William Ellis Jones on December 7,
1861 in the Endowment House in Salt
Lake City, Utah. Apparently, Dinah Davies was never sealed to
William Vaughan in her lifetime. Dinah's daughter, Emmeline, was born in May of
1855 in St. Joseph.
5. The History indicates that as both
William Vaughan and Dinah Davies were from wealthy families neither of them had
to work until they joined the LDS
Church and were
ostracized by their families. However,
the 1841 Wales Census lists William, Dinah, and 11 month old Martha living in
Merthyr Tydfil on what looks like "Plymouth"
Street. William's occupation is recorded
as a "coal miner." According
to Dinah's History, she was baptized on her birthday in 1846. Assuming that William and Dinah were baptized
at about the same time, William Vaughan most likely was working as a "coal
miner" long before joining the LDS
Church. See census records at Ancestry.com and
search for "Martha Vaughan" with parents of William and Dinah in
Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales.
