Addendum to Dinah Davis/Davies Biography
By Robert Jones (rj8035@msn.com)
1. St. George Temple Records from February 1887
list William Vaughan with a birth year of 1809 and a birth place of Pembroke County,
Wales. Dinah was present at the time. The Vaughan Family came to the United States
on the ship, “Josiah Bradlee.”
The
passenger registry, located on microfilm in the Family History Library, is
dated December 1849. William Vaughan is
recorded with an age of 40, which seems to confirm the “1809” birth year.
2. According to the Glamorgan
Family History Society--Marriage Indexes for Merthyr
Tydfil, Wales,
the marriage of Dinah Davies and William Vaughan took place on May 17.
1834.
3. According to St. George Temple Records from
February 1887, William Vaughan’s death occurred in 1852.
4. Dinah’s second husband, William Ellis Jones,
was born to parents named John and Catherine.
It would be highly coincidental if William Vaughan’s parents were also
named John and Catherine. Based on the
names of the Vaughan
children, it seems unlikely that both
sets of Dinah’s in-laws shared the same names.
5. 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.
6. 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.
