VAUGHAN, Harry H. 1894-1932

VAUGHN, VAUGHAN, BROWN

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 10/26/2018 at 12:16:44

Clayton County Register, Thur., 8 Aug. 1932.

Funeral services for Harry Vaughn, aged 38 years, were held Saturday afternoon at the Sixteen school house with burial at Sixteen. He was found dead Thursday morning on a farm on Gerry Mound Ridge having been shot.

(Note: The IGPP shows a dual gravestone for D. T. Vaughan, 1870 - 1953, and his son, Harry Vaughan, 1894 - 1932, buried in the Sixteen Cemetery. Nothing more could be found in newspapers this contributor has access to regarding the circumstances of the death of Harry Vaughn / Vaughan, or a further obituary.)

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Added by Richard O'Brien on 10/24/2018:

Ancestry.com has copy of his Death Certificate listing death from a self inflicted gun shot.
Allamakee Death Records list date of Death as 01 Sep 1932. Harry Vaughn had a obit in the 1932 edition of the Waukon Republican Standard and the Allamakee Journal. The two obits list date of death as 01 Sep 1932. The Woodmansee Book lists date of Death as 01 Sep 1932.

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Added by S. Ferrall 10/26/2018:

Harry Harrison Vaughan was born in Aurora, Kane County, Illinois August 28, 1894 and died September first 1932, at the age of 38 years, and three days.

He leaves to mourn his passing one brother, 2 sisters, his father, mother, 3 uncles, Jess Vaughan and family of McGregor, Joe Vaughan and family, of Waterville, Jim Vaughan and family, of Dazey, N. Dakota, and one aunt, Mrs. Sim Brown and family of Luana, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held in the Sixteen school house on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 3, 1932 by the Rev. Louis H. Joslin, Minister at First Methodist church, Monona, Iowa. Interment was made in the Sixteen cemetery.
~Monona Leader, Thursday, September 8, 1932