Vaughan, Cornella Piper 1834-1921

VAUGHAN, PIPER, EYERLY, MASTELLER

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Date: 2/18/2013 at 14:10:37

Death Takes Aged Pioneer

Mrs. John Vaughan, Well Known Jasper County Woman, Dies Tuesday

Mrs. John Vaughan, eight-seven years old and one of the early pioneers of Jasper County, died at her home Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock, after an illness of three weeks.

Mrs. Vaughan has been in feeble health for many months and of late had lost almost complete sight of her eyes. She took seriously ill three weeks ago with a complication of diseases which were brought on by her advanced age and feeble health.

Cornella Piper Vaughan was born in January 1834, in Syracuse, New York and was the daughter of D. D. Piper, who was an early settler in Jasper County.

In 1856 she married John Vaughan in Clinton, Michigan and to this union one daughter, Florence was born. They moved to Jasper County in 1858 and located in Newton where the Vaughan family have lived ever since. Mr. Piper and Mr. Vaughan built the home in which Mrs. Vaughan died over sixty years ago of native timer. Here they lived all of their lives and it was in this house that Mr. Vaughan who was a prominent stockman died a year and a half ago.

Mr. Vaughan is the last of a family of seven children of which she was the oldest and the only near relatives who survive are W. D. Eyerly, a nephew and Mrs. J. C. Masteller of Adel, a niece and her daughter, Miss Florence Vaughan who is critically ill at the sanitarium at Mt. Pleasant where she fell some weeks ago and broke her hip.

The funeral services will be private, and will be conducted from the home Thursday morning at 10:30 o’clock, with Dr. G. C. Williams of the Congregational Church in charge. Burial will be made in the Newton Cemetery. ~ The Newton Daily News, 30 Nov 1921