Vaughn, Coral Bailey - 1876-1912

BAILEY, VAUGHN

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:29

Coral Bailey was born on a farm in Jasper county, Iowa, March 18, 1876. She received her education in the village school at Vandalia and in the East High School in Des Moines and was for a time a student at Drake University. She was a successful teacher in the rural schools of Jasper County for five years and in the schools at Collins, Iowa, for two years.
She was married to Frank A. Vaughn in Des Moines Dec. 4, 1901, and together they founded a home in Grinnell, which they enjoyed until the spring of 1906, when they removed to a farm near Montezuma, where they resided until August, 1908, when they removed to Primghar. Two boys were born to gladden the hearts of the parents--Royal Worth, born Aug. 2, 1903, and Wayne Logan, born Aug. 3, 1905, who with the husband, a widowed mother, two brothers and one sister, are left to mourn the absence of one most dear.
At sixteen years of age the deceased united with the Disciples of Christ Church at Vandalia, in which Church she continued her membership until her marriage, when she transferred her membership to the Methodist Church in Grinnell, to which the husband belonged. Upon removing to Primghar the membership was again transferred to the Methodist Church, where she has been a faithful and active member until the time of her death. She lived and died in an abiding faith in her Heavenly Father.
She was called home at 12:05 Satuday morning, Feb. 24, 1912. The funeral service was conducted from the Methodist church Sunday afternoon by her pastor, Rev. C.S. Burnette, who spoke from Rev. 12:13, the subject being "The Benediction and Comfort of a Heavenly Voice." The music was furnished by a quartette composed of Prof. Wood, Maude L. Johnson, Veva Wolf, and R.E. Langley, with Miss Ruth Little as pianist. Sunday evening the husband and aged mother, who has been with her during the last weeks of sickness, accompanied the body on the journey to Vandalia, where the burial took place in the family lot in the old home cemetery.
The community mourns the loss of a good woman in the death of Sister Vaughn. She had a pleasing personality, a happy, cheerful disposition, which won for her a wide circle of friends, who deeply sympathize with Brother Vaughn and family in their great loss.--Primghar Democrat.
Source: The Grinnell (IA) Herald; March 5, 1912