James Andrew Vaughan

  General Notes:

The WWI Draft Registration for James Andrew Vaughan records his date of birth as Sept 5, 1887 in Como, NC. He is a Lawyer at Spoon & Cotton at 14 Wall Street in New York City, NY. He was a Captain in Company A., Infantry. He is 6' 1/2" and medium build with brown eyes and dark hair.

The 1930 Federal Census for Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, District 132, page 53A, dated April 18, 1930 records James (42 - NC/NC/VA) and Elisabeth (30 - PA/Annapolis (perhaps Indianapolis) /District of Columbia) Vaughn living on Fox Run Lane. Also in the household is a Paul R. Reid (8 - District of Columbia/PA/PA), indicated as a son, as well as 2 servants, Carl (31 - Finland) and Lydia (34 - Finland) Morrgram. James is a Lawyer and reports being 1st married at age 25 while Elizabeth indicates 20 as her age at 1st marriage.
It should be noted that Elizabeth's mother, Miranda Boyd, has remarried and is living nearby in Greenwich ... see general notes on Miranda.

The 1940 Federal Census for Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, District 132, page 53A, dated April 18, 1930 (image 9 of 40 at www.ancestry.com) records James A. (52 - NC) and Elizabeth (40 - PA) Vaughan with their daughter Virginia Vaughan (9 - NY) and James' step son Paul Reed (18 - Washing D.C.) living at 36 Old Church Road. They are renting their home for $200 / month. The education for each: James had 8 years of college, Elizabeth has 4 years of High School, Virginia has 2 years of grade school, and Paul has 4 years of high school. James is a Lawyer in Private Practice and indicates he is "working on his own account" and earned $0 during the previous 52 weeks. Also in the household are 3 servants: The widow and cook, Mrs. Julia Patrick (55 - Czech), a chambermaid, Nadia Lucas (27 - Conn), and the nurse, Christine Trgala (21 - Conn). [What looks to be Trgala might be Trocolla ... Christine Trocolla appears in the 1930 census from Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut as the daughter of Alphonso and Susie Trocoala]


The WWII Draft Registration Card (for men born on or after April 28, 1877 and on or before February 16, 1897) for James Andrew Vaughan dated April 27, 1942 lists his date of birth as Sept 5, 1887 in Como [Hertford Co.] NC. He is living at 36 Old Church Road in Greenwich Fairfield, Conn. He is self employed and working at 165 Broadway in New York City, NY. His physical description is 6', 192 lbs with hazel eyes, black hair and dark complexion. The person who will always know his address is Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd Vaughan [his wife].


http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/v250j3ob.txt
Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Vaughan, James A., 1956
JAMES ANDREW VAUGHAN Funeral services for James Andrew Vaughan, a former resident of Franklin, were held today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home with Rev. Gaylord B. Noyce, pastor of the Raleigh Congregational Christian Church and Rev. Tucker Humphries, pastor of the Franklin Congregational Christian Church, officiating. Mr. Vaughan, 69, prominent attorney of New York and Greenwich, Conn., died early Monday morning in the Greenwich Hospital after an illness of several weeks. He was the husband of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd Vaughan of Greenwich and the son of the late James Buchanan and Mrs. Ida Rawls Vaughan of Franklin. He was a member of the Second Congregational Church of Greenwich and was a veteran of World War I. Surviving him are one daughter, Mrs. Virginia Vaughan Thomas of Alexander, and one brother, Lillian L. Vaughan of Raleigh, N.C. Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Fred Vann, Davis Spiers, Robert A. Vaughan, W.T. Pace, Jr., Vaughan Beale, Dr. Darden W. Jones, R. Ellsworth Jones, and Herbert G. Cobb.
[James Andrew VAUGHAN, of Greenwich, CT, d. 26 Nov 1956, age 69, interred in Poplar Springs Cemetery, Franklin, 29 Nov 1956, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit Nov. 29, 1956]
[file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager.]

James married Elizabeth Boyd, daughter of George W. Boyd and Miranda Noyes, on 6 Dec 1929. (Elizabeth Boyd was born in Nov 1899 in Pennsylvania and died on 11 Jul 1946 in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.)

  Marriage Notes:

The New York Times
December 07, 1929
Page 25,
MRS. REED WEDS JAMES A. VAUGHAN; Daughter of Mrs. Theodore L. Pomeroy Married to New York Lawyer in Greenwich, Conn. FAMILIES ONLY ATTEND Rev. Dr. Frederick G. Budlong Officiates at the Ceremony in Bride's Home
GREENWHICH, Conn., Dec. 6.--Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd Reed, daughter of Mrs. Theodore L. Pomeroy of 76 North Maple Avenue, Greenwich, was married to James A. Vaughan of 28 East Sixty-third Street, New York