EDGAR HOPSON VAUGHAN,
Born at Paineville, Amelia county, Virginia, May 6, 1843, is the son of
Edwin A. Vaughan and Mary A. P. Haskins, both born in Amelia
county, honored residents there through life, and now deceased. His
mother died in 1872, his father in 1879. At Black Walnut, Virginia,
December 11, 1867, Rev. J. B. Shearer officiating clergyman, he married
Almira Traver. Their children are: Mary E., J. Edgar, Florence H.,
Herbert E., Ida T., and Blanche H. Mrs. Vaughan was born at New
Haven, Connecticut, and is the daughter of James and Mary A. (Chamberlam)
Traver, now of South Boston, Halifax county, Virginia.
Mr. Vaughan was educated at Prideville Academy and Edgewood
Seminary, Amelia county. He entered the Confederate Army as a private
in Company G, 6th Virginia Cavalry, in August, 1861, and was
promoted sergeant, and was in all the principal battles in Jackson's
Valley campaign, and also Brandy Station, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor,
Five Forks and Appomattox. After the war he was engaged in a mercantile
business at South Boston, until elected, July 1, 1879, clerk of
Halifax county court, which office he is still ably filling.
