Charles Marvin Vaughan, 77, lifelong and well known citizen and farmer of the Spring Valley community in Grayson County, died in Marion General Hospital, Marion, Monday afternoon, March 5.
Mr. Vaughan had been in declining health for the past few years, but his condition was not considered critical until a short time before his passing.
For many years, Mr. Vaughan served as postmaster at Spring Valley, and up until the Post Office Department abandoned the office at that place. He was also for many years associated with his father, and his brother, the late John Boring Vaughan, in the operation of the old mercantile business at Spring Valley long known as T. C. Vaughan & Sons. He was long an active member of Ebenezer Methodist Church at Spring Valley.
Mr. Vaughan was a son of the late Rev. Thomas Crouch Vaughan, widely known Methodist minister and banker of Spring Valley and Fries, and Mrs. Lucy Hale Vaughan. The Rev. Mr. Vaughan was for many years president of the First National Bank of Fries, formerly Washington Banking & Trust Co., which he helped to organize, and was the first pastor of the Fries Methodist Church, which he served for eight years.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Clyde McCament Vaughan; one son, C. M. Vaughan, Jr., of Rural Retreat, Vocational-Agricultural teacher at Rural Retreat High School; one sister, Mrs. A. J. Porter, Spring Valley, and four grandchildren, Charlotte Vaughan and Thomas J. Vaughan, both of Spring Valley, and Carol Vaughan and Rosamond Vaughan, both of Rural Retreat.
Mr. Vaughan was preceded in death by his oldest son, Thomas Jefferson Vaughan, who died a few years ago while serving as principal of Independence High School; two sisters, Mrs. Lura V. Harrington, wife of the late Attorney P. L. Harrington, Independence, and Mrs. Rosamond V. Whitman, wife of Sidney P. Whitman of Cripple Creek, and the brother, John B. Vaughan.
Funeral services were held at Ebenezer Methodist Church Wednesday, March 7, at 2:00 p.m. The services were conducted by the Rev. B. G. Keebler, pastor of the Spring Valley circuit; former pastor, the Rev. J.G. Spurlin, now pastor of the Chilhowie Church, and the Rev. W. H. Byars, pastor of the Rural Retreat Methodist Church.
Interment was in the church cemetery.
The body was removed from Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home in Galax to the residence at Spring Valley Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. and was taken to the church at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday.
Pallbearers were Tom V. Harrington, Ned Davis, Frank Tomlinson, Horace M. Porter, Joe Folger, Basil Ward, Dr. F. Clyde Bedsaul, Herbert J. Porter, S. Mont Vaughan and Ernie Funk.
Published in the Galax Gazette; Thurs., Mar. 8, 1956.
Mr. Vaughan had been in declining health for the past few years, but his condition was not considered critical until a short time before his passing.
For many years, Mr. Vaughan served as postmaster at Spring Valley, and up until the Post Office Department abandoned the office at that place. He was also for many years associated with his father, and his brother, the late John Boring Vaughan, in the operation of the old mercantile business at Spring Valley long known as T. C. Vaughan & Sons. He was long an active member of Ebenezer Methodist Church at Spring Valley.
Mr. Vaughan was a son of the late Rev. Thomas Crouch Vaughan, widely known Methodist minister and banker of Spring Valley and Fries, and Mrs. Lucy Hale Vaughan. The Rev. Mr. Vaughan was for many years president of the First National Bank of Fries, formerly Washington Banking & Trust Co., which he helped to organize, and was the first pastor of the Fries Methodist Church, which he served for eight years.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Clyde McCament Vaughan; one son, C. M. Vaughan, Jr., of Rural Retreat, Vocational-Agricultural teacher at Rural Retreat High School; one sister, Mrs. A. J. Porter, Spring Valley, and four grandchildren, Charlotte Vaughan and Thomas J. Vaughan, both of Spring Valley, and Carol Vaughan and Rosamond Vaughan, both of Rural Retreat.
Mr. Vaughan was preceded in death by his oldest son, Thomas Jefferson Vaughan, who died a few years ago while serving as principal of Independence High School; two sisters, Mrs. Lura V. Harrington, wife of the late Attorney P. L. Harrington, Independence, and Mrs. Rosamond V. Whitman, wife of Sidney P. Whitman of Cripple Creek, and the brother, John B. Vaughan.
Funeral services were held at Ebenezer Methodist Church Wednesday, March 7, at 2:00 p.m. The services were conducted by the Rev. B. G. Keebler, pastor of the Spring Valley circuit; former pastor, the Rev. J.G. Spurlin, now pastor of the Chilhowie Church, and the Rev. W. H. Byars, pastor of the Rural Retreat Methodist Church.
Interment was in the church cemetery.
The body was removed from Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home in Galax to the residence at Spring Valley Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. and was taken to the church at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday.
Pallbearers were Tom V. Harrington, Ned Davis, Frank Tomlinson, Horace M. Porter, Joe Folger, Basil Ward, Dr. F. Clyde Bedsaul, Herbert J. Porter, S. Mont Vaughan and Ernie Funk.
Published in the Galax Gazette; Thurs., Mar. 8, 1956.
Charles Marvin Vaughan, 77, lifelong and well known citizen and farmer of the Spring Valley community in Grayson County, died in Marion General Hospital, Marion, Monday afternoon, March 5.
Mr. Vaughan had been in declining health for the past few years, but his condition was not considered critical until a short time before his passing.
For many years, Mr. Vaughan served as postmaster at Spring Valley, and up until the Post Office Department abandoned the office at that place. He was also for many years associated with his father, and his brother, the late John Boring Vaughan, in the operation of the old mercantile business at Spring Valley long known as T. C. Vaughan & Sons. He was long an active member of Ebenezer Methodist Church at Spring Valley.
Mr. Vaughan was a son of the late Rev. Thomas Crouch Vaughan, widely known Methodist minister and banker of Spring Valley and Fries, and Mrs. Lucy Hale Vaughan. The Rev. Mr. Vaughan was for many years president of the First National Bank of Fries, formerly Washington Banking & Trust Co., which he helped to organize, and was the first pastor of the Fries Methodist Church, which he served for eight years.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Clyde McCament Vaughan; one son, C. M. Vaughan, Jr., of Rural Retreat, Vocational-Agricultural teacher at Rural Retreat High School; one sister, Mrs. A. J. Porter, Spring Valley, and four grandchildren, Charlotte Vaughan and Thomas J. Vaughan, both of Spring Valley, and Carol Vaughan and Rosamond Vaughan, both of Rural Retreat.
Mr. Vaughan was preceded in death by his oldest son, Thomas Jefferson Vaughan, who died a few years ago while serving as principal of Independence High School; two sisters, Mrs. Lura V. Harrington, wife of the late Attorney P. L. Harrington, Independence, and Mrs. Rosamond V. Whitman, wife of Sidney P. Whitman of Cripple Creek, and the brother, John B. Vaughan.
Funeral services were held at Ebenezer Methodist Church Wednesday, March 7, at 2:00 p.m. The services were conducted by the Rev. B. G. Keebler, pastor of the Spring Valley circuit; former pastor, the Rev. J.G. Spurlin, now pastor of the Chilhowie Church, and the Rev. W. H. Byars, pastor of the Rural Retreat Methodist Church.
Interment was in the church cemetery.
The body was removed from Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home in Galax to the residence at Spring Valley Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. and was taken to the church at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday.
Pallbearers were Tom V. Harrington, Ned Davis, Frank Tomlinson, Horace M. Porter, Joe Folger, Basil Ward, Dr. F. Clyde Bedsaul, Herbert J. Porter, S. Mont Vaughan and Ernie Funk.
Published in the Galax Gazette; Thurs., Mar. 8, 1956.
Mr. Vaughan had been in declining health for the past few years, but his condition was not considered critical until a short time before his passing.
For many years, Mr. Vaughan served as postmaster at Spring Valley, and up until the Post Office Department abandoned the office at that place. He was also for many years associated with his father, and his brother, the late John Boring Vaughan, in the operation of the old mercantile business at Spring Valley long known as T. C. Vaughan & Sons. He was long an active member of Ebenezer Methodist Church at Spring Valley.
Mr. Vaughan was a son of the late Rev. Thomas Crouch Vaughan, widely known Methodist minister and banker of Spring Valley and Fries, and Mrs. Lucy Hale Vaughan. The Rev. Mr. Vaughan was for many years president of the First National Bank of Fries, formerly Washington Banking & Trust Co., which he helped to organize, and was the first pastor of the Fries Methodist Church, which he served for eight years.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Clyde McCament Vaughan; one son, C. M. Vaughan, Jr., of Rural Retreat, Vocational-Agricultural teacher at Rural Retreat High School; one sister, Mrs. A. J. Porter, Spring Valley, and four grandchildren, Charlotte Vaughan and Thomas J. Vaughan, both of Spring Valley, and Carol Vaughan and Rosamond Vaughan, both of Rural Retreat.
Mr. Vaughan was preceded in death by his oldest son, Thomas Jefferson Vaughan, who died a few years ago while serving as principal of Independence High School; two sisters, Mrs. Lura V. Harrington, wife of the late Attorney P. L. Harrington, Independence, and Mrs. Rosamond V. Whitman, wife of Sidney P. Whitman of Cripple Creek, and the brother, John B. Vaughan.
Funeral services were held at Ebenezer Methodist Church Wednesday, March 7, at 2:00 p.m. The services were conducted by the Rev. B. G. Keebler, pastor of the Spring Valley circuit; former pastor, the Rev. J.G. Spurlin, now pastor of the Chilhowie Church, and the Rev. W. H. Byars, pastor of the Rural Retreat Methodist Church.
Interment was in the church cemetery.
The body was removed from Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home in Galax to the residence at Spring Valley Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. and was taken to the church at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday.
Pallbearers were Tom V. Harrington, Ned Davis, Frank Tomlinson, Horace M. Porter, Joe Folger, Basil Ward, Dr. F. Clyde Bedsaul, Herbert J. Porter, S. Mont Vaughan and Ernie Funk.
Published in the Galax Gazette; Thurs., Mar. 8, 1956.
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