Vaughn Cemetery

The Find-A-Grave link above will take you to their website for Vaughn Cemetery. It is fairly accurate and up to date. The cemetery could be considered inactive since the last burial here was 1961. There are 17 graves in the cemetery with tombstones. Thirteen are engraved. There is room for additional graves within the fenced area. There may be other unmarked graves but there are no obvious signs. There is one additional grave outside the main cemetery fence. It is fenced in separately with the barb wire attached to the main cemetery fence. It is marked only with limestone rocks. It is a short grave so I assume it is a child. I have not located anyone who purports to know whose grave it is.

The oldest person buried here is Amos Vaughn who was born in 1831. It is his family cemetery. Amos was the son of Claiborn Vaughn who was born in North Carolina but migrated through this area and continued on to Alabama where he died. Amos was born, raised, and settled in Tennessee.

Amos served in Company C, 23rd Tennessee Infantry, CSA. He perhaps later served in Company C, 1st Tennessee Mounted Infantry, USA. He made claim for an invalid pension with the 1st Mounted Infantry but was denied. Still researching to find out exactly why.

In the "score settling" following the Civil War, Amos was one of the five men indicted for the murder of Andrew Jackson Maxwell. See details under the "Stories" tab. Amos was the only one whose case was closed out in court records. He was acquitted.

The cemetery is located just before the junction of Tight Fit Lane and Tucker Road on the left side. Situated across a small field and behind a barbed wire fence enclosing a pasture. The cemetery itself is inside the pasture but has it's own chain link fence.

This cemetery is fenced and well maintained. David Montgomery maintains this cemetery. He lives in Lebanon and hires Craig Julian of Boma to do the maintenance.