{"id":108,"date":"2012-02-23T00:52:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T06:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson2\/?p=108"},"modified":"2012-02-23T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:28:31","slug":"vaught-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/vaught-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"VAUGHT, Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joseph Vaught,<\/strong> son of John and Esther Vaught, was born in what is now Smythe county, Virginia, in 1773, and went to Tennessee with his father, from whom he inherited a large tract of farm land and a number of slaves. He successfully cultivated his land and operated a mill, becoming one of the wealthy men of his day and giving to each of his children a large farm. He married Nancy Goodwin and they had two sons and three daughters. The father died November 22, 1830, aged fifty-seven years, and was buried in the Roane Creek Baptist churchyard at Shouns, Tennessee. This church was organized April 20, 1794\u2013the first established in Johnson county.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed from:\u00a0Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1796-1923 by John Trotwood Moore and Austin P. Foster published by S.J Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Vaught, son of John and Esther Vaught, was born in what is now Smythe county, Virginia, in 1773, and went to Tennessee with his father, from whom he inherited a large tract of farm land and a number of slaves. He successfully cultivated his land and operated a mill, becoming one of the wealthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[60,62,58],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","tag-goodwin","tag-shaun","tag-vaught"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/johnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}