Tretower Genealogy Research

Well, it looks like we are back in business again.  I want to again thank Paul Vaughan for letting me use this page for my Vaughan family blog.  April and early May has been a rather busy period of time for research.  We have had a few matches to our William and John Vaughan in the Y-DNA study and I’m trying to figure out how all the matches connect.  I get the distinct feeling there is indeed a fairly recent connection to the other Vaughans who match our two guy’s Y-DNA.  There seems to be an underlining theme of places that tie the lines together.  Virginia, South Carolina and then Hawkins County, Tennessee.  Of course as far as I can tell, our William and John did not go to South Carolina, but several of the Y-DNA matches have South Carolina connections, so I have been looking at the area.  I’ve been looking at the family of one match — the descendants of Barney Vaughan, son of ____ Vaughan and his wife Nancy ______.  I have been looking at Sullivan and Sullivant families, as it just may be that Nancy was either a Sullivan or Sullivant.  I’m still researching this.  The Bolling/Bolden/Boulden name keeps popping up in Vaughan families connected genetically to our guys.  Wilson Vaughan’s wife was a Nancy Bowlen or Bowling and I wondered briefly if Barney Vaughan could have been a son of Wilson and Nancy, but Wilson was too young, as he was born about 1800 and Barney was born about 1812.  As Barney’s Y-DNA perfectly matches Wilson’s, there probably was a match.  Both lived in Hawkins County, TN and of course our William and John lived there too, at about the same time as Barney and Wilson.  So I’m trying to connect the dots and hopefully a picture of the Vaughan family will emerge.

Eddie Davis