Generations of Texas, Ten Generations of Texas Family History

Description

Generations of Texas, Ten Generations of Texas Family History is a book documenting the history of adventurers, soldiers, leaders, and bedrock Texans. Its stories are ten generations in the living and telling, and fifteen years in the writing. It chronicles not only the genealogy, but the extraordinary journeys, wars, and lives of the family. Beginning before the American Revolution in Virginia, it moves through North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas. It documents the family’s involvement in the wars of the American Revolution, Texas War of Independence from Mexico, and the Civil War (both sides). Of key interest is two Vaughan brothers involvement in the fight for the emerging Republic – and later state – of Texas. The brothers, along with nearly 450 other fighting “Texians,” were executed by the Mexican Army at Goliad in 1836, during Texas’ fight for independence. Later, three Vaughan brothers fought on both sides in the Civil War. Among the family’s historical artifacts is an extraordinary diary written by Captain Francis Asbury Vaughan, detailing his perilous journey from Seguin, Texas, to join the Union Army at Fort Jackson, Louisiana. Asbury’s diary and other family heirlooms were a featured exhibit at the Bullock Texas State History Museum. After the Civil War, Generations of Texas continues to follow the family lineage, describing the union of the Vaughans and Vickers lines, through Reconstruction Texas and into the twentieth century and its wars. You’ll find family members from the Vaughn, Vaughan, McKenzie, Vickers, Goree, Strickland, and Stewart family trees, all descended in an unbroken line from the 1600s. This family account will amaze and inspire you.