Our family knew very little about the paternal lineage of my maternal grandmother, Zephie Mae Vaught.  Her mother, Caroline Smith, was the daughter of Nancy Blagrove Lewis who descended from the Meriweathers and Lewis’ of colonial Virginia.  Her father, E.M. Vaught, was from St. Louis, Mo. and was the orphaned son of a German immigrant.  The Vaughts have been difficult to find, but, with the help of the thousands of documents available at ancestry.com, it seems apparent that he was the son of M.E. Voigt (Vaught) who emigrated to the U.S. in the 1840s and Sarah Jane Woolsey.  His father died in the Civil War, as a member of the 27th Illinois Regiment (the North).  His mother died when he was about 3, and he was raised by his grandmother Woolsey.  He came to Texas, alone, at about age 16, married Caroline Smith, and settled in Denton, Texas. 

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