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Note: Miller Vaughan Obituaries from Mariah Vaughan Jones scrapbook
(Source & date unknown, transcribed verbatim)
A PIONEER GONE
MILLER VAUGHAN, VETERAN STAGE DRIVER, DEAD.
For Over 35 Years This Pioneer Occupied the Driver�s Seat on Oregon and Idaho Stage
Coaches -- Came to Oregon in 1852 and the Age of 10 -- Was a Packer From Umatilla
Landing to Helena in the Early �60�s -- Wife Died 17 Years Ago -- Large Family Survives
Him.
Miller Vaughan, pioneer of the West and veteran stage driver, is dead. Death was due to
paralysis, with which he was stricken last Friday. The funeral will take place in this city
tomorrow morning at 9:30 o�clock from the residence of Charles Eppinger, at 612
College street.
Miller Vaughan occupied the driver�s seat of a stage coach for more than 35 years and
was considered one of the oldest stage drivers in the United States. For the past few years
he had ceased to be actively engaged in driving, but his fatal illness came as he was
seated in a coach out of Sumpter.
Dr. Eugene A. Vaughan, a son residing in Pendleton, hurried to Sumpter and had his
father removed to this city. Death came at 2 o�clock this morning.
Mr. Vaughan was born near Chicago, Ill., January 22, 1842. He came West with his
parents 10 years later and settled at French Prairie, in southern Oregon. He came to
Pendleton in 1860 and engaged in packing between Umatilla and Helena, Mont. He was
married in Portland about 35 years ago. Mrs. Vaughan has been dead over 17 years.
The following children survive him: Dr. E. A. Vaughan, John L. Vaughan and Mrs.
Catherine Eppinger, of Pendleton; Dr. Frank Vaughan, of Astoria; R. J. Vaughan and
Thomas Vaughan, of San Francisco.
Dr. Frank Vaughan arived in Pendleton yesterday from Astoria. ----------------------------------------------
PIONEER STAGE DRIVER
Tom Vaughan One of the most Interesting of Oregon Pioneers. The Sumpter Miner, in speaking of the illness of Tom Vaughan, the veteran stage driver
and father of Dr. E. A. Vaughan of this city says:
Every old-timer between The Dalles and Pendleton knows Tom Vaughan, who in the
sixties drove stage from Umatilla, which was at that time the biggest town in the Inland
country, through to the then young town of Pendleton.
Later he handled the ribbons for Joe Keeney�s stage line between Pendleton and Walla
Walla. He has been in hold-ups and express robberies without number. A son, Dr. Eugene
Vaughan, a prominent dentist, resides at Pendleton, and another son, Frank, likewise a
dentist, is located at Astoria.
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