Vaughn Cemetery
Sullivan County, PA
August 2007
Fallen Stones

Photographed by Phil Herman

In August 2007, Marlyn Kepner wrote to ask about a small rural farm cemetery he had come across. Going northeast up Route 87, after leaving Colley, you go about 1 1/2 miles and start a long stretch downhill. Right at the bottom of the hill, there is a light green house trailer on the right, between the road and creek. On the left is Adams Road which goes up over the hill, then levels out. Approximately two miles from Route 87, you come to a farm with a barn that looks like two barns built side by side, a road, and a house, all on the right. On the left, right across the road from this house is a wagonshed. The cemetery is small and almost against the back end of the wagonshed. This farm is called the Adams farm and has been in the Adams family for three or four generations. According to Virginia (Bullock) Gainer, an Adams family in-law, the Adams family bought the property from the Vaughns about 1900, and the cemetery was already there. It was a farm cemtery for the Vaughn family who had lived there. George Adams, son of Ruhl Adams and husband of Roseanne Coyle, farmed the land and then passed it to his son Burr Adams. Burr returned there between 1900 and 1920 to farm.

We asked Phil Herman to take some photos for our site and here they are. Phil remarks that the only stones he could make out were markers for Vaughn ["Vaughn"] family members. We are appreciative of Phil's efforts on our behalf. While the cemetery bears the same reference name as a larger companion cemetery a few miles away in Mehoopany, PA, they are different burial grounds.

In August 2007, Marlyn Kepner drew attention to the run down condition of this cemetery. What a deplorable condition! The background seems to be that the daughter of the farmer next door has acquired the property. About twenty years ago, the previouls landowner fenced the cemetery into his pasture. All the damage now seen has come about due to cows. When that landowner got tired of complaints from his neighbors and passersby, he eventually fenced the cemetery back out, but never did anything to correct destruction. In lae 2007, the local historical society was planning to research church records and interview some Adams family members for more history on the cemetery.

Albert Vaughn
Grave Marker
Vaughn Cemetery
August 2007

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