Lou Vaughan died at his home in this city at 7 o’clock last Saturday morning of pleurisy and heart trouble, following an illness of but little over one week. The funeral was held at the house at 2:30 Monday, Rev. W. H. Underwood officiating. Burial was under the auspices of Washington Lodge No. 21, A.F. and A.M., of which deceased had been a member for many years. He was also a member of the Modern Woodman fraternity. Mr. Vaughan was born in Fondulac, Wis., September 8th, 1853, and was therefore, past 69 years of age. When he was but a boy his father enlisted in the Union army during the Civil war and was killed. His mother and the balance of the family came to Ft. Calhoun in 1866, he remaining with an uncle for several years. He conducted a sash and door factory at Hot Springs, Ark., for several years, coming to Blair in 1880. On July 16th, 1885 he was married to Miss Ella Saeger at Cedar Rapids, Ia., where her parents lived. They came to Blair and established their home. Just a year later to the day from the accidental discharge of a shotgun he lost a leg that more or less handicapped him the balance of his life, yet he was brave and never complained of his misfortune. He was an architect by trade and had only just completed the plans and specifications for the remodeling of the Matthiesen building for the Masons, making some valuable suggestions that the committee were glad to take advantage of. He also did considerable work as a patent attorney and secured many patents for Blair people and others. Besides the widow he leaves one son, Burl, four brothers, James and Harvey of Ft. Calhoun, George, of San Bernardino, Calif., and Chas., of Los Angeles and one sister, Martha, of San Bernardino. Mr. Vaughan was a good husband, father and friend, therefore a good citizen whom his many friends will greatly miss. The bereaved family have the sincere sympathy of the entire community.

#2-Tribune 11 Jan. 1923

Lou Vaughan Died At His Home Saturday

Lou Vaughan passed away at his home in this city Saturday morning, January 6, after an illness covering several weeks.

Deceased was born in Fon Du Lac, Wisconsin, September 8, 1853, and was married at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Miss Ella Saeger, July 16, 1884. At the time of his marriage he was erecting the main part of Crowell Memorial Home, then the private residence of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Crowell and family.

Mr. Vaughan came with his parents to Ft. Calhoun in 1859, coming from Quincy, Ill., by boat to St. Louis, thence up the river to Ft. Calhoun. His father went into the Civil war from that place and was killed. Mr. Vaughan came to Blair in 1869 and had since made this his home. He was a man of much ability and an architect who has designed many buildings in Blair and Washington county, and his work will stand as a monument to him in years to come. He was a great reader, thinker and student and a conversationalist to whom it was a pleasure to listen.

The funeral was held at his late home at 2:30 Monday afternoon, conducted by the Masonic order, of which he had long been a member, having been one of the charter members of the Ft. Calhoun lodge. Rev. W. H. Underwood spoke a few words at the home and interment was made in the Blair cemetery. He leaves a widow, one son, Burl Vaughan, two brothers, Harvey and James Vaughan, of Ft. Calhoun. A daughter died in infancy.

#3-11 Jan., 1923 - The Enterprise

LOUIS M. VAUGHAN

Louis M. Vaughan was born in Fon du lac, Wisconsin Sept. 4, 1853. With his parents he came to Nebraska in 1859. After about a year residence here the family returned to Wisconsin. After the Civil War broke out the father joined the army, never to return.

In 1866 the family, with the grandparents, returned to Nebraska and since that time this state has been Mr. Vaughan’s home, with the exception of three years when he worked in Kansas City, Mo.

He was married to Miss Elle Sager in 1884, and to them one son was born who was at the bedside of his father at the time of his death which occurred last Saturday morning at 7:30 o’clock after a brief illness from pleurisy.

The funeral services, conducted by Rev. W. H. Underwood were held last Monday at 2:30 p.m. from the home on west Grant street. Being a Mason, that organization had full charge of the ceremonies, and performed the burial rites at the grave in the Blair cemetery, where followed by a host of friends, he was laid to rest.

As a man the deceased was respected for his upright manner of life. He was a wide reader and of more than ordinary ability and will be missed by the citizens of Blair.

He leaves to mourn him a wife and one son, Berl, also two brothers, James and Harve, both of Calhoun and two brothers, George and Charles and one sister, Martha all o California.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~ FindaGrave #25342594