Grayson County TXGenWeb
Vaden Family
& the "Genealogy of the Vaden and Related Families" 
The Vaden Family and Early Grayson County History

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   Jennie Myrtle Vaden 
My Grandmother Jennie Myrtle Vaden(1886-1968) about 1904 at the Farm at Sherman, Texas.  She was the daughter of Frank Campbell Vaden and married
Charles Peyton Beauchamp.

View More Photographs of Jennie Myrtle Vaden 

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"She did a lot of interviewing going back to the 1930's from old timers of the family to compile her material as well as Courthouse & Legal research. Tennie was my Grandmothers half sister from the second marriage of Frank C.Vaden.

F.C. & Janie Vaden Marriage Lic.

View 1897 Tax Receipt

Frank C. Vaden Home

Frank C. Vaden Family Photographs

View Vaden Family Mystery photographs

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"Genealogy of the Vaden and Related Families" 
By Tennie E.Vaden Winn 1969

Table of Contents, Key Words and Key people
Covers the Vaden Family and Many Grayson County People and Place and Events

Photographs of Molly Fitch Vaden, James W. Vaden, Henry Lee Vaden, Harriet Vaden Page & Emma Pollard Vaden.

Page 43~James Harding Vaden Family

Page 48~Photographs of Three of Frank C. & Janie M.T. Vaden's Daughters.

Page 50~51 ~ Elizabeth Rusk Jackson Vaden naming the town of Gainesville, Quantrells Raiders torturing neighbor, surveying the town of Sherman and the Indian Pony Deal, surveying Sherman, Dugan Family, William Wade Vaden and Family. Photograph of the sons of James Harding & Betsey Vaden.

Page 61 & 62~James Williamson Vaden as Grayson Sheriff with brothers as Deputies, Run in's with the James Gang. It has been passed down through the family Sheriff Vaden Crossed on the same ferry with the James gang one time and had a good visit.

Page 73 ~ Catherine Dugan Vaden and Family, Also photograph of her sister, Maria Frances Vaden

Pages 75 & 76  - The County Farm, Family Burying Ground, Site of Sherman, Dugan's Hill, Early School in Sherman, Parson McComb & Jack Jennings, Wagon Wheels, Cotton Gin, Road from Sherman to Jefferson, Entertainment at the homes of Burl Perry, Captain Lee, Birge, Sophia Porter. Thompson, Massey. Early Hunting. 

Pages 77-78 - Hunting Turkey's on Horseback(with a rope), Odd Fellows Hall, Wm Bullock - First boy born in Sherman, Quantrell's Raiders,  Sophia Porter and the story of Jim Crow Chiles, a reward offered. 1862. The Wild Goose Vigilance Committee. Great Gainesville Hanging. Many local hangings and killings mentioned. 

Page 79 - Indan Raid, Preacher - Tom Caskey, Campbellite Church- Locke the Tinner's location, Preacher Rogers, The First Grayson County Jail and a strange description of the First Jail in Grayson County being two story and you had to climb an outside ladder to the top story and be dropped from a whole in the floor to the cell below,  Henry Lee Vaden and wife, Emma Pollard Vaden & Family.

Pages 84-91- Frank Campbell Vaden Family, Janie Vaden, his remarriage to Berta Lucas, his farms, the Pecan community, J. Murphy,Lucas Family, Sacra, Mattingly, Trip to Europe, F.C. Vaden & Berta Lucas Marriage Ceremony and honeymoon.

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