James Franklin Vaught

Born [date unknown] in Gap Township, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States

Ancestors

Died 1896 in Whitefield, Indian Terriory United States

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Biography

When James Franklin Vaught was born in 1869 in Caddo Gap, Arkansas, his father, Franklin, was 21 and his mother, Selinda, was 20. He married Hettie England in 1892. James Franklin had two daughters and another born after his death Her name was Jimmie Franklin Vaught named after her father.He died on December 24, 1896, in Whitefield, Indian Territory later Oklahoma, at the age of 31 from a gun shot wound.

Parents

Jerome Franklin VAUGHT and Selinda Tucker VAUGHT

Death

Jim Vaught was killed by Hanging Judge Parker's deputy Jim Cole. Cole was pistol whipping a drunk Indian and Jim Vaught walked up to him and asked to take the Indian home. Cole came after James Franklin later that week. A mob gathered and US Marshall, James Cole threatened the crowd to stay back. He cocked his pistol and shot James Franklin in the stomach. He died later that day in the Drug Store. ^[1] A murder trial was held the following year in McAlister Oklahoma...James Cole was able to convince the jury the killing was an accident and the charge was reduced to manslaughter. He served a few days in jail and was charged a small fine. He was released by the judge that replaced Hanging Judge Parker..Judge Parker having died that same year of Brights Disease.

Sources

1. ↑ A History of Eastern Oklahoma by James Hall.

1. Murder Trial of James Cole - National Archives Houston Texas .2. History if Eastern Oklahoma by James Hall