Baltimore Sun, Maryland
27 December 1899
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VIRGINIA OBITUARY
JAMES H. DEVAUGHN
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]
ALEXANDRIA, VA, Dec 26 -- One of Alexandria's oldest citizens closed his life with Christmas. Mr. James H. DeVaughn died at his home, 516 King street, shortly before daylight this morning. He opened business in the forties at the northeast corner of King and Washington streets, and then purchased the store and dwelling of ex-Mayor John Muir, a former Alexandria correspondent of THE SUN, and, having rebuilt the house, has carried on the business and dwelt there since that time, his establishment being the oldest, except that of Leadbeater & Co., on King street. Mr. DeVaughn joined the Odd Fellows of Potomac Lodge in 1840 and at his death was the oldest Odd Fellow in Alexandria and the oldest past grand of that order, with one exception, in Virginia. He was one of the first members of the Southern Methodist Church here, and died in its communion. Mr. DeVaughn leaves a widow and two daughters -- one Mrs. John W. May and the other Miss Alice. The deceased was about 80 years of age.
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