V. T. Vaughn

From Smyrna Baptist Church history, by J. W. Griffith

“Bro. V. T. (Thornton) [Vaughn] was mentioned earlier. He served the church in many capacities and was ordained to the full work of preaching the gospel of Christ on February 16, 1902. A presbytery met to ordain Bro. V. T. Vaughn on December 1, 1901, and proceeded in regular order. The clerk reports that everything was found satisfactory except ‘on the one point, and that is, there is no demand for Bro. Vaughn’s ordination.’ Perhaps it was an anticipatory move on the church’s part, for by the following February the Isbell Chapel Church had called for his ordination, and it was promptly concluded. Bro. V. T. Vaughn was a peacemaker.”