Looking for information on my gggrandfather Charles Verner Vaughan, born July 3, 1876 in Garnette, Kansas. After his father, Nathaniel J. Vaughan born 1843 in Indiana, died when Charles was 5, he and his mother Nancy, born 1840 in Illinois, moved to Philadelphia where they lived until his mother died sometime around 1895. Charles then went to Central America as a missionary. Specifically he was in Nicaragua from 1896 – 1899 and then Costa Rica from 1904 – 1909. It is in Costa Rica he meet and married Regina Brown Benson, a widow with 2 daughters. Together, Charles and Regina had a daughter Jeannette and a son Charles Jr. He then lived in Panama from 1909 – 1918 and then in Columbia from 1922 through at least 1924. His wife and two children died in the 1930’s. It is believed he remarried.

In 1918 he was a navigation instructor for the Seamans Institute in New York and in 1924 he was a Master Mariner for Choco Pacifico Mining Co. (Pacific Metals Co.). He was also an Ensign in the Navy at some point and then a reservist.

Charles’s mother Nancy had two sisters, Sarah Talbot of Oklahoma and Mary Downer of Colorado. Sarah had two daughters, Mary and Nellie and two sons Samuel and a son Edwin B. Talbot who wrote a letter on Charles behalf, which is where I got much of the above information.

I would appreciate any info that could fill some of the blanks.