Katherine Anne Porter to American frontiersman Daniel Boone and the writer O. Henry (whose real name was William Sydney Porter), her father's second cousin. In 1892, when Porter was two years old, her mother died two months after giving birth to her last child. Porter's father took his four surviving children (an older brother had died in infancy) to live with his mother, Catherine Ann Porter, in Kyle, Texas. The depth of her grandmother's influence can be inferred from Porter's later adoption of her name. Her grandmother died while taking eleven-year-old Callie to visit relatives in Marfa, Texas. After her grandmother's death, the
William Vaughan (writer) William Vaughan (writer) Sir William Vaughan (c. 1575 – August 1641) was a Welsh writer in English and Latin, who promoted colonization in Newfoundland. He was the son of Walter Vaughan (died 1598) and was born at Golden Grove (Gelli Aur), Llanfihangel Aberbythych, Carmarthenshire, Wales – the estate of his father, through whom he was descended from an ancient prince of Powys. He was brother to John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery (1572−1634) and Henry Vaughan (1587−1659), a well-known Royalist leader in the English Civil War. William was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 4 February 1592,