William Wade Vaden was born March 2, 1833 in Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tennessee, son of James H. Vaden and Elizabeth Jackson. He died on  December 7, 1891, on the home farm two miles northwest of Pottsboro, Texas.  Both he and his wife are Interred in Georgetown Cemetery, near Pottsboro.
William Wade Vaden and Harriet L. Stevenson, daughter of Joseph Stevenson of Jefferson, Texas, were married August 1, 1861 in Sherman, Texas.  Harriet L. Stevenson Vaden was born August 1, 1842 and died September 30, 1894.  William is the eldest of five living children, the others being James W., Henry L, Frank C., and F. Maria.