Hopkins Co., TX - Obit: Captain W.G. Veal ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: June E. Tuck USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** From the files of June Tuck VEAL, W. G. - Dallas, Texas, Oct. 25th - This morning at 9:30 Dr. R. H. Jones of Dallas shot and killed Captain W. G. Veal. of Fort Worth at the Sterling Price Confederate Veterans headquarters, on the third floor of the Merchants exchange building on the corner of Commerce and Lamar street. Capt. Veal was sitting at a table with General W. N. Bush of Collin county and Mr. Robert Walker of Sherman, reading to them some resolutions he had just written, when Dr. Jones stepped to the door, leveled his revolver and fired, standing there a few seconds, he turned and walked into the next room. Bush and Walker did not notice that Veal had been shot. When they turned around he was lying with his face between his hands on the table with a stream of hot blood bursting from a death wound in his temple. Dr. Jones surrendered his revolver to Mr. J. N. Worthy, who took his arm and walked him down to the street, and there they met Deputy Sheriff Sloan Lewis who placed Jones under and arrest and took him to jail. Gen. Cabell wired Mrs. Veal in Ft. Worth notifying her of her husband's death. Dr. Jones said he had lived in Texas 25 years, five in Brenham and 20 in Dallas. He did not care to make a statement, as it was about his wife, a delicate matter, and it would come out later. Jones said he was born in Huntsville, Ala., and had served in the confederate army for four years, first enlisting as a private in the 1st Mississippi Cavalry and was afterwards surgeon in the 27th Alabama. He was under Col. Loving. Said he married in Dallas, his wife being the daughter of James M. Smith and was raised here. They had six children. She was a widow, Mrs. Billington, with one child when they married. Jones is 56 years old, has blue eyes, gray hair, gray mustache and chin whiskers, is of medium height, and weighed about 225 pounds. He lived on the corner of Grand Ave. and South Harwood street. He had been in the feed business for some time at the North Akard street. He had not practiced medicine for several years, but was well known in the city. Captain Joe Record, who knew Capt. Veal in the antebellum days told the reporter that Capt. Veal was a captain of Co. G, 12th Texas brigade under W.H. Parsons. He was wounded in the leg at Cheneville, La., and wounded in the arm at Cotton Plant, Ark. He had been president of Parson's brigade ever since the war. He was a Methodist preacher. Capt. Veal was born in Knoxville, Tenn., and was in his 62nd year. He came to Texas when quite a young man and has lived in the state over 40 years. He went first to Hopkins County and there married Miss Ruth Wilson, with whom he has lived happily since and now survives him. He engaged in mercantile business there with his brother, Col. J. J. Veal, now of Jefferson, and his brother-in-law, L. A. Lawler (Lollar??). Thence, he went to the frontier and engaged in several expeditions against the Indians, settling after that at Veal Station in Parker a place named in his honor. From there he moved to Waxahachie and associated himself with Geo. F. Alford of Galveston under the firm name of Alford and Veal, cotton factors. He was from Ellis that he went as a soldier in confederacy, raising a company in that county. During his residence in Waxahachie he acted a special agent of the Central road in the location of depots from Navasota to Ensison. From Waxahachie he moved to Herman and thence to Hutchins, where he opened up a large plantation coming then to Dallas about 1880 and remaining until about four or five years ago when he removed to Fort Worth, his residence at the time of his death. His body will be laid to rest in Trinity cemetery under escort of his old comrades. (Galveston Weekly News, Nov. 3, 1892)