Parker Co. Texas, History: Veal Station

***** IMPORTANT NOTE *****
   I am a Parker County and Lantz family researcher living in Oklahoma. This
particular story contains many errors and has been copied to so many sites over
the years that several of the mistakes have been quoted as fact. The most
notable mistake is the story about the Matlock family who actually died of
smallpox and were not killed by Indians as stated in the story.  This is
verified by newspaper accounts and family history. The dates for Parson's
College and the fire are also incorrect and Abe Swallow was not the first
postmaster at Veal's Station, or even the first for her family.
   I am sure that Mrs. Coleman meant well and we should always be grateful to those
who take the time to tell us their stories.  Sometimes however, time blurs the
memories and facts get scrambled.  We can treasure these stories, but we must
always try to verify the information.
   Thank you so much, Pattie Lantz Phillips
***** END *****

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		HISTORICAL NOTES ON VEAL STATION

The following excerpt is taken from a booklet entitled "Descendants of
Charles William Lindsey".  It was written by Mrs. Walter Coleman, "the
former Geneva Lindsey, daughter of Jim Lindsey, and niece of Charles
William Lindsey."  There is no indication as to the year it was written:

"Right after the Civil War closed, around two years, the scarlet fever
broke out in the Veal Station Community.  Over at the old LANTZ place
five children died in a short time and are buried there on the place.

In the fall of 1890, W. A. ERVVIN came to Veal Station and built a lot
more on the old building...built a boarding house for girls and a
dormitory for the boys.  That was when the building was made into a
college called PARSONS College.  At one time there were over five
hundred scholars.  Then on December 10, 1893, it burn down.

The first school building in Veal Station was a log house.  It had two
rooms, and a man by the name of STOUT taught there.  He was so ill he
only taught one term.  They let him go.  He lived in one room and taught
school in the other.  That was back in the late '50's.  Two other
teachers were Mr. JOHNSON and Mr. AKARD.

In the year '76 my parents lived in Veal Station in a two story building
that stood right east down the line from where the HINKLE boys' home
is.  There was a cotton gin and a turning mill down at the east end of
that hollow.  Two cotton buyers who were brothers, Tom TARINGTON and B.
C. TARINGTON, had a general store up there.  There was a post office and
two blacksmith shops.  The first Post Master we had in Veal Station was
Abe SWALLOW.

A man named Jim ALLFORD had the cotton gin.

The Lindseys' came from Newton county, Missouri.  Our grandfather was
Adam Lynn Lindsey.  They all came to Texas in the fall of 1852 and
settled in the Veal Station Community.

In the year of 1872 the Indians came in and killed Jim MATLOCK and his
wife.  They lived down in the field east of the old WOODY place on
Walnut Branch.  They had three children.  Two boys, whose names were
John and Henry (Hunk) and a girl named Bettie.  They had sent them over
to the LANTZ home after fruit, and while they were gone the Indians came
and killed Mr. and Mrs. MATLOCK.  They tore things all up, set the house
on fire and left.  But it went out and never burned.  They hung their
feather beds on the fence and tore them open.  Mrs. MATLOCK was a niece
of BENTON LANTZ and Mrs. JIM COLEMAN.

On July 4, 1860, the Masons dedicated the old building and laid the
corner stone, which was a very large sand rock.  They fixed a place on
it and put a Bible, a pint of whiskey, a $20 gold piece and a horned
frog, which later was stolen.

(my note: what was stolen, the horned frog or the $20?)

BEN AKARD was teaching school at Veal Station when smallpox broke out.
He had them and when he got well he went to Springtown horseback.  He
put a big wool shawl around himself and took smallpox to Springtown in
that shawl.  It had been spread n the head of his bed when he had
smallpox."