VES HOWARD
Ves
Howard lived where John Boyer now lives, (see supra, about our
visiting the place together.) He was a bad man. He and Perry Langford
killed Jim Jones [James H. "Jim" Jones
was murdered May 30, 1882 at age the 22. --Elreeta Weathers--Jim Jones was
my gg uncle.] This land was called the old Langford place.
Evidently before he moved to what was called Langford’s Cove and the
present Evant, just north of the Lampasas County line. It was determined
by the mob to hang Ves
Howard, or maybe to just shoot him. Detailed to perform this service
were Mr. Williams, Mr. Jim
and Mr. John Livingston and another man. They went out and stood over
the house all night and went in at daybreak. His family were there but he
was not at home. He never came back.
This was an entirely different Howard from the ones who lived out
southwest in the mountains. They worked for Old Man Sol Barron, the horse
rancher. This was Chap Howard and Add Howard--Old Man Add Howard. Probably
they were not brothers but likely Add was the uncle of the other. Believe
they were related to the ones that lived down at the bend of the Leon
River earlier. (Believe that connects up with what Mr. Price M. Rice told
me and what the Connell woman wrote in the Star-Telegram [Fort
Worth Star-Telegram] before that.
(Probably connected was the Howard girl who was in school in 1867 when
the teacher, Anne
Whitney, was killed by the Indians, who ran out, mounted a horse and
escaped. [See
the story of Anne Whitney]