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]

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