His father is Charner Leach, born in North Carolina, and mother Nancy Stroud, born in Bale Co., Alabama.
Married Nettie Fletia Williamson on Dec 25, 1902. Vess was a sick man and we assume tuberculosis. Moved to Hamilton, Texas in 1903, four daughters born there, Willie May, Estelle and twins Nora and Dora. Nora lived 3 days and Dora 5 days. Vess and Nettie and the two girls moved to Malpai, in Union County, about 10 miles north of Gladstone Post Office in 1913. Vess worked on the Eagle Nest Dam two summers. Twin boys were born there prematurely and died. They were placed in a fruit jar and buried under a tree near the cellar they lived in.
On May 12, 1921 two cattle men, G. H. Starkey and Frank O. Ward rode their horses through the barbed wire fence around Vess' field and a bitter quarrel followed with Vess being shot several times and Nettie with bullet holes in her dress. Later Nettie moved to Woodlake in Tulare Co., California, near her daughter, Wille May (Mrs C. A. Waddle), and was buried there in 1955.
Ward and Starkey were never punished for that murder which was described as a neighborhood quarrel.
Married Nettie Fletia Williamson on Dec 25, 1902. Vess was a sick man and we assume tuberculosis. Moved to Hamilton, Texas in 1903, four daughters born there, Willie May, Estelle and twins Nora and Dora. Nora lived 3 days and Dora 5 days. Vess and Nettie and the two girls moved to Malpai, in Union County, about 10 miles north of Gladstone Post Office in 1913. Vess worked on the Eagle Nest Dam two summers. Twin boys were born there prematurely and died. They were placed in a fruit jar and buried under a tree near the cellar they lived in.
On May 12, 1921 two cattle men, G. H. Starkey and Frank O. Ward rode their horses through the barbed wire fence around Vess' field and a bitter quarrel followed with Vess being shot several times and Nettie with bullet holes in her dress. Later Nettie moved to Woodlake in Tulare Co., California, near her daughter, Wille May (Mrs C. A. Waddle), and was buried there in 1955.
Ward and Starkey were never punished for that murder which was described as a neighborhood quarrel.
His father is Charner Leach, born in North Carolina, and mother Nancy Stroud, born in Bale Co., Alabama.
Married Nettie Fletia Williamson on Dec 25, 1902. Vess was a sick man and we assume tuberculosis. Moved to Hamilton, Texas in 1903, four daughters born there, Willie May, Estelle and twins Nora and Dora. Nora lived 3 days and Dora 5 days. Vess and Nettie and the two girls moved to Malpai, in Union County, about 10 miles north of Gladstone Post Office in 1913. Vess worked on the Eagle Nest Dam two summers. Twin boys were born there prematurely and died. They were placed in a fruit jar and buried under a tree near the cellar they lived in.
On May 12, 1921 two cattle men, G. H. Starkey and Frank O. Ward rode their horses through the barbed wire fence around Vess' field and a bitter quarrel followed with Vess being shot several times and Nettie with bullet holes in her dress. Later Nettie moved to Woodlake in Tulare Co., California, near her daughter, Wille May (Mrs C. A. Waddle), and was buried there in 1955.
Ward and Starkey were never punished for that murder which was described as a neighborhood quarrel.
Married Nettie Fletia Williamson on Dec 25, 1902. Vess was a sick man and we assume tuberculosis. Moved to Hamilton, Texas in 1903, four daughters born there, Willie May, Estelle and twins Nora and Dora. Nora lived 3 days and Dora 5 days. Vess and Nettie and the two girls moved to Malpai, in Union County, about 10 miles north of Gladstone Post Office in 1913. Vess worked on the Eagle Nest Dam two summers. Twin boys were born there prematurely and died. They were placed in a fruit jar and buried under a tree near the cellar they lived in.
On May 12, 1921 two cattle men, G. H. Starkey and Frank O. Ward rode their horses through the barbed wire fence around Vess' field and a bitter quarrel followed with Vess being shot several times and Nettie with bullet holes in her dress. Later Nettie moved to Woodlake in Tulare Co., California, near her daughter, Wille May (Mrs C. A. Waddle), and was buried there in 1955.
Ward and Starkey were never punished for that murder which was described as a neighborhood quarrel.
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