Richard Roe Veale was born near El Dara in Pike County, Illinois, the sixth child and second son of William Veale (a native of St. Columb Major, Cornwall, England) and Margaret Wells. He was grandson of Nicholas and Nancy (Sappington) Wells and Richard and Temperance (Rowe) Veale.
When he was still a teenager, his father took him, two brothers and three sisters by riverboat and shipboard to California, arriving in San Francisco January 24, 1857, where they met a sister and brother-in-law and an aunt and uncle who had preceded them. They settled in Sonoma County near Penngrove outside Petaluma where they engaged in stock raising.
In 1863, Richard married Martha Gallant Rains, a native of Missouri and daughter of Gallant Rains. The Rains family had crossed the plains to California in a huge cooperative of three wagon trains, which Gallant Rains was in charge of, and had also engaged in ranching and stock raising. Richard and Martha had four children: Richard Rains (1864), Gallant Lee (1865), Margaret (1867) and William Worth (1870).
In 1868, Richard moved to a farm of 800 acres in the Eden Plains district, four miles from Brentwood, Contra Costa County. Martha died in 1871, not long after her last child's birth.
March 11, 1880, Richard Roe Veale married Mrs. Selinda Sexton, who had been born in New York State. (They had no children.) He died June 5, 1886, at his home near Eden Plains.
Siblings:
Mary (Veale) Benson (Mrs. Josiah Heath Benson)
Sarah Ann (Veale) Barnes (Mrs. Jehu Barnes)
Jane (Veale) Chamberlin (Mrs. William A. Chamberlin)
Nicholas Veale
Zerilda (Veale) Wood (Mrs. Hance Robert Wood)
Temperance Francis Cornish (Veale) DeHaven (Mrs. Benjamin DeHaven)
Thomas Fletcher Wells Veale
William Francis Roe Veale
Martha Matilda (Veale) Hardin (Mrs. Henry Andrew Hardin)
[Information taken from the original research of Carl Veale, supplemented by other Veale family members]
When he was still a teenager, his father took him, two brothers and three sisters by riverboat and shipboard to California, arriving in San Francisco January 24, 1857, where they met a sister and brother-in-law and an aunt and uncle who had preceded them. They settled in Sonoma County near Penngrove outside Petaluma where they engaged in stock raising.
In 1863, Richard married Martha Gallant Rains, a native of Missouri and daughter of Gallant Rains. The Rains family had crossed the plains to California in a huge cooperative of three wagon trains, which Gallant Rains was in charge of, and had also engaged in ranching and stock raising. Richard and Martha had four children: Richard Rains (1864), Gallant Lee (1865), Margaret (1867) and William Worth (1870).
In 1868, Richard moved to a farm of 800 acres in the Eden Plains district, four miles from Brentwood, Contra Costa County. Martha died in 1871, not long after her last child's birth.
March 11, 1880, Richard Roe Veale married Mrs. Selinda Sexton, who had been born in New York State. (They had no children.) He died June 5, 1886, at his home near Eden Plains.
Siblings:
Mary (Veale) Benson (Mrs. Josiah Heath Benson)
Sarah Ann (Veale) Barnes (Mrs. Jehu Barnes)
Jane (Veale) Chamberlin (Mrs. William A. Chamberlin)
Nicholas Veale
Zerilda (Veale) Wood (Mrs. Hance Robert Wood)
Temperance Francis Cornish (Veale) DeHaven (Mrs. Benjamin DeHaven)
Thomas Fletcher Wells Veale
William Francis Roe Veale
Martha Matilda (Veale) Hardin (Mrs. Henry Andrew Hardin)
[Information taken from the original research of Carl Veale, supplemented by other Veale family members]
Richard Roe Veale was born near El Dara in Pike County, Illinois, the sixth child and second son of William Veale (a native of St. Columb Major, Cornwall, England) and Margaret Wells. He was grandson of Nicholas and Nancy (Sappington) Wells and Richard and Temperance (Rowe) Veale.
When he was still a teenager, his father took him, two brothers and three sisters by riverboat and shipboard to California, arriving in San Francisco January 24, 1857, where they met a sister and brother-in-law and an aunt and uncle who had preceded them. They settled in Sonoma County near Penngrove outside Petaluma where they engaged in stock raising.
In 1863, Richard married Martha Gallant Rains, a native of Missouri and daughter of Gallant Rains. The Rains family had crossed the plains to California in a huge cooperative of three wagon trains, which Gallant Rains was in charge of, and had also engaged in ranching and stock raising. Richard and Martha had four children: Richard Rains (1864), Gallant Lee (1865), Margaret (1867) and William Worth (1870).
In 1868, Richard moved to a farm of 800 acres in the Eden Plains district, four miles from Brentwood, Contra Costa County. Martha died in 1871, not long after her last child's birth.
March 11, 1880, Richard Roe Veale married Mrs. Selinda Sexton, who had been born in New York State. (They had no children.) He died June 5, 1886, at his home near Eden Plains.
Siblings:
Mary (Veale) Benson (Mrs. Josiah Heath Benson)
Sarah Ann (Veale) Barnes (Mrs. Jehu Barnes)
Jane (Veale) Chamberlin (Mrs. William A. Chamberlin)
Nicholas Veale
Zerilda (Veale) Wood (Mrs. Hance Robert Wood)
Temperance Francis Cornish (Veale) DeHaven (Mrs. Benjamin DeHaven)
Thomas Fletcher Wells Veale
William Francis Roe Veale
Martha Matilda (Veale) Hardin (Mrs. Henry Andrew Hardin)
[Information taken from the original research of Carl Veale, supplemented by other Veale family members]
When he was still a teenager, his father took him, two brothers and three sisters by riverboat and shipboard to California, arriving in San Francisco January 24, 1857, where they met a sister and brother-in-law and an aunt and uncle who had preceded them. They settled in Sonoma County near Penngrove outside Petaluma where they engaged in stock raising.
In 1863, Richard married Martha Gallant Rains, a native of Missouri and daughter of Gallant Rains. The Rains family had crossed the plains to California in a huge cooperative of three wagon trains, which Gallant Rains was in charge of, and had also engaged in ranching and stock raising. Richard and Martha had four children: Richard Rains (1864), Gallant Lee (1865), Margaret (1867) and William Worth (1870).
In 1868, Richard moved to a farm of 800 acres in the Eden Plains district, four miles from Brentwood, Contra Costa County. Martha died in 1871, not long after her last child's birth.
March 11, 1880, Richard Roe Veale married Mrs. Selinda Sexton, who had been born in New York State. (They had no children.) He died June 5, 1886, at his home near Eden Plains.
Siblings:
Mary (Veale) Benson (Mrs. Josiah Heath Benson)
Sarah Ann (Veale) Barnes (Mrs. Jehu Barnes)
Jane (Veale) Chamberlin (Mrs. William A. Chamberlin)
Nicholas Veale
Zerilda (Veale) Wood (Mrs. Hance Robert Wood)
Temperance Francis Cornish (Veale) DeHaven (Mrs. Benjamin DeHaven)
Thomas Fletcher Wells Veale
William Francis Roe Veale
Martha Matilda (Veale) Hardin (Mrs. Henry Andrew Hardin)
[Information taken from the original research of Carl Veale, supplemented by other Veale family members]
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Note: Note: Richard evidently always spelled his middle name "Roe", unlike most other Veale family members, who spelled it "Rowe" after Richard's English grandmother. He had two first cousins named Richard Rowe Veale, one in Missouri, one in Texas.
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