. History of the American Negro and his institutions ... edited by Caldwell . ist Seminary under When he was seventeen he left home and went toAthens, where he secured employment as a driver, filling in oddtimes with general labor. In January, 1873, he was married to Mary Neal, a daughterof Edmond and Charity Neal, of Clarke county. The followingchildren were born to them: Charley T. L., Robt. 0., PhillipPaul, Will Henry, Leroy Timothy. Lillie Vashti (Mrs. Daven-port), Carrie Frances (Mrs. Echols^). After living together forthirty-seven years, Mrs. Veal was taken from her husba
. History of the American Negro and his institutions ... edited by Caldwell . ist Seminary under When he was seventeen he left home and went toAthens, where he secured employment as a driver, filling in oddtimes with general labor. In January, 1873, he was married to Mary Neal, a daughterof Edmond and Charity Neal, of Clarke county. The followingchildren were born to them: Charley T. L., Robt. 0., PhillipPaul, Will Henry, Leroy Timothy. Lillie Vashti (Mrs. Daven-port), Carrie Frances (Mrs. Echols^). After living together forthirty-seven years, Mrs. Veal was taken from her husband onJanuary 29, 1910. May 3, following. p]lder Veal was marriedto Mrs. Mattie Wing. The year following his first marriage he was converted andjoined the First Baptist church of Athens. Almost immediatelyhe felt called to preach, but it was nearly three years later be-fore he entered upon the active work of the ministry, havingbeen licensed and ordained by his home church, under the pas-toral charge of Rev. Floyd Hill. His first pastorate was at Pierces Chapel in Clarke CHARLES THOMAS VEAL. GEORGIA EDITION 36? The work immediately took on new life and in two months thecongregation moved out and built St. James, which he servedfour years. His next church was Shady Grove, which he hasserved thirty-nine years and which has grown from 202 to served the Spring Creek church in Greene county four yearsand baptized forty-nine. He accepted the call of the Mt. Sinaichurch in Clarke county, where, in a pastorate of twenty-oneyears, he has baptized over two hundred. During a twentyyears pastorate at Summerhill he has baptized 130 and in sevenyears at Hillsboro has baptized sixty. With increasing yearsand experience his work has become more and more has served Mt. Zion fourteen years and added 230 went to St. Matthews when there was no organization, andafter holding a meeting baptized thirteen converts whom he or-ganized into a new church which in four
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