The William Veal of So Red the Rose is a fictional person, but no doubt his character is appropriated from the real-life William Veal of Holly Grove Plantation in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. In the novel, he is imagined as a loyal family servant, a defender of the slave owners, and their view…
Noland Veal was born around 1847 on Holly Grove Plantation in Centreville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. He was the fifth child born to William Veal and Mary Brent. He married Milly Wright around 1865. Milly was born in 1852 in Mississippi. Her parents were Edmund Wright, born around 1820 in Virginia, and Marie…
Madison Veal was born around 1842 (later recognized as October 11,1841) on Holly Grove Plantation in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. He was the fourth child born to William Veal and Mary Brent. He married Laura Cheatham on May 5, 1870, in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois. Laura was born around 1847 near…
Frederick Alexander was born around 1828 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was enslaved by James A Stewart and lived on Holly Grove Plantation in Centreville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. On May 15, 1854, he married Kitty Veal, the oldest child of William Veal and Mary Brent. They were married on Holly Grove…
William Veal was born in 1802 in Tennessee, and died 15 January 1891, in Centreville, Mississippi, a small town near Woodville, the town center of Wilkinson County. He was married to Mary Brent, who was born around 1819 in Louisiana and died 15 January 1898 in Centreville. Together they had…
So Red the Rose is a novel written in 1934 by Stark Young who was born in Como, Mississippi. Young was the grandson of Hugh McGehee, the brother of Judge Edward McGehee of Bowling Green Plantation near Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Though the book is a fictional account of the wealthy slaveholding…
