Veitch Veatch

Hi I like to find this family. Put in Geni if not there and I believe they linked to Sheriff James Sheriff family but not sure how.

THE LAST OF THE CHOCTAW VEACHES by William A. Veitch
2003

https://occgs.com/projects/rescue/family_files/files/VEITCH%20-%20V...

Charles Wesley Veach and Elizabeth Burris, both born in Kentucky, were the parents of Horatio Veach who was born about 1843 or 1845 . Horatio served in the Civil War in Company K, 401h Regiment, of the Indiana Infantry and was wounded in battle. After the war he moved west to th e Indian Territor ies in what is now Oklahoma. There, on 19 November 1871, at Chickasha in the Indian Territories he marri ed Sophia Bohann on o r Sophina Johnson. Sophia was born on 27 December 1851 in Choctaw Nation, Indian
Territ ories. She died on 11 January 1920 in Durant, Oklahoma. He r fa th e r was Edward Bohanan, a mixed blood Choctaw who reportedly came to the Indian Territories over the Trail of Tears, was born in 1830 in the Mississippi Indian Territories and died in
1871 in Blue County in the l.T. During the Civil War

James 'The Sheriff' Veitch

Billie