Myrtle Mantauk Veal

Walter and Myrtle Veal came to Hobart sometime in 1912, and yet I've seen very little mention of them in the newspapers, until this ominous tidbit in mid-June 1921: "Mrs. Walter Veal is reported quite ill, the result of a nervous breakdown."

Within two weeks she had become too ill to get out of bed; another week, and one of her sisters came up from Logansport to nurse her. Even so, her death on July 21 was "quite sudden and very much unexpected."


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(The stepdaughter is mysterious; she was not living with Walter and Myrtle in 1920, and I can't even find out her name.)

When Walter returned to Hobart two days after the funeral in Logansport, his brother and sister came along, to stay with him for a while.

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From a family broken up, to a family reunited: on July 20, Oliver and Olga (Neef) Bullock arrived in Hobart, to the joy of all the many Bullocks, I'm sure. With their two sons, Robert and Martin, they had sailed from Panama to Norfolk, Virginia, then traveled by train through the coal-mining areas — "an unenviable route," according to the News. They intended to remain until October.


Sources:
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ Indiana Marriage Collection.
♦ "Local and Personal." Hobart News 16 June 1921.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 29 July 1921.
♦ "Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Bullock Arrive Here From Panama." Hobart News 21 July 1921.
♦ "Mrs. W.G. Veal Passes Away at Her Home This (Thursday) Morning." Hobart News 21 July 1921.
♦ "Mrs. Walter Veal Dies Suddenly." Hobart Gazette 22 July 1921.
♦ "Obituary." Hobart Gazette 29 July 1921.
♦ WWI Draft Cards.