Funeral Notice of Veltie H. Daugherty

This document is a funeral notice for a young man named Veltie H. Daugherty who died in 1913.

I do not know who he was, but he was almost certainly a friend or student to either my Great-Grandmother Lula Louvenia (Jackson) Sharp or one of her children. This is something of theirs I have had in my possession for many years now; I do not believe it could have come from my Daddy's people. I do not believe Veltie was kin, but maybe.

Veltie's been gone for almost a century now, and it is very probably so that there is no one alive today who has a conscious memory of him. He was, after all, 19 when he died and probably only known to a few hundred people. But he did live. And it is these sort of documents that prove a person's existence through History.

I assume that this funeral notice originates from West Texas. Maybe Mitchell or Taylor Cos., TX? Maybe even Reeves County where Balmorhea is.

This young man was someone to my ancestors and, so, tonight, I write his name again into the New Ether and thereby make his identity evident.

UPDATE: I just found Veltie in the 1910 Federal Census of Nolan Co., TX, which is adjacent to both Mitchell and Taylor Cos.