MISSISSIPPI LYNCHIN

Man found hanged after land feud

Family members say 55-year-old Roy Veal, found yesterday hanging from a tree in rural Mississippi, had returned home to fight for his family's land.
Doris Gordon, the man's sister her brother had returned to the family home in Wilkinson County 'to help with a lawsuit pending against our family.'
'There are people trying to take part of our land because they apparently think there is oil on the land,' she said.
Thelma Veal, the man's 79-year-old mother, said her son had obtained a map of the property and was collecting documents to prove the family owned the land.
"Now they have found my son hung back there on a tree," said Mrs Veal.
She said her husband owned more than 40 acres in the area southwest of Woodville and that it was being sought because it might have oil deposits.
There is oil production in that area of the state.
"My husband's daddy bought this land in 1926, and I've been here ever since I was 18," she said. "It's our land."