Let me clear up a few of Rollie's misstatements here. He is not a member of William C. Anderson's "extended family" but I am. My great uncle was Bill and Missouria Anderson's son Storm Anderson and was married to my great aunt Letha Longley Anderson who I knew very well until she died in 1979. I have never said anything demeaning about William C. "Bloody Bill" Anderson. I've always held great admiration and respect for this Southern hero and for the words he said to Henry C. Fuller in 1924 where he admitted being the Guerrilla leader known as "Bloody Bill Anderson" and, thus, totally separated himself from any notions that he was a member of the family Rollie and Sally claim is theirs - the Stone County William M. Anderson, Sr. family. W.M. Anderson, Sr.'s son was a "Bill Anderson" too but he was killed in September, 1864 by Yankee soldiers in Waynesville, Missouri according to the War of the Rebellion Records. I don't believe I ever called this man a "chicken thief" but the soldiers who killed him said they did so after his small gang had committed petty theft by stealing something like a hundred dollars and some clothes. ha. So, I've called him a "petty thief" as that is what I consider him.
~Texas Jay
http://bloodybillanderson.webs.com - here is what William C. "Bloody Bill" Anderson told Brownwood Banner-Bulletin staff writer Henry C. Fuller in 1924. Remember, these are not my words. They are the words of the man who they wrongly claim was "related" to them.
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Texas Jay, to put it bluntly, you are intellectually challenged, or morally bankrupt, incapable of acknowledging the truth; all bluster and no facts. My great-grandmother, Harriet Anderson married Israel Clements, who was tax assessor of Brown County in 1858. They are both buried in Roberts Cemetery in Brown County, as are 4 of their 5 children, including my grandmother, Texana Clements Petty. Harriet's father was Moses G. Anderson, first county clerk of Brown County. Her sister was Martha Elizabeth Anderson, who married William C. Anderson. The father of William C. Anderson was William M. Anderson. William M. Anderson, Moses G. Anderson, Samuel Anderson of Stone County, MO, were sons of Noble Anderson.
You don't have the faintest idea of the identity of the Bill Anderson killed in Waynesville, MO., do you? Where is your proof that it was William Anderson of Stone County? Just another of your many erroneous suppositions. William C. Anderson of Stone County, and 3 of his brothers were in Brown County, TX, in 1864. Do a little research before you make these irresponsible claims.
William C. Anderson did not confess to anything. William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson was killed in MO in 1864. Nobody knows what, if anything, William C. Anderson told Henry C. Fuller. The entire fictitious story of the ambush may have come from the vivid imagination of Henry C. Fuller. If you know as little about treasure hunting as you do about the Anderson family, you will be lucky to to find your way home at the end of the day.
Good luck on your search for KFC treasure!!