Son of Jacob Estep and Catherine Anderson; husband of Mary Hiley Atwood; father of Donely, Clara, Jessie, Bert, Lynn, Sarah, Cordia, Camey, Ada and Allie.
The North Wilkesboro Hustler - North Wilkesboro, NC
Friday - 20 November 1914
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THE UNDOING OF J.V. ANDERSON
Details of the Fatal Undoing of Vance Anderson November 2d by a Man of 80 Years in Allegheny.
Parties wagoning [sic] from Alleghany this week in North Wilkesboro told the details of the killing of J. Vance Anderson by Washington Thompson in that county Monday night, November 2nd among whom was a brother of J. V. Anderson, Mr. B. E. Anderson.
He said that his brother left ten children, three married and the others are little fellows, who live on the south side of the Blue Ridge owning about 150 acres of land and some livestock. The last words spoken by Anderson when reached by neighbors -Messrs. Samuel and Johnie Brooks - of the fatal please [sic] who on reaching there told Anderson, then in a bled and dying condition that they would rap [sic] him up and send for the doctor replied that they need not send for the doctor that he was about dead, and did die immediately. The horse being ridden was not shot.
“Fooling with another man’s wife” and being intoxicated were probably causes of Anderson’s death, or at least that seems to be the most reliable report. The story of the killing is about as follows: Vance Anderson had been to Sparta that day, seen there intoxicated, and came along the public road horseback near where Thompson lived. Thompson had gone two or three hundred yards up to the road from his house, prior thereto with his shotgun, and there Anderson was found by neighbors who were notified by Thompson himself that he had shot and to look after him. He was shot through the right leg three or four inches above the knee where the artery was severed and two ot three inches of the bones were crushed or broken to pieces by the load. It was observed at the burial that the shot leg was drawn up shorter. He was burried near Deep Gap on Bullhead. His sister from Brushy Mountain twonship, this county, attended the funeral and her brother B. E Anderson brought her back this week.
Thompson is supposed to have left the country having been seen next morning by Mr. Jesse Cuadill, a merchant of the county, and is a man about 80 years.
Washington Thompson had married twice. His first wife is said to have been a mighty good woman but the reputation of his second wife now living is not that good, and is considerably younger than he, an ex-Confederate and father of the present Clerk of the Court of Alleghany Frank Thompson.
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The North Wilkesboro Hustler - North Wilkesboro, NC
Friday - 20 November 1914
Page 1 - Column 3
THE UNDOING OF J.V. ANDERSON
Details of the Fatal Undoing of Vance Anderson November 2d by a Man of 80 Years in Allegheny.
Parties wagoning [sic] from Alleghany this week in North Wilkesboro told the details of the killing of J. Vance Anderson by Washington Thompson in that county Monday night, November 2nd among whom was a brother of J. V. Anderson, Mr. B. E. Anderson.
He said that his brother left ten children, three married and the others are little fellows, who live on the south side of the Blue Ridge owning about 150 acres of land and some livestock. The last words spoken by Anderson when reached by neighbors -Messrs. Samuel and Johnie Brooks - of the fatal please [sic] who on reaching there told Anderson, then in a bled and dying condition that they would rap [sic] him up and send for the doctor replied that they need not send for the doctor that he was about dead, and did die immediately. The horse being ridden was not shot.
“Fooling with another man’s wife” and being intoxicated were probably causes of Anderson’s death, or at least that seems to be the most reliable report. The story of the killing is about as follows: Vance Anderson had been to Sparta that day, seen there intoxicated, and came along the public road horseback near where Thompson lived. Thompson had gone two or three hundred yards up to the road from his house, prior thereto with his shotgun, and there Anderson was found by neighbors who were notified by Thompson himself that he had shot and to look after him. He was shot through the right leg three or four inches above the knee where the artery was severed and two ot three inches of the bones were crushed or broken to pieces by the load. It was observed at the burial that the shot leg was drawn up shorter. He was burried near Deep Gap on Bullhead. His sister from Brushy Mountain twonship, this county, attended the funeral and her brother B. E Anderson brought her back this week.
Thompson is supposed to have left the country having been seen next morning by Mr. Jesse Cuadill, a merchant of the county, and is a man about 80 years.
Washington Thompson had married twice. His first wife is said to have been a mighty good woman but the reputation of his second wife now living is not that good, and is considerably younger than he, an ex-Confederate and father of the present Clerk of the Court of Alleghany Frank Thompson.
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Son of Jacob Estep and Catherine Anderson; husband of Mary Hiley Atwood; father of Donely, Clara, Jessie, Bert, Lynn, Sarah, Cordia, Camey, Ada and Allie.
The North Wilkesboro Hustler - North Wilkesboro, NC
Friday - 20 November 1914
Page 1 - Column 3
THE UNDOING OF J.V. ANDERSON
Details of the Fatal Undoing of Vance Anderson November 2d by a Man of 80 Years in Allegheny.
Parties wagoning [sic] from Alleghany this week in North Wilkesboro told the details of the killing of J. Vance Anderson by Washington Thompson in that county Monday night, November 2nd among whom was a brother of J. V. Anderson, Mr. B. E. Anderson.
He said that his brother left ten children, three married and the others are little fellows, who live on the south side of the Blue Ridge owning about 150 acres of land and some livestock. The last words spoken by Anderson when reached by neighbors -Messrs. Samuel and Johnie Brooks - of the fatal please [sic] who on reaching there told Anderson, then in a bled and dying condition that they would rap [sic] him up and send for the doctor replied that they need not send for the doctor that he was about dead, and did die immediately. The horse being ridden was not shot.
“Fooling with another man’s wife” and being intoxicated were probably causes of Anderson’s death, or at least that seems to be the most reliable report. The story of the killing is about as follows: Vance Anderson had been to Sparta that day, seen there intoxicated, and came along the public road horseback near where Thompson lived. Thompson had gone two or three hundred yards up to the road from his house, prior thereto with his shotgun, and there Anderson was found by neighbors who were notified by Thompson himself that he had shot and to look after him. He was shot through the right leg three or four inches above the knee where the artery was severed and two ot three inches of the bones were crushed or broken to pieces by the load. It was observed at the burial that the shot leg was drawn up shorter. He was burried near Deep Gap on Bullhead. His sister from Brushy Mountain twonship, this county, attended the funeral and her brother B. E Anderson brought her back this week.
Thompson is supposed to have left the country having been seen next morning by Mr. Jesse Cuadill, a merchant of the county, and is a man about 80 years.
Washington Thompson had married twice. His first wife is said to have been a mighty good woman but the reputation of his second wife now living is not that good, and is considerably younger than he, an ex-Confederate and father of the present Clerk of the Court of Alleghany Frank Thompson.
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The North Wilkesboro Hustler - North Wilkesboro, NC
Friday - 20 November 1914
Page 1 - Column 3
THE UNDOING OF J.V. ANDERSON
Details of the Fatal Undoing of Vance Anderson November 2d by a Man of 80 Years in Allegheny.
Parties wagoning [sic] from Alleghany this week in North Wilkesboro told the details of the killing of J. Vance Anderson by Washington Thompson in that county Monday night, November 2nd among whom was a brother of J. V. Anderson, Mr. B. E. Anderson.
He said that his brother left ten children, three married and the others are little fellows, who live on the south side of the Blue Ridge owning about 150 acres of land and some livestock. The last words spoken by Anderson when reached by neighbors -Messrs. Samuel and Johnie Brooks - of the fatal please [sic] who on reaching there told Anderson, then in a bled and dying condition that they would rap [sic] him up and send for the doctor replied that they need not send for the doctor that he was about dead, and did die immediately. The horse being ridden was not shot.
“Fooling with another man’s wife” and being intoxicated were probably causes of Anderson’s death, or at least that seems to be the most reliable report. The story of the killing is about as follows: Vance Anderson had been to Sparta that day, seen there intoxicated, and came along the public road horseback near where Thompson lived. Thompson had gone two or three hundred yards up to the road from his house, prior thereto with his shotgun, and there Anderson was found by neighbors who were notified by Thompson himself that he had shot and to look after him. He was shot through the right leg three or four inches above the knee where the artery was severed and two ot three inches of the bones were crushed or broken to pieces by the load. It was observed at the burial that the shot leg was drawn up shorter. He was burried near Deep Gap on Bullhead. His sister from Brushy Mountain twonship, this county, attended the funeral and her brother B. E Anderson brought her back this week.
Thompson is supposed to have left the country having been seen next morning by Mr. Jesse Cuadill, a merchant of the county, and is a man about 80 years.
Washington Thompson had married twice. His first wife is said to have been a mighty good woman but the reputation of his second wife now living is not that good, and is considerably younger than he, an ex-Confederate and father of the present Clerk of the Court of Alleghany Frank Thompson.
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