Kate’s notes: As a child, Katie Gilleland Anderson’s father, William Gilleland, survived an attack by Comanches  that killed his parents and left him gravely wounded. The story of this attack was recounted in detail by Katie’s aunt, Rebecca Jane Gilleland Fisher, who was called “The Mother of Texas”.  This story, as well as a short biography and poem by William Gilleland can be found among “Biographical and Historical Sketches” in the Gilliland Trails library.
   Her brother, George, died from consumption in 1898, at the age of twenty-nine.

San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas
29 May, 1932

PAIR MARRIED FIFTY YEARS
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   Kenneth Lewis Anderson, 69, and Mrs. Katie Gilleland Anderson, 65, will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Monday. They were married in 1882 in the Lutheran church in Castroville, and have made their home in San Antonio since that time.
   Mrs. Anderson is the daughter of the late William Gilleland, Texas poet, and Anderson is the son of the late Col. Malcolm G. Anderson, criminal lawyer. They have two daughters and two grand-daughters.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012