Talk:Robert Addison Gillespie/@comment-67.78.98.190-20190312205332

There never was a Comanche Chief known as Yellow Wolf.

The brothers never operated a merchantine store although a store was a large part of Gillespie's family's history in TN and AL. Realty companies in early Texas were known as "mercantile reality". This is where everyone thinks they operated a store. Both Addistion and his brother Matthew were clerks in the Fayette County courthouse for a while. Their older brother, James Houston, had purchased 5,000 acres for them to sell, but he had bought at too high a price making sales zero. Addision and Matthew signed up with Col Moore's second excursion up the Colorado. They slaughtered 134 Comanche warriors, women, and children and sold the last two or three dozen into slavery. Matthew had had enough and never served as a ranger again. He disappears from history. There is no record of his being buried in LaGrange as claimed. Robert Addision now joined ranging companies and eventually signed on with Capt. John Hays. Gillespie and Walker were burined together. When moved from the  Alamo grounds the charred bones of the Alamo defenders were mixed with theirs. They rested in the Odd Fellow cemetery until the Texas Rangers decided to remove Walker to Waco. That aroused the Daughter of the Alamo into action and the bones, mixed with defenders of the Alamo, were buried again as had been their wish.