(Editor’s Note: This is the final of a twopart series of how Bloody Bill Anderson meets his demise.) In the first of this two-part series, highlights showed Mary Rowland married Jesse Dotson Rowland and moved to his homestead in the Fishing River Township between Elkhorn and Orrick. They had 12 children before the Civil War began in 1861. Mary’s two oldest sons, Lyman and George, joined the Union Army, where they served as scouts and escorts in Missouri and Arkansas. Mary’s two sons-in-law, Thomas Wells and Samuel Woods, also enlisted in the Union Army. In October 1864, Jesse Dotson kept an eye out for bushwhackers and guerrillas under the command of Bloody Bill Anderson. On the night of October 26, after receiving word that Anderson and his men were in the area, Mary left her seven children at home and made her way to Richmond and the Union camp, where she told Union Lieutenant Colonel Samuel P. Cox about Bloody Bill’s whereabouts and the number of…