New Britain herald., 1930-03-28
DEATH ENDS FEUD
 WITH CIVILIZATION
Carolina Mountain Clan Peaceful
 After Leaders Death

Ashcville, N. C., March 2S.-Thc white flag has been hoisted over Anderson's Cove, finally allowing civilization to come into this las. stronghold of the clansmen Of the North Carolina hills.
 For four generations the people of this isolated region were a law unto thefnselves, and outsiders were barred. But Big Robert" Anderson is dead now. and his last official act as leader of the clan was to direct his people to turn from their lawless ways and accept the helping hand long Of fered by the state.
 This order, in fact, was the only one Big Robert" ever issued. He had become hereditary chiefta;n of the Cove folk by staying his Uncle Alonzo in quarrel over hound dog. He was arrested for murder and given a sentence of % yea,s. He died of pneumonia in d prison camp.
 Dead Giant
 . But the Andersons were clannis,I, even in death. Big Robert was buried on the mountain top where his kinspeople lie. The pallbear- CTS, working in relays, carried the dead giant he weighed $50 pounds - up the steep pathway, over the very spot where Alonzo had been killed three years before, to grave almost beside that Of the uncle.
 Alonzo's children, who had sworn vengeance on Big Robert" mourned with the rest at the 1u- neral and listened intently while the minister read the exiled lead er's death-bed message of peace. Even people from lover beyond" were allowed to attend the rites. Sc in the grave of Big Robert vas buried the Andersons' feud with civilization.
 Married a "FuITiner"
 The clan was founded long ago by Bill Anderson and Jane Russell. Bill, of purest mountain stock, had chosen a wife well, but not wisely. For despite her beauty and utter devotion to this rugged man of the hills, there were sin ister whisperings about her origin. Jane was dark-eyed and swarthy; she was a "furriner from out be- yond."
 Thus ostracized, Bill Anderson put his worldly goods and his wo- man into a wagon, hitched up his four mules and started out to es- tablish a new world for himself. They entered the mountain walled cove and settled down, far remov- ed from the whispered scorn of his own people.
 Children came to them there sons who were 1.-the and strong like their farher, daughters with lmpid eyes and alluring voices Ike Jane Russell. Isolation had been an obsesson with Anderson hut love broke all barriers. His sons went out and won other wo- men; men heard his daughters sing the mountain songs and stay ed to cast their lots with the clan
 Against the Law
 Even though three and foIr generations, as the colony grew, there remained some of the bitter ness of Bill Anderson's sei,-en- forced exile. This sullent resent- ment manifested itself in outright and often desperate lawlessness There haven became a place to be dread and summed.
 The Anderson chieftains re- mained supreme, maintaining! their power by sheer strength and true aim along their rifle sights Even violent deaths brought nc interference from outside authori- ties, for no reports were made o1 them until, somehow. officers heard that Alonzo, head of the clans had been killed by his neph. CIV, Big Robert" They raide( the cove and sent him to prison There he died.
 So the blood taint" of the An, dersons is forgotten now, and laN and order and progress have como to Anderson's Cove.