The story of the mysterious cannonballs, from the previous post, as told by William Lloyd Wiley.

“At one time they had a cannon here at Gonzales. I found a stack of these balls, they was about so high…piled up, and I got two of them and I didn’t know whatever happened to the rest of them. But Gonzales had an old cannon… (and these were) balls I guess for that cannon.” 

“They was in the river at the – where the dam is at the river. At one time back years ago the river would always get dry there. I used to go down and do a lot of fishing, and went down there one morning and the dam – they had let the water all roll out and it was almost dry there, and there’s this stack of those balls, right in the middle of the river.” 

“Those balls out there, I know where they came from, but I wish I could have taken a picture of it at the time. But it was in a pile right in the middle of the Guadalupe River right below the dam. Well they closed that – somehow cut the water off – and it was just almost dry there. You know, people used to drive across that river in their cars down there. But that pile of balls was stacked up there and I don’t know why I picked up a couple of ’em but anyway I went up to town and told the people at the newspaper about it. And I guess they all disappeared. All the balls disappeared. Somebody picked them up.” 

“At that time was – well that was back in the – I guess probably fifties- sometime in the fifties.”