In checking the Truman ancestry. there is no direct relationship between the Truman's and Bush's. However, Pres. Obama is related to both of them, so do you call the Bush's and Truman shirt-tailed relatives?
And Mrs. Anderson,,,,,,,,,
There's a lot of confusion over her. ( as with everything concerning Blood Bill). I don't remember her background, and certainly some authors have claimed that she was a "working Girl" at a saloon. But her last name I think was Bush, but her parents died and she was adapted by the Smith family: that's one of the stories, I think. Another one is that Bloody Bill's brother Jim married her after the war, but that story has gotten confused with one of Bloody Bill's sisters who went to TX after the war and married someone by the name of Smith or Bush. It all gets very confusing.
Which brings up a good point about reading stories about Bloody Bill, Quantrill, and the rest of the guerrilla's. So much of the history has been written with a partisan view, especially the early works, that in order to "flesh out" what really happened, or, at best, what most likely happened, you have to read several sources, and then come to your own conclutions.. It is a fascinating history, and in the last few years a more fair and balance narrative has come out, one that tells what motivated them to do what they did. It was an utterly frightful period of time to be living in, and these men/boys coped with it the best they could. You have to understand the back story of what went on, both during the war and after.
When ever the topic of Quantrill comes up, it never fails that someone will respond with something along the lines, "He was a murderer and a thief and got exactly what he deserved!" My first two thoughts when I see that are: A. "You must be from Kansas", and B. "Where did you get your information?'' I used to think the same about him, but over the years my view on him and most of the other guerrillas has changed. They were men of their times, and the times then wasn't good.