John Surratt's real parents?

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I should have also addressed my feelings about an estrangement between Anna and John. If anyone should have held a grudge against a brother, it should have been Anna, IMO. My feelings about a divide between them came back in 1979, while I was president of the Surratt Society and arranged a Surratt family reunion at the museum. In contacting Anna's descendants and John's descendants, there was just something that I couldn't put my finger on about some of the comments I was hearing.

If I were Anna, I would have been royally ticked off that I was the sole support of my mother through such an ordeal; that I was then stuck with being the executor to a really screwed up and in debt estate, requiring me to take on more debt by hiring a public administrator until my older brother, Isaac, could return from Texas and help me; that I was left to face public scorn; that when I finally got my mother's body released for private burial, my younger brother does not come to the funeral because he's off to "vacation" with his war buddies in South America to check out the possibilities of moving there. Anna may never have felt any of those things -- but, boy, I sure would have. Maybe I'm harsher because I'm an only child and think that brothers and sisters should help each other?