John Surratt, Jr.

[LincolnToddFan]

Fascinating. This is the first time that I have heard or read of a family split between John and his sister Anna and their descendants.

Was the rift caused by Anna's (very understandable) resentment that John did not lift a finger to try and save their mother? I think I would have held a grudge too, quite frankly. Wasn't John Jr. the one who brought Wilkes Booth into the Surratt family circle in the first place?

Or was it something else?