Was John Surratt engaged to Miss Roose?

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One of Mary's nieces married into the Kirby family, if I remember correctly, and it may have been Olivia Jenkins, who spent time with Anna and her mother - especially after they moved to the city. I find the reference to a Kirby divorce strange, however, because Mary had converted her brother Zadoc's family to Catholicism, and I believe that the Kirbys were Catholics also. Of course, stranger things have happened.

Stranger yet is that I know of no other researcher having seen mention of Miss Roose living with the Surratts or a supposed engagement to John Surratt. That would include Hall, Brennan, Trindal, Larson, Isacsson, and Jampoler over the past forty years; and Fred Hatch and Michael Schein both have books coming out next year on Johnny.