Jim,

War, famine, and disease go hand in hand. If your ancestors were living in Andrew County under the violence that took place there over several weeks, they may have evaded one to fall victim to another. It is entirely possible that Stephen HILL was killed by one side or the other and it not be recorded in the local papers. There was that much killing going on. If Anna found herself a widow, she may have succumbed to lack of means to feed herself or disease in a weakened condition and died weeks or months later. I seriously doubt she was killed by violence because the St. Joseph or Kansas City or Liberty newspapers would have made something out of that. I think I would remember reading about it. In those Victorian times even the most lawless scroundrels rarely killed a woman. Such a thing was rare in Missouri during the war. It did happen, but there was too much newspaper coverage of the Andrew County violence.

Bruce