The marriage between Miss Bush Smith and Bill Anderson was one of the causes of the split between Anderson and Quantrill in the winter of 1863-64. Bill Quantrill was opposed to it and wanted Anderson to wait for better times to get married. I have never seen anything that would indicate that Miss Bush (Smith) Anderson ever left Texas.

In February 1864, Bill Quantrill was arrested in placed in the Bonham jail after George Todd and Bill Anderson was questioned my Brig.Gen McCulloch's State Troops and they accused Quantrill and some of his followers of the robbery and murder of Major George Butts, a Confederate conscription officer in Sherman. The major was actually robbed and killed by some of Todd's men between Coffee's Trading Post near Preston and Sherman Texas.

In March 1864, about 200 of his men broke Quantrill out of the Bonham jail and fled to Colbert's Ferry and crossed into Indian Territory with a company of Col.Leonidas Martin's 5th Texas Partisan Rangers in pursuit. They proceded towards Little Rock where they joined Brig.Gen. Gano's Brigade and was engaged at the battle of Massard's Prairie, six miles south of Little Rock.

Anderson, Todd and the remainder of the Missouri guerillas left Texas in the spring of 1864 and returned to Missouri where Anderson was supposed to have been killed and George Todd was killed by a yankee sharpshooter.

Mrs. Bonnie Culley, now of Jefferson City Missouri, publisher and editor of the Coffee Cousins Clearinghouse quarterly, once lived next to the cemetery where the Missouri William Anderson is supposed to be buried. She is retired now but once worked for the Missouri Historical Commission and would probably have more information on this subject.