it was passionately retold, so you are forgiven!
The pair of them are buried in one grave in MO, and their story is a county legend down there. It’s interesting because most history books portray the jayhawkers as t good guys fighting for right and the American Way and that they never did anything like that. The whole family left MO during and after the War Between the States so I was surprised that anyone there remembers this incident. It is still referred to by the locals as “the murder of the Longacres, father and son”. Most of the family moved west and to New Mexico.