I appreciate your candor. I didn't read what Edwards wrote because, as we discussed, he is not always the most accurate source on particular guerrillas. However, that explains why Lankford quoted one of her sources to say "He became a prosperous farmer in northeastern Missouri (Vernon County)." When I first read that I dismissed the "northeastern Missouri" part as an honest mistake and fastened instead on the "Vernon County" part. I thought that way because I am continually catching myself writng "northwest" when I meant "northeast" and so forth. However, match her statement with John McCorkle's comment that after the war Bill Greenwood married Miss Mary Beverly of Howard County. Howard County is considered part of northeast Missouri. Perhaps you should look in Howard County and the surrounding area for Greenwood and his bride in the 1870 or 1880 census (sadly, the 1890 US census was destroyed).

I should quote McCorkle's memoir correctly, because it seems to be pertinent to what you seek:
"In 1872, Miss Mary Beverly, of Howard County, Missouri, who afterwards married Bill Greenwood, was in Louisville, Kentucky, hunted up his [Quantrill's] grave, which she found from the records kept by the sexton of the Catholic graveyard and had it re-sodded." If I read this as I think it was intended, Miss Beverly did not marry Greenwood until after her 1872 trip to Louisville. Perhaps I read too much into that.

Bruce Nichols