Over the next few weeks, Sasha provides regular updates to Abigail about her quest to find Billie’s baby. She learns that Douglas Carter had three brothers and two sisters. Both his sisters married and had their own families, but any children listed in the census records from the 1870s and 1880s show that they were born after Billie had been murdered. Even if the parents forged the ages by a few years, none could’ve been the child Douglas and Billie procreated together.
One of Douglas’s brothers had been killed in a battle the same year Billie died. His widow lived about a hundred miles away in Virginia, and she raised two sons on her own. One was old enough to be Billie’s child, the other was not. Based on a genealogical chart that was submitted to the Daughters of the American Revolutio
