Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd

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Unless Bob Summers knows of something, I have never seen any documentation of Mary visiting or staying with the Mudds. However, I think there is a good possibility that they knew each other through the Catholic Church. They had at least one priest in common. Fr. Lenighan of St. Peter's, the Mudds' home church, visited Mrs. Surratt at one point during the war. The Surratts' servant, Aunt Rachel, tells of Mary mistaking the priest for John, Jr. as he came to the door - proof of the lady's bad eyesight. Aunt Rachel had been rented to the Surratts by a family named Wildman. I believe that the Mudds and the Wildmans had intermarried.

Louise Mudd Arehart used to tease me about how Grandpa and Mrs. Surratt knew each other, but she went to her grave never telling me the story.