Thomas Jones - Wash. Navy Yard

[bob_summers]

(03-26-2013 01:28 PM)John E. Wrote:  

(03-26-2013 09:26 AM)bob_summers Wrote:  Regarding Sydney Mudd, my source for information is Dr. Richard Mudd's "Mudd Family of the United States," which devotes several pages to him. Very briefly, he was born in Gallant Green, Maryland on February 12, 1858, and married Mary Ida Griffin on March 5, 1882. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates, and then in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1896 until his death in 1911. His son, Sydney Mudd, Jr., was elected to his father's seat in the U.S. House in 1915 and served there until his death in 1924. No info on Thomas Jones.

Thanks Bob. Was Sydney a cousin of Sam's?

These Southern Maryland relationships are complicated, so I use the Relationship Calculator in my Family Tree Maker program to figure them out. According to FTM, Sydney Mudd, Sr., was Dr. Mudd's 2nd cousin.

Sydney's father was Jeremiah T. Mudd, who testified at the assassination trial about his and Dr. Mudd's trip to Washington in December 1864. Dr. Richard D. Mudd's genealogy of the Mudd family says that Jeremiah T. Mudd was, on 12-9-1864, "authorized and empowered to arrest deserters from the service of the U.S. and drafted men failing to report. All persons arrested to be brought to Provost Marshall's office 5th District Maryland, at Ellicotts Mills. The only compensation will be that provided by law for the arrest of deserters… (signed John C. Holland)."