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Posted on 02/19/2007 8:23:24 AM PST by Borges
That's the way I recalled.
Yes, I saw that broadcast also.
I liked Roger Mudd.
"Booth's mother's name was Mary Ann Holmes. She was born in England and ran away with a then-very married Junius Brutus Booth. My great-grandfather's surname was Holmes. He was born in Canada and is buried there. I've often wondered if there was any connection between the Holmes on my mother's side of the family and Booth's mother's family. So far I haven't found anything, but that doesn't mean they weren't related."
That is really interesting! Keep up the research, and you may discover the elusive link to your great-grandfather. I wish you much success. Although I have no familial connection, the Booth family, what little I know of it, has always held a fascination for me.
Interesting post.
For people who are not aware, the assassination of Lincoln involved a massive conspiracy that rivals anything put forth about the Kennedy assassination. It's worth a trip to the book store.
Perhaps some think Davey went needlessly to the gallows to help cover Booth's tracks, but that's a real stretcher even for tinfoilers.
It would be closer to the mark to say that the investigation and trials were a marvel of scrupulosity. The complicating factor is that the investigators had to distinguish among degrees of involvement. Booth was active throughout the war in the confederate underground. Most of the places he stopped during his flight, including Dr. Mudd's, were known safehouses. Then you have Booth's closer circle of associates and, within that, the participants in the aborted kidnapping plot. The assassination was a last minute, end-of-the-war improvisation, and the provable hard core assissinators were few in number.
Dr. Mudd was certainly active in the confederate underground and was probably in on the kidnapping plan. There was, however, no evidence to tie him to the assassination. He was treated correctly. Those who hung were guilty as sin.
According to the Wikipedia entry for Roger Mudd, he is a distant relative but not a direct descendant of Dr. Samuel Mudd.
He's dead Jim...
Well, if he did, I reckon it just don't matter anymore. Although he might go along with our Congress in enabling AlQaeda.
I believe the “old log cabin” structure is the house this sits at the intersection of Prospect Mill Rd & Churchville Rd. I read an article in the Harford Liberal Rag (Aegis)that they believe the log cabin has been built around numerous times and now appears as a white, 2-story dwelling.
Well we know he’s dead now.
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Oddly enough, there is also a “St. Helens” restaurant on the town square in Granbury, where John Wilkes Booth supposedly used to tend bar.
I grew up in St. Joseph, then moved to Ft. Worth. Parents moved to Granbury about 10 years ago...I think Jesse is stalking them ;-)
Actually read an interesting story about a woman in Arkansas who claims her father told her he was Frank James, just before he died. He not only told her that he was Frank, but that his brother Jesse was alive in TX. She wrote a book (titled “This was Frank James”) and was visited by a man from Granbury, TX, just before the book was published. He asked her not to publish the book, she refused, and the book publisher burnt down that night...with all of the books inside. Not sure if it is true, but an interesting story, and it tied in “Dalton” from Granbury.
Side note: Hico, TX, home of Brushy Billy Roberts (aka Billy the Kid) is about 20 miles outside of Granbury. Famous area for non-dead western outlaws.
Belle Starr's hideout was just down the road, too, in a creek ravine just off 377 east of the Paluxy.
Wasn’t she supposed to be burried in the same grave with Jesse James (different coffin, burried on top of James’)? I remember mention of that when the body thought to be Dalton’s was exhumed a year or two ago.
Ended up not being Dalton’s body, so the mystery goes on...
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