Please remember this is a cemetery. Be respectful. Closed at dusk.
The coordinates take you to a mausoleum. This is the final resting place for Dr. Richard Dyer Mudd, grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd. Dr. Richard D. Mudd, is the patriarch who led a family crusade to overturn the conviction of his grandfather, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, for aiding Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. Mudd, who took his cause to presidents, senators and the public and never gave up with the determination died May 21, 2002, in his Saginaw, Mich., home of causes associated with old age.
Dr. Samuel Mudd and three others were sentenced to life in prison. Mudd was sent to Fort Jefferson, a federal prison in the Dry Tortugas, 65 miles off the tip of Key West, Fla. After he thwarted an 1867 yellow fever epidemic on the island, all 299 surviving prisoners and guards petitioned Johnson to pardon Mudd, a pardon and commutation of sentence granted Feb. 8, 1869.
Weakened by the disease himself, Mudd returned to his farm and his medical practice but died of pneumonia in 1883 at the age of 50.
Dr. Richard Mudd, was born Jan. 24, 1901, in Washington, D.C. Neither his physician father nor other close relatives ever mentioned his grandfather. Filled with curiosity, he one day discovered in the family library a book his Aunt Nettie had written about “Dr. Sam.”
As Richard pursued degrees in history and medicine at Georgetown University, Richard Mudd became determined to clear the name of the famous skeleton in his family closet. Presidential pardon wasn’t good enough; he wanted the conviction overturned and the record corrected.
Dr. Richard Mudd was a flight surgeon in the Army Air Corps, later the Air Force, in both World War II and Korea and worked as an industrial physician at several General Motors automobile plants which is how he was living in Saginaw.
A cousin in 1983, succeeded in having "Dr. Sam's" Maryland home added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Dr. Richard Mudd was a 2005 Saginaw County Hall of Fame Inductee.
(Answer is NOT Paul & Rosemary Morris)
In order to claim this virtual, face Dr. Mudd's name. Turn right (east) to the end of this wall, now turn left where there is a wall on your left side. Turn left again, should be now facing the west wall. (The wall is attached to Dr. Mudd's mausoleum. Please be facing that west wall. I hope you know your directions.) The answer is the Family surname of the people on the bottom row, on the left end, first crypt. (Hint - surname is the same as a musical family.) Send that name plus the two names in CAPITAL letters (husband and wife) to me by e-mail or geocaching messenger. And then post a picture of yourself at the MAIN Entrance with the name of the cemetery in your picture with you, or your GPS, or your dog, or your favorite traveling travel bug, or you with your favorite hat, or you wearing a mask, or your favorite whatever.
*********Note: No picture by the mausoleum. Do not post a picture of the answer for it will be deleted. And don't put the answer in your log. You know that is not acceptable. That will also be deleted. *********
The answer is NOT Paul & Rosemary Morris. That is NOT the correct wall.
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