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“Did you have a relative named Robert Cuddihy?” he asked her.

“Yes, he was my brother,” she replied.

“You know,” the priest said, “I rented a little place out there for the summer of 1957, on the Dune Road at Westhampton Beach. One night there was an automobile accident not far from my house. I heard the crash, and went out to see if there was anything I could do to help. The young man said he was a Catholic. It wasn't till the next day that I learned from the newspaper that his name was Robert Cuddihy. He didn't look to me to be in too bad shape, but, just in case, I administered the Last Rites to him.”

And so the lie, which she had believed for so many years to have been a lie, turned out, in the end, not to have been a lie at all. Before his death, Bob Cuddihy had been received back into the Church.

“I think it was St. Augustine who said that God always writes straight, but in crooked lines,” Mary Jane MacGuire says. “We
may not always understand His ways, or His reasons, or His aims or plan for us at the time, but in the end it all becomes clear—clear as a bell. It's one of the reasons why my faith is so strong, so indestructible. My faith has carried me through my husband's death, Bob's death, the death of one of my own babies, and the fact that one of my other children is retarded. When my baby died, I didn't go to a psychiatrist, I went to a priest. I need a church whenever I know I'm wrong. I'd die if I didn't have my faith and the Church. I could be King of England, and I'd die if I couldn't have the Sacrament. That's all. I'd just die.”

APPENDIX

Petition addressed to the descendants of

Thomas E. Murray

File No. 6561 - 1929

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT:

TO: Daniel Bradley Murray, Katherine Murray McQuail, Anna Murray McDonnell, Julia Murray Cuddihy, Marie Murray Lufkin, Jeanne Durand Murray, Therese M. Cummings, Rosamond Murray Byers, Joan Murray Boucher, Marcia Murray Cavanagh, Judith Murray Donovan, Thomas E. Murray, Jr., Marie Murray Harris, James Brady Murray, Rev. D. Bradley Murray, S.J., Anne Murray O'Neil, Jane Murray Sheridan, Francis Brady Murray, Joseph G. Murray, S.J., Peter Murray, Margot Murray, Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, Patricia Murray Roche, John Francis Murray, Catherine Murray McManus, Constance Anne Murray (Sister Saint Joseph), Mary Elizabeth M. Coniff, Thomas Edward Murray, II, Herbert Lester Cuddihy, Jr., Jane Cuddihy MacGuire, John Murray Cuddihy, Robert
Anthony Cuddihy, Thomas Murray Cuddihy, Michael Cuddihy, Ann Marie Cuddihy, John Vincent McDonnell Lufkin, Thomas E. Murray McDonnell Lufkin, Marie Murray Lufkin, Catherine McDonnell Sullivan, James F. McDonnell, Jr., Anne McDonnell Ford, Charlotte McDonnell Harris, Thomas E. Murray McDonnell, Charles Edward McDonnell, Gerard McDonnell, Genevieve McDonnell Bissell, Sheila McDonnell Cooley, Mary McDonnell, Barbara McDonnell Hennessy, Sean McDonnell, Margaret Mary McDonnell, Morgan McDonnell, Walter Cummings, III, Keith Cummings, Mark Cummings, Buckley M. Byers, Jr., Joseph M. Byers, Joan Bradley Boucher, Jerome H. P. Boucher, Jr., David Farrell Boucher, Frank Burns Cavanagh, Marina Murray Cavanagh, Carol Cavanagh, Edward J. Donovan, III, Rita Marie Murray, Maureen Anne Murray, Thomas E. Murray, III, Daniel Bradley Murray, George H. Murray, Marie Murray Harris, Anne Murray Harris, Basil Harris, III, Margaret Mary Harris, Thomas Murray Harris, Katherine Lewis Harris, Robert Harris, James B. Murray, Jr., Matthew Murray, Christopher Murray, Robert Murray, Stephen Murray, Andrew Murray, Paul B. Murray, Jr., Joseph G. Murray, Anne M. Murray, John Thomas Murray, Marie Barbara Murray, Stephen Joseph O'Neil, Peter Anthony O'Neil, Thomas I. Sheridan, III, Jane Frances Sheridan, Marie Murray Sheridan, Herbert Lester Cuddihy, III, Henri Andre Cuddihy, Judith Ann MacGuire, Beatrice Ann MacGuire, Julia Murray MacGuire, James Joseph MacGuire, Myles Phillip MacGuire, Thomas Murray Cuddihy, Jr., Jacqueline Adele Cuddihy, Patricia Murray Cuddihy, Robert A. Cuddihy, Jr., Elizabeth Cuddihy, Sean Cuddihy, Michael Cuddihy, Christopher Cuddihy, Diana Marie Lufkin, David Warren Lufkin, Bradley Moulton Lufkin, Marie Murray Lufkin, Suzanne Marie Lufkin, Heidi de Lourdes Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr., Deidre Murray Roche, Robin Durand Roche, Hilary Somers Roche, Melinda Gray Murray, John Francis Murray, III, Thomas Bradley Murray, Helen Sayre Murray, Anthony Francis Conniff, Michael Andrew Conniff, James F. McDonnell, III, George McDonnell, Reece McDonnell, Louise Fayra McDonnell, Patricia Anne McDonnell, Michael Flanigan McDonnell, Meegan Aimee
McDonnell, Stephen McDonnell, Charlotte Ford, Anne Ford, Edsel Ford, Richard L. Harris, Jr., Meegan. Harris, Laura Harris, Charles E. McDonnell, Jr., Mary Kathryn McDonnell, John F. Hennessy, III, Raymond P. Sullivan, III, Maureen Anne Sullivan, Sheila Anne Sullivan, Kevin Paul Sullivan, Karen Sullivan, Sheila Cooky, Leslie Anne Cooley, Richard Pierce Cooky, Jr., Anne McDonnell, Morgan McDonnell, Jr., James Ford McDonnell, Dirk Peter McDonnell,

SEND GREETING:

WHEREAS, Joseph Bradley Murray, Thomas E. Murray and Paul B. Murray, who reside respectively at the Pierre Hotel, Fifth Avenue and 61st Street, 686 Park Avenue, both in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, and Red Ground Road, Old Westbury, Nassau County, State of New York, have presented their account as Trustees of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas E. Murray, deceased, lately residing at 783 St. Marks Avenue, Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, and a petition praying that their account as surviving Trustees of the trusts created by the terms of paragraphs SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH and EIGHTH of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas E. Murray, deceased, may be judicially settled, that payments by them of income for the account of any minor made to his or her parent or to the infant himself or herself, as shown by the accounts filed herein, be approved, that payments made out of principal and income to the beneficiaries, as shown by the said accounts, be approved, that the said Trustees be authorized and empowered to file in this Court restrictions on the power of appointment now in their possession or which may hereafter be delivered to them, that they may be granted permission to resign as Trustees of such separate trusts as they may designate upon the termination of these proceedings, and upon the filing by said Trustees of an instrument in writing selecting their successors, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph EIGHTH of the said Last Will and Testament, and that they be allowed such single commissions as they may be lawfully
entitled to receive on the principal of the various trusts embraced herein, and that the persons above named may be cited to show cause why such settlement and the relief above set forth should not be had.

NOW, THEREFORE, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before our Surrogate's Court of the County of Kings, to be held in the Court Room at the Hall of Records, in the County of Kings, on the 30 day of April 1956, at 9:30 o'clock in the forenoon, why such settlement and the relief above set forth should not be had.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have caused the Seal of our said Surrogate's Court to be hereto affixed.

WITNESS, HON. MAXIMILIAN MOSS, Surrogate of our said County, at the Borough of Brooklyn, in the said County, the 24th day of February 1956.

ALBERT M. LEAVITT

Clerk of the Surrogate's Court.

INDEX

Albany, N.Y.,
23
–
25

Albany, N.Y.,
23
–
25

Albany Municipal Gas Company,
24

Albany Railway Company,
24

Altrocchi, Julia,
137
–
138

Amory, Cleveland,
150

Andiron Club, New York,
82
–
83

Antrim, Earl of,
55

Association of Edison Illuminating Companies,
36

Atomic Energy Commission,
202
–
206

Atomic energy control, Thomas Murray's ideas on,
203
–
207

Audit Bureau of Circulations,
74

Austin, Christina,
258
,
259

Baltimore,
150

Baltimore Cotillon,
230
–
231

Barat College,
242

Barry, John S.,
150

Barrymore family,
278

Bartok, Eva,
99
–
100

Baruch, Bernard,
151
,
152

Bassett, Hood,
96

Baudouin, King of Belgium,
244

Beaumont, Lord,
137

Beebe, Lucius,
136
–
137

Beekman, Barclay,
98

Bellestrem, Count Wolfgang von,
246

Belmont Park racetrack,
79
,
80

Berengaria
,
176

Berlin, Ellin Mackay (Mrs. Irving Berlin),
141

Bernstein, Theodore,
227

Beyond the Fringe
(revue),
287

Blacks, sympathy for,
42
–
45

Blair, D. H., & Company,
114
,
263

Blandford, Marquis of,
285

Blyth & Company,
262

Bolger, Ray,
277

Bondamen, 20–21

Bonynge, Mr.,
140

Bonxano, Cardinal,
190
–
191

Borghun, Gutzon,
141

Boston, Irish in,
41
–
44
,
185
–
186
,
282

Boston
Transcript
,
42

Bostwick, A. C,
81

Bozell, L. Brent,
218
–
219

Bozell, Patricia Buckley (Mrs. L. Brent Bozdl),
218

Bradley, Daniel,
22
,
25
; family,
35
; in politics,
30
–
37

Bradley, Julia Duane (Mrs. Daniel Bradley),
22
,
35

Brady, Anthony N. (friend of Thomas E. Murray),
24
,
152
,
190
,
198
,
199

Brady, Genevieve Garvan (Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady),
189
–
199
; and Cardinal Pacelli's visit to U.S.,
193
–
197
; Duchess, title,
192
,
244
; second marriage,
198

Brady, James Cox, Jr.,
192
,
232

Brady, Nicholas F.,
59
,
189
–
193
,
197
,
198
,
232

Brady family,
232

Brandeis, Louis D.,
44

Braodeis University,
235

Brearley School,
241

Bremen
,
176

Breslin, Jimmy,
278

Bronxville, N.Y.,
179

Brooklyn
Eagle
,
21
–
22
,
31
,
34

Brooklyn Edison Company,
24
,
59

Browning, Ralph,
96

Buchanan, James,
29

Buckley, Aloise (daughter of William F. Buckley),
220

Buckley, Aloise Steiner (Mrs. William F. Buckley),
212
–
213
,
219
–
220
,
223

Buckley, Ann Cooky (Mrs. James L. Buckley),
208

Buckley, Carol (Mrs. Raymond Learsy),
208
,
218
,
220

Buckley, Claude,
210

Buckley, Edmund,
210
,
211

Buckley, James L., Senator,
208
,
214
,
219

Buckley, Jane,
220

Buckley, John,
209
–
210
,
219
,
220

Buckley, Mary Lee (Mrs. John Buckley),
209
–
210

Buckley, Maureen,
213
–
214
,
220

Buckley, Patricia (Mrs. L. Brent Boadl),
218

Buckley, Priscilla,
218
,
220

Buckley, Reid,
214
,
218

Buckley, William,
209

Buckley, William F.,
208
–
217
,
221
,
223
,
225
; estate,
217
; memoranda,
213
–
215
,
219
; in Texas and Mexico,
210
–
212

Buckley, William F., Jr.,
214
,
218
–
219
;
God and Man at Yale
,
218
,
219
;
McCarthy and His Enemies
,
218

Buckley family,
208
–
209
,
217
–
221

Buena Vista Hills, Calif., oil lands,
110
,
113

Busch, Carlota,
223

Butler, James,
75
–
85
,
242
; family,
84
–
85
; hones,
78
–
81
; Papal honors,
84
; philanthropies,
84
–
85
; stores,
77
–
78
,
82
,
83

Butler, James, Inc.,
77
–
78
,
82
,
83

Butler, James,
111
,
85

Butler, Mary Rorke (Mrs. James Butler),
78
,
79
,
84

Butler, Mother Marie Joseph,
84
,
242

Butler family,
75
–
76

Byers, Buckley,
6
,
96
,
98
–
99

Byers, J. Frederic,
96
–
97

Byers, Rosamund Murray (Mrs. Buckley Byers),
96
,
98
–
99

Byrne & McDonnell,
21
,
56