The Tale of a Divided Kentucky Family Named Todd-- Part 2

Children from Robert Smith Todd's second marriage.  He was the father of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln.  These would be her half-siblings.

ROBERT HUMPHREYS TODD  (1827-1827)  Infant son.  Buried Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.

MARGARET TODD KELLOGG  (1828-1908) Buried at Lexington Cemetery.    Married Charles Henry Kellogg   Buried Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati   Would spend months as visitor with sister in the White House.  **

SAMUEL BRIGGS TODD  (1830-1862)  Killed April 5, 1862 at Battle of Shiloh.  Member of Co. F. Crescent Regt. CSA.  Buried Lexington Cemetery.  **More on him in an upcoming entry.

DAVID HUMPHREYS TODD  (1832-1871)   Captain Co. A, 21st Louisiana Infantry, CSA.  Buried Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Alabama.

MARTHA TODD WHITE  (1833-1868)   Buried Lexington Cemetery

EMILIE PARIET TODD HELM  (1836-1930)  Buried Lexington Cemetery.  Married  Benjamin Hardin Helm, West Point graduate and brigadier general in Confederate Army.  Killed at Battle of Chickamauga on 20 September 1863.  Buried at Helm Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Ky.

ALEXANDER HUMPHREYS TODD   (1839-1862)   Served 1st Kentucky Cavalry as captain.  Killed in action at the Battle of Baton Rouge.  Buried Lexington Cemetery.

ELODIE BRECK TODD DAWSON  (1840-1877)  She was the third wife of Nathaniel Dawson who served in a Confederate regiment from Alabama.  Both buried at Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama.  She was the one I was writing about last month from her letters with fiancee Nathaniel Dawson.

CATHERINE BODLEY TODD HERR   (1841-1875)  Married William Wallace Herr, 1st Kentucky Cavalry, CSA.    Buried Lexington Cemetery.  He is buried at Hite Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.

--Old Secesh