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Todd graves - Susan Higginbotham - 10-12-2014 12:12 PM
I had a few minutes in Lexington, Kentucky's lovely cemetery last weekend and got some photographs of the Todd headstones there.
Emile Todd Helm and her daughter Katherine Helm:
![[Image: E7C9BCAE-4296-40F2-8B07-7C674D32C0D1_zpshga3pit6.jpg]](http://s34.photobucket.com/user/Susan_Higginbotham/media/E7C9BCAE-4296-40F2-8B07-7C674D32C0D1_zpshga3pit6.jpg.html)
Memorial to Samuel, David, and Alexander Todd:
![[Image: D50FC118-3F89-4D55-8955-3FBF7C1AFB8F_zpsxfvy0v9j.jpg]](http://s34.photobucket.com/user/Susan_Higginbotham/media/D50FC118-3F89-4D55-8955-3FBF7C1AFB8F_zpsxfvy0v9j.jpg.html)
![[Image: CD7CD26B-DF6F-40E6-B528-063467E72930_zpsrz1oe7zb.jpg]](http://s34.photobucket.com/user/Susan_Higginbotham/media/CD7CD26B-DF6F-40E6-B528-063467E72930_zpsrz1oe7zb.jpg.html)
Headstones for Kittie, Samuel, and Alexander Todd:
![[Image: E218B6F1-A9A1-427C-AF7C-A6E645AA7E80_zps7c0857gz.jpg]](http://s34.photobucket.com/user/Susan_Higginbotham/media/E218B6F1-A9A1-427C-AF7C-A6E645AA7E80_zps7c0857gz.jpg.html)
RE: Todd graves - RJNorton - 10-12-2014 12:46 PM
Thank you, Susan. Great photos!
RE: Todd graves - Eva Elisabeth - 10-12-2014 01:10 PM
I second this! Thanks for posting!
RE: Todd graves - LincolnToddFan - 10-12-2014 01:25 PM
Susan those photos are simply amazing....THANK YOU for sharing them with us!
Is Emilie's husband Ben Hardin Helm buried nearby? I didn't see his stone.
RE: Todd graves - LincolnMan - 10-12-2014 01:47 PM
Is Mary's father buried there?
RE: Todd graves - LincolnMan - 10-12-2014 03:05 PM
Is this the Lexington Cemetery where Levi Todd is buried? I think it is. Jim Varney aka "Earnest" is also buried there. "You know what I mean, Vern?"
RE: Todd graves - Susan Higginbotham - 10-12-2014 04:04 PM
Thanks, all!
Mary's father is buried there. I'm not positive, but I think his gravestone is the very modest-looking rectangular one to the right of the monument to his three Confederate sons. I was focused on the monument and didn't get a good exposure of the smaller stone, but it looks like the same one pictured on Find-a-Grave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6045098
Next time, I hope to spend a lot more time in the cemetery and in the rest of Lexington.
I think Emilie's husband is buried in the Helm cemetery at Elizabethtown, KY.
RE: Todd graves - LincolnMan - 10-12-2014 04:07 PM
Very cool that your father is there among so many noble ones. I'm sure that describes your dad, as well.
RE: Todd graves - L Verge - 10-12-2014 06:21 PM
What a lovely old cemetery. That's what they are supposed to look like, IMO. Not flat slabs of land with even flatter markers laying on that land.
RE: Todd graves - STS Lincolnite - 10-12-2014 06:57 PM
(10-12-2014 06:21 PM)L Verge Wrote: What a lovely old cemetery. That's what they are supposed to look like, IMO. Not flat slabs of land with even flatter markers laying on that land.
I agree that is how cemeteries should look. Henry Clay is also buried in that cemetery...his monument is most certainly not a flat slab!! I have pictures of the Todd's graves as well somewhere. I will have to see if I can find them. That cemetery in Lexington is a great one to visit. John Hunt Morgan and John C. Breckenridge are also buried there.
RE: Todd graves - LincolnToddFan - 10-12-2014 10:58 PM
I am one of those oddballs who loves old cemeteries. I could happily spend my entire day wandering through them, inspecting the monuments, and trying to imagine the lives and times of the people who are buried there.
And I agree...I dislike the flat headstones. I much prefer the standing ones.
ETA: I am rather surprised that Emilie was not buried with her husband at the Helm Family Cemetery in Elizabethtown. She was widowed quite young...aged only about 30 years...and she lived until she was 94 without ever remarrying.
RE: Todd graves - Susan Higginbotham - 10-12-2014 11:24 PM
(10-12-2014 10:58 PM)LincolnToddFan Wrote: I am one of those oddballs who loves old cemeteries. I could happily spend my entire day wandering through them, inspecting the monuments, and trying to imagine the lives and times of the people who are buried there.
And I agree...I dislike the flat headstones. I much prefer the standing ones.
ETA: I am rather surprised that Emilie was not buried with her husband at the Helm Family Cemetery in Elizabethtown. She was widowed quite young...aged only about 30 years...and she lived until she was 94 without ever remarrying.
My husband and I had one of our first "dates" in a cemetery in Richmond. (I was looking for the grave of Alan Campbell, Dorothy Parker's husband.) Our children are resigned to the fact that if we're traveling and if there's an old cemetery along the way, we're going to stop at it.
RE: Todd graves - L Verge - 10-13-2014 12:36 PM
I was raised in a family that believed Sunday afternoons were made for road trips. We lived with my grandmother who never met a cemetery she didn't like. I remember thinking, "I'm going to spend eternity in one of these places; why do I have to trudge through them now."
Twenty years later, I met John C. Brennan and James O. Hall -- who never met a cemetery they didn't like!
RE: Todd graves - HerbS - 10-14-2014 01:19 PM
I agree 100%-Herb
RE: Todd graves - LincolnMan - 10-15-2014 11:16 AM
We taught our kids to drive in cemetaries- really little or traffic- and no chance of fatalities!