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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:



Memorial to Samuel, David, and Alexander Todd:






Headstones for Kittie, Samuel, and Alexander Todd:

Thank you, Susan. Great photos!

I second this! Thanks for posting!

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.

Is Mary's father buried there?

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?"

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...id=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.

Very cool that your father is there among so many noble ones. I'm sure that describes your dad, as well.

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.

(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.

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.

(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.

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!

I agree 100%-Herb

We taught our kids to drive in cemetaries- really little or traffic- and no chance of fatalities!