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ROBERT S. TODD Robert S. Todd and Eliza Ann Parker, both of distinguished Lexington, Kentucky families were the parents of Mary Ann Todd Lincoln and five other children who survived to adulthood. Eliza Ann Parker Todd died in July 1825. Robert S. Todd then married Elizabeth Humphreys and had nine children by her, eight of whom lived until the ...
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was born the third child to Eliza Ann Parker Todd and Robert Smith Todd on December 13, 1818. Before Mary Ann was born, her eldest sister Elizabeth was born, followed by her sister Frances. The Todd family lived in a quaint two-story, nine-room L-shaped house on Short Street in Lexington, KY.
Robert Smith Todd (February 25, 1791 – July 17, 1849) was an American lawyer, soldier, banker, businessman and politician. He was the father of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Quick Facts Member of the Kentucky Senate for Fayette County, Personal details ... Robert Smith Todd. Undated daguerreotype of Todd. Member of the Kentucky Senate.
Mar 8, 2022 · When Robert Smith Todd died, then, Abraham Lincoln owned slaves. That much is unarguable. In fact inheritance through a wife was a common way for men in those days to acquire slaves, as many men in the Lincolns’ social and political circles did ― Senator Douglas of the debates, for one, who obtained a plantation of 2,500 acres and a hundred ...
When ROBERT SMITH TODD was born in 1610, in Tannochside, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Andrew Thomas Todd, was 50 and his mother, Lady Margaret Gordon, was 46. He had at least 2 sons with ELizabeth "Eliza" Humphreys - Todd. He died on 9 July 1638, in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 28.
Robert Smith. Todd. Birth 25 February 1791 - Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Death 17 July 1849 - Liberty Heights, Fayette County, Kentucky.
Robert Smith Todd, the father of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, was a businessman and politician in the state of Kentucky. He held political positions in both the city of Lexington and the capitol in Frankfort. Todd married his second cousin Elizabeth Parker and they had seven children, including Mary Todd who would go on to marry President Abraham Lincoln. During the cholera outbreak of 1849 ...
