Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1851, FEB. 135 THE TODDS three miles west of Platte City; and subsequently a grocer in Platte City. He died in April, 1872, and Mrs. Burckhartt soon followed. No children. II. MAJ. WILLIAM TODD (i) AND FAMILY He was a soldier of the War of 1812, under Gen. Andrew Jackson, and aquired his title in the Southern campaign. He was born in Rowan Co., NC., came with his parents to Kentucky, thence to Missouri in 1817, and to Clay in 1823. In 1837, with the flood of settlers, he came to the Todd settlement, three miles west of Platte City. His first care was to set out a large and well-selected orchard. He originated the splendid White Pearmain, or the Todd apple, and in honor of his faith he called it the Campbellite, which for a generation, was the finest apple grown in the West. It has now run out. Mr. Todd was genial and companionable. He often came to town with his pockets filled with choice apples. He would dwell upon the excellencies of the Campbellite, and then would have you for contrast, a knotty and sour apple, which , with a scowl, he call the Methodist. Maj. Todd was born about 1782, and died in April 1861. He married Lucy D. Fugate, who survived him. Children: I. MARION TODD, born in a tent, in Clay Co., MO., Aug. 10, 1823; d. Oct. 3, 1893; m'd March 22, 1849, Mary Sutton, dr. of Demetrius A. (See.) II. MARTHA TODD, m'd Timothy Dowling, who d. in March, 1860, leaving Children: 1. Isabelle, 2. Edward Tim, as his name intimates, was a genial, hearty, and good-humored Irishman; and, as his nationality implies, a splendid stonemason. He was a master workman on the first court-house and the abutments and pier of the Platte River bridge. But as Tim's pedigree necessitates, he was a Roman Catholic, while his father-in-law was a Campbellite. These extremes could not dwell together at peace and a feud was the natural consequence. III. MARY J. TODD, m'd Tim Gley. IV. FANNIE M. TODD, m'd March 19, 1848, Albert Kutchenthall, b. in 1818; d. Feb. 21, 1872. V. RILEY TODD, went to Kansas. VI. ANN M. TODD, m'd Nov. 7, 1850, John S. Lightburn, of Clay. VII. ALBERT H. TODD, m'd Dec. 7, 1874, Susan Morgan, dr. of Elijah. VIII. MARCUS L. TODD, m'd Sarah E. Coleman, Jan. 14, 1868. He m'd 2d, Nov. 5, 1874. Nannie, widow of H. A. B. Anderson. and dr. of William Bywaters. They live in Cedar, MO. Children: 1. Lee Todd. 2. Leah IX. WILLIAM L. TODD, m'd Missouri V. Spratt, dr. of William H. Spratt.