Goal:
To accomplish what no other Todd Surname researcher has been successful locating -
Link Wm Todd (1816 Rutherford TN – 1880) to his father with primary source documentation (Bible family page, will, obituary, probate).
If James Todd (1788 – 1870) is documented as father of Wm Todd:
Link James to his father with primary source documentation and trace the journey of James from NC to TN.
James B Todd
Spouse:
Jane
Parents:
Benjamin Todd, Margaret Barkley
Birth Place:
Rowan, NC
Birth Date:
1788
Marriage Date:
1812
Death Place:
Cannon, TN
Death Date:
1870
Concerning the parents of Benjamin Todd:
Benjamin Todd
Parents:
Benjamin Todd , Sarah Griffin
Birth Place:
Easton, Northhampton, PA
Birth Date:
1758
Conflicting research:
To accomplish what no other Todd Surname researcher has been successful locating -
Link Wm Todd (1816 Rutherford TN – 1880) to his father with primary source documentation (Bible family page, will, obituary, probate).
- Wm is fully documented except for substantiating his father. Wm is referenced in one census and on one property transaction as “Jr”. Circumstantial evidence points to James Todd (1788 NC – 1870 Cannon TN) as his father:
1840 Cannon TN James Todd enumerated immediately before Wm Todd Jr
1860 Madison AR Ransom Todd (James’ documented son) and wife Melissa live near Wm Todd
If James Todd (1788 – 1870) is documented as father of Wm Todd:
Link James to his father with primary source documentation and trace the journey of James from NC to TN.
- Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000), www.ancestry.com:
James B Todd
Spouse:
Jane
Parents:
Benjamin Todd, Margaret Barkley
Birth Place:
Rowan, NC
Birth Date:
1788
Marriage Date:
1812
Death Place:
Cannon, TN
Death Date:
1870
Concerning the parents of Benjamin Todd:
- Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000), www.ancestry.com:
Benjamin Todd
Parents:
Benjamin Todd , Sarah Griffin
Birth Place:
Easton, Northhampton, PA
Birth Date:
1758
- A Senior Researcher of Todd genealogy states, “Parents of Benjamin 1759, were Caleb, b. 1708 in Philadelphia, PA, d. 1795 in Rowen Co., NC, m. Margaret Catherine Williams.
Conflicting research:
- From the 1936 book, History of Woodbury and Cannon County, Tenn., by Sterling Spurlock Brown, pp 30-31: “Soon after … [1784], Mrs. Mary Todd (widow) and her brothers and family came and settled … near Murfreesboro, in Rutherford County.” “Benjamin Todd, her brother, came later. He was a revolutionary soldier … “
- From the 2012 report, Final DNA Report Todds of Wilkes County Georgia and Rutherford/Cannon County, Tennessee, by Richard McMurtry: “The DNA suggests … Benjamin Todd … out-of-wedlock union with Mary Todd … during the time Benjamin was married to Margaret Barclay [sic].” “Anyone familiar with the tradition that Mary Todd 1762-1866 was the sister of Benjamin Todd b 1759 may find it hard to swallow that she could instead have been the mother of a daughter of Benjamin b 1759.” “One DNA sample suggests that Mary may have been a Jones from Rowan Co.”
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcmurtriecfr/richard/todd/finalfamilyfinderdnareportmar2012.htm
