Todd Family Cemetery
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Todd Family Cemetery

Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA

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    Coordinates: 33.77830, -84.36111
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Richard Todd and his wife Martha, together with many of their descendants, were buried in a family cemetery a short distance behind the house on what is now Ponce de Leon Terrace. Its existence did not become publicly known until the executors of Judge Todd's estate applied for a permit to exhume his grave from Sardis Cemetery for reburial in the family plot; by then, the cemetery contained thirty-six unmarked graves. Some neighbors complained, insisting that the bodies be exhumed and buried elsewhere; the city denied the executors' request, and upon appeal a judge upheld the decision but ruled that the land be "cleaned off" and a monument erected in the Todds' honor. In 1932 the burial ground (one-fourteenth of an acre, or two lots) was deeded to the city for conversion to a park, with a large granite log to mark the graves of Richard and Martha Todd. As late as 1979 a path led to the graveyard from the street, "through the blooming hepatica and the bare, skinny trees," and in 1980 neighborhood residents joined together to clean up the area. Today in the former cemetery only the Todd marker survives, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence.
Richard Todd and his wife Martha, together with many of their descendants, were buried in a family cemetery a short distance behind the house on what is now Ponce de Leon Terrace. Its existence did not become publicly known until the executors of Judge Todd's estate applied for a permit to exhume his grave from Sardis Cemetery for reburial in the family plot; by then, the cemetery contained thirty-six unmarked graves. Some neighbors complained, insisting that the bodies be exhumed and buried elsewhere; the city denied the executors' request, and upon appeal a judge upheld the decision but ruled that the land be "cleaned off" and a monument erected in the Todds' honor. In 1932 the burial ground (one-fourteenth of an acre, or two lots) was deeded to the city for conversion to a park, with a large granite log to mark the graves of Richard and Martha Todd. As late as 1979 a path led to the graveyard from the street, "through the blooming hepatica and the bare, skinny trees," and in 1980 neighborhood residents joined together to clean up the area. Today in the former cemetery only the Todd marker survives, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence.

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  • Added: 15 Mar 2009
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2297730