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Note N6657
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Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999
Name Bolen Spouse George H Bolen Children Marlene Marie Bolen
Notes
Note N6658
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from United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014
Name: Dr Conley Lee Edwards Jr Event Date: 04 May 1999 Event Place: Virginia Residence Place: Wilmington, Delaware
Residence Date: 28 Apr 1999 Occupation: Surgeon [Flight Surgeon] [Captain] [Class Agent]
Death Date: 28 Apr 1999 Newspaper: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Parents and Siblings
Dr Conley Lee Edwards Jr Father
Janet West Edwards Mother
Jan-Maloy Edwards Sister
Others on Record
Maude C Edwards Unknown
Notes
Note N6659
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pos see also John Tod findagrave obit
New York City, Compiled Marriage Index, 1600s-1800s
Name: Abba F. West Spouse Name: John G. Tod Marriage Date: 8 Jul 1851 Marriage Place: New York City, New York, New York Marriage ID: 2220306230
U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current
Name: Abigail G. Tod Death Age:68 Birth Date: abt 1819 Death Date: Abt 1887 Death Place: Harrleburg Obituary Date: 19 Aug 1887 Obituary Place: St. Louis, Missouri Spouse: John G. Tod
Texas, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current
Name Abigail G. Tod Topic Death Residence Date 19 Aug 1887 Residence Place Galveston, Texas Publication Date 19 Aug 1887 Publication Place Galveston, Texas Newspaper Title The Galveston Daily News
OCR text: Today Mrs. Abigal G. Tod 4lod in Egyrls burg. she was years old, dad was the widow of the late Cuptata John G. Tod, age one of the veterans of the Texus revolation. When the struggle commenced between the colonists aud the administration thou in power in Moxico, Capruin Tod rosigood a captalncy in the United StateR nAvy, and accepted a similar one in the young of the republie. The lamented lady, whose death de pow chronicled, was a woman of noble trotta of cbaracter, She returned in a vivid manner many of the vivid episode dE the bels to of Americans unst the or laught of Mexican power, (a her by one 1zey are belog snapped by the titu gic death blatoric llok ju broken, 1 hand of time, and wil in a ton scars only be knowu through reminiscanzes ebodows liernic period. Deceaged was the mother or MrA, Charles Miloy of Harrisburg. and of John G. Tod, joung lawyer: of Houston, bat now in the morta. Tao frience and acquaintances of this aged and gentle lady will groatly deplore bor loss.
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Abigail Fisher West Tod BIRTH 19 Sep 1819 DEATH 29 Jul 1886 (aged 66) BURIAL Glendale Cemetery Houston, Harris County, Texas PLOT 034-E MEMORIAL ID 29888174
Parents James M West 1795-1859 Rebecca Fisher Hazzard West 1800-1837
Spouse John Grant Tod 1808-1877
Siblings
George Hazzard West 1824-1890
Notes
Note N6660
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John Grant “Commodore” Tod Sr. BIRTH 14 Nov 1808 Lexington-Fayette, Fayette County, Kentucky DEATH 14 Aug 1877 (aged 68) Harrisburg, Harris County, Texas
BURIAL Glendale Cemetery Houston, Harris County, Texas PLOT 034-E MEMORIAL ID 17902632
John Grant Tod, Sr., naval officer and one of the founders of the first railroad in Texas, was born on November 14, 1808, near Lexington, Kentucky, the youngest of the nine children of Scottish immigrants William and Margaret Tod. Left home at the age of seventeen, and traveled down the Mississippi to New Orleans, where he joined the Mexican navy. He was commissioned a midshipman in the United States Navy from 1830 to 1833. He arrived in Texas with letters of introduction to Samuel Rhoads Fisher, secretary of the Texas Navy. He served briefly as a customs inspector at Velasco while he pursued a commission in the fledgling navy of the republic. Tod was appointed a naval inspector in 1838, charged with investigating supply purchases at the Galveston naval station, and from 1838 to 1840 was one of the Texas Navy's purchasing agents in Baltimore. In July 1839 he was appointed a commander in the navy and the following year was placed in command of the naval station at Galveston. From November to December of 1840 he also served as acting secretary of the navy. In 1842, in the midst of controversy over the faltering navy's finances, Tod resigned his post and went to Washington to further his own interests and to act as a lobbyist for the republic. Among other issues he lobbied the state department for annexation, although he apparently was not acting in any official capacity. In 1845 he returned to Texas carrying the official notification of annexation.
During the Mexican War Tod served in the United States Navy and as an agent of the United States quartermaster general at the Brazos Santiago Depot and at New Orleans. Among other duties, he superintended the recommissioning of old Texas Navy vessels for United States service. In 1847 he resigned from the service and set out for Mexico, hoping to find some profitable business. He tried but failed to win the government mail contract for the New Orleans-Veracruz line. He returned to the United States in 1849. During the late 1840s Tod also began corresponding with Sidney Sherman over the need for railroads in Texas. By 1852 Sherman and Tod, together with eastern capitalists including John Barrett and John Angier of Boston, had founded the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway. Tod remained a principal in the company until the late 1860s. In 1851 he was appointed the Texas delegate to the London Industrial Exhibition. He served as assistant state engineer and river-work superintendent in 1857 and for two years supervised improvements on the Guadalupe and Colorado rivers. Just before the Civil War Tod worked for the federal government as assistant superintendent of construction of the Galveston customhouse and post office. During this time he also began to develop several business interests along Dickinson Bayou in Galveston County. His Dickinson Packery, financed initially with money from a northern partner, continued to operate on a limited basis throughout the Civil War, even supplying beef to the Confederate Army. After the war the business prospered for a while, but was bankrupt by 1871.
Tod married Abigail Fisher West of Delaware on July 1, 1851, in Baltimore; they were the parents of three children. They lived in Galveston, Houston, and Richmond before moving to Harrisburg in 1866. Tod died at Harrisburg on August 14, 1877, and was buried in Glendale Cemetery.
Spouse Abigail Fisher West Tod 1819-1886
Children
John Grant Tod 1864-1918
