​Todd Mountain

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Marker No: 11298

18 x 28 Aluminum Subject Marker

Geographic: ​30° 41.698′ N, 99° 13.755′ W

Location: ​Ranch to Market Road 2389, 0.9 miles south of Ranch to Market Road 1723, on the left when traveling south, Mason

Marker Text: Named for family of George W. Todd, first Mason County clerk, which was attacked by Indians at this site while en route to Mason in late Dec. 1864.
    A 12-year-old Black servant girl was killed, 13-year-old Alice Todd taken captive, and Todd's wife, Dizenia Peters Todd (b.1826), wounded severely. Mrs. Todd died about 3 weeks later, in Jan. 1865. An older half-brother, James Smith, returned from the Civil War and searched for Alice for several months, but she was never found.
​    Mrs. Todd and the servant girl were buried in unmarked grave, (150 yards southeast). (1974)