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Todd Mountain was named for the family of George W. Todd, the first Mason County clerk, whose party was attacked here by Indians while traveling to Mason in late December 1864. A 12-year-old Black servant girl was killed, 13-year-old Alice Todd was taken captive, and Todd’s wife, Dizenia Peters Todd (b. 1826), was severely wounded. Mrs. Todd died about 3 weeks later in January 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 graves 150 yards southeast.
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