page_title: Thomas Todd
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Todd / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Grave of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Thomas Todd (1765–1826), Section N Lot 196, Frankfort Cemetery Frankfort, Kentucky.
context_page_description: Thomas Todd was an American attorney and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Raised in the Colony of Virginia, he studied law and later participated in the founding of Kentucky, where he served as a clerk, judge, and justice. He was married twice and had a total of eight children. Todd joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1807 and his handful of legal opinions there mostly concerned land claims.
context_section_description: Todd died in Frankfort, Kentucky on February 7, 1826 at the age of 61. He was initially buried in the Innes family cemetery. Later, his remains were removed to Frankfort Cemetery, overlooking the Kentucky River and the Kentucky State Capitol.
  At the time of his death, Todd was vested with substantial real property, particularly in Frankfort.  He was a charter member of the Kentucky River Company, the first business formed to promote Kentucky waterway navigation. The inventory of his estate revealed he was a shareholder of the Kentucky Turnpike, (the first publicly improved highway west of the Alleghenies), and the Frankfort toll bridge, crossing the Kentucky River. In addition to his home, he owned more than 7,200 acres (29 km²) of land throughout the state and another twenty or so pieces in Frankfort. After his children were provided for, as he put it, in "their full proportion", the remainder of his estate valued at more than $70,000—a large sum at the time.
  Todd's papers are kept in three locations: 
  Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
  University of Kentucky, Margaret I. King Library, Lexington, Kentucky.
  During World War II the Liberty ship SS Thomas Todd  was built in Brunswick, Georgia, and named in his honor.
caption: Thomas Todd gravesite, Frankfort Cemetery Frankfort, Kentucky
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