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Title: Some account of the history of the Tod family and connections
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Tod, John, 1870- comp
Subjects: Todd family
Publisher: (Youngstown, Ohio)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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e V, page 166. David Tod eventually completed the payment andon February 28, 1838, secured a deed to Brier Hill,consisting of 213 acres, from Simon Perkins, recorded inVolume 40, page 358. Having acquired the title in hisown name and by his own efforts, he then leased theBrier Hill farm to his father and mother, or the sur-vivor of them, for the remainder of their lives, for fivedollars, which lease is dated April 11, 1838, and recordedin Volume 41, page 439, Trumbull County Records. He purchased for his mother the first cook stovethe family ever had, and replaced the log house with aframe dwelling which was the nucleus of the large housewhich was known far and wide as the Brier Hill home-stead. It contained more than twenty rooms and wasbig and rambling in design. Surrounding the house were several acres of beau-tiful grounds with walks of snow white gravel, rare treesand plants, fountains, statuary, and a large green-house,while in the lower part of the yard, with its walnut and 176
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^ - :o ^ - o HISTORY OF THE TOD FAMILY horse-chestnut trees was a circular walk a quarter of amile around. The house was lighted with oil lampsand at retiring time each member of the householdffcund a candle provided on the pantry shelf. A largebrick bake oven, where bread was baked in quantities,stood beside the laundry door, the vines on the kitchenporch furnishing the hops from which the yeast wasmade, and an orchard of ample proportions was notedfor its peaches, pears, apples and plum.s. Brier Hill was occupied during the summer eachyear by the widow of Governor Tod. and members ofher family until 1888. After her death in 1901, herson George Tod acquired the interests of his brothersand sisters in the homestead and farm. He remodeledthe house and improved the farm, and m.ade it his homeuntil his death in 1908, ieavin.g it in his will for a ceme-tery to be known as The Tod Hom.estead Cemetery. The ownership of Brier Kill thus passed from theTod family who had possessed it for more

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