Unknown Paper-Unknown Date in 1915
IN MEMORIUM
The body of Mrs. N. C. Todd, who died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jan. 1, 1915, arrived here at eleven o'clock Sunday morning, accompanied by her son, B. F. Todd and her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Todd Murphy, and was taken to the Centenary Church. The pastor of the church, Rev. M. F. Crowe, preached a strong sermon, emphasizing the care, anxiety and the solitude of a mother, the tender mercies that she daily bestowed upon her children, the nights of long watchfulness and the hopes and prayers that centered around them in youth and maturity, and that solitude could only be repaid by love and devotion and faithful service to the mother and to God. The Choir sweetly sang appropriate hymns and the flower laden casket, borne by H. J. Armstrong, Mike Michael, Ed Baxter, D. A. Ball, Joe McAllister and Ben Summers, was taken to beautiful Riverview Cemetery to await the resurrection morn.
Nancy Caroline Coffee was born in Columbia, Tennessee, July 23, 1825. When a young woman she came to Clarksville, Mo., where she married her late husband, John H. Todd, March 13, 1844, who died in this city in 1881.
To this union were born twelve children all of whom are living to day with the exception of two who died in infancy, and one daughter, Mrs. Adelaide Herrin, who died in maturity. Of these sons and daughters, several live in California, others in Texas and Kentucky and on account of long distances were unable to be present at the last sad rights in honor of their beloved mother.
At an early age, Mrs. Todd united with the Methodist Episcopal Church and, throughout her long life--the greater part of eighty-nine years--she led a consistent and beautiful Christian life, exemplifying the principals of the "Man of Galilee" in spirit in love and deeds.
With her husband and younger children she moved to Louisiana in 1877 and united with God's people in the Centenary church, with whom she labored so lovingly, so enthusiastically and so effectively to further the cause of Christian progress and power. It was from this church she wished to be laid away in the state where her early life had been spent and where joy and love and blessings had been her portion.
After the death of her husband, Mrs Todd moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., and made her home with her daughter. It was in that city after a few days illness where she was ministered to by the loving hands of rich and poor, high and low, that she was called to the heavenly kingdom, at the dawn of a new year, to enjoy the rich reward of a well spent life and to receive the benediction of God, whom she had so faithfully served.
The passing of Caroline Todd was the passing of a good and noble woman. Endowed with unusual physical and mental vigor, with a kind and generous nature, and noble impulses, she left her impress for good upon every community in which she lived and upon every person with whom she associated. She was a loving wife, a devoted mother, and an ideal home-maker--a trinity that holds the peace of the world and furthers all national progress.
In her home, though there were twelve children of her own, she repeatedly found room for orphaned nieces and nephews and other relatives that they might have the advantage of the superior instruction of the historic Watson Seminary at Ashley, Mo., where she and her husband lived for many years. To these girls and boys, she gave the same care and attention she gave her own children and those of them who are living today will rise up, with her sons and daughters and call her blessed.
These are the short and simple annals of a life filled with love and hope and faith, characterized by high endeavor and followed by a triumphant death, the life of a noble woman wisely planned.

Unknown paper-Unknown date in 1915
--Mrs. N. C. Todd, formerly of this city died in Chattanooga, Tenn. The remains will be brought here Sunday, January 3, at 11 a. m. and interred in Riverview Cemetery.