Camden-(Special) –One of the interesting tombstones in historic Quaker cemetery here is that of Dr. George Rogers Clark Todd, a brother-in-law of President Abraham Lincoln, a surgeon in the Confederate army and a native Kentuckian.

The Colonial type building on North Broad street in Camden, known as the Greenleaf Villa, for years the home of the present Camden mayor Henry Savage, Jr, and now a tourist home, was at one time a Confederate hospital in charge of Doctor Todd.

Doctor Todd, according to history, was thrown in contact with Abraham Lincoln in the days before the Confederate war. At the outbreak of the war Doctor was living in New Orleans. He was an ardent sympathizer with the cause of the Southland and joined the colors, later becoming a surgeon.

Doctor Todd, it is claimed, took no pride in his relationship with Lincoln, and it is said of him thti one day, when introduced to a party, and the party said, “Oh you’re the brother-in-law of President Lincoln,” Todd is said to have replied, “Yes, the damn rascal.”

While Doctor Todd was in charge of the Wayside hospital in Camden he met Miss Martha Lyles, who belonged to one of the pioneer families of Camden. After a short courtship they were married. Shortly after the close of the war, Doctor Todd and his wife moved to Barnwell where they lived for a few years before his young wife was taken by death. Following Doctor Todd’s death later, his body was brought to the Camden cemetery where it was interred by the side of his wife.

For many years the resting place of the illustrious Southern soldier surgeon was unmarked save for a small brick. But in 1944 through the efforts of Col. E. C. Von Tresckow, a beautiful monument was placed over the bodies of Doctor Todd and his wife by two nephews, J. Belton Lyles of Spartanburg and Edward Hughes of Mobile, Ala.