Frances Todd
Embroidered picture
Maker's Name
Todd, Frances
Location
Madison County, Kentucky
Date Made
~1840
Maker's Age
~10 years old, born February 3, 1830
Dimensions
10 x 9 ½ inches
Medium
Silk and wool on linen with satin and outline stitches.
Provenance
Made by Frances Todd in ~1840. Sold at January 26, 2019 Case Antiques, Knoxville, TN, Historic Winter Fine Art and Antiques Auction, Lot #648 to Private Collector #4.
Description
This is an embroidered picture of a floral bouquet of abstract and folksy flowers bundled together with a graphically exaggerated ribbon. There are several significant losses to the ground and to the thread with staining affecting the upper half of the ground and scattered dark stains to lower edge. The needlework is signed at lower edge:
Frances Todd

Frances Ann Todd was born on February 3, 1830, in Berea, Madison County, Kentucky. She was listed in the 1850 census living in the household of Robert and Emeline Flora of Kenton County, Kentucky. She married Elijah Thomas Hudson (10/18/1820-12/20/1903) in 1848 in Madison County, Kentucky. They appear to have had two children: John Broadus (5/6/1849-12/18/1943) and William David (1/29/1851-12/31/1928).
Frances Todd died as a young mother on August 31, 1851, in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, at the age of twenty-one. She is buried in the Hudson Family Cemetery in Jackson County, Kentucky.
Owner/History of Owner/Credit Line
Private Collector #4
AKS Catalog Number
2020-060
Sources
Ancestry.com
Caseantiques.com
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