As told by the Elders in the Toddtown Community, here’s how Toddtown came to be.
A white man named Nathan Bolton moved into the McVay community. He ran a grocery and dry good store. He brought the land and sold 40 acres to Reverend Gross Todd. Gross married Litha Pugh. He was the only person that had a car in the community. Gross and Litha lived on what is now Todd Town Road. He had John, Tommy, Curtis and all of his children. He sold 10 acres to Tommy Todd. Otis Grayson married Ella Todd and he had 120 acres of land he brought from Nathan Bolton. Ella was one of the children of Sam and Sarah Todd.
Sam Roper married to Juliet brought his land of 100 plus acres from Judge Sam Pippens. Gross Todd sold Agnew Todd 10 acres.
Otis came from Mississippi and brought 120 acres. Gross sold 10 acres to Agnew Todd. Gross sold 10 acres to Condie Todd. Otis Grayson sold some land to Charlie Cox.
Charlie Pugh came from Winn and married Gross Todd’s daughter Mattie. Haywood Roper got his land from Sam Roper and Nathan Bolton. Charlie Pugh brought 40 acres from Nathan Bolton. Otis brought and additional 25 or 35 acres from Bolton down where Haywood Roper live.
Toddtown was named after the Todds by George McClendon because he took notice of them and their numbers. Sam and Sarah Todd had seven children and settled here from Coffeeville. Dr. T— Pugh raised Sarah Todd because she was a slave. She was not raised with her parents. Fred Grayson is Otis Grayson’s son who inherited the land where Otis lived. Charlie Cox sold land to Joe Meredith. Sam and Juliet Ann Roper gave the land for the church and cemetery .
Velma and Charlie G. Pugh aka Bud brought their land from Nathan Bolton. Quitman Beckham brought his land from Nathan Bolton. Quitman had a store and he brought some land from Sam Roper.
West Roper’s (per his children is really West Todd) land came from Gross Todd’s portion that was brought from Nate Bolton and he also brought some from Fred Grayson. The land that Melvin Bonner owned came from Fred Grayson’s land.
Sam and Sarah Todd house sat on the hill where Tommy Todd also stayed. Their house got burnt down, it was called a double pen house. The school house sat below where Litha and Gross Todd house was. Famous Parker inherited his land from Luke Robinson. Luke Robinson was married to Nettie Todd.