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Descendants of Finley Kelloch & Mary Young,
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Notes for Helen Clementine Emery
The following is from Glen Todd (descendant of Charles Randolph Todd). "In my mother’s notes, it showed that Charles had, in addition to one biological son, my great-grandfather Edward March Todd, adopted twin girls from the family of his
sister-in-law, Helen Emery Buzzelle. Adoption’s not exactly usual in our family, even kinfolk adoption, and so -- being the type who can’t leave well enough alone -- I decided to investigate a little further. What I found was a story worthy of one of
those ‘daytime television drama’ programs. The girl Helen Emery apparently married quite young to a man fifteen years her senior, a man who was handsome and suave but apparently wasn’t much use. He went through a number of jobs in various fields, at
none of which was he successful, and he finally ended up as a night watchman in Newburyport’s mill district. During the course of this they managed to have six children. The oldest girl, Cora Buzzelle, who became the mother of American poet Edna St.
Vincent Millay. Then two boys, the twin girls, Susan and Clementine, and finally baby girl Georgia Buzzelle. Georgia was a sickly child, however, and was often attended to by a young physician named Samuel Gardner Todd, the younger brother of Helen’s
brother-in-law Charles Randolph Todd. At the same time, Helen’s relationship with Eben Buzelle was disintegrating, and Gard Todd was often the provider of emotional support for the mother as well as medical treatment for the child. Predictably, Helen
and Gard Todd became romantically involved, and Helen finally left her husband for her physician. Eben returned to Maine, where he passed out of history. Just to put the final soap opera cap on the whole thing, Helen Emery was killed in a freak
accident before she and Gard Todd could be married; her carriage struck a rock in the road and overturned, and she died of her injuries. The family was dispersed at that point; the two oldest children were already adult, but the others were adopted by
various relatives. Thus, the girls Susan and Clem were Charles Randolph Todd’s nieces as well as his adopted daughters."
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