Clélie Cécile Todd

Born at the Delhommer family plantation in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, outside of New Orleans. Education by French nuns in the Ursuline convent in New Orleans. Lived primarily in Jefferson (garden suburb of New Orleans, now part of Uptown New Orleans) prior to the Civil War, while still maintaining the plantation in St. Charles Parish. After the Civil War, she lived with her children in Carrollton (Jefferson, between Third and Zimpel; today Joliet Street between Freret and Zimpel) until 1875 near her parents, followed by locations at 297 South Liberty Street, 430 South Rampart Street (between Thalia and Melpomene; now 1405 South Rampart, but not the same house), 328 South Franklin Street, 211 Hospital Street (now Gov. Nicholls at the corner of Treme), 119 Kerlerec Street (first house on right from St. Claude past Marais), 329 Marais Street (corner of Marais and Kerlerec, from Esplanade), 319 S. Liberty Street, 191 Erato Street, 203 Clio Street, which were locations in the Seventh Ward and Central City neighborhoods, and 189 Royal Street (today 809-811 Royal Street) in the French Quarter. In 1895, she moved to 520 St. Peter Street, a location in the Pontalba Apartments on Jackson Square, where she lived until her death. Her daughter Elizabeth lived in the Pontalba buildings most of the rest of her life, and Clelie Thompson Nelson was raised there.

1878: lived at 211 Hospital Street; 1892 New Orleans City Directory: US Mint Adjuster living at 189 Royal Street Moved to 520 St. Peter in 1895

Took over running the boarding house on Jackson Square, after the death of her mother

Staunch opponent of General Benjamin Butler during his martial law in New Orleans. Butler had taken over her family plantation, forcing the family to permanently move to the city. She openly broke anti-Confederate regulations instituted by Butler, writing to let him know that she was President Lincoln's sister-in-law, and she would do as she pleased.