he eventually marries betsy humphreys who has eight children before slipping mercifully into menopause. [ laughter ] now, some i think have tried to claim that this is two families. that there's a first iteration of todds and a second iteration of todds. i think that is an enormous mistake. in this era, it was all too common for a woman to die in childbirth and a widower always remarried, especially if he had six children. this is fairly common for a family in that period. so i think we need to do them the honor of reading their own letters. they don't use half brother, half sister, stepbrother, stepsister. that language is not used by them or anyone else in referring to them. it's clear they understand themselves and were understood by the rest of the country as one family. so it's fair to understand them in that light ourself. now, they're from kentucky, and like most kentucky families, the todds are thrown into domestic pandemonium by the civil war. you all know kentucky fought the brother's war more completely than any other state. secession has divided states and counties, one ken