Emory Lloyd I

The following bio was taken from pages 288-289 of the book entitled "Rusk County History" compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission.

Transcribed by Gloria Riley

Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Rusk County TX Coordinator

Emory Lloyd I was born at Montecello, Jasper County, Georgia, in 1787. He was stationed at Fort Hawkins, Georgia, during the War of 1812 and after his honorable discharge, married Flora Brown on August 10, 1816 (married by Esquire Williams in Jackson County, Georgia). Flora’s brother, Taylor Brown, Sr. and her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth (Brown) Melton attended the wedding.

Flora (Brown) Lloyd was born in 1798 in Georgia. Her father came from England. The Lloyds moved to Alabama, where six children were born. They came to Texas about 1844 and their names appear in the Texas Census for 1850. The families settled about five miles from Henderson on what is now Highway 323 (Overton). They bought land originally acquired from a Spanish survey. One of their six children was James Monroe Lloyd, born in 1823, who married Pamelia Hamilton on March 18, 1850. Pamelia was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee on December 31, 1833 and came to Texas with her parents, Andrew and Delilah Smith Hamilton at the age of four. She and her husband had two sons, one of whom was Emory II, born in 1854. After her death on August 22, 1857, James Monroe married Caroline Wilson in 1859 and they had two children. After his mother died, Emory II was raised by his grandparents, Emory I and Flora. On the Lloyd property is a small cemetery where Emory I and Flora Brown Lloyd are buried, along with their son Thomas Brown Lloyd, his wife, Mary J., and their sons.

Emory II was an attorney-at-law in Lufkin, who joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and was with the 3^rd Texas Cavalry from Rusk County. His company officer was Captain H.D.E. Redwine, and his commanding officer was Colonel M.F. Locke. He trained at Camp Flourney, Wood County, Texas, and was promoted to Second Lieutenant. During 1864 he was taken prisoner of war and sent to New York State and released a year later near Rodney, Mississippi.

Emory II graduated from Trinity University in Waxahachie, Texas, and taught school for many years in East Texas. On December 24, 1880 he married Siddie Davis. She was the daughter of William Preston Davis and Rachel Carr Davis. Her mother also died when she was very young and her step-grandmother took care of her. Siddie and Emory II had ten children, one of whom was killed in World War I in France in 1918, two hours after the Armistice was signed.

Today, the son of Siddie and Emory II, Charles Lloyd, born June 13, 1898, lives with his wife, Addie Mae (Curbo) Lloyd, born July 12, 1904, in the second home built after a fire destroyed the one in which he was born. The original house was a two-story log house with a separate kitchen, which was located nearby. They were married on September 3, 1945. Since 1844 the Lloyd farm has remained in the same family.

Written by Joan Lloyd