Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Lloyd, George W. 1829 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    GEORGE W. LLOYD, one of the old pioneers of Alabama, was born in Morgan
county, Ga., in 1829, a son of Joseph and Rachel (Nelson) Lloyd, both natives of
Virginia, who went to Georgia in the early settling of that state, and remained
until 1834, when they came to Alabama and settled among the Indians, in what is
now Calhoun county. The father was one among the first settlers, and made a farm
in the woods. The grandfather Lloyd was a native of Wales, came to America in an
early day, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died from a wound
received in that struggle. Mrs. Rachel Lloyd was born in Virginia, a daughter of
Oliver Nelson, who was of Scotch descent. George W. Lloyd was reared on the farm
where he now lives. He received but little education, and had to go three miles
to a little pine-pole school house. In 1853 he married Rosanna J. Stewart,
daughter of James and Anna (Moffitt) Stewart. This union resulted in the birth
of eight children, six of whom are living: George S., Laura A., Hiram, Curry,
Stewart and Elijah. The mother was born and reared in Calhoun county. Mr. Lloyd
has now lived on his farm fifty-six years, and has never bought pork, corn,
flour or coal-he has always made it a point to raise all the necessaries of
life. In 1862, in February, he enlisted in company A, Thirty-first Alabama
regiment, under Gen. E. W. Pettus, and his brother, Chas. Lloyd, was in the same
regiment, and same company, and served through the balance of the war, and was
with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in his famous retreat. In 1863, he was made a
sergeant and served as orderly during the remainder of the war.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 601-6-2

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