Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - James A. Floyd

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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James A. Floyd, farmer and proprietor of cotton-gin, was born in 
Bedford, County, Tenn., in 1848, a son of James H. and Martha L. 
Lawrence, natives of Williamson and Rutherford Counties, Tenn., 
respectively. The father died in the last named county about 1849, and 
the mother in Bedford County in 1869. The grandfather, James Floyd, 
was born in Virginia, and died in Williamson County, Tenn., prior to 
the war. The grandmother was a native of North Carolina. James A. is 
the youngest of a family of three children, and receiving but a 
limited education during his youth, when of age he began life for 
himself by farming. In 1874 he married Maggie, daughter of J. G. 
Harrison, a native of Lincoln County, Tenn., where Mr. Floyd farmed 
until 1880. Since that time he has resided three miles from Alma, 
having now 160 acres of good land as the result of his labor and good 
management. Mrs. Floyd's father served as deputy sheriff of Lincoln 
County, Tenn., and in 1880 came to Crawford County, locating near 
Alma. Mr. Floyd is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote 
for Greeley, in 1872. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Alma 
Lodge No. 43, and belongs to the K. of H. He has one son and three 
daughters. and is united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.