Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Lloyd, Benjamin March 22, 1831 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Wayne Township
p. 791

Benjamin Lloyd was born March 22, 1831 in Wayne County, Ind., a son of 
Humphrey and Rachel (Clark) Lloyd, natives of North Carolina. They were among 
the first settlers of Wayne County where they were married. They were the 
parents of ten children, of whom only four survive---Milton, Edward, Benjamin, 
and William, all living in Wayne County except William, who resides in Grant 
County, Ind. Those deceased are---David, Sallie, Esther A., and three sons who 
died in infancy. Their mother died in 1844 aged thirty-six years, and their 
father died in Grant County, Ind., in 1879, aged seventy-nine years. Our 
subject was reared on the home farm till he was thirteen years of age, after 
which he lived with James Neal, of Wayne County, till he grew to manhood. 
After attaining his majority he was engaged as a teamster about three years 
when he worked as a brakesman on the Richmond & Chicago Railroad one year. 
Nov. 16, 1856, he married Louisa F., daughter of Henry and Louisa F. 
(Loggaman) Hessman. They have two sons---John W., born Oct. 25, 1857, and 
Charles H., born Sept. 16, 1859. After his marriage Mr. Lloyd rented and 
farmed near Richmond until 1861. He then rented a farm near Indianapolis where 
he farmed during the summer for five years, and during the winter seasons 
worked in slaughter houses. In 1866 he purchased his present farm of eighty 
acres for which he paid $8,000 and which is now worth $150 per acre. After 
residing here a number of years he returned to Indianapolis and worked several 
years for wages when he again settled on his farm. Mrs. Lloyd's father was 
born in 1800 and died in 1861, and her mother was born in 1804 and is living 
in Richmond. They came from Germany and settled in Wayne County in 1833. They 
had eight children, five still living---Henry, Louisa F., William, Charles and 
Lewis.



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