OBIT:  LLOYD, Anne (Gardner); 1911; Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 17 Mar 1911
Volume 45, Number 11


Mrs. Abel Lloyd Dead

Mrs. Abel Lloyd, one of the best known women of the north of the county, 
died Tuesday night at her home in Ebensburg in her 79th year.  Her maiden 
name was Anne Gardner.  She was born in England, the daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. John Gardner.  She came to America with her parents when she was five 
years old.  The family settled in Pittsburg where the father died in 1837.  
Miss Gardner was married to Abel Lloyd, then a resident of Pittsburg in 
1853.  The couple lived in Johnstown for three or four years and then 
moved to Ebensburg in 1857.  Mr. Lloyd died there in February, 1903.  Mr. 
Lloyd at one time was county commissioner and for 30 years was passenger 
agent at Ebensburg.  Six children survive Mrs. Lloyd:  Mary Jane, wife of 
Carl Rivinius, Ebensburg; John G. Lloyd, Postmaster of Ebensburg; Margaret 
A., widow of Fred Spiller; Anne, wife of Attorney Mathiot Reade of 
Ebensburg and Isabelle and Martha, at home.

Funeral services were held at the home at 8:30 o'clock Thursday evening by 
the Rev. T. R. Taggart, pastor of the Presbyterian Church and private 
interment took place Friday morning in Lloyd's Cemetery.