MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Wilson G. Loyd
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WILSON G. LOYD, clerk of the Circuit Court of Marshall County, is a son of
Alexander M. and Louisa (Blackwell) Loyd. The father was a merchant, having
sold goods in Bedford County for some time. In 1838 he removed to Texas for
the purpose of surveying public lands. He was
called from this world of toil at the early age of twenty-nine. Our subject
was born April 26, 1838, in Lewisburg, but, his mother having died when he
was but an infant, he was left to the care of an aunt at Shelbyville till
nine years of age, after which he went to live with an uncle in Louisiana.
At the age of seventeen he returned to this State and attended school three
years, completing his education at Franklin College in 1859. He then went
back to Louisiana and engaged as salesman in Alexandria till 1861, when he
enlisted in Company B, Second Louisiana
Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia. At the battle of Gettysburg he
received a slight wound, and it was the only one he received during the
entire four years he was in service.  In 1865 he wedded Victoria C.
Meadows, and by this union became the father of eleven children, all
living, Both Mr. and Mrs. Loyd are earnest workers in the Christian Church.
In politics Mr. Loyd is a Democrat. In 1878 he was elected circuit court
clerk, and has filled that position in a satisfactory manner. In 1885 he
became bookkeeper of the Bank of Lewisburg.

Surnames: Blackwell, Loyd, Meadows
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."