My Genealogy Hound

James G. Lloyd is a son of Elder William B. and Mary E. (Hall) Lloyd. The father was born in Georgia in 1808, and when young was taken by his parents to Alabama, where he afterward married and lived until their removal to Noxubee County, Miss., where the mother died. She was a native of Alabama, and several years her husband’s junior. Mr. Lloyd still lives in Mississippi, where he has engaged in farming, and preaching in the Missionary Baptist Church for over forty years. The mother of our subject was also a Missionary Baptist. Mr. Lloyd has always been a Democrat. By his first marriage he had six sons and one daughter, and by his second one son and one daughter. James G. Lloyd was the third child, and was born in Noxubee County, Miss., October 22, 1835, where he was reared upon a farm and educated in the old subscription schools. When twenty years old he began life on his own account as an overseer. In 1858 he married Elizabeth Sallis, a native of Alabama, by whom he had three children: William S. (deceased), Susan E. (deceased) and James H. Mrs. Lloyd died in 1866, and a year later he was married to Miss Mary C. Black, who was the mother of four children: Richard A., Lydia C., Durward P. and Carrie C. Having been left a widower a second time, in 1876, in 1878 Mr. Lloyd wedded Martha C. Garner, who bore him one child, Bettie L., and died in 1879. In 1880 Mrs. Fannie E. Pile, nee Mayfield, became his wife. She had three children by her first husband, viz.: Theodore, Wallace and Herschel. She and Mr. Lloyd are the parents of five, named as follows: Amzy B., Josie, Virgie E., Bonnie E. and Levie T. Mr. Lloyd and his four wives were all united with the Missionary Baptist Church. In 1874 Mr. Lloyd came to this county, and is now the owner of 120 acres of land, sixty being well improved and cultivated, and well fitted with good buildings. In the fall of 1861 Mr. Lloyd enlisted in Company C, Fortieth Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Confederate army until the close of the war. He participated in the battle of Iuka, second battle of Corinth, and at Vicksburg was surrendered to the enemy, but afterward exchanged. He also went on the Georgia campaign. He was never wounded.