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Below is a family biography included in The History of Lincoln County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1886.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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J. W. LLOYD, senior partner of the firm of Lloyd & Blake, proprietors and publishers of the Fayetteville Express, was born October 3, 1843, in Huntsville, Ala., son of W. B. and Martha P. (Tatum) Lloyd, born in Virginia in 1818 and 1817, and died in 1873 and 1851, respectively. They were married in 1838, and soon after moved to Huntsville, Ala. Our subject’s mother died when he was quite young, and at the age of thirteen he became an apprentice at the printer’s trade, working on the Huntsville Advocate four years. He then commenced life for himself as a journeyman, and the following thirteen years worked in most of the large cities in the South, assisting on the leading daily and weekly papers. In April, 1873, he came to Fayetteville and assisted in the establishing the Fayetteville Express, the proprietor and publisher being J. B. Smith. In 1876 Mr. Lloyd and F. O. McCord purchased the press, but in 1880 Mr. J. W. Goodwin purchased Mr. McCord’s interest, and for two years the firm was known as Lloyd & Goodwin. From 1882 to August, 1883, the firm was Lloyd & Carrigan, and in January, 1884, Mr. Blake took a one-half interest. The Express is a newsy paper and is devoted to the interests of the people. Mr. Lloyd has been in the newspaper business nearly thirty years and knows the needs and wishes of his patrons. He is a Democrat in his political views, and cast his first presidential vote for S. J. Tilden in 1876. February 23, 1881, he married Kate Jones, daughter of Capt. Joel J. Jones, who was killed in the battle of Perryville, Ky. Mrs. Lloyd was born in Lincoln County, Tenn., in 1853, and has one son— Sumner.

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This family biography is one of 137 biographies included in The History of Lincoln County, Tennessee published in 1886.  The History of Lincoln County was included within The History of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin & Moore Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin , Moore Counties of Tennessee

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