John F. Lloyd
23 June 1864 (Greenville, AL) - 30 October 1886 (Corsicana, TX)
Aged 22 Y's, 4M's, 7D

The Sunday Gazetteer
Denison, Texas
Sunday, November 21, 1886

Died at Corsicana, Texas, October 30th, 1886, Mr. John F. Lloyd, aged twenty-two years, four months and ten days.  The subject of this memoir was born in Greenville, Alabama, June 20, 1864 [sic], removed to Texas and was at the time of his death, in the employe of the Railroad Company as agent and telegraph operator, a business that he had been engaged in for a number of years for different companies and at different places.  He was agent here at Pottsboro for a long time, and conducted himself in such a manner that he gained the respect and esteem of every one who knew him.  Every enterprise and entertainment that was calculated to do good, he always took part in.  While here he made the acquaintance of one of Grayson County's fairest daughters, and as the acquaintance ripened into mutual love, the happy couple was married January 20th, 1886, the bride being Miss Minnie Vanantwerp.  But ere one year had rolled around grim death entered the happy household ad robbed it of the head of the family.  But such is life, full of sorrow and disappointments.
Mr. Lloyd was a gentleman and a Christian in every sense of the word, and while we mourn his loss here on earth, he has gained a home in heaven.  It seems hard to be cut down in youth and in the prime of life, but we have to bow in sorrow to the decrees of fate.
Mr. Lloyd was baptized by his father (who is Rev. J.L. Loyd, a Baptist minister), at the age of thirteen, in the Bristol Baptist church, and always lived as a consistent Christian, and there is no doubt but what he has gone to reap the reward of those who die in the name of the Lord.
His remains were brought to Pottsboro and interred in the Georgetown cemetery accompanied by his wife and father and numerous friends and relatives.
J.O. Casler.
Pottsboro, Texas, November 17, 1886.

Georgetown Cemetery