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BIOGRAPHY: Billy was the driver of the "Nance", the coal mine company "dinkey." Later, the "Nance" met an untimely demise. As the little engine was pulling a load of 100 barrels of black powder between Soddy and the coal tipple at Long Spring, on Soddy Creek, one of the barrels fell from the moving train. The barrel busted and was ignited by a spark from the engine. The resulting explosion destroyed the engine and killed the engineer. Billy Lloyd, son of W. R. Lloyd, superintendent of the Sale Creek Coal Company. A man named Harper was the fireman of the train and died as did two other men that worked on the train. Billy Lloyd and Harper died instantly while the two unnamed men lived about six hours before they passed away. The date of the explosion as well as the death of the four men is listed as May 25th, 1886. Billy is buried in the Welch Cemetery located in Sale Creek. Fireman, Harper is buried in the Soddy Presbyterian Cemetery with only an Improved Order of Redmen plaque to mark his spot. (from The Good Old Times, Part 2 by Steven L. Smith, 2003)

BURIAL: Epitaph on gravestone
'Remember me as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I; as I am now , you soon must be; prepare for death and follow me.'

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BIOGRAPHY: William R. Lloyd, superintendent of the Sale Creek Coal Company, was born December 4, 1838, in South Wales, and came to America in 1861. He returned to Wales in 1862, and again in 1866. He worked on a farm until fourteen years of age, after which he worked at coal min­ing as a day laborer. He began life a poor man and owes his elevation to his present position to his own ability as a practical miner. He received his education in the subscription schools of South Wales, and at the age of twenty-one began working for himself. In 1859 he married Miss Margaret Thomas also a native of Wales, who came to this country with her husband. By this union they had these children: William T. (killed by a powder explosion at Soddy, in May, 1866), Evan (deceased), Catherine (Mrs. Thomas), Margaret Ann (Mrs. Price), Jane, Thomas, Rebecca and Taliesyn. Our subject's parents, Evan and Catherine (Reese) Lloyd, were natives of Wales, and they in company with Mrs. Lloyd's mother came to America in 1870. Our subject is a Republican in politics, and he and wife have been members of the Congregational Church for many years. He has been superintendent of the Sale Creek Mines since the fall of 1881, and has the respect and confidence of all who know him. Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887

William married Margaret Thomas in 1859 in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CENSUS: 1861 Wales Census
Glamorgan Family History Society 1861 Census CD
4071 1861 CENSUS OF FFORCHAMMAN HAMLET (PART). REF.R.G.9/4071, E.D.38.
Piece: 4071 Folio: 038 Schedule: 076
Address: CWMAMAN HOUSES
LLOYD EVAN
HD M 54 LABOURER GLA LLANFAWIN [?] (c1807)
LLOYD CATHERINE
WI M 45 - GLA CYMER (c1816)
LLOYD THOMAS
SO U 19 LABOURER GLA COWBRIDGE (c1842)
LLOYD ABRAHAM
SO U 17 HOUSE CARPENTER APPR. GLA COWBRIDGE (c1844)
LLOYD ELLENDER
DA - 12 - GLA COWBRIDGE (c1849)
LLOYD MARGARET
DA - 7 - GLA COWBRIDGE (c1854)

Evan married Catherine Rees. Catherine was born in 1815 in Ystradyfodwg, Glamorgan, Wales; died in 1873 in Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee; was buried in Soddy Presbyterian Cemetery, Soddy-Daisy, Hamilton County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]