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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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1859 - 1886 (26 years)
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