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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 minĀing 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
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