OLD SQUIRE LLOYD
Squire Lloyd had a brother named Vent and maybe one named Ben. Vent
wasn’t as good a man. He was the father of Fayette. And the Squire had a
boy named Jim who wasn’t much good. Out near Evant
a boy was going to play a joke on him when asleep, and they told him he
had better not, that he would kill him. The Squire told him later he would
have done it too.
(The old Squire, usually called "Square," was justice of the
peace here for some twenty-five years, and an effective one. Was an old
Indian fighter, and a stalwart citizen. He lives down the creek about
across the road from old Blue Hole. He
used to spend the night with us, to go on Saturday night to the Masonic
Lodge. I wish I could remember or had been old enough to fully appreciate
the stories he used to tell about the Old South and old days here. Once a
cyclone came over the hill, jumped over our place and did some damage in
town. Am not sure I really remember it, but of course, knew of it. My
mother said a sudden gust of wind with a lot of dust struck as they were
having supper and blew out the lamp. By the time she had it lit the Old
Squire was brushing the dust off his bald head and lighting his pipe. He
was cool. Remember his funeral in 1908, and stone shows born in 1825.
Understand no one owned what we called the Murphree place near Evant, but
left an account of Indians.
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CHESLEY'S HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS
BY
HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.
Born: 21 November, 1894
Died: 17 July, 1979