Suggested edit: W. M. Floyd and his wife, Elizabeth Floyd, nee Ford. Both parents were natives of Tennessee, the father spending his life in agricultural pursuits. He moved to Texas in 1860, settling in the northern counties of the State, but shortly afterward enlisted in the Confederate army, remaining in the ranks as long as his services were required. He died in 1884, leaving a family of five children to mourn his loss. During the first few years' residence in Texas the family had to endure the usual privations of frontier life, the absence of educational privileges being a drawback which was felt with especial severity. In the case of the children, however, there would have been little chance for attendance, even if a school had been conveniently near, for, during the years when he should have been occupied with his books, the father was absent in the war, and much of the home work devolved upon their own youthful shoulders.(Source: Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of Texas by James Cox, Published by Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co, St Louis, 1895
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
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Suggested edit: W. M. Floyd and his wife, Elizabeth Floyd, nee Ford. Both parents were natives of Tennessee, the father spending his life in agricultural pursuits. He moved to Texas in 1860, settling in the northern counties of the State, but shortly afterward enlisted in the Confederate army, remaining in the ranks as long as his services were required. He died in 1884, leaving a family of five children to mourn his loss. During the first few years' residence in Texas the family had to endure the usual privations of frontier life, the absence of educational privileges being a drawback which was felt with especial severity. In the case of the children, however, there would have been little chance for attendance, even if a school had been conveniently near, for, during the years when he should have been occupied with his books, the father was absent in the war, and much of the home work devolved upon their own youthful shoulders.(Source: Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of Texas by James Cox, Published by Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co, St Louis, 1895
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
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