Franklin Lloyd - Civil War Soldier in Farmer Cemetery

 

Franklin Lloyd was a Vermont native, born on January 17, 1844, to David Lloyd and Emily Phillips.  He was in Ohio with his family by the 1860 census of Centre Township, Williams County.  David, a farmer, with real estate worth $1000, was enumerated with his wife, Emily, and children Mary, 19; Frank, 15; Alice 3; and Emma, 1.  The youngest two children were born in Ohio.  Martin Lloyd, the grandfather, born Massachusetts, 79, also resided there.

A very young Frank Lloyd enlisted in the 86th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company E when it reorganized at Camp Cleveland on July 17, 1863, for six months service.  The company traveled to Zanesville, Ohio and then on to Eagle Point to intercept John Hunt Morgan.  There they skirmished for four days, capturing his command.  Morgan was on a mission to raid Indiana and Ohio and had taken thousands of prisoners along the way.  At the interception, he lost much of his regiment, but he escaped.

Company E then moved into Kentucky, around the Cumberland Gap, where they garrisoned until January, 1864, before moving back to Cleveland. Thirty-one men of the company were lost to disease. Frank was discharged on February 10, 1864.

According to Defiance County Marriage Records, Frank married Mary Bell Wolford on January 27, 1872. The couple settled in Centre Township, Williams County.  The 1880 census named Frank Lloyd, 35, a farmer, with a checkmark on maimed, crippled or bedridden.  Perhaps this indicated a war injury, but not enough to keep him from his farm work.  Mary was 24 in this census, and the couple had two children: Clara B., 7, and William H.,3.  Later, in 1883, son Martin M., was born.

Frank lost his discharge papers as reported in the 1890 veterans' census, so no information other than his name, was included on the census.  By 1900, Frank and Mary Bell, now married 28 years, were located in Farmer, Defiance County. Frank, 55, now described himself as a landlord, and he owned his farm free of mortgage.  Mary was 43. Son, Martin, the youngest, lived with Thomas and Henrietta Richardson, as a servant/farm laborer, while the other son, William H. worked as a farm laborer for George S. and Cora Richardson in the Farmer, Ohio area. Daughter, Clara, had married Irvin Graham; they would divorce in 1906, having two children.  

Defiance Weekly Express, January 26, 1906, p. 9 - "A divorce has been granted Irvin H. Graham from Clara B. Graham and the care and custody of their children, although defendant may visit them on certain specified occasions.The grounds forgranting the separation are gross neglect of duty."

Frank died on January 17, 1900.  His wife, Mary Bell, lived until August, 1949.

By that time, she had settled in Edgerton, Ohio.  In the 1930 census, Mary, then 72, lived in Edgerton with sons, William,52, a carpenter, and Martin M., 47, an independent well driller, both single.  In 1933, William died, followed by Martin in 1940. 

 Clara lived until 1951, having remarried to Jacob Bangard.  

Defiance Crescent-News, July 21, 1951, p. 3 - "Clara B. Bangard.  Edgerton, July 21 - Mrs. Clara B. Bangard, 77, widow of Jacob Bangard, died Friday evening at the Meagley sanitarium in Hicksville, where she had been a patient for seven weeks. She had been in failing health fifteen months.

Surviving are a son, Walter Graham, rt. 2, Hicksville, and a daughter, Mrs. Viola Cosper, Butler, Ind.  There are two grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Mrs. Bangard was born in Defiance county Oct.13,1873. With her first husband, Irvin Graham, she lived in Farmer Tp.

The body, now at Krill funeral home in Edgerton, will be taken to the residence in Edgerton this afternoon.  Monday, the body will be returned to the funeral home for services at 2:30 p.m. in charge of Rev. Ralph C. Tucker, Methodist pastor.  Burial will take place at Maple Grove cemetery."

The Frank Lloyd family, except Clara, are all buried in Farmer Cemetery.