Source: Madison-Jefferson Co. Public Library, 420 W. Main St., Madison, IND. Genealogy Department -- the LATTIMORE family file folder. (Note that no date or name of newspaper is given, but I estimate ca. 1888. Also LATTIMORE is mispelled as LATIMORE) Zephaniah LLOYD, farmer, Republican township, Jefferson county. The subject of this sketch is a farmer, and has always resided on a farm, having been born on one. He was born in Somerset county, on the eastern shore of Maryland, in the year 1805. Mr. LLOYD was left an orphan when only five years of age; his mother died when he was only three months old. He was reared by his half-brother, Mr. Tubmond WRIGHT, and came West, and settled in Switzerland county, Ind., in the spring of 1817, when he (LLOYD) was only twelve years old. He remained with his half-brother until 1822 when he was seventeen years old, when he came to Jefferson county, where he has resided ever since. His brother Tubmond WRIGHT died in March 1828, at the age of 39 years; he was a farmer of Switzerland county, Ind. Mr. LLOYD was married, in 1824, to Miss Anna LATIMORE, who was a native of North Carolina, and came to Indiana in 1811, with her father, Daniel LATIMORE, who was a farmer of this county. Mrs. LLOYD died September 1881, at the age of 81 years and 8 months. She was a member of the M.E. Church for sixty-two years. Mr. LLOYD has raised nine children, and has lived to see them all married - six girls and three boys, viz: Isabel, Elizabeth, Rhoda, Jane, Rebecca, Delpha, Oliver, Zephaniah, and Marion. Rebecca died January 31, 1868; Elizabeth died June 18, 1882; Rhoda died August 1, 1883. Mr. LLOYD bought the eighty acres of land upon which he now lives in 1830. Mr. LLOYD is the only one of his family now living; he is one of the oldest citizens and is a good citizen, a man who is well liked by his acquaintances, respected by his neighbors, and loved by his friends. He now resides in the family of his son, Zephaniah, who takes care of him, as he is almost blind, so much so as to be unable to read or do any labor which requires sight. In June, 1887, Mr. LLOYD visited his old home, in Switzerland county, to attend an old settlers' meeting, it being seventy years since he landed in that county; there were only three persons that were then living in the county, who were still alive. Mr. LLOYD has attended all of the old settlers' meetings of Jefferson county, and says that there are very few of them who are still living. Mr. LLOYD has had a long and useful life, and now, at the age of 83, cannot expect to tarry much longer on earth, but when he is called, he will be sorrowed for as for one who has done his duty. Zephaniah LLOYD, Jr. (or young Zeph, as he is called by his friends and neighbors), is married and has a family of two children, Eva J. and Thomas L. Eva is married to Orlando COOPERIDEN, a farmer of this township; Thomas L. is in his sixteenth year, and is at home with his parents. Young Zeph. married Miss Sarah I. COSBY, of Smyrna township. end of record