Puffer Genealogy

LLOYD, John Curtis[1, 2]

Male 1837 - 1903  (65 years)


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  • Name LLOYD, John Curtis 
    Birth 31 Dec 1837  Framingham, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
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    Ref# 368  [2
    _COLOR 11 
    Death 5 Mar 1903  Tumwater, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Tumwater, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Masonic Memorial Park 
    Person ID I16805  Puffers
    Last Modified 29 Jun 2023 

    Father LLOYD, Curtis Brewer,   b. 27 Jan 1806, Milton, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Mar 1885, Framingham, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Mother PUFFER, Ruth Willis,   b. 10 Aug 1817, Marlborough, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jul 1874, Framingham, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Marriage 10 Nov 1836  Sudbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Family ID F2840  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family MANN, Antoinette Eliza,   b. 6 Apr 1847, Holliston, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Nov 1924, Tumwater, WA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 6 Jun 1867  Holliston, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Children 
     1. LLOYD, Wyman Elliott,   b. 8 May 1868, Holliston, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Feb 1946, Tumwater, WA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
     2. LLOYD, Grace Winifred,   b. 17 Sep 1870, Holliston, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 May 1952, San Francisco, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
     3. LLOYD, Ernest Mann,   b. 9 May 1873, Brimfield, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1945, Gardner, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     4. LLOYD, Bertha Ismay,   b. 5 Sep 1875, Quincy, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Oct 1946, Ladysmith, Cowichan Valley Regional District, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     5. LLOYD, Eva Gertrude,   b. 2 Sep 1878, Quincy, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Nov 1964, San Francisco, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     6. LLOYD, Lawrence M.,   b. Apr 1882, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1982, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 99 years)
     7. LLOYD, Florence Mabel,   b. 19 Apr 1882, Quincy, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Mar 1949, CO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     8. LLOYD, Chester Stanley,   b. 1 Apr 1885, Vict, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Apr 1967, Tumwater, WA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
     9. LLOYD, Ruth Augusta,   b. 30 Jan 1888, Tacoma, WA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Mar 1921, Tumwater, WA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)
    Family ID F2538  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2024 

  • Notes 
    • He left home at the age of 19 years and went to NYC, thence to New Orleans, LA, but as yellow fever was epidemic there; shipped as carpenter on a vessel bound to Liverpool; returned to New Orleans; thence around Cape Horn to San Francisco and to Maysville, where he prospected for gold. He returned by way of the isthmus to New Orleans. For a time he lived in Texas. Then his uncle, Darius Lloyd assisted him to engage in business as a merchant in New Orleans. He was drafted into the Confederate Army in the cavalry and had to give up his store. After his discharge from the army, he returned to his home in Holliston and went to work in the Payson & Cutler wood working mill, making church furniture. He moved to Brimfield with his father and operated a large saw mill a number of years. He was injured in the mill and obliged to quit business for nearly a year. He lived at West Quincy, Atlantic and Squantum, where he had a large milk route and truck farm. For a time he had a saw mill and grist mill at Victor, NY and afterward for six months at Bedford, MA. He removed to Washington territory in the winter of 1888 and settled in Tumwater, where he built a saw mill and manufactured lumber. During his last years he was a market gardner. He was always active in church and was an elder in the church. He held several offices in Tumwater, WA.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 218, 294-295.

    2. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 218, 294.

    3. [S436] Vital Records of Stow Massachusetts To the Year 1850, page 253.

    4. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 217.

    5. [S466] _Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, page 360.

    6. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 295.