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Submitted: 3/22/13 • Approved: 3/23/13 • Last Updated: 3/26/13 • R850619-G850618-S3
William
Aug 19 1855 - Sept 11 1926
*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Tuesday, September 14, 1926
Funeral services for W.S. Floyd were held Sunday afternoon from the family home on West A street, Bentonville in the presence of a large number of old friends from Benton and Washington counties who had come to pay their last respects to this well known citizen whom they knew so well. The services, conducted by Rev. A.W. Henderson of the Presbyterian church and Rev. W.T. Thompson of the M.E. Church, South, were very impressive. Short services were held in the City cemetery where the body was laid away. William Snodgrass Floyd was born August 1855 at Sparta, Tenn. and died following a stroke of paralysis at 9 o'clock Saturday morning, September 11, 1926. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Floyd and the eldest of four children. His father was a Confederate soldier and served four years in the war. In 1869 his parents moved to Arkansas and located at Fayetteville. Two months later the family moved to Bentonville where the father purchased 160 acres of land a short distance from Bentonville where young Floyd attended school and the old college conducted by J.T. and L.H. McGill. He decided to become a lawyer and studied in the office of Judge S.N. Elliott who ranked high as a lawyer in those early days. He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and began the practice of law in Yellville. He was elected county judge of Marion county and served two years. In 1880 he married Josie M. Jackson, daughter of S.H. Jackson of Neosho, Mo. In 1889 he moved back to Bentonville and resumed the practice of law with Mack Peel and had practiced continuously since then. For several years past he has been associated with Sam Beasley who has been of great help to him in his blindness by which he became afflicted about seven years ago. Two sons and three daughters survive him. Hugh Floyd of Bentonville, Hurley Floyd of California, Mrs. Timothy Applegate and Mrs. Sally Conine of Bentonville and Mrs. Carl Silver of Okmulgee, Okla.; also by three brothers, J.C. Floyd, Yellville, Ark., Frank Floyd, Bentonville, Dr. J.R. Floyd, Ft. Worth and one sister, Mrs. W.R. Maxwell, Alva, Okla.
*Obituary
Benton County Herald
Thursday, September 16, 1926
FLOYD, William Snodgrass - William Snodgrass Floyd was born in Sparta, Tenn. on August 19th, 1855. He was a son of John Wesley Floyd and Eliza Jane {Snodgrass} Floyd. During the war his father, J.W. Floyd, served four years in the Confederate army and while his father was in the service his mother, with her four little boys, William, Charley, James and Frank, lived on their farm three miles from Alexandria, Tenn., the subject of this sketch being the oldest. After the war the family remained in Tennessee until the fall of 1869 when they moved to Arkansas. They first went to Fayetteville and remained there for about two months and in the latter part of the same year the family moved to Bentonville and later J.W. Floyd settled with his family on a farm one mile west of Bentonville. W.S. Floyd received his education in the public and private schools of Bentonville and at the old college founded by Morgan H. Looney and later conducted by J.T. and L.H. McGill. He read law under the tutorship of the late Judge S.N. Elliott. He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and began practice in Marion County where he was elected and served as county judge from 1880 to 1882 and in 1887 he took up his permanent abode in Bentonville where he practiced his profession to the time of his death. In 1914 he filled an unexpired term as county judge of Benton County. He was married on April 25th, 1880 to Josie M. Jackson, daughter of S.H. Jackson of Neosho, Mo. As a result of this marriage five children were born who are now living Mrs. Sally Conine, James Hurley Floyd, Hugh Jackson Floyd, Mrs. J. Carl Silver, Mrs. Timothy Applegate. Judge Floyd served as mayor of Bentonville several terms. He devoted his life chiefly to his profession of law in which he attained high distinction not only for his legal ability but for his honesty and integrity. He was a member of the Masonic order at Yellville, Ark. Mr. Floyd died at his home on September 11th, 1926 at 9:12 a.m. as the result of a stroke of paralysis which occurred one week before. W.T. Thompson.
*Obituary
Benton County Herald
Thursday, September 16, 1926
Born August 19th, 1855 in White County, Tenn., Judge Floyd came to Arkansas in early childhood with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Floyd. In 1869 the family settled near Bentonville, his father purchasing 160 acres of land just west of the present town. When old enough Judge Floyd clerked for awhile in the store of Col. W.A. Terry here at Bentonville, giving up this occupation to study law under Judge S.N. Elliott. His first law practice was at Yellville, Marion County, where he was elected county judge. After a few years he returned to Bentonville and was for many years the law partner of the late Mack Peel. He also served as judge of this county by appointment. For several years prior to his death he had been associated here with Mayor Sam Beasley in the practice of law. Stricken with blindness eight years ago Judge Floyd was still, due to his remarkable memory and thorough knowledge of law, able not only to successfully practice his profession but to the last his advice was eagerly sought on intricate legal problems even by other learned attorneys. His health had failed gradually for the past four years and death followed a stroke of paralysis suffered a week before the end. Judge Floyd is survived by two sons, Hugh J. of Bentonville and Hurley of Los Angeles, Cal. and three daughters, Mrs. Sally Conine and Mrs. Timothy Applegate, Bentonville and Mrs. Carl Silver, Okmulgee; by three brothers, former Congressman Charlie Floyd, Yellville; Frank F. Floyd, Bentonville and Dr. J.R. Floyd, Fort Worth, Texas; also one sister, Mrs. W.R. Maxwell of Alva, Okla., a number of grandchildren and other relatives. Mrs. Floyd, who was a resident of this section and Southwest Missouri, died here several years ago. Funeral services, conducted by the Rev. W.T. Thompson of the M.E. Church, South and the Rev. A.W. Henderson of the Presbyterian Church, were held at the family residence at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, attended by a great number of friends, including a large representation of the legal profession of Northwest Arkansas and elsewhere. Interment was made in the family lot at the Bentonville cemetery.
Josephine
1858 - 1914
*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, August 20, 1914
FLOYD, Mrs. W.S. - As we go to press this morning we learn of the death of Mrs. Floyd, wife of W.S. Floyd. Recently she was compelled to undergo a severe operation and she never rallied from the effects of it. She was the wife of W.S. Floyd, the lawyer, and the mother of Hugh Floyd, the postmaster at this place. She is survived by her husband and several children.
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