Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Page: 45
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CENTRAL TEXAS CONFERENCE JOURNAL
In Memoriam.
REV. WILLIAM FRANKLIN LLOYD, D. D.
One by one we are passing from the battlefield of earth to
the home of the good. It has fallen to my lot to present to this
Conference a tribute to the memory of our departed brother,
Rev. William Franklin Lloyd, who was born in Taylor County,
Ga., Nov. 25th, 1855. His parents were devout Christians, who
had the true conception of life, and possessed those traits of
character which stand for the most in life. They fostered in their
children by precept and example those virtues so essential to
true manhood and womanhood. The hallowed home environ-
ments were absorbed in early life by our esteemed brother, so
that when about 15 years of age he was converted and joined
the Methodist Church. His father died when he was nine years
old. This handicapped him because it devolved upon him to aid
his mother in supporting the family, which consisted of six
children. After his conversion he led in family worship. In
1873, at the age of 18, he was licensed to exhort and in a short
time thereafter to preach. In 1875 he was admitted on trial
in the South Georgia Conference, which convened in Americus,
and was assigned to the Glen Alta circuit. He served this
charge one year. Near the close of the year he was united in
marriage with Miss Jessie Grace, with whom he lived happily
to the end of life. To this union, six sons and three daughters
were born. The next year he was assigned to the Girrard and
Trinity charge in the suburbs of Columbus. It was here that a
friendship was formed with Bishop Key, which matured during
the following years, ultimating in deep devotion to each other.
The following are the other charges he served in Georgia: Blake-
ly circuit, 1877-79; Boston circuit, 1879-81; Brunswick, 1881-83;
Fort Valley, 1883-85. He was presiding elder of the Waycross
District 1885-87; St. Paul Church, Columbus, 1887-1890.
He was transferred to the Northwest Texas Conference in
1890 and succeeded the writer as pastor of First Methodist
Church in Fort Worth. His success here was most remarkable
in all departments of church work. He projected two missions
-one of which terminated in what is now Weatherford Street
Church. Near the end of his quadrennium he was elected presi-
dent of Polytechnic College. For five years under the most un-
favorable conditions he strove as heroically and unselfishly to
establish a first-class college for the church as it was possible
for a man to do. But while he failed to accomplish fully his
cherished ideal, he made it possible for successors under more
favorable conditions, to build up a great school which is largely
indebted to Dr. Lloyd for the foundation laid.
In 1899 he was transferred to the Kentucky Conference and
stationed at Walnut Street Church, Louisville, where he served
a quadrennium. From thence to Bowling Green in 1903, where
he served until 1906. He was then returned to Louisville as
pastor of two churches, Walnut Street and Chestnut Street, to
perform the delicate and difficult task of uniting them. With
much tact and energy he succeeded in doing it, but at the ex-
pense of his health. This made it necessary for him to have
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Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, periodical, November 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth49828/m1/45/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church.