Baskerville - Person Sheet
Baskerville - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Turner Floyd 
Birth14 Feb 1907, Webster County, Mississippi
Death28 May 1994, Ruleville, Sunflower County, Mississippi
FatherJohn Allen Floyd (1876-1958)
MotherMargaret Alma Easterwood (1877-1938)
Spouses
Birth10 Nov 1910, Near Camden, Mississippi
Death15 Jun 1986, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
Marriage29 Aug 1926
Notes for William Turner Floyd
Information below from Opal Lovett via Jesse Floyd:
Turner was a farmer and lived in Sunflower County, Mississippi nearRuleville. When he got too old to work, he moved to Ruleville and livedup the street from his daughter Opal and her husband Billy.
Turner was raised working. He never attended school much. He said thathe always had to work on the fields or cut wood. When he was able to goto school, the teacher sent him to cut wood for the wood burning heater.Despite this, he was very smart. He would amaze his family with how fasthe could add figures.
The last twenty years he farmed, he worked with his son-in-law, Billy JoeLovett. Billy Joe said he could send him to the parts store with a longlist that he wasn't written down and he never forgot anything.
He share-cropped the first sixteen years of his married life with hiswife and kids working beside him. In 1942, he bought sixty acres fromthe FHA. He was very proud of this and worked very hard. He was blessedwith good crops and paid his land off in a relatively short time alongwith a new house in 1948.
Turner was a good man, a good neighbor, and a church man. His job atchurch was to park cars and was always willing to help someone in need.
In 1979, with his wife Lois in failing health, he sold his farm andbought a house in Ruleville, Mississippi. He lived close to his childrenthe last fifteen years of his life. He was a very funny man. and veryproud of his children.
From Jesse Floyd:
I met him twice. Once, when I was about 10, we visited him on his farm.I remember asking him if there were any jack-rabbits around there. Itmust of been a big hoot because it was one of the first things he said tome when met him for the second time, about twenty-five years later at mydad's funeral. He was a real funny man. I thought he looked like asmaller version of my dad.
Turner was a farmer and lived in Sunflower County, Mississippi nearRuleville. When he got too old to work, he moved to Ruleville and livedup the street from his daughter Opal and her husband Billy.
Turner was raised working. He never attended school much. He said thathe always had to work on the fields or cut wood. When he was able to goto school, the teacher sent him to cut wood for the wood burning heater.Despite this, he was very smart. He would amaze his family with how fasthe could add figures.
The last twenty years he farmed, he worked with his son-in-law, Billy JoeLovett. Billy Joe said he could send him to the parts store with a longlist that he wasn't written down and he never forgot anything.
He share-cropped the first sixteen years of his married life with hiswife and kids working beside him. In 1942, he bought sixty acres fromthe FHA. He was very proud of this and worked very hard. He was blessedwith good crops and paid his land off in a relatively short time alongwith a new house in 1948.
Turner was a good man, a good neighbor, and a church man. His job atchurch was to park cars and was always willing to help someone in need.
In 1979, with his wife Lois in failing health, he sold his farm andbought a house in Ruleville, Mississippi. He lived close to his childrenthe last fifteen years of his life. He was a very funny man. and veryproud of his children.
From Jesse Floyd:
I met him twice. Once, when I was about 10, we visited him on his farm.I remember asking him if there were any jack-rabbits around there. Itmust of been a big hoot because it was one of the first things he said tome when met him for the second time, about twenty-five years later at mydad's funeral. He was a real funny man. I thought he looked like asmaller version of my dad.