John Styles FLOYD

FLOYD, STRYKER, WILCOX, COLEMAN, MORGAN, FITZMAURICE, CONNOR, MORGAN, ORR, BAUER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/28/2014 at 17:26:46

June 1, 1827 --- May 21, 1902

Died at the Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown, May 21, 1902, John S. Floyd, aged 74 years, 11 months and 20 days.

The subject of this sketch was born at Bridgeport, Conn. His father died, leaving a young widow and she later married again. The young man soon after left his home and lived with an uncle until he was about seventeen years old, when he started West, working gradually until he arrived at Bureau County, Illinois. Here he secured employment in a sawmill and became an expert sawyer. It was at this place that he became acquainted with Miss Lydia A. Stryker, whom he married in the year 1853. The next year, in company with William, Thomas and H. S. Stryker, Stephen and Daniel Wilcox and John Coleman, he came to Iowa, stopping at that time at Newcastle (now Webster City), where he lived for a good many years. About the beginning of the War, he moved to Marietta, Marshall County. Here he enlisted in the 2nd Iowa Infantry Volunteers but, being unfitted for infantry service on account of defective feet, he applied for and was transferred to Battery 1, 12th Missouri, in which he continued till the end of the War.

He took part in the Red River campaign, battle of Tupelo and Nashville and other minor engagements. On the Tupelo expedition, he was thrown from his horse and his back was injured from which he never entirely recovered. About two years ago, he applied for and was given admittance, together with his wife, to the Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown.

The deceased was always strictly temperant and has been a member of the Methodist Church for many years. Let us remember the good of him and let his faults, (if he had any) rest with him in the grave. He leaves an aged widow, three sons and two daughters to mourn his death. The remains were brought to Eagle Grove by his son, James, and his daughter, Mrs. Louise Morgan, and buried in Troy Cemetery on Friday, Rev. Benjamine, of Vincent, conducting the services, which were attended by a large concourse of relatives, friends and neighbors. Members of the Grand Army acted as pallbearers, viz., Messrs. Fitzmaurice, Connor, David Morgan, Orr, Bauer and Morgan.

Times Gazette - Eagle Grove, Iowa
May 30, 1902