Fannie J. Loyd (Lloyd) Who Lived In Jackson and Marshall County, Alabama And Hamilton County, Tennessee

 

Fannie Loyd Hodges Death Certificate

  The following request for information was received: “Looking for info on a Frank Shively who married Fannie Lloyd around 1890. My grandmother was Flossie Annie Lee Shively. When my grandmother was very small, Frank left never to return. We always thought he was from Michigan. Don’t understand why he would have been in Alabama in 1890”. 

Fannie J. Loyd (Lloyd) was born on 27-Jul-1877 in Jackson County, AL and died on 14-Nov-1957 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN. She was the daughter of Andrew Jackson Lloyd  (born 1838) and Amanda “Mandy” Swafford (1839-1922). A marriage license for H. F. Shirey (Shivey) to marry A. J. Loyd was issued in Marshall County, AL on 10-Dec-1890. Fannie married 2nd to Hugh H. Hodges on 26-Aug-1902 in Marshall County, AL. 

On the 1900 Wrights Precinct No. 23, Marshall County, AL census is the household of Andrew J. Loyd born Jan-1838 age 62, wife Manda B. born 1842 age 57, daughter Dora born Apr-1883 age 17, daughter Fannie J. Shively born Aug-1875 age 24 divorced and grand daughter Flossie A. born 1891 age 8.  From this information Fannie would have been about 16 years old when Flossie was born.  

The following newspaper obituary for Fannie J. Loyd Shively Hodges was found in the Chattanooga News Free Press, Saturday, November 16, 1957, Page 2, Column 1:

Mrs. Fannie Hodges

Mrs. Fannie Hodges, 80, of 2215 Bennett Ave., died Thursday in a local hospital.

Survivors include two daughters, Miss Lucille Mitchell, Chattanooga, and Mrs. Maude Schuster, Charlotte, N. C.; two step-daughters, Mrs. J. R. Gant and Mrs. J. B. Kilgore, Chattanooga, and Mrs. Ollie Bulman, Woodville, Ala.; stepsons, the Rev. G. W. Hodges,, Chandler, Oklahoma., and A. E. Hodges, Winchester, Tenn.; a sister, Mrs. Callie Barnes, Birmingham.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. (CST) Sunday at the Woodville (Ala.) Baptist Church.

Interment will be in Union Cemetery at Woodville. The body is at National Funeral Home.

US Bureau Land Managment Tract Books In Alabama

A search for information on the name H. Frank Shively was limited.  The following might be a possible clues to the identity of Mr. Shively.  From the research of Terry Gosselin: “While doing research for  a Gertrude Shively, I found some interesting info. I believe that Horace Shively died somewhere between 1890 and 1892, probably in Emmet County, MI. There is a Michigan birth christening for a Veroqua Shively in 1890, daughter of Horace and Margaret Shively. By the 1900 census, Veroqua is listed as a stepdaughter of Samuel and Margaret Capp. Samuel’s marriage to Margaret Brill Shively happened in 1892, with her name listed as Shirley in the Ancestry index, but looks like Shively to me.”

Horace Franklin Shively married Margaret Brill in Michigan.  They had 3 children: Bertha Shively born 1879, Gertrude Grace Shively born 1885 and Veroqua E. Shively born 1890. 

From the Alabama marriage license H. F. Shirey was authorized to marry Fannie Loyd in December 1890. Veroqua E. Shively was born on 4-Aug-1890 which most likely would mean H F. Shively was in Michigan at the end of 1889. Listed on  the 1880 Battle Creek, Calhoun County, MI census in the household of J. M. Holes age 65 is boarder H. F. Shively age 23 (a locomotive Engineer), wife Eliza age 21 and daughter Bertha age1.  

There is an entry in the United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books in Alabama for Horace F. Shively with date of 1-Nov-1899 which says was cancelled. The entry for Horace F. Shively is located on the lower right quadrant of the page. This was found on the Family Search website. This is the only record that could be found that tied Horace F. Shively to Alabama.

From the 1880 Calhoun County, MI census above, H. F. Shively is listed as a locomotive engineer. Is it possible that Horace F. Shively while working for the railroad disappeared from Michigan and established a new relationship in Alabama?