The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-05-05
LOU WASH FLOYD

of people all over Newberry county,
and all of them will learn with sincere
regret of his death which occurred
at his residence in Newberry on We'd
nesday morning at one o'clock.
The county and the state have lost
good citizen and hundreds OF our
people a sincere friend, and the wife
and children devoted husband and a
kind and loving father. When you
saw good citizen. and it can be said
in all truth and sincerity, you have
said all that can be said Of man, be-
cause that should include all the vlr-
tues and all the good traits in man.
Wash Floyd was a companlonaple
man. fond of his friends. A man VINO
shrank from the public view, but nev-
er shrank from the performance OF
duty. He had convictions and never
faltered in the maintenance of what
was right, but he did not love pub
licity. He was rather a home loving
man and that is what this country
needs today, home loving men ana
home loving women, because 1t IS a
fact that the great American home IS
in danger, and it really is the bulwark
of the nation.
Mr.. Floyd came to the town OF
Newberry to make his home some
thirty years ago and at once identl-
fed himself with the upbuilding OF
the town, and lent of his time and
his means to all the things that were
for the betterment of this commun-
ity. He was one of the organizers OF
the Commercial bank and a director
from the organization to the, present
time. He served the town efficiently
las a member of the city council. he
served as one of the board of trus-
tees of the city schools. He was
director in the old Savings bank un-
til it was merged with the Exchange
bank. He built the first telephone
system in the town and operated 1t
successfully until it was taken over
bv the Southern Bell. He helped to
organize the first oil mill in the coun-
ty, and was secretary and treasurer
and manager, and after the resigna-
ton of Mr.. J. M. Johnstone, the first
president, he became president and
occupied that position until the mill
was taken over by the Southern Oil
company, and then he was manager
of the company until last August
when he resigned. g
Wash Floyd was born in this coun-
ty at the family home twelve miles
west of Newberry, now the property
! of Mr.. Harmon, the old Dominick
place, the son offJohn N. (Pomp)
Floyd and his wife Louise Anderson,
December %, 1860. He would have
been 62 years old the coming Decem-
Der. .,
He was married. October 3, 1889,
to Miss Ola Clark, daughter of the
late DR.. R. P. Clark of Jalapa, and
his has been a happy married life.
Mrs. Floyd has indeed been a good
help meet and has, taken an active
part in all the activities for the bet
terment of the community and is now
president for the state of the wom-
ans auxiliary of the American Le-
gion. Besides his widow Mr.. Floyd
is survived by four sons, Richard G.
Floyd now connected with the Sou
thern Oil company in Newberry; John
C. Floyd bookkeeper at the CommeH
cial bank; w. Clark Floyd a student
at the University of South Carolina,
and Louis C. Floyd a, young son IN
the schools of Newberry.
A good man and good citizen and
q good friend of this writer, as well
as loving husband and kind father
has been gathered to his fathers, and
while to all human agencies 1t seems
that he should have been spared to US
yet a little while, yet the All-wlse
Ruler of the Nations of the earth
does all things we'll and those he low
eth he chasteneth, we are told, and
while it may all seem dark to those
of the immediate family and friends,
we want to say to them that some
good day it will be morning and they
will see and understand the workings
of the Divine Providence.
The funeral exercises will be held
this Thursday afternoon, the fun
eral procession leaving the residence
in Calhoun street at a o'clock. The
pallbearers are: H. w. Dominick, j Y.
McFall, C. J. Purcell, Fant Glider,
T. X. Johnstone, o. B. Cannon, DR..
Thos. H. Pope, C. G. Blease, John