Seldovia remembers
Seldovia remembers
Susan Loretta Lloyd

Susan Loretta Lloyd

May 10, 1883, South Dakota — May 23, 1965, Seldovia, Alaska

Buried in Seldovia City Cemetery Plot #76

SUSAN LORETTA LAFFERTY LLOYD was born May 10, 1883 in Big Sioux, South Dakota to William and Emma WHEELOCK Lafferty. The family migrated to Iowa and then to Jackson, Wyoming. There she met and married “T.W. Lloyd

T.W. and Susan had four daughters, Laura, Bessie, Grace Mary, and Georgia Charlotte before moving to Alaska. T.W is listed alone in Kenai in 1920 but eventually the rest of the family joined him in Seldovia. In 1930 Susan and his daughter Georgia were living with him.

In 1924 the Alaska Weekly published a list of Kachemak Bay Fox Farmers, including T.W., who had established a blue fox breeding business called Teton Ranch across Seldovia Bay from town He helped form the Cooks Inlet Blue and Black Fox Farmers Association of Alaska and in 1925 he was listed as Vice President , with Tollak Ollestad as President. He was also known to make moonshine at a location across the bay.

T.W. Lloyd died in Seldovia July 3, 1937. In 1940 Susie was widowed and living in Seldovia with her oldest daughter Laura Curtis and next to her daughter Charlotte Peck. She died May 23, 1965. Both are buried in the Seldovia City Cemetery, Plots #75 and 76.

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