Notes for RAYMOND LESLIE FLOYD:
Son of James Weatherford and Mary Elizabeth (Mervin) Floyd.
Born: May 10, 1890 in Gentry, Gentry County, Missouri.
Died: June 25, 1957 in Cetralia, Lewis County, Washington.
Buried: Greenwood Memorial Park, Centralia, Lewis County, Washington.
Married: Grace Dexter Patterson Unknown in Crawford County, Iowa.
RAYMOND LESLIE FLOYD
Raymond Leslie Floyd, a well known rancher, living about one mile southeast of Meridian, was born in Gentry county, Missouri, May 10, 1890, a son of James W. and Mary Elizabeth (Mervin) Floyd, farming people, who are still living in Missouri, being prominent citizens of Gentry county.
Raymond L. Floyd secured his education in the schools of that county and was there reared on his father's farm, assisting in its operations and laying the foundation of his subsequent success in husbandry. He has been engaged in agricultural pursuits all of his life, with the exception of two years when with an engineering party in the building of a railroad to Long valley. When nineteen years of age, in 1909, Mr. Floyd left Missouri and went to the state of Washington, where, however, he did not remain. He then came to Idaho and has been living in this state ever since, residing on his ranch near Meridian, engaged in general farm work.
On September 14, 1913, at Crawford, Idaho, Mr. Floyd was united in marriage to Miss Grace Patterson, who was born near that place, January 29, 1897, a daughter of William D. and Phalla Edith (Dixter) Patterson, both of whom now live in Cascade, Idaho. Following his marriage, Mr. Floyd continued farm work in Long valley until the fall of 1919, when he purchased his present ranch, located southeast of Meridian. It consists of eighty acres of well improved land, yielding excellent results, said to be worth about four hundred dollars an acre, which figure represents practically double the purchase price. He has diligently and persistently developed his place, making his labors count for the utmost in the improvement of the property, and he is now the owner of an excellent farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd are the parents of two children: Roger William, born July 27, 1914; anfl Doris Lavere, November 30, 1916. Mr. Floyd is an attendant on the services of the Christian church and his wife attends the Baptist church. In politics he takes an independent attitude, supporting principles and policies rather than party and party emblems.
(Source: History of Idaho: the gem of the mountains, Volume 4 edited by James Henry Hawley; 1920)
