Person:George Lloyd (1)

   The grandfather of Doctor Schenk, on his 

mother's side, was George Emory Lloyd, who came with his son-in-law, John D. Schenk, the father of the doctor, to Ohio in 1834. Grandfather Lloyd made his home in the Schenk family, near Etna, Licking county, until his death, at the age of ninety-five. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and Doctor Schenk has often heard him relate the experience and trials of those times. The "bare foot" story, he said, was no fiction. He had often taken the place of ill clad soldier on sentinel, to keep him from suffering. He kept a diary and was tempted to print it, but was as often tempted to abandon it. A work on arithmetic was nearly ready for the press, but this, too, was allowed to go by default. He made his own almanacs, and often amused himself with women who did not like their age to be known, by asking them to tell him the day of the week, and the day of what month they were born. Having thus entraped them, he would laugh and say, "now I know your age exactly," and they would, with equal merriment, chide his supposed presumption, until he felt himself forced to vindicate the science of numbers and tell them their age with such accuracy as to astonish them beyond description. This veteran soldier and arithmetician was a Virginian of modern fortune, and while living there, owned a few slaves, and after coming to Ohio, persisted in his pro-slavery views. He voted for Washington and for every President down to Zachariah Taylor, in 1848.