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Floyd was a man not well liked even by his family. Born in 1876 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, Wolfe County to be precise, he was known and disesteemed all his life for his meanness and hot temper. He and his long suffering wife and six children (later there would be nine, the last three born in Chandler) moved to Lincoln County, Oklahoma, in 1912, supposedly with the sheriff not far behind them, but pursuit by the law is too common a rumor in stories about leaving Kentucky for anyone to take it seriously. Oklahoma had received a large influx of settlers from Kentucky in these years, in the case of Lincoln County with most of them settling around Davenport.
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