On This Day In Alabama History: Popular Author Died
By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
Francis Bartow Lloyd is remembered for “Sketches of Country Life: Humor, Wisdom and Pathos from the Sage of Rocky Creek,” a collection of his syndicated newspaper columns featuring his alter-ego Rufus Sanders. Lloyd, a Lowndes County native, spoke all over the South during his prime despite having only one year of uninterrupted formal education in Greenville. He was a reporter in Selma for the Morning Times before becoming editor. Four years later he became a reporter for the Montgomery Advertiser and was soon promoted to city editor. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1890. He bought a 122-acre farm with his earnings from the syndicated columns. He ran for Secretary of State in 1894 but lost that election. Lloyd died on this day in 1897.
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