Lloyd Davis was born in Sharon, Kansas, November 1, 1881, on a farm where his
  parents, Ellis and Effie Davis, located after leaving Mulkeytown, Illinois, in
  early 1880.
     Lloyd was educated in a two-room school in Sharon. Later he attended Kansas
  State Normal School in Emporia for a term. He began teaching at the age of sixteen.
  His first job was in a rural school at Mumford, after which he taught in Sun City 
  for three years. In Saron for three years and then for four years in College Hill
  District. During those eleven years, he spent his summers farming and raising hogs
  on the home place. At the age of 27, he quit teaching and began farming full time.
     Lloyd and cora Stewart were married  July 16, 1905. Two children were born to
  this union: Dorothy, February 18, 1907; Margaret, March 15, 1910.
     Lloyd was county surveyor (1916-1918) and helped organize and worked in The
  Sharon Valley State Bank. He moved from the farm into Sharon in 1920, when he and
  Roy Stewart purchased the International Harvester business. It was there that my
  father, Will Furnas, worked as a mechanic.
     Lloyd attended the Christian Church faithfully and usually taught a Sunday School
  class. In fact, he was my teacher during my high school days, as he enjoyed that
  age group. (Little did I realize then, he was to be my future husband).
     I finished high school in Oxford, Kansas, where my parents decided to return to 
  live. I taught school in Sumner County for three years but returned to Sharon after
  my marriage to Lloyd Davis, January 12, 1926.
     We were blessed with one son, Lloyd Wayne, born July 16, 1929. Needless to say,
  he was the "Apple of his father's eye". Wayne was on the honor rool through grade
  school, high school, and even a straight "A" average through engineering physics
  at KU in Lawrence, Kansas.
     After Lloyd and I were married, I found myself housekeeping for six people!
  Included were Lloyd's two daughters: Dorothy (now Mrs. Percy Miller) and Margaret
  (Mrs. Lynn Randels) now deceased; also Lloyd's mother, Mrs. E.C. Davis, who I cared
  for, bedfast, for nearly a year before her death, February 8, 1929. To complete our
  household, Percy Miller, who was teaching in Sharon, roomed and boarded with us.
     We moved to Medicine Lodge in September, 1928, at 201 South Walnut, a home we
  bought and where I still live over 50 years later! It was here our son was born.
  Wayne has three children: Bob (Robert Lloyd), a graudate of Boulder in architectural
  engineering, working in Denver, Colorado; Cheryl, a student in Greely, Colorado,
  studying to be a nurse; and Bill (William Wayne) at home, who is 13 years of age.
  Bill is interested in Boy Scouts, baseball, basketball, music and is an excellant
  student. He loves to ski when weather permits.
     Lloyd purchased the INternational Harvester business in Medicine Lodge in 1930 
  and opereated it until his severe stroke in 1947. I helped him as bookkeeper during
  all that time. He lived ten years after the stroke but was unable to continue the
  business, so he gave it to his two sons-in-law. He had a very good memory, and even
  after his illness, farmers often called him about certain parts for their machinery,
  which the boys could not find at the store, as they were sure Lloyd would know!
     When only a lad of 12 years, Lloyd was sent to Cherokee, Oklahoma, with a load
  of lumber for his brother, Willie, and wife Emma, to build a home on their claim,
  which they obtained in 1893 when the Strip was opened. This claim later became a 
  part of the original townsite of Cherokee, Oklahoma. On his return to Sharon, during
  the 50 miles drive in open prairie and through the Cedar Hills, he was accosted by
  two venturesome cowboys, looking for excitement they tried to trade him out of his
  pocket knife. Lloyd hesitated, as he didn't want to lose his knife; so they took his
  dinner bucket, put it on a post and shot it full of holes! Quite an experience for a 
  young lad.
     Llyd often talked of Carry A. Nation, who visited his family home many times. He
  told of sitting on her lap as a child and hearing the story of Adam and Eve. He had
  a very good knowledge of the Bible and was always in demand as a teacher.
     Besides teaching in the schools in Barber County for eleven years, he was on the
  school board in Sharon for 13 years, on the city council in Medicine Lodge in 1929,
  secretary of the Indian Peace Treaty Association through several pageants, a thirty-
  second degree Mason, a member of the Masonic Consistory in Wichita, president of the
  Lion's Club, an elder in the Christian Church, and many other civic duties, as well
  as manager of his farming interests, until his health failed in 1947.
     He was a devoted husband and is greatly missed by friends as well as family since
  his death.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 149 
     Submitted by: Edith E. Davis