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Lueco Lloyd

Lueco Lloyd of White Cross served Orange County in the state legislature and was later a deputy collector of internal revenue. For half a century he was active in the county's civic and church life, as a deacon and trustee of Bethel church and a member of the University Masonic Lodge for 48 years.

Source: DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 27, 1940, p. 6 (Death of Lueco Lloyd)

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Prohibition and the blockaders in Orange County, 1901–19301901–1930 · Hillsborough's fight over its saloons gave way to a long struggle against illegal stills across Orange County. In 1903 the town elected a board chosen mostly on the prohibition ticket, which refused every saloon license, and the barrooms closed that June. In 1905 the county commissioners refused the licenses a new town board recommended, and the town voted against liquor dispensaries. The county voted against state prohibition in 1908, though the state carried it, and in 1919 Orange's representative voted against ratifying national prohibition. Blockading, the illegal distilling of whiskey, went on: in 1920 Louis Graves wrote in the New Republic that Orange had the largest distilling operations in the state, and officers kept capturing stills through 1930. Republicans take the Orange County courthouse, 1916–19171916–1917 · 3 events · In November 1916 Orange County elected a full Republican ticket, by the News's account for the first time in the memory of the oldest residents, and a fight over county offices followed. Charles G. Rosemond became sheriff in place of the Democrat R. D. Bain, and by December both men claimed the right to collect the 1916 taxes. Rosemond's side won a temporary order stopping Bain's collections, arguing that putting the sheriff on salary had ended the commission plan, while Bain held that he had given bond for those taxes. In January 1917 the new commissioners moved to remove the superintendent of the county home, and the News reported they had asked two Democrats to give up their offices. The old Methodist church at Henderson Street and Rosemary Lane, 1926–19381926–1938 · The long-closed 1853 Methodist church at Rosemary and Henderson streets in Chapel Hill found a series of new uses after 1926. That July it became an automobile repair station, the Club Service Motor Co., with a platform built from the rear door to Henderson Street for cars. In December 1934 the American Legion post announced a bargain with Lueco Lloyd to buy the building, once the church of the Rev. Adolphus W. Mangum, and make it a memorial hut, but by March 1935 the post gave up the plan as more than it could pay for. In January 1938 the Orange County Women's Market, a farm women's market, reopened there on Saturdays. The failure of the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company, 1927–19301927–1930 · 12 events · When the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company failed on November 2, 1927, with liabilities of $634,000, its receivers set about selling its Chapel Hill and Carrboro properties as land values slumped. They held a first auction that December and sold the insurance department in 1928. Spring auction bids in 1928 were too low to recommend to the court, and later bids for the Strowd farm and four brick stores on Franklin Street also fell short. Sales in 1929 brought prices the Weekly put at about half those of three or four years earlier. By October 1929 the liabilities were down to $121,000 and the stockholders' equity was gone, and in 1930 the receivers expected to be discharged. The American Legion's hut, 1934–19441934–1944 · The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion first planned to make the old Methodist church into its memorial hut, then built a log hut on Rosemary Lane. In December 1934 the post announced a bargain to buy the church for $3,750, but by March 1935 it had given up the plan, finding the work would cost more than it could raise. It then planned a log hut on a Rosemary Lane lot from trees given by country members. Legionnaires did much of the building, and a crew of Black masons filled the cracks between the logs. The first meeting in the hut came on March 19, 1937, and in 1944 the post burned the mortgage.

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  1. Orange Republicans meet in convention and endorse Roosevelt The Orange County Republican convention met at the court house in Hillsboro on April 30 with nearly every precinct represented, chose A. J. Gordon chairman and P. Tinsley Cheek secretary, named delegates to the congressional and state conventions at Greensboro, and adopted resolutions endorsing President Roosevelt and state chairman Rollins. People: Lueco Lloyd, Adolphus J. GordonSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 5, 1904, p. 2
  2. Lueco Lloyd serves as first vice-president of the Peoples Bank of Chapel Hill The Peoples Bank's notices in the News listed Lueco Lloyd as first vice-president under president E. V. Howell, with R. H. Ward second vice-president and C. B. Griffin cashier. He had been one of the bank's directors by 1912. People: E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell, Ralph H. Ward, C. B. GriffinSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News (Chapel Hill), January 14, 1915, p. 6
  3. Republicans carry the Orange County ticket Orange County voters elected the Republican county ticket by majorities of 24 to 200 votes, the News reported, sending Republican Lueco Lloyd to the state House over the Democrat Pritchard and making Charles G. Rosemond sheriff in place of the Democrat R. D. Bain. The News said it was the first time in the memory of the oldest residents that the county had elected a full Republican ticket. People: Robert D. Bain, Lueco Lloyd, Isaac W. Pritchard, Charles G. RosemondSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), November 9, 1916, p. 1
  4. Lueco Lloyd sells his Carrboro building lot to Durham Hosiery Mills Lueco Lloyd began work on a brick building in Carrboro but sold the lot to the Durham Hosiery Mills Company before much was done. The News said he planned to build instead across the road where the Herndon Hardware store stood, for a bank and drug store. People: Lueco LloydSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), November 8, 1917, p. 5
  5. Orange County's representative Lueco Lloyd votes against ratifying national prohibition When the General Assembly took up the federal prohibition amendment on Monday, January 13, the House ratified it 93 to 10, and Orange County's representative, Lueco Lloyd, was one of the ten who voted no. The News, which noted his vote, asked what business it was of North Carolina if a man in New York wanted a drink. People: Lueco LloydSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), January 16, 1919, p. 5
  6. Court upholds the county school board in the Bingham township school site fight At Oxford the court ruled for the Orange County board of education and dissolved the injunction Lueco Lloyd had obtained to stop work on the new Bingham township school at White Cross. Lloyd had argued the county lacked clear title to the Eubanks land the board chose as a compromise site, and Fred Eubanks met that objection by making a deed to the county. People: Lueco LloydThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 25, 1924, p. 8
  7. Fire on East Main Street in Carrboro leads to brick rebuilding Early on December 3, 1924, a fire that started in Lueco Lloyd's boarding house burned five frame buildings on East Main Street in Carrboro before it was stopped at Marks's brick store. By late December Lloyd was preparing to put up two brick stores on the site, and the rebuilt block was brick. People: Lueco LloydThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1924, p. 1 · Also: Open Orange: 106 E. Main St.; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 23, 1924, p. 2
  8. Lueco Lloyd builds the brick store that houses Hearn's grocery After the December 1924 fire that began in the Pendergraph boarding house, Lueco Lloyd put up a one-story brick building at 102 East Main Street as rental property, with T. C. Thompson as contractor. His only tenant was John Hearn, who had moved his grocery from Chapel Hill after World War I and ran what by 1983 was Carrboro's oldest business. People: Lueco LloydSearch the index · Town of Carrboro: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro, N.C.: An Architectural and Historical Inventory (1983), p. 34 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 23, 1924, p. 1
  9. Lueco Lloyd buys the old Purefoy place on the Pittsboro road At a sale run by the Durham Auction Company, Lueco Lloyd bought the old Purefoy place a mile from Chapel Hill on the Pittsboro road, paying about $5,500 for the house and nine lots. He had owned the place once before and sold it.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 26, 1926, p. 1 (Lloyd Buys Purefoy Place)
  10. John Sprunt Hill buys the block of stores beside the campus at the realty company auction At the receivers' auction of Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company property on November 22, John Sprunt Hill, a University trustee, bid $63,650 for the four Franklin Street stores next to the Methodist churchyard and the campus, a purchase the Weekly said was made to protect the University; the company had paid $22,000 for them about ten years before. Lueco Lloyd bid $23,000 for the Peoples Bank building and L. P. McLendon $22,500 for the Chapel Hill Hardware store, all subject to the court's approval. People: Lueco Lloyd, Milton E. HoganSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 25, 1927, p. 1
  11. Receivers auction the property of the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company The receivers of the bankrupt Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company auctioned its Chapel Hill and Carrboro properties in front of the post office. Lots on the old Guthrie place went to T. C. Atwood and Moody Durham, the Daniel house to Arthur London and James Griffin of Pittsboro, the Coop to Miles Andrews of Carrboro, and the Peoples Bank building to Lueco Lloyd for $23,000. People: W. S. Roberson, Lueco Lloyd, Isaac W. Pritchard, Moody W. Durham, Milton E. HoganSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 6, 1928, p. 1
  12. Orange County grand jury condemns the county home buildings as unfit The grand jury of the August 1928 term, reporting to Judge W. A. Devin, found the county offices, road camps and jail in good order and praised recent courthouse improvements, but condemned the worn-out county home buildings as unfit for human habitation. It urged the commissioners to build a modern home on a highway within reach of a doctor. People: Lueco LloydSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 24, 1928, p. 6
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  1. Mrs. Thomas F. Lloyd's nieces and nephews settle their suit over her will for $58,000 On June 17, 1929, as the case was about to be called in Orange County Superior Court, lawyers announced a compromise of the suit by fourteen nieces and nephews of the late Mrs. Thomas F. Lloyd to break her will, which had left most of her estate to her nephew Lueco Lloyd. The claimants took $58,000, counting earlier gifts, and the will was to stand; their caveat had charged that Lueco Lloyd took over her property improperly, and his lawyers had moved to strike those charges. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Lueco LloydSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1929, p. 1
  2. Orange County Republicans name H. D. Carter for the legislature and a full county ticket The county convention in Hillsboro nominated H. D. Carter of Chapel Hill for the house of representatives, Frank Strowd for register of deeds, Lueco Lloyd and William T. Roberts among the candidates for commissioner, J. Ralph Weaver for surveyor and Dr. B. B. Lloyd for coroner, along with constables, school board members and justices of the peace. People: H. D. Carter, Braxton Bynum Lloyd, Lueco LloydSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 27, 1932, p. 1
  3. Orange County gives Roosevelt and the Democratic county ticket large majorities In the November 8 election Orange County voted 2,845 for Roosevelt, 1,092 for Hoover and 160 for Norman Thomas, reversing its 1928 vote for Hoover, and elected Democrats R. A. Eubanks, W. P. Berry and J. H. Hanner county commissioners over Republicans Lueco Lloyd, W. T. Roberts and G. O. Reitzel. A. H. Graham of Hillsboro, running for lieutenant governor, drew more votes in the county than any other candidate, and in the Chapel Hill precinct Roosevelt led Hoover 737 to 221, with 116 for Thomas. People: Robert A. Eubanks, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Samuel Weldon Andrews, Lueco Lloyd, Garland O. Reitzel, William T. Sloan, W. P. Berry, John Hodge HannerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 11, 1932, p. 1
  4. The American Legion agrees to buy the old Methodist church for its Memorial Hut The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion announced in December 1934 that it had closed a bargain with Lueco Lloyd to buy the old Methodist church at Henderson Street and Rosemary Lane for $3,750, to be rebuilt as the American Legion Memorial Hut at a further cost that H. D. Carter estimated at $1,250. The brick building, lately the MacMillan Motor Company's garage, had been the church of Rev. Adolphus W. Mangum in the years after 1875; the post planned an assembly room, kitchen and lounge and meant it to serve as a community center. In February 1935 the Weekly still spoke of the building as bought, but in March the post dropped the plan as too costly, and a member later said it had only negotiated for the purchase. The post put up a log hut on Rosemary Lane instead. People: Luther James Phipps, H. D. Carter, Lueco Lloyd, Paul H. RobertsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 21, 1934, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 22, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 8, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 29, 1935, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 19, 1935, p. 1
  5. Lueco Lloyd, a former legislator, dies at White Cross Lueco Lloyd, a former member of the state legislature and former deputy collector of internal revenue, for half a century a figure in Orange County's civic and church life, died at his home at White Cross on September 24. He was buried at Bethel church, where he was a deacon and trustee, with rites by the University Masonic Lodge, which had made him a life member after 48 years. People: Lueco LloydSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 27, 1940, p. 6

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