Harold Douglas Floyd

Harold was a farmer, reader, artist, engineer, opera lover, and inventor. He understood how things worked. This may have been due to his long bout with rheumatic fever as a child and how it helped develop his ability to concentrate and take things apart with his hands and/or his mind. He could wire a house, plow a field, and talk about his love for Bizet. The Metropolitan Opera was on the radio and it played in South Carolina.

Harold loved his family and the smell of freshly turned earth. He was a veteran of World War II. He believed as Bishop Mandell Creighton said "The one real object of education is to have a man (or woman) in the condition of continually asking questions."

Susanne Floyd Gunter

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24089948

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKM-W25Q : 13 December 2015), Harold Douglas Floyd, 1989; Burial, Duford, Horry, South Carolina, United States of America, Blanton Cemetery; citing record ID 24089948, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JYHJ-FPF : 19 May 2014), Harold D Floyd, 16 Sep 1989; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8YM-WSF : 5 December 2014), Harold D Floyd, enlisted 13 Dec 1942, Ft Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

1930 census 8 years old: "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SPCK-5XQ : accessed 22 January 2020), Harrold Floyd in household of Susanne D Blanton, Floyds, Horry, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 15, sheet 12B, line 64, family 228, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2201; FHL microfilm 2,341,935.

1940 census 18 years old: "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4DJ-WFC : 21 December 2019), Harold Floyd in household of Susanna D Blanton, Floyd Township, Horry, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-16, sheet 3A, line 9, family 35, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3817.