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	Charles Floyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Floyd (1782 - August 20, 1804) was a United States explorer, an officer and quartermaster in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
		A funeral was held and Floyd was buried on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River, which the expedition named Floyd's Bluff, in his honor.
		However, after Floyd's journal was published in 1894, new interest was taken in him and his gravemarker was stolen by thieves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Floyd (354 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Charles Rinaldo Floyd (1797-1845)
		Charles Rinaldo Floyd was born on October 14, 1797, at "The Thickets" in Darien to Isabella Maria Hazzard and John Floyd.
		Floyd experienced another famous moment when, as commander of a marine honor guard, he was sent to meet the Marquis de Lafayette upon his arrival in New York City in 1824.
		Floyd stayed at Fairfield most of the time, and it was there that he contracted a severe case of bilious fever in the spring of 1845; he died on March 22.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1098 (1279 words)

	Personal Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Arthur Floyd, soon to be called " Chock" Floyd, was born on February 3, 1904 in Georgia, one of seven children, but moved to a small farming community in Oklahoma, which he was to call home. His parents had a small farm, they were dirt-poor.
		In the mid 1920's Floyd lived and operated in the East Liverpool, Ohio area as a hired gun for the bootleggers and rum-runners along the Midland, PA and Steubenville, OH stretch of the Ohio River.
		Floyd is reputed to have maintained relationships with both Ruby and Beulah throughout the rest of his life even posing as their husbands under assumed names.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/3935 (1793 words)

	Charles Floyd - Wikipedia
		Sein Vater, Captain Charles Floyd, hatte mit William Clarks Vater, General George Rogers Clark, in der US-Armee gedient.
		Im Sommer 1803 kam Charles Floyd in Clarksville im Indiana Territorium am Ohio River, gegenüber von Louisville, als einer der ersten Freiwilligen zur Expedition von Lewis und Clark.
		Die Berichte, die Charles Floyd während der Expedition verfasste, wurden 1894 gemeinsam mit den Tagebüchern von Sergeant John Ordway veröffentlicht.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Floyd (196 words)

	Sgt. Charles Floyd: a short biography
		Sergeant Charles Floyd was born in 1782 and died in 1804.
		Floyd was a relative of Lt. William Clark and was approved as a Sergeant on the fourth day of April in 1804.
		Floyd was buried at the top of a high round hill overlooking the river.
	mt.essortment.com /sergeantcharles_rwnm.htm (588 words)

	Lewis and Clark . Inside the Corps . The Corps . Charles Floyd \| PBS
		Sergeant Charles Floyd was born in Kentucky, and was among the first to volunteer for service in the Corps, joining on August l, 1803.
		Floyd’s death was the only fatality among expedition members during the two years, four months and nine days of their transcontinental odyssey.
		Floyd’s published journal reproduces verbatim his inspired spelling and fractured grammar, characteristics found also in the journals of the two captains and the four enlisted men who kept journals.
	www.pbs.org /lewisandclark/inside/cfloy.html (583 words)

	L³ - The Lewis And Clark Rediscovery Project
		In 1900 the cornerstone of the monument was laid, and Floyd's remains were unburied and then reburied at the base of the monument.
		He was one of the original "nine young men from Kentucky." Floyd was a cousin of Nathaniel Pryor, another member of the Corps.
		Floyd was posthumously awarded a land grant, which was deeded to his brother and two sisters.
	www.l3-lewisandclark.com /ShowOneObject.asp?SiteID=30&ObjectID=133 (549 words)

	Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd
		Floyd and some of his friends selected the city as a headquarters for a rash of robberies they committed from January to March 1930.
		Floyd was tried and sentenced to 15 years in the Ohio State Penitentiary for robbery.
		Floyd’s fame had been increase and Richetti’s was about to when the two were told of a daring escape if Frank Nash from the Union Station in Kansas City.
	ngeorgia.com /people/floyd.html (1572 words)

	Crypt: History of Camden & Charlton Counties, Georgia
		Charles was the son of Samuel and Sarah Dixon Floyd.
		Charles is buried, along with his wife, in the Floyd Family Cemetery.
		Captain Charles Floyd was a seafaring man. True to his early livelyhood he built his home in the shape of a huge, two storied anchor.
	www.camdencounty.org /history/floyds_neck.html (1303 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History - Famous Cases
		On May 20, 1930, Floyd was arrested by the Toledo, Ohio, Police Department on a bank robbery charge and on November 24, 1930, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in the Ohio State Penitentiary.
		Floyd escaped enroute to the penitentiary and was a fugitive when he became involved in the Kansas City Massacre.
		Floyd and Richetti removed their firearms from the vehicle and remained on the outskirts of the town, while Rose and Beulah Baird took the damaged car into a Wellsville garage for repairs.
	www.fbi.gov /libref/historic/famcases/floyd/floyd.htm (3135 words)

	Charles Floyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd The story of Charles Floyd's rise and fall.
		The Political Graveyard: Floyd County, GA Politicians who were born, lived, and died in Floyd County.
		Charles L. McNary, honored United States Senator of Oregon, candidate for Vice President in 1940 on the Republican ticket with Wendel Wilkie.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Charles_Floyd.html (367 words)

	Charles Floyd - Guide to Likeness of New Hampshire Officials and Governors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Floyd got his general education at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, then went to work at age 14 (1875).
		Floyd was a Mason and a member of the Congregational Church.
		In retirement Floyd was chairman of the New Hampshire delegation at the 1912 Republican National Convention.
	www.state.nh.us /nhdhr/glikeness/floychar.html (279 words)

	Charles Arthur Floyd
		Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd rose from callus-fingered cotton picker to trigger-fingered desperado, one of the most colorful, nervy bank robbers in the history of Depression-era America.
		But, Floyd was born too late, when the world was caught in a turmoil between past and present, from horse to horseless carriage, from telegraph to radio, from spoken legend to recorded deed.
		Floyd transcended the discomfort of a backwards country boy thrust dizzily from the old world into the brink of the modern era.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters/prettyboy (1016 words)

	Sergeant Floyd Monument--Lewis and Clark Expedition: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		The Sergeant Floyd Monument commemorates Sergeant Charles Floyd, Jr., the only member of the Corps of Discovery to die on the journey.
		Writing in his diary on July 31st, Floyd noted, "I am verry sick and has ben for Sometime but have Recovered my helth again." However, this quick recovery was followed by a turn for the worse.
		The night before his death, Clark remarked, "Serjeant Floyd is taken verry bad all at once with a Biliose Chorlick we attempt to relieve him without success as yet, hr gets worst and we are much allarmed at his Situation, all attention to him" (DeVoto 1997, 21).
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/lewisandclark/ser.htm (353 words)

	Captain Floyd National Historic Landmark Nomination
		Floyd was constructed with one large tunnel between the two propellers, which made the hull extremely weak and considerable trouble was experienced from vibration and loosening of rivets throughout the bottom of the hull...
		The maintenance and restoration of Sergeant Floyd has been the subject of considerable effort by the citizens of Sioux City assisted with contributions from the State of Iowa, the city, and local businesses since November 1983.[6] Her restoration continues and is expected to be completed before the vessel opens as a museum in January 1989.
		Floyd died on August 20, 1804, and was buried on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi near the site of Sioux City; a prominent monument later erected in his memory is a National Historic Landmark.
	www.cr.nps.gov /maritime/nhl/floyd.htm (2406 words)

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		Abediah Davis Floyd, through her father, Robert Davis, who acquired vast properties in Amherst county, Virginia, trading with the Catawba Indians, according to the tradition, was a lineal descendant of Opechancanough, brother of Powhatan, Princess Nicketti, the chieftains daughter, marrying Nathaniel Davis, of Wales.
		Charles Floyd married Mary Stewart in 1773 in the Hanover Parish church.
		Charles Floyd, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, who died on the trip to the coast and was buried at Sioux City, Ia., where a handsome marble shaft marks his grave.
	www.kygenweb.net /history/ff_louisville/c14.htm (1790 words)

	Shop Iowa Online : Floyd County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Floyd County was named in honor of Sergeant Charles Floyd of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition that was sent up the Missouri River in 1806.
		After the announcement, the boys of St. Charles marched on Main Street to the public square and lit bonfires, made speeches, burned an effigy of the county court, and held a mock funeral oration.
		Charles City once again weathered the storm and has remained the county seat to this day.
	www.shopiowa.net /floyd.htm (658 words)

	Crypt: History of Camden & Charlton Counties, Georgia
		CHARLES FLOYD (Capt.) born 04 March 1747 in Northampton Co., VA (son of Samuel Floyd and Susan Dixon, both of Northampton Co., VA); husb.
		Charles Floyd who was born in North Hampton County on the Eastern Shore of Virginia on the 4th of March Anno Domini 1747 and departed this life on the 19th of Sept. 1820 in the 74th year of his age.
		Mary Floyd who was born on the island of St. Helena in the State of South Carolina on the 15th day of April Anno Domini 1747 and departed this life in Camden County on the 18th of Sept. 1804 in the 58th year of her age.
	www.camdencounty.org /history/floyd_cemetery.html (3442 words)

	Charles Arthur Floyd: "Pretty Boy" from Cookson Hills
		Walter Floyd, industrious and always on the lookout for ways to make extra income for his growing family, heard that there was good money to make in the cotton fields in Oklahoma, which was recently admitted to the Union.
		Never-tiring Papa Walter took odd jobs in the off-season for the county and it wasn't long before the Floyds were one of the most prosperous families in the area, one of the few to be able to afford an automobile.
		The Floyd kids graduated from the sixth grade, and that was, for that time and place, considered an essentially good education.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/floyd/2.html (2822 words)

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		Historians present two reasons for the duel: One, Floyd cattle kept jumping the fence onto Hopkins property destroying their pea-patch and Charles R. Floyd became incensed when he discovered Hopkins slaves killing his cattle - "Contemptible scoundrel" and "Cow thief" was what CRF called Hopkins.
		Two, Charles R. Floyd, as Brigadier General, was infuriated when Edward S. Hopkins was granted a commission as Major in the GA Militia without his permission.
		Charles Rinaldo Floyd died 22 March 1845 and is buried under a pine tree at the site of Fairfield Plantation (marble obelisk and monument in honor of his patriotic service was erected by US Govt.
	www.camdencounty.org /ebooks/3_charles_rinaldo_floyd.html (3883 words)

	Oregon Symphony: Charles Floyd Conducts Fifth Annual "Gospel Christmas"
		Floyd performed frequently as soloist with the Louisville Orchestra between 1982 and 1984 under the direction of Robert Bernhardt and Stewart Kershaw; he also was chosen as pianist for the Louisville Ballet’s internationally recognized tribute to George Balanchine during the 1983-84 season.
		Charles Floyd has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including those from the Aspen School of Music, the AMOCO Corporation, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Chicago’s Louis Sudler Foundation, and the National Chopin Competition of New York’s Kosciuszko Foundation.
		Floyd’s eleven-year partnership with Natalie Cole included such projects as the multiple Grammy Award-winning tribute to Nat King Cole entitled “Unforgettable, With Love,” the Emmy Award-winning PBS Great Performances concert video of the same title, as well as the Grammy-winning release “Take a Look,” and her most recent Grammy-nominated release “Stardust.” Natalie Cole performed Mr.
	www.orsymphony.org /news/0304/1031_SP3_gospel.html (1507 words)

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		Charles Floyd was born in 1747 in Northampton Co. on the Eastern Shore of VA, the son of Samuel Floyd and Susan Dixon (Virginia's Eastern Shore, by Ralph T. Whitelaw, Richmond: VA Hist.
		Charles Floyd died 09 September 1820 at Bellevue Plantation; his wife, Mary Fendin Floyd predeceased him on 18 September 1804 at Bellevue.
		Charles R. Floyd commanded troops effecting the removal of Cherokee Indians; commanded troops in pursuit of Indians in Okefenokee Swamp; lived at Fairfield Plantation in CCG; was a duelist, collector of rare weapons, artist, poet; wrote an extensive diary - copy in GA Hist.
	home.att.net /~mmevans/floydpage.htm (1442 words)

	Crypt: History of Camden & Charlton Counties, Georgia
		Floyd's Neck is bordered on the north by the Satilla River, on the south by the Crooked River, on the east by the Cumberland River and marsh, and on the west somewhere between current I95 and Highway 17.
		Floyd's Neck had a good mix of 60,000 acres marsh and forest.
		Charles was married to Mary Fendin (4/10/1747-9/18/1804) in 1768.
	www.camdencounty.org /history/floydsneck.html (1286 words)

	Charles Floyd, Much Lamented
		harles Floyd, born in Kentucky in 1782, was a cousin of another expedition member, Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor, and possibly was also related to William Clark.
		On August 11, 1803, he enlisted in the Corps of Discovery, and soon was assigned command of one of the three squads of enlisted men.
		On the expedition's return from the mouth of the Columbia River in early September of 1806, the men paused to visit Floyd's grave and found it had been partly uncovered.
	www.lewis-clark.org /floyd_lamented.htm (454 words)

	Long Time Coming: Pretty Boy Floyd
		Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd Page Another Floyd biography of sorts, written by Wendy, although perhaps not quite as accurate.
		Pretty Boy Floyd's Visit To The Gateway City An article by Michael Webb discussing the Kroger payroll heist of 11 September 1925 and the dubbing of Charles A. Floyd as "Pretty Boy" Floyd.
		Pretty Boy Floyd and the Kansas City Massacre Released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), this FBI document discusses Floyd's purported role in the Kansas City Massacre.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/longtimecoming/prettyboy/main.html (597 words)

	The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd (Wayne Kamp/Mark Vickery)
		Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd was born on a farm in Bartow County, Georgia, on February 3, 1904.
		Floyd was tagged as one of the killers, although he insisted that he hadn't been there.
		The end finally came on October 22, 1934 when Charles Arthur Floyd was shot and killed by FBI agents in an open field near East Liverpool, Ohio.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/parton/2/pretty2.html (654 words)

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		Portland, Ore. … “Gospel Christmas,” holiday concerts that present well-known Christmas music performed in rousing gospel style returns with acclaimed conductor and composer Charles Floyd leading the Oregon Symphony, the Northwest Community Gospel Chorus and a special appearance by the Brown Sisters on Dec. 3, 4 and 5 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
		Floyd leads the Symphony and the Northwest Community Gospel Chorus, a group of more than 100 singers specially selected for this concert, which represent the Portland area’s finest gospel choirs.
		Floyd performed frequently as soloist with the Louisville Orchestra between 1982 and 1984 under the batons of Robert Bernhardt and Stewart Kershaw.
	www.orsymphony.org /news/0405/1105_SC2_gospel.html (1282 words)

	Amazon.com: Pretty Boy : The Life & Times Of Charles Arthur Floyd: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Floyd was born in 1904 in northwest Georgia, then still recuperating from Sherman's march to the sea 40 years before.
		Floyd, alias "Pretty Boy," a name familiar to all Americans, was one of the notorious gangsters who roamed the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, committing bank robberies and being romanticized as Robin Hood-like figures.
		Floyd was falsely accused in his own day of many atrocious crimes, such as the "Young brothers' massacre," but the fact remains that he was a ruthless killer as well as a bank robber and that a preponderance of evidence exists suggesting Floyd's guilt in the Kansas City Union Station massacre.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312110464?v=glance (1855 words)

	Sgt FloydExpedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Floyd was born in Kentucky in 1782 at or
		Davis Floyd, Charles' older brother was later sheriff of Clark County Indiana,
		Sergeant Charles Floyd was born in Kentucky and was among the first person volunteer for the job.
	www.bcsd.k12.id.us /wrms/lcproject/period6/casey.html (705 words)

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