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Alexander was a large land owner, and owned a grist mill and distillery which were transferred to PETER and HENRY SWOPE . He owned two mills, two distilleries, and 250 acres of land(d). He was listed as a shopkeeper and householder in 179 6 when HuntingdonBorough was formed, (f) Was a communicant and contributor of Hartslog Presbyterian Church, (i) "Of the children of HENRY LLOYD who accompanied him from Virginia, there were....... a daughter, JUDITH, who became th e wife of Alexander McConnell... Alexander McConnell lived first and for a number of years at Huntingdon, but becam e a large land owner in Walker Twp., ultimately made that his home, dying in a stone house near the upper mill, but wa s interred in the cemetery at McConnellstown". (h) For information on certain of the descendants of Alexander and Judith (Lloyd) McConnell we are indebted to MABEL (APPLE ) TALLEY of Charlottsville, Va. who worked with her mother, GENEVIEVE (WHITE) APPLE on the problem of the ancestry of t he first HENRY LLOYD of Huntingdon. In a letter of April 13, 1943 to Mr. Dale Kauffman, Mrs. Talley said: "Informatio n given Genevieve Apple by her sister JULIET (WHITE) WATSON, Mrs. M.C.. of Indiana, Pa. - Mrs. Watson has the family Bible of the McConnells and got some of the information there...Judith Pemberton Lloyd was b orn in Frederick Co., Va. Her father Henry, migrated to Pa. and lived in Huntingdon Co. After the death of her husban d, she went to live with her youngest daughter. CATHARINE B. (McCONNELL) WHITE." This information and the marriage rec ord, are in the possession of Mrs. M.C. Watson.... Mrs. Talley stated that she had visited the graves of Judith McConn ell and Catharine White in Indiana, Pa. many times. She also said "my mother and members of her family told me Judith' s middle name was Pemberton. It was fact - we never questioned it." [Reah Lloyd McGaffey, Lloyd Notes and Facts, pg. 112] JUDITH L. McCONNELL'S OBITUARY The last member of HENRY LLOYD Sr.'s family to die was JUDITH PEMBERTON LLOYD, according to the available records. Onl y her obituary it seems, exists today in the old Huntingdon newspapers. Reprinting apparently from an Indiana, Pa. pap er, the Huntingdon Journal of April 25, 1855 said, "Died,....... On the morning of the 14th inst., at the residence of her son-in-law Judge WHITE, of this borough, Mrs. J UDITH McCONNELL, in the 95th year of her age." "The deceased was indeed a relic of the last century. She was born in May of the year 1763, in Frederick County, Virg inia. While she was quite young her father emigrated to Central Pennsylvania, yet in the rude state - the home of the n ative Indian. With the events of the early settlement of Pennsylvania prior to the establishment of its present form of government, she was familiar and always retained a lively recollection. "Man y a time and oft' the writer of this has listened to her detailed and interesting accounts of the dangers and uncertain ties of what was their frontier life. Her father settled with his family in Huntingdon County, where she afterwards ma rried ALEXANDER McCONNELL, Esq., with whom she lived as a devoted wife until his death in 1822. Shortly after that tim e she crossed the Allegheney mounttains and made her home in the family of her youngest daughter, where she died. Mrs . McConnell was truly a remarkable woman, and there are many features of her long life to excite the pride and emulatio n of her numerous posterity. It has been the lot offew women to live so long and so well. Her heart was full of the c harities and sympathies of her sex. Her intellect was ever vigorous and active. Early in life her mind was directed t o religion, and to act as an humble, sincere Christian was her constant effort. As she lived and died - calm, serene , happy. To the last the kindness and usefulness of her nature was manifest. But a few moments before her death, he r reason yet unclouded, she was solicitous for the health and happiness of those about her and fearful lest she shoul d be what she called a "trouble". "In the course of nature, her earthly career was complete; yet so necessary had she become to the household of her late r days that her absence will be an unreconciled reality. To the immediate circle of her friends she seems to have _ ? immortally, so long had she resisted the 'fell destroyer.' But the grave has at last achieved its victory. Full of y ears she now sleeps the sleep of death, with the sweet memories of a pure life about her. 'Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, or knock the breasti no weakness or contempt, dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair, and what may comfort us in a death so noble.'"