Background
Wilson, Lloyd Tilghman was born on December 16, 1866 in Graves Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of William John and Rebecca Josephine (Eley) Wilson.
Wilson, Lloyd Tilghman was born on December 16, 1866 in Graves Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of William John and Rebecca Josephine (Eley) Wilson.
Graduate Southern Normal school and Business College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1885. Doctor of Divinity, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1904.
In wholesale grocery and tobacco brokerage business, 1886-1898. Ordained Baptist ministry, 1897. Pastor 2d Church, Paducah, Kentucky, 1897-1898, 1st Church, Humboldt, Tennessee, 1899-1903, Edgefield Church, Nashville, 1904-1905, East Church, Louisville, Kentucky, 1906-1908, 1st Church, Newport News, Virginia, 1909-1912, Grace Saint Church, Richmond, Virginia, 1912-1917, Broadway Church, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 1917-December 1919.
Correspondent secretary and treasurer Executive Board of Tennessee Baptist Convention, December 10, 1919-1924.
Pastor 1st Baptist Church, High Point, North Carolina, 1924-1929, Southside Church, Lakeland, Florida, since 1929. President Boscobel College, Nashville, Tennessee, 1904-1905.
Member South.S. Board Southern Baptist Convention, 1904-1908. Member Foreign Missionary Board. Member General Board of Missions and Education, North Carolina Baptists, since 1927.
Married Helen Hortense Byng, November 6, 1889. Children: Rhey Byng, Lloyd T., Ione Louise (Mistress Jack Mason Smith), Everett Dodson (deceased).