Curtis Gates Lloyd

Curtis Lloyd was a brother of John Uri Lloyd, and is perhaps best known these days for the Curtis G. Lloyd Wildlife Refuge and Recreation Area just south of Crittenden, Kentucky, just east of US 25.  It's 324 acres.

Lloyd said of a particular 20 acres that "there has never been an axe in them," and to this day his trust agreement stipulates that nothing gets cut, nor hauled out, on those 20 acres.

The area is maintained under  a trust agreement established in Mr. Lloyd's lifetime.  His ashes were scattered in the area after his death, and a monument on the sites says that it was "erected by himself, for himself, during his own lifetime, to gratify his own vanity."  He said he hoped it would cause a smile in passers by.