Lloyd Earl Dean, Stockman, Planter and Co-owner of the Boyce Gin Co., at
Boyce, La. Mr. Dean resides on the Dean Plantation south of Colfax, La.
He wed Sarah Florence Beall of Pineville, La. Their children are Sarah
Frances, William Burkett, George Carlton and Albert Lloyd.
Mr. Dean is a son of Garland Carlton Dean and Leona Creed. Garland
Carlton Dean is a son of Albert Allen Dean and Clara Price. Albert Allen
Dean founded Fairmount Landing on the Red River between Colfax and
Boyce. Shipping ledgers now in the possession of Lloyd Earl Dean show
that the Fairmount Landing did business with the Steamboats _Garland_,
_Valley Queen_, _Laura Lee_, _Keokuk_, _Peninah_, _Halliette_, _Jesse K.
Bell_, _G. W. Sutree_, _Decotah_, _E. B. Wheelock_, _The John D. Scully_
and the _Nat F. Dortch_. With Steamboat Captains John J. Dodd, F. T.
Aucoin, H. J. Brinker, G. Scully, S. J. Bozaman, A. G. White, William
Gillin and James T. O’Rey.
Albert Allen Dean was the steamboat agent for the Red River and
Coastline Steamship Co., The Red River Packet Co., and the T&P Railway
Company which had the Steamboats _E. B. Wheelock_ and the _C. W.
Sutterlee_.
Lloyd Earl Dean traces his ancestry to Abraham Alexander who signed the
“Mecklinburg Declaration” of North Carolina just prior to the
Declaration of Independence.
The Dean family dates back to 1608, the birth date of Nathanial Dean who
came to America on the ship _Paul_ in 1635.