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Mary Polly "Polly" Griffin[1]

Female 1818 - Bef 1874  (< 55 years)


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  • Name Mary Polly "Polly" Griffin 
    Born 1818  Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Bef 1874 
    • According to 1860 census, she was born 1825.  Her date of death deduced from the sale  of her land, after her death, in 1874.
    Person ID I79  mykindred
    Last Modified Jul 31, 2005 

    Father John W. Griffin,   b. circa 1787, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1870, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 84 years) 
    Mother Nancy (__),   b. circa 1802, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d.
    Married Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F42  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Clark Cloud,   b. 1815, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Feb 1868, Milam county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years) 
    Married Jan 07, 1836  Montgomery, Montgomery county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • On NOV 15 1999, Ellen Crawford emcraw-at-azstarnet.com> wrote:
      "John C Sr and Mary Griffin were married the 7th of Jan 1836 in Montgomery Co AL.  I believe that her father John Griffin came along with Jeremiah for he got a land grant dated the same as Jeremiah's and John's.  They are dated 1839 and states they have been in TX since 1836.  All of John and Mary's children were born in TX including my gr grandfather John Jr in 1845.  They may not have moved at all.......Since the changing of the county boundaries...    Ellen
      The family is on the
      - 1840 Texas Tax list
      - 1850 TX, Austin, p 89, HH 18/18:
      Cloud, John C., 35, M, farmer
      Cloud, Mary, 32, F
      Cloud, Mary Jane, 11, F
      Cloud, Marion, 8, M
      Cloud, John, 5, M
      Cloud, Margurette, 2, F
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      - 1860 TX, Milam, Cameron, p 12, (M653, 1301)
      Cloud, J.C.,  Farmer, 45, M, GA, Cameron, 110
      Cloud, Polly, 35, F, GA, Cameron, 110
      Cloud, Marion, Laborer, 16, M, Tex, Cameron, 110
      Cloud, John, 14, M, Tex, Cameron, 110
      Cloud, Margaret, 13, F, Tex, Cameron, 110
      Cloud, Fanny, 10, F, Tex, Cameron, 110
      Cloud, Melissa, 8, F, Tex, Cameron, 110
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      On October 19, 1998 Ellen (Williams) Crawford wrote regarding the following 1875 deed record:
      "The children of J C  Sr and Mary Griffin Cloud sold the land she had bought sometime earlier (I also have that deed).  The deed mentions all the children except Marion and Melissa...so they were probably deceased by that time."
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      Dec 16, 1875
      J C CLOUD ET AL TO L B RUTHERFORD
      State of Texas
      Milam County
      Know all men by these presents that we Margaret Carter and her husband T Carter, Francis Rutherford and her husband J H Rutherford, J C Cloud and Jerry Cloud, J D Rogers, his wife M E Rogers, all of the County of Milam for and in consideration of the sum of Five hundred dollars, one hundred and twenty two dollars and fifty cents have been received in cash and three hundred and seventy seven dollars and fifty cents to be paid in twelve months from this date, do by these presents, grant, bargain and sell and convey to the said L B Rutherford, his heirs and assigns, the half of the following described land situated in the county of Milam and state of Texas and more particularly described in metes and bounds as follows, to wit:  Beginning on the N E corner of Stovall's survey, thence N 19 degrees West with the lines of John Griffin's tract 924 varas passes Griffin's corner 1323 varas to N E corner of this survey a black jack from which a post oak bears 87 degrees W 21 varas, thence S 71 degrees W 590 varas crossing a prong of a creek called Sand 1066 varas to the N W corner of the tract from which a post oak bears S 88 degrees W 8 varas and a black jack bears S 62 degrees W 4 varas, thence S 19 degrees E 1320 varas entering N line of Stovall's survey for the south west corner of this survey from which a post oak bears N 50 degrees E 4 varas, thence N --?-- E with Stovall's line 1066 varas to the place of beginning, two hundred and fifty acres off of the Jose Lead claim, to have and to hold the half of the above described land, one hundred and twenty five acres, with all the rights, members, herediments and appurtenances  to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining unto the said L B Rutherford, his heirs, assigns forever.  The said half of the said two hundred and fifty acres tract of land hereby conveyed to the said L B Rutherford to include the house and other  improvements upon said land occupied by the said L B Rutherford, the division line to be run strait through said tract so as to have the greater part of all the improvements on said tract on the half conveyed to L B Rutherford and we hereby bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators and assigns forever, to warrant and defend the title to the said half of the said tract of land unto him the said L B Rutherford, his heirs and assigns against the claim of all persons or any claiming the same by through or under us.  In testimony whereof we hereunto set our hands this the 6th day of December 1875.
      (............  remnant not quoted here)
      Filed for record at 6 o'clock PM Sept 22 1885
      W Paden, clerk
      Milam County Land Records, Book 14 pages 577, 578, 579, and 580 (LDS Film # 981410).
      [2]
    Children 
     1. Mary Elizabeth Cloud,   b. Aug 16, 1838, Austin county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 24, 1929, Comanche, Comanche county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years)
     2. Marion Cloud,   b. 1842, Austin county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1861  (Age > 20 years)
     3. John Clark Cloud, Jr.,   b. Aug 22, 1845, Austin county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 05, 1929, Yuma, Yuma county, Arizona, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     4. Margarette Cloud,   b. Jan 17, 1850, Austin county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Apr 06, 1929, Comanche county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
     5. Frances "Fanny" Cloud,   b. 1850, Austin county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Y
     6. Melissa Cloud,   b. 1852, Austin county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1870  (Age 18 years)
     7. Jeremiah "Jerry" Cloud,   b. Aft 1860,   d. Y
     8. Jeremiah Marion Cloud,   b. circa 1862, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. circa 1895  (Age ~ 33 years)
    Family ID F24  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S136] 1860 US federal census, 1860 census, Milam county, Cameron P.O., Texas, p. 18.

    2. [S30] Milam County Courthouse.