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John Franklin Cloud[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Male 1810 - Aft 1870  (> 61 years)


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  • Name John Franklin Cloud 
    Nickname Frank 
    Born 1810  Stokes county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8] 
    Gender Male 
    Died Aft 1870  Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Notes 
    • John Franklin and Eliza (Jones) Cloud were living in Doran's Cove, Jackson County, AL., in about 1840.  Eliza's parents, Robert and Mary (Wilson) Jones, lived nearby.  John and Eliza lost a son, William J Cloud, during the Civil War.  William volunteered as a Private, Company "E", 42nd TN Infantry Regiment.  William was captured at the surrender of Fort Donelson and sent to Fort Douglas prison camp near Chicago.  He was included in the prisoner exchange at Vicksburg, MS.  He rejoined his company and was assigned to Company "F" of the Alabama 55th Infantry Regiment.  At that time he was promoted to Sergeant.  William was in the Battle of New Hope Church near Dallas, GA.  He died in Erwin Field Hospital, Kingston, GA on August 4, 1864.
      Emotions were raw in Jackson County, AL by the close of the war.  Many families packed up their belongings and moved toward the west.  Sometime between 1860 and 1870, John and Eliza moved their family to Lamar County, TX.  They were not the first Cloud family to migrate from Jackson County, AL to Lamar County, TX.  A Francis (Frank) Cloud was living in Jackson County by 1827.  His name was entered in the records of Jackson County, AL Probate (Orphans) Court, 1829 - 1830, page 193.  He was listed in the Jackson County 1830 census on page 80 with two males under five, one male 15 - 20, two males 20 - 30 and one female 20 - 30.  Francis Cloud was put on trial in Huntsville, Madison County, AL accused of being a member of a Jackson County vigilante group known as "Captain Slick's Company."  Francis was charge with trespass, assault and battery upon the person of William Hall.  Francis and nine others were found guilty and assessed damages of $316.34.  The trial was reported by James W. Bragg in "The Alabama Review", April, 1958.
      Francis Cloud was still living in Jackson County at the time of the 1840 census, page 35.  The family consisted of one male between 5 - 10, one male between 10 - 15, one male between 20 - 30, one male between 30 - 40, two females under 5 and one female between 30 - 40.  Elizabeth Steadman Owings wrote in her Cloud family history that Francis Cloud was a son of Jeremiah and Judith (Henderson) Cloud of Hawkins County, TN.  While a relationship between Francis Cloud and John Franklin Cloud has not been documented, one has to wonder if it was just coincidence that John Franklin Cloud moved his family from Jackson County, AL to Lamar County, TX approximately twenty years after Francis Cloud made the same move.
      Sources:  Eliza B. Woodall, "The Stevenson Story", College Press, Collegedale, TN (1982), p 75.
                      Jackson County, AL 1860 census, p 363.
                      Lamar County, TX 1870 census, Beat No. 5, Paris P.O., p 380.
    Person ID I82682  mykindred
    Last Modified May 31, 2017 

    Father Joseph Cloud,   b. circa 1776, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef Sep 1842, Roane county, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Mother Rachel Jessop,   b. Jun 21, 1776, Guilford county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 1820 and 1830  (Age 43 years) 
    Married circa 1800  Stokes county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Family ID F27888  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eliza Jones,   b. Jun 05, 1811, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1883, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 71 years) 
    Married circa 1840  Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mary Cloud,   b. Between 1840 and 1842, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Y
     2. William Jesop Cloud,   b. 1843, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aug 04, 1864  (Age 21 years)
     3. Robert G. Cloud,   b. Feb 16, 1849, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 01, 1918, Lamar county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     4. Victoria Cloud,   b. Mar 04, 1851, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Feb 14, 1923, Lamar county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
     5. Arthur Cloud,   b. 1854, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Y
     6. Thomas Marion Cloud,   b. Apr 05, 1857, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 30, 1932, Goree, Knox county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F29141  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1150] Jackson County, AL 1850 Census, District 19, p 12.
      The Franklin Cloud family

    2. [S1151] Jackson County, AL 1860 Census, p 363.
      The John F. Cloud family

    3. [S1179] Lamar County, TX, 1870 Census, Paris Post Office, Beat No. 5, Family No. 217.
      The Franklin Cloud family

    4. [S1128] Gedcom - Shirley, Raymond.

    5. [S1156] Gedcom - J.F. Cloud.FTW.

    6. [S1150] Jackson County, AL 1850 Census, District 19, p 12.
      The John Franklin Cloud family.

    7. [S1151] Jackson County, AL 1860 Census, p 363.
      The John Franklin Cloud family.

    8. [S1179] Lamar County, TX, 1870 Census, p 380.
      Family No. 251, the John Franklin Cloud family.

    9. [S1179] Lamar County, TX, 1870 Census, p 380.
      The John Franklin Cloud family.

    10. [S1544] Internet Web Page, Stephen J. Stalcup, Stalcup Genealogy.