A PIONEER'S FUNERAL.
Wash Cloud, a Texas pioneer, 87 years old, died yesterday at Groesbeck, and was brought here this morning to be buried at the Cloud farm. Deceased came to Texas in 1846 and was assessor and collector of Austin county in 1891, Waller county then being part of Austin county. He has been totally blind for nearly sixty years.
"A PIONEER'S FUNERAL (Wash Cloud)." The Houston Daily Post, Saturday, August 7, 1897, p. 2, col. 6.
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