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Thomas Cloud

Male circa 1765 - circa 1841  (~ 76 years)


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  • Name Thomas Cloud 
    Born circa 1765  Wilmington, New Castle county, Delaware, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died circa 1841  Highland county, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • From Biographical Memoirs of Grant County, Indiana, Bowen Publ. Co., Chicago, 1901, p. 838-839
      James Cloud
      The Cloud family have been prominently identified with the growth and improvement of the state of Indiana for more than sixty years, some of its members having settled in Wells county as early as 1840, in which year two brothers -- William and Joseph -- brought their families from Highland county, Ohio.
      The parents of these men were Thomas and Margaret (Carson) Cloud, the former dying in the old Ohio home. The latter accompanied, in 1842, two other sons, Thomas and Noah, to Indiana, all of them locating near William, whose home had been made on section 2 of Van Buren township, he having entered the land some years previously and making the first clearing upon and erecting a cabin in the fall of 1840. Thomas Cloud was a bachelor and remained all his life with his mother, whose home adjoined that of William. Some years later he died, the mother remaining at her own home till her death, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. She was a remarkable woman, being one whose influence was felt in all the homes of her neighbors. She had been a woman of great strength of character, and having a fund of information was ever a welcome visitor in the homes stricken with sickness or distress.
      Noah Cloud some years afterward traded for a farm in Wells County and passed the remainder of his life in that section of the state. About ten years after the advent of the first brothers another, John, came to the state and also settled in Wells County, where he lived for many years, being widely known as a prominent and influential citizen. One of the first two to come, Joseph, losing his wife in Wells County and marrying the second time in Grant, made his home in this vicinity thenceforth. A distinct article treating more fully of him under the name of his son, John W., is found elsewhere. William Cloud was born in Pennsylvania, his veins carrying blood descended from Irish, French and Dutch ancestors. He was ten years of age at the coming of the family to Ohio. He was married in Ohio to Miss Elizabeth Sharp, and was the father of five children upon coming to Grant County. It appears that he had migrated to the state some years before, as his son-James-was born in Tippecanoe County February 18, 1831. When still an infant the parents removed to Rush County and in1840 to Grant. At that time his nearest neighbors and the only ones for some distance were Stephen Corey and Michael Rouse. William improved a valuable little farm and passed the remainder of a busy and useful life upon it, dying at the age of eighty-seven, after two years of almost total helplessness, during which time his daughter was his constant attendant and companion. His life-long helpmate had preceded him to the Shades of the celestials some four years, being at her death, March 30, 1888, seventy-nine years and twenty-three days old.
      They were the parents of seven children, all of whom reached maturity and all but one are still living. Mary Ann died after having been twice married; Noah resides at Thompsonville, Michigan; Margaret is Mrs. Samuel James, of Van Buren; David and John F. live also in Michigan; and Nancy Jane is the wife of Eli Beck, living on the old homestead.
      James Cloud remained at home till attaining his manhood, his early years being devoted to hard work connected with clearing, log rolling, etc., with quite a good deal of hunting mixed in with the labor. He would take jobs of clearing, shingle-making and other similar work, by which he was enabled to make some small accumulation, though he had but little at his marriage, March 1, 1855, to Miss Elizabeth Jane Slusher, of Wells County, and who was born in Ohio. His farm is a fine tract of fertile land, lying near his father's old home, and which he has brought into a productive condition by close application to the demands of the place. While the Cloud home is void of pretentiousness it is noted for the openhearted hospitality, ever ext....
    Person ID I64973  mykindred
    Last Modified Aug 6, 2009 

    Father Nathaniel Cloud,   b. 1725, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 24, 1802, Wilmington, New Castle county, Delaware, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Mother Ann Smith,   b. circa 1723, Chester county, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1769, Wilmington, New Castle county, Delaware, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 46 years) 
    Married Oct 28, 1748  Holy Trinity or Old Swedes Church, New Castle county, Delaware, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Married at Old Swedes (Holy Trinity) Church, Wilmington, Delaware.
    Family ID F21888  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret Carson,   b. Jun 20, 1766, Fallowfield township, Washington county, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 03, 1854, Van Buren, Grant county, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married circa 1785  Fayette county, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Nancy Cloud,   b. circa 1787, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1860  (Age ~ 74 years)
     2. Thomas Cloud,   b. May 02, 1789, Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aug 17, 1848, Grant county, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
     3. Nathaniel Cloud,   b. Feb 10, 1791, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jul 16, 1878, Swisher, Johnson county, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
     4. Prudence Cloud,   b. circa 1794,   d. Y
     5. Henry Spears Cloud,   b. Sep 17, 1796, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1834, Clinton county, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years)
     6. Joseph Cloud,   b. Feb 01, 1804, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 02, 1874, Grant county, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     7. William Cloud,   b. Dec 24, 1806, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Apr 19, 1894, Grant county, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
     8. Margaret "Katie" Cloud,   b. 1801, Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Y
     9. John Cloud,   b. 1808, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Y
     10. Noah Cloud,   b. Nov 24, 1810, Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Oct 19, 1894, Montpelier, Blackford county, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
    Family ID F21894  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart