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- Thomas and Rebecca have a niece living with them in 1880. She most likely is the daughter of a brother of Rebecca's because of her last name. Her name is Wilmetta B Jones and born @1865 in Indiana.
Birth: Apr. 7, 1823 Clinton County Ohio, USA Death: Jun. 10, 1904
From"Biographical Memoirs of Wells County, Indiana," 1903, pp. 117-11 8 .
THOMAS C. CLOUD. Thomas C. Cloud first saw the light April 7, 1823, in Clinton county, Ohio. He is the son of Joseph and Nancy Cloud, natives of Pennsylvania, the former a son of Thomas Cloud. Joseph and Nancy Cloud, after their marriage, settled in Clinton county, Ohio. He was a stone dresser and mason and worked in Cincinnati, Ohio, when it gave but small promise of the populous city of today. They moved from Ohio to Rush county, Indiana, about 1828, and were there for about two years, when Joseph died, leaving a widow and nine children: Betsie, deceased; Peggie, deceased; John F ., deceased; Sallie, deceased, was the wife of William Duckwall; Prudie, now a resident of Ohio; Thomas; Pricilla, a resident of Frankfort, Indiana; Keziah, deceased, and Nancy , now a resident of Warren, this state. After the death of her husband Nancy Cloud removed her family to Grant county,Indiana, about the year 1841 her son, Thomas, who now acted as head of the family, having previously gone there and helped to build a cabin. They were there about thirteen years when they sold their place for five hundred dollars and came to Wells county and bought the farm where Thomas now lives, paying the same amount for forty acres of land on which there had neve r been an ax. This made it necessary to rent land on the river front u ntil they could get some cleared. During the first three years Thoma s Cloud cleared thirty acres and attended to his crops besides. He fin ally cleared up ninety acres on the farm, which had grown to a hundre d and twenty acres. February 20,1850, Thomas Cloud was married to Rebe cca A. Jones, a daughter of Daniel and Susie Jones, natives of Pennsyl vania. Thomas and Rebecca A. Cloud are the parents of seven children , three of whom are yet living: Isaac, born January 20!, 1851, died Ju ly 8, 1874; Sarah D., born February 19, 1852 married John E . Dillman , December 30, 1877; they are now keeping house for the wife's fathe r . John Dillman is the father of nine children, seven of whom are sti ll living, Charlie, deceased, Homer, Josie, Mary, George, deceased, Al meda, Thomas, Vergie and Hazel. Susan, the third child of Thomas and R ebecca Cloud,was born June 13, 1854, is the wife of Eli Rea, of McNatt s , Indiana,and they are the parents of one child, Nellie A. Nancy wa s born August 8, 1856, is the wife of Calvin Alspach and the mother o f seven chil dren: Laura, Daniel, Amos, Charlie, Clinton, Lucy and Geo rge, deceased. Daniel W. was born May 15, 1858, and died October 7, 18 73, Delilah J. was born September 12, 1860, and died May 25, 1864; Jos eph L. was born March 23, 1864, died October 8, 1888, his death bein g caused by a fall from a horse; he married Rosa Minnich and a daughte r, Josie, was born after his death. The subject has worked at the car penter's trade at times, but has devoted most of his life to farming , though he has not done active farm work for eleven years. He has als o been a general stock raiser, rather preferring hogs as a specialty . Rebecca A. Cloud, his wife, died January 1, 1900, and in the fall o f 1902 his daughter, Sarah Dillman, moved into his home to care for he r father in his old age. In the spring of 1900 Mr. Cloud suffered a st roke of paralysis which confined him to his bed for sometime, but afte r a few weeks he was able to arise from his bed and able to walk abou t the yard of his home and other short distances. He and wife were con sistent members of the Methodist Protestant church and he loves the Ch ristian church. While he was in active life he always manifested a liv ely interest in everything which had for its object the promotion or a dvancement of the class to which he belonged. With this idea in view , he took an active part in the early Grange m!ovement in augurated b y the farmers of the country. In politics Mr. Cloud has always bee n a Democrat. In character, asexemplifiedin his life, Thomas C. Clou d has set an example which is worthy of all commendation, and the succ ess which has attended his labors and the estimation in which he is he ld in the closing years of a long and well spent life should prove a n incentive to the youth of the land. Forced by the death of his fathe r to assume the responsibilities of life at an early age, he proved hi mself a strong reed, upon which his widowed mother with her large an d fatherless family were able to lean. With filial care devoting himse lf to the general welfare of the family, he thus laid the foundation o f his own fortunes and assured himself of a competency for his own ol d age. The success which has crowned the labors and life of Father Clo ud proves that environment and conditions rise; but in acting well you r part, therein the honor lies." Source: Find A Grave.com
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1820 - 1904 (84 years)
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