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Descendants of Jeremiah Cloud (~1784 GA/SC - 1861 TX)
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Ancestors of his 4-g grandson, Thomas M. Cloud III

Jeremiah Cloud was born in Twiggs County Georgia between 1782 and 1786. Purported to have lived in South Carolina prior to 1828, we know he moved to Alabama about 1816 and then to the Austin Colony in Texas in 1837. He died in Austin county Texas in 1861. (click here for a brief history of Jeremiah & Elizabeth Cloud's family)

The main purpose for this page is to provide a central research base for "our" Jeremiah.
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Read the Westward Migration Log Book of Charles Moore detailing his trip from Fairfield South Carolina to Texas.

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(Note that this information is dated in that over 8,000 names have been added to my master database (over 21,000 people), and there are numerous corrections to this data also. I have attempted to modify this web information as new information was found but it's certain that some has not been done. The additional individuals will be posted when I get a "round-tuit".)

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My better-known ancestors
Mourad Bumstead (1811 NY-1887 TX)	A veteran of the Republic of Texas' Battle for Independence and of the SIEGE OF BEXAR/ THE STORMING OF SAN ANTONIO, December 5-10, 1835.
Jeremiah Cloud (1784 GA - 1861 TX)	An early settler of Austin county, Texas.
William Cloud (1621 ENG-1702 PA)	An early settler of the American Colonies. He purchased land from William Penn and came to America with him around 1660. (I cannot yet prove ancestry to William Cloud.)
Jasper Crane (1602-1680)	June 4, 1639, Jasper Crane, who was one of the original settlers of the New Haven Colony, was present at the meeting held at Mr. Newman's barn, and signed the first agreement of all the free planters. Click here for a Jasper Crane site.
Melina DaltonWhittington (1806 LA-1874 TX)	An early settler of the Mexican territory of Texas, later the Republic of Texas and a holder of one of the early Texas land grants in what is now Liberty county Texas.
Jasper Seybold, Jr. (1730 Germany-bef 1788 VA)	A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, his parents died on the voyage from Amsterdam to America the year of George Washington's birth, 1732.
Dr. William/Wilhelm Seybold (1795 Prussia - 1864 TX)	A medical doctor and early settler of the Republic of Texas he, with a group of Galveston doctors, petitioned the Texas legislature to grant a charter for the Medical and Surgical Society of Galveston. The legislature changed the name and the scope to "Medical and Surgical Society of the State of Texas", the current Texas Medical Association.
Capt. Robert Treat (1622-1710)	He founded Newark, New Jersey and Milford, Connecticut. He was governor of Connecticut during the "Charter Oak Affair" when he hid the colonial charter in a hollow oak to prevent its being destroyed by Governor Andros when England took his governorship from him.
William Rowland Welch (1815 KY-1886)	A pioneer Baptist preacher in Kentucky.
Grief Whittington (ca 1762-aft 1842)	He fought in the American Revolution in several battles, most of them on the Pee Dee River, a strategic river in North Carolina.
Simon Wiess (1800 Poland-1868 TX)	Early settler of the Republic of Texas, he married Margaret Sturrock. A successful businessman himself, his sons and grandsons owned the largest lumber mill in the world at one time, were co-owners of the land the Spindletop gusher was on, and were co-founders of Humble Oil and other oil companies. Click here for articles on the Wiess and Sturrock families.

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Descendants of Jeremiah Cloud (~1784 GA/SC - 1861 TX)
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Ancestors of his 4-g grandson, Thomas M. Cloud III

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