CLOUD DECENDANTS WERE TRACED BACK TO ENGLAND FROM THE 1500s, beginning with   WILLIAM I,   JEREMIAH,     WILLIAM III,    WILLIAM IV,    WILLIAM H. V
BENJAMIN F. Cloud 1, b. 1777 & Mary (Polly) Chadwell( b. 1777 d of David Chadwell and Elizabeth Turner)Note: Her first husband was Walter Middleton, Sr.,grandfather to Nancy Middleton wife of BF Cloud I11)
 Children were:
  Benjamin Franklin II or Jr. b. 1802 Hawkins CO., Tenn. d. 1880 Tazewell, Tenn.   Barthena Cloud b. 1804, m Josiah R. Smith    Nancy Cloud m. Gabriel Shackleford    Louisana b. 1810, m Jacob Shultz, Jr.    Elizabeth b 1814
CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN FRANK CLOUD II (b.1802 d 1880& ELIZABETH CHADWELL (d. of John Chadwell)
 Children were:
  Benjamin Franklin Cloud III B. 1826
  Elizabeth
2nd Wife Elizabeth Matilda Schultz
Children were:
  Alexander Moore    Merander
  Benjamin Franklin (only lived 2 days)    Carrack
Benjamin Franklin (FRANK) CLoud III b. 1826 in Claiborne County, TN died abt. 1900 in Dizney, Harlan County, KY& Nancy Middleton m. 5/12/1850 in Clairborne County, TN d. of Walter Middleton  & Sarah Turner
  Children were:
   (1)Alexander b. 1852, Claiborne Co., TN, m. Nancy Jane Burkhart.
   (2)Greenberry b. 1854, Claiborne Co., TN. m. Clara Goodwin
   (3)Benjamin Franklin IV b.    Claiborne Co., TN. m. Martha Shoemaker,
   (4)Mary E. b. 1857, Claiborne Co., TN ,   (5)James b. 1859 Harlan, KY, m. Rebecca               Browning ,    (6) William b. 1862, Harlan, KY,
   (7)Shelby Longstreet b. 1865 Harlan Co., KY. m. Minerva Middleton
    (8) Sara b. 1868 Harlan Co., Ky. m. Cudge Thomas

  Sometime after the 1870s Benjamin Franklin Cloud left Nancy Middleton and went to Lee County, VA.  Not sure why he left and went to VA.  He could have been looking for work and met Margaret Jane Ayers.
   2nd wife Margaret Jane Ayers (he probably never divorced Nancy Middleton)
   Children were:
    Elizabeth (Lizzy)      Virginia (Jenny married Jackson Edds.
    Margaret V. b. 6/7/1875, Lee Co., VA       Mary A       Serelda, Cornie & Dora
Frank is found again with Nancy in Kentucky in the 1880 census of Harlan County, KY, District 12.  Frank & Nancy lived together for the rest of their lives.  Frank died around 1900.
Frank's son William moved to the farm in Lee Co., Virginia and raised his family there.
Benjamin F. Cloud IV married Martha Shoemaker their children were;
Josephine, Tilman Thomas, Ida Bell, Harrison, Matilda, Alberta and Octavia
Tilman T. Cloud (Jr.) married Irene Hale Cloud (d. of James and Rebecca Hale) their children were:    Roger L., Portia Gay, Anthony James (Tony) and Donnie L.
Alexander, Benjamin, William Longstreet and Sarah
Greenberry Cloud & Family
Rev. Wm. H Shoemaker & 3 of his daughters
Sarah Cloud & Martha Blevins
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