I've found 65 trees on ancestry and one on worldconnect.rootsweb.com which say that the parents of
Jeremiah Cloud born circa 1784 in
Twiggs cty
Ga (and d. 1861 in
Austin cty, TX) are a William Cloud and Elizabeth
Bailey.
Some of these trees even list Elizabeth
Bailey as his wife????
Both William Cloud and Elizabeth
Bailey allegedly died around 1750 and never left
Pennsylvania so far as I know. They were both dead over 30 years before
Jeremiah was born.
There are probably more instances than the 65 I found -- I searched for
Jeremiah Cloud born in
Georgia and probably missed some.
Some of these sites have Jeremiah's wife as Elizabeth
Wilkins -- that was first suggested by Leonard Cloud and then by Byron. Geraldine
Talley, Gary Thomas Cloud and myself and others have wandered around
Austin county looking for the tombstones of
Jeremiah and Elizabeth and for a purported
Wilkes cemetery but never found them. Other than the suggestion by Leonard and others there is not a shred of evidence (that I know of) to suggest Elizabeth's surname was
Wilkes.
Some have extra children -- e.g. a
Reuben or Ruben Cloud. Where did this come from? I don't know of anyone by this name anywhere in the family of
Jeremiah Cloud of
Twiggs cty,
Ga.
Please correct me if you have proofs for any of this.
Please try to verify data -- information taken from the web is often wrong.