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errors regarding Jeremiah Cloud of Twiggs county GA

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errors regarding Jeremiah Cloud of Twiggs county GA

tom_cloud  (View posts) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 3:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: CLOUD, WILKES
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.

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