On ancestry 1860 &1870 census records they have the name of John's father as Florence, but his name if Thomas Bacon Cliatt, son of Thomas Chambless(1811) & Mary Robert Cliatt. Thomas Chambless was son of Jonathan1776-1838) and Mary Chabless (1772) Cliatt from Columbia County, Ga.
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