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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

        WILLIAM H. CLOUD, farmer, was born near Bellefonte, Ala., October
    28, 1826, the son of BENJAMIN and NANCY (NETHERLAND) CLOUD, the former
    born in 1788, in Sullivan County, the son of JEREMIAH CLOUD, a North
    Carolinian and pioneer of East Tennessee. The father was a farmer
    familiar with the early Indian troubles, and died in 1854. The mother
    was born in Virginia in 1797, the daughter of RICHARD NETHERLAND; she
    had eight sons and four daughters. Our subject, the sixth son, received
    the usual country advantages, and spent fifteen years in California at
    mining. Since then he has been at his present home, farming with good
    results his fine estate of 365 acres in the Twelfth District.

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