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    1. Re: William Lafayette Cloud
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YNJ.2ACIB/856.1.1 Message Board Post: Ken, Byron Cloud and I have both written you with corrections to the information from General George Harlan Cloud, USMC and I also sent you a gedcom with the correct information, if you will recall. His ancestral chart omits his g-g-grandfather, William Cloud, first son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Cloud, who married Margaret Frizzle, daughter of Thomas Frizzle and Temperance "Tempy" Ellis. Tempy Ellis' story of being kidnapped by Indians was required reading for all public students in Alabama for many decades. Genl. Cloud's omitted 3rd great grandfather (my 4th g-grandfather), Thomas Frizzle, Tempy's husband, was murdered September 13, 1857 in Pike county Alabama. It was a crime so horrible that it was published in newspapers from Washington, DC, to Lousiana, Georgia and of course Alabama. Thomas and Tempy's story can be seen at: .. http://mykindred.com/cloud/TX/pages/b375.htm#P10514

    02/02/2005 11:02:35