This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cloud, Ayers, Fugate, Middleton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YNJ.2ACIB/477.480.2.1.2.1.3.1.1 Message Board Post: There were two individuals named William Cloud born about the same time and both can be found living at the same time, one in Lee County, VA and the other in Harlan County, Kentucky. Both were sons of a Benjamin Franklin Cloud but different Benjamin Franklin Clouds again these two were living at the same time. First, you have William M. [believed to stand for Middleton] Cloud born 20 Feb 1862 in Harlan County, Kentucky, married to Mary Jane Shoemaker. This William Cloud was the son of Benjamin Franklin Cloud b. 1826 in Tennessee married to Nancy Middleton died 22 Mar 1946. The had a son named Henry F. Cloud b. 30 April 1893 b. Kentucky married to Sybil Sweester. William and Mary Jane had other children: Greenberry; Eunice; Louisa; Laura; Sarah; Sarepta; Alice; Jessie; Simon; John and Bessie, all born in KY. The second was William Steven Cloud b. 27 Oct 1865 in Rose Hill, Lee County, Virgina married to Sarah Ellen Fugate and died 28 Jul 1929 and is buried in Leftwich-Edds Cemetery in Rose Hill, Lee County, VA. This William Steven Cloud b. 1865 was the son of Benjamin Franklin Cloud b. Jun 1834 in Lee County, VA and Margaret Jane Ayers. William Steven Cloud and Margaret Jane Ayers had the following children: Eula Virginia; Robert Lester, Lizzie Jane; George ("Jim"); Dorsey Lee; Nola ("Dollie") and Glessie May ("Babe"). One family lived in Rose Hill, Lee County, Virginia and the other in Harlan County, Kentucky. They were distant cousins all descendents of Captain William Cloud.