Ransom and Zilpha are very mysterous people....They don't seem to fit anywhere with the other Decatur Co. Clouds.....I have only found one other researcher in the last 15 years that is a decendant of Ransom, through his son Daniel Martin....She said she searched long and hard and gave up years ago..... I have been trying to plan a trip to go look through the land records, but I haven't been able to as of yet... The family with Ransom in 1880 in Wakulla Co. Fla. is a big puzzle that I would like to be solved.....If you will notice for the children the census shows that both are born in Florida, and their father and mother are born in Florida...Everything I have on Ransom shows that he was born in Ga, and his parents were born in South Carolina...This leads me to think that these children are not his, and that the census taker wrote down the wrong name....I once went all the way to Wakulla County, to search, and was told the courthouse burned and All records were lost.....(A Wasted TRip) Ransom married Mary Ann Donalson in Decatur Co., in 1854. I am sure you have already looked at the census, but anyway....In 1860 they are shown as having 2 children...Daniel & Wm..Ransom also has custody of Louisa. Her last name is not shown on the census, but she was the daughter of Moses and Zilpha (Cloud)Oliver...Moses died sometime before 1860...In 1870, Ransom (Rance) and Mary are shown with children Daniel, James, Charles (my line), John and Edmond.....In the last years before 1880, land was taken from Ransom for taxes..(Info from a book, I forgotten the name...something about Newspapers of Decatur Co.) I have never seen where Ransom was on any Tax Digest (which also leads me to think he maybe had another name he used ????) I don't know where he got land from...I don't know what happened to Mary Ann.... Mary Ann was the daughter of James W. Donalson, (another mystery), and May or Mary unknown....He left her land in his will, and made it very clear that the land was for Mary and her heirs, NOT for Ransom.... In 1880, Ransom in Wakulla Co., FL..... Charles, (my great grandfather) is in Decatur Co. with Iana S. Thompson....Morgan is in the house, Pine Hill Dis., with his uncle Samuel Donalson (Mary Ann's brother). Morgan's last name is spelled CLAUD....James, last name also spelled CLAUD, is in the house with Sarah K. Cherry...also, the Dannel CLAUD, in the house with Wm. Dies, I believe to be Daniel Cloud, son of Ransom and Mary Ann.... In 1860, Zilpha is shown living with George Oliver, and if I remember right it was in Mitchell Co. The census taker spelled her name Zilvey or Silvey..I have forgotten exactly. I found that census accidently while doing a lookup for someone....it just sort of jumped out at me... As for Zilpha, somehow, I believe that she was born in 1815....Don't ask why, it is just one of those things....I guess because her age is so consistant on all the census records from 1850 through 1880.... Oh yes, there is another mystery Cloud of Decatur Co...Maybe he is the clue to Ransom, Martin, and Zilpha.....There is a Burlison Cloud in the 1830 census. He is not listed in the index, but he is on page 3, line 20....... At this time this is all I can think of.....Several months ago when I first read all of input on the list, I was so hoping you had found something in the land records....I believe you have all the other Decatur Clouds figured out.....