William H. Cloud was my Great Grandfather He was born in Hardin County, Ohio about 1848. His parents were David and Mary Jane (Scott) Cloud. I am looking for information on William's first wife Ruth Miller, she was also born in Hardin Co. and they were married there in 1870 had a daughter Jessie Cloud in 1871, I have these records from Salt Lake. There seems to have been a second daughter Ruth Cloud born about 1872 as she is 8 years old and living with her grandfather Robert Miller in Hardin Co., in the 1880 Census. As yet I have not found Jessie or Ruth Miller Cloud, in the 1880 Census. Jessie does show up in 1882 Court records about her guardian it says her mother is dead. What I am trying to find out is when Ruth Miller Cloud died and whether or not she and William H Cloud were divorced and if so when. The reason I am trying to find out this information is because William H. Cloud married my Great Grandmother Mary Luella "Lulu" Goldsby in Chillicothe, Livingston Co., MO, Nov 1874 and then they ran away to Virginia City, NV, where my Grandfather was born in 1876. By 1878 they were in Santa Cruz, CA. but by the 1880 census he was no longer with Lulu in Santa Cruz. She is living there with her Parents and children. William is found in San Francisco and is a Lawyer. In 1886 he died in San Francisco and the obits I found there mentioned no surviving family so I checked the Santa Cruz newspapers and found his obit in the social column, which did mention that he was the son-in-law of Z.N. Goldsby but mentioned no one else. In 1907 Lulu Married Williams older brother James S. Cloud, he was 77 and she was 50. He was also a Civil War invalid this marriage didn't make any sence to me until I read a short passage in my 2nd Great grandfathers Biography. It says that James Cloud was her husband and the father of Scott and Archibald Cloud, no mention of William at all. This leads me to one conclusion which may or may not be true. From the info that I have gathered so far I tend to think that there was no divorce and that Ruth died about 1879 or 80 which would make his marriage to Lulu invalid and the reason she married James was to give her children a legal Cloud father. What I would really like to do is to change this from an assumption to fact one way or the other. I would also like to find out what happened to his two girls from his marriage to Ruth Miller and when she died. I think I am getting long winded so I will quit for now. Hope someone can be of help. Trish Harris [email protected]