This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cloud Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5R.2ADI/148.3 Message Board Post: "Historic Georgia Families" compiled by L.W. Rigsby this book list Early settlers in Territory now embraced in Grady, Decatur, and Seminole counties Ga (1830-40) all of these CLOUD family names list them as living in Decatur Co. 1830 JOHN, LILPHA,and REUBEN CLOUD. Other CLOUD names I find: Elizabeth Cloud married Phillip Thomas, Nov. 14,1821 in Early Co. Ga 1820 Early Co. census list: Elizabeth Cloud 1 f +45, 1f 16-26, 1m 16-18, 2f 10-16, 1m -10. Elizabeth and John Cloud live 2 houses down from each other John Cloud 1m 26-45, 1f 26-45, 1m 10-16, 2m -10, 1f -10. Living in Decatur Co. 1850 I find: R. Cloud age 45, and family house #177 D. Cloud age 35 and family house #183 Ransom age 22 and M. Cloud house #339 or go to Jackson Co. Fl. genealogy and follow the links to Master 1850 census list and it will take you to many Cloud surnames for the North Fl. South Ga area. There are alot listed.