This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cloyd, Bailey, Neal, Nicewander Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/2586 Message Board Post: Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pg. 384 Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888 JOHN CLOYD, of Wea Township, is a representative of one of the old and honored pioneers of Tippecanoe County, his father, William Cloyd, having settled here at an early day. William Cloyd was born and reared in the State of Tennessee, and was there married to Esther Neal. He removed to Miami County, Ohio, among the early pioneers, with his wife and four children, and in 1828 came to Tippecanoe County, bringing with him his wife and five children, while several of the older children, who were married, remained in Ohio. The same year he bought land on section 35, Wea Township, and here made a good farm on which he lived until his death. He was married a second time, but his second wife has long since passed away. Of the children born to his last marriage two sons and a daughter yet survive. William Cloyd was a worthy citizen, and one of the most highly esteemed of the early settlers. In politics he was a Democrat of the Jackson school. John Cloyd, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Ohio, December 8, 1816, and is the only surviving child of his father's first marriage. He was in his thirteenth year when brought to this county, and well remembers the condition of the county almost sixty years ago, and has witnessed the many changes which have occurred in that time, transforming the wilderness into a well settled country. He was reared to manhood on the home farm amid the scenes and incidents of pioneer life. He has lived within two miles of the old homestead since coming here in 1828, and now owns 160 acres of the pioneer farm. His present home is on section 26, Wea Township, and he has altogether 400 acres of choice land, acquired by industry, economy and good management, and is classed among the substantial citizens of the county. Mr. Cloyd was first married to Miss Elizabeth Nicewander, who died in 1852. For his second wife he married Miss Jane Bailey, a daughter of Silas Bailey. She is also deceased, her death taking place April 7, 1880. Mr. Cloyd has had a family of fourteen children, six by his first marriage and eight by his second. Three sons and seven daughters are living at the present time, as follows: William, Ritchie, Thomas B., Maria, Margaret, Louisa, Ellen, Esther, Martha and Anna. Mr. Cloyd has always taken an active interest in the advancement of his township and county, and any enterprise having that object in view has had his encouragement and support. He is a man of strict integrity, honorable in all his dealings, and is held in high esteem by all who know him.