Dear List, Thank you to all who have responded to my query. I will write in between the line breaks to clarify a few things. In a message dated 4/17/2000 11:48:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dittch-witch@worldnet.att.net writes: << I am interested in any of your names as they relateto Cloud family.>> None of my names relate to the CLOUD family. I listed all the names that were born or died in Stone Co. in my first post. I have followed the Cloud family a little bit. I found the information today that I was looking for (I actually filed it where it belonged!) The Stone Co. History, Vol 1, page 607 tells the story (submitted by Ronald Duncan) of Absalom Rhodes. It says he was killed on 15 Oct 1862 by bushwhackers. Somehow, while thumbing through the book (owned by my mom's cousin) I saw the article on page 264 titled "Alfred Bolin, Bushwhacker." It caught my attention so I read it. It mentions that Calvin Cloud was killed by bushwhackers on 11 Oct 1862. My HUNCH (and it is only a hunch, there is no way for me to prove it) is that it was Alf Bolin & his gang. I follow the CLOUD info just to see if they say he killed others within days of each other. Absalom lived directly north of the Blue Eye Cemetery, just a few hundred years, I guess. That is just a guess. I was there a couple of years ago and I didn't set the trip odometer to measure it exactly. I'm not sure where the CLOUD family lived in relation to that. I haven't researched it that far. (Note: Another article on Alf Bolin appears on page 272). <> All my Alf Bolin info (at this time) comes from the Stone Co. History Vol 1. The article on page 264 was submitted by Elba G. Johnson; the article on page 272 was submitted by Donna D. Wolf Riott. I don't know anything else. I think that these 2 know much more than I do. When I typed up that Alf was a step-son of Calvin Cloud, I was going off the top of my head. I couldn't find the pages at the time. I was going off my memory. I know that Mrs. Cloud was not the mother of Alf; therefore Calvin Cloud was not the step-father. Alf was a kid that that the Cloud family took in and that is all. I have no idea why I typed that statement the first time. I have apologized to all the people who have written to me in private to correct the error. So I will apologize to the whole list for saying Alf Bolin was the step-son of Calvin Cloud, because he was not. I hope this clarifies matters and no one is upset at me any longer for typing step-son. Sincerely, Cheri Mello