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Our family was married female married Eli her name I believe as I remember my grandma telling me, was Elisabeth Cloud Hines, which is my Aunt on my grandmothers side, and I have the Blanco Texas Court house Book that was remade after the Court house burned. My grandmother was born Ruth Cloud in Blanco County, and they owed many acres of land along the caney Creek Area giving to them by General Jackson I believe to help start the growth and farming the Republic of Texas, the mid-wife did give birth to a half Comanche Indian and half white child first to be born in the Republic records in DC Library archives. Her name as we called her was Ganny Mae Cloud, her father stayed with our family because the tribe left him behind because he was blind and back then they thought it was "evil spirits", and would leave them at the "waiting Tent - to die where then they were berried sitting upright and tightly sewed buffalo skin around the body which is berried in Cut-N-shoot, Not spelled correctly. However he didn't stay there he stayed with the cloud family in Blanco County, and my grandmothers father Calvin Cloud Used to not only make home made whiskey and shared it with the tribe near them...for trade for other things needed on the farm. And Bootlegged it to the crossing roads in Northern Texas where the East and the West were still having issues with the indians moving or allow Pony X-press to get mail from N.Y. to Oregon, before the Pacific rail road was laid, because the indians would kill the mail-men that would cross their land, many little tribes but all of the same race... My g-g grandpa was the First to drive Cattle across the Brand NEW, just opened Congress bridge from Turnnersville TX, which is only a 4 way stop not and a foundation of the 1-12 small school room...Where my grandmother went to school, they moved from blanco to Turnnersville when my grandmother was about to start school. My grandmother's birth records were destroyed in the Blanco county Court house that burnt to the ground...Cause known but was never talked about...because of the inner mixing of race and Eli Cliemes Hines with William Penn joined up with a Texas 12 Marshals and a large calvery which forced the head cheif of the Blanco area to surrender or be killed, and they were ALL but my kin, was saved by my Cloud family hiding them in the seller till the war was pushed up past the boarders of Colorado and Wyoming boarders, killing too many to count, no one recorded this event nor did they count or lay them in a grave, they left them dead for the hawks to finish them off. My grandma's dad told her when she was a girl and so did the English speaking and Indian tribe words/signs.(forgive my spelling my eyes are too good anymore. My grandma shared all this info with me as a child growing up as a bed time story of the Great depression and the Mc Coy and Hatfield feud we had and was fighting over "accusations" of stealing cattle from the other ones land...We married into the Mc Coy family from the Hines family...In the 1863 ish time guessing from the arrival and selling of William Cloud and Frank Maron his brother, which was finally settled in courts MUCH later after they passed... I have so much more info, but eyes are straining to keep up with my fresh memories and a book my grandmother kept of historical things in the family, LIKE for example; G-g grand dad, ran those cattle down congress bridge and on main street a bull was spooked by a rattle snake, and ran through peoples back yards leaving over 900.00 in fines and was Reported On the Front page of the Austin, American Statesmen Paper, very new still then, but they have it in the archives in Austin TX. Also had a Cloud from Tenn, go to fight in the Alamo Battle with saint Anna's army, but his letter to his wife is in a glass case in the museum part of the Alamo in perfect condition, last letter from that..I think it was parish Texas, not S.A. TX. I remember my grandmother talked and THANK GOD, she has underlined all the people she knew in the Blanco county NEW Blanco Book, and folk tails and store signs, and much more from the natives around Blanco, and the county. So they thought.... There is a lot of juicy History that would change school books as we know it... That I believed with my whole heart that as a christian lady should did ever lie to me...Nor did I caught her in one....She knew it and remembered it, because then I would ask her more about the family...MUCH more info on Eli and Elizibeth short marriage. My grandma wrote notes in the book about stories of Blanco that she remembered....That was not in the book.
Any more info please feel free to ask...
I'm loosing my eye site slowly...But I'm willing to share everything I know of them and the stories that came with it....Funny and bad, that never got recorded or reported, to any official leaders, or pictures, not even a person alive left who knows what I do...she was the oldest of 4 step kids, and 6 brother and sisters who there is only one sister and brother left, they are the youngest and do not know or remember those days.