{"id":1079,"date":"2015-11-08T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T17:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:35","slug":"alexander-m-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/alexander-m-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"CLOUD, Alexander M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Alexander M. CLOUD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, farmer, was born at Tazewell January 3, 1847, the son of <strong>Benjamin F. and Elizabeth M. (Shutlz) CLOUD<\/strong>, of Irish and German origin, and natives, the former of Hawkins County, born in November, 1802, and deceased in 1880, and the latter born in Claiborne County in 1829, and still living. \u00a0After their marriage in 1845 they began farming. \u00a0The father has served as deputy and county clerk and circuit clerk, and his father, Benjamin Sr., was the first county clerk of this county. \u00a0In 1855-56 the father represented his county in the State Legislature, during which time he secured the charter for Tazewell College. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our subject, the eldest of four children, was educated at his college, and up to 1876 remained at the home place, and then moved to where he now lives. \u00a0Although delicate in health, he is successful and popular farmer. \u00a0June 3, 1875, he married <strong>Mary A. JOHNSTON<\/strong>, of Claiborne County, a member of the Presbyterian Church. \u00a0They have three sons and two daughters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of from Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee<\/i>. Chicago: Goodspeed, 1887.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander M. CLOUD, farmer, was born at Tazewell January 3, 1847, the son of Benjamin F. and Elizabeth M. (Shutlz) CLOUD, of Irish and German origin, and natives, the former of Hawkins County, born in November, 1802, and deceased in 1880, and the latter born in Claiborne County in 1829, and still living. \u00a0After their &#8230; <a title=\"CLOUD, Alexander M.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/alexander-m-cloud\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about CLOUD, Alexander M.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3666,1458],"tags":[3706,3707,3709,3708],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-claiborne","category-hawkins","tag-cloud-alexander-m","tag-cloud-benjamin","tag-johnston-mary-a","tag-shultz-elizabeth-m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}