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John Cloyd (Cumberland County)

b. 1810? d. 1890

Cumberland County, Kentucky, merchant and farmer. Cumberland County native. Married to Mary Polly O’Banion Cloyd in 1828. Father of L. D. Cloyd, Thomas Cloyd, C. Cloyd, Sarah Cloyd, R. A. Cloyd, James Cloyd, John Cloyd, M. E. Cloyd, Missouri Cloyd, Lavega Cloyd, William Cloyd. Married to Victoria Williams Cloyd. Father of Eliza Cloyd, Taylor Cloyd, Lucetta Cloyd, Ritta Cloyd, Robert Cloyd. Merchant and farmer in Cumberland County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland, p. 308. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, District 2, p. 74. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District 2, p. 11. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Marrowbone, p. 6.

Find A Grave, "Capt John William Cloyd (September 6, 1806-March 8, 1890)," Memorial #49287509, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49287509 (accessed February 13, 2018).

Citation

Cloyd, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207780 (November 12, 2026).

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