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Rev. James Madison McCloud

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Rev. James Madison McCloud

Birth
Knox County, Tennessee, USA
Death
18 Apr 1934 (aged 89)
Bryson, Jack County, Texas, USA
Burial
Bryson, Jack County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Father William Clay McCloud Mother Mary "Polly" Conway

Married Rutha Elizabeth Sampley December 17, 1868

Pioneer Methodist Minister of this section.

Funeral services were held at the Bryson Methodist Church

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At 16 years of age enlisted as a Confederate & served 3 years in General Joe Wheeler's Cavalry, 3rd Division, Company I, Regiment

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Texas State Historical Marker #5237002729

James Madison McCloud

Tennessee native James Madison McCloud (b. 1845) served with an Alabama cavalry unit during the Civil War. In 1881 he moved to Texas with his wife Ruth Elizabeth (Sampley) and children. Shortly after settling in the Bryson vicinity in the spring of that year, he established a church at Cottonwood Springs (3 miles east), which became the Bryson United Methodist Church. A farmer and preacher, McCloud served for fifty-three years as a Methodist circuit rider in Northern Texas and Southern Oklahoma. He died in his home at Bryson in 1934. (1981)

Incise on back: Dedicated by the following grandchildren: E. C. McCloud, W. L. McCloud, Grace Reynolds, and O. M. McCloud
Father William Clay McCloud Mother Mary "Polly" Conway

Married Rutha Elizabeth Sampley December 17, 1868

Pioneer Methodist Minister of this section.

Funeral services were held at the Bryson Methodist Church

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At 16 years of age enlisted as a Confederate & served 3 years in General Joe Wheeler's Cavalry, 3rd Division, Company I, Regiment

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Texas State Historical Marker #5237002729

James Madison McCloud

Tennessee native James Madison McCloud (b. 1845) served with an Alabama cavalry unit during the Civil War. In 1881 he moved to Texas with his wife Ruth Elizabeth (Sampley) and children. Shortly after settling in the Bryson vicinity in the spring of that year, he established a church at Cottonwood Springs (3 miles east), which became the Bryson United Methodist Church. A farmer and preacher, McCloud served for fifty-three years as a Methodist circuit rider in Northern Texas and Southern Oklahoma. He died in his home at Bryson in 1934. (1981)

Incise on back: Dedicated by the following grandchildren: E. C. McCloud, W. L. McCloud, Grace Reynolds, and O. M. McCloud

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JAMES MADISON McCLOUD
CO 1 3 REGT WHEELER'S CAV
CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY
APR 3 1845 ARP 18 1934

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