Biographical Sketch of Pusey Allen CLOUD (1904); Chester County, PA

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"Historical Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs
 of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania", Vol. 2, edited by Gil-
 bert Cope and Henry Graham Ashmead, Lewis Publishing Company, New York,
 1904, pp. 489-90.

"P. ALLEN CLOUD, a successful farmer and public-spirited citizen of West
Marlborough township, Chester county, is descended from old colonial
stock.  William Cloud, from whom the different branches of the family
trace their descent, married Mary, whose surname appears to have been
Pence, and among their other children were two sons, Jesse, mentioned
hereinafter, and Joshua.

"Jesse Cloud, son of William and Mary (probably Pence) Cloud, married Mary
Allen.  Their children were: Jane, born June 29, 1770, married Mr. Baldwin;
Mary, born October 18, 1772, died young; William A. and Ann (twins), born
June 23, 1776; the former is mentioned hereinafter, and the latter died
young; James, born February 21, 1778, married Margery Mason; Jeremiah,
born January 2, 1781; Phoebe, born October 1, 1784, married Mr. McFarland;
Hannah, born January 4, 1786, married Mr. Ashton; Orpha, born May 20,
1789, married Mr. Williamson; and Mary Ann, born August 2, 1793, married
Mr. Pierson.

"William A. Cloud, son of Jesse and Mary (Allen) Cloud, was born June 23,
1776, and married Hannah Wickersham, who was born October 23, 1779.  They
were the parents of the following children: Elizabeth, born September 7,
1809, died September 3, 1860; Jesse, born March 17, 1811, died February
23, 1887; James, born December 14, 1812, died in 1902; Mary, born July 2,
1814, died October 2, 1879; Rachel born September 1, 1816, died July 21,
1887; Pusey, mentioned hereinafter; Enoch, born March 3, 1821; and Hannah,
born June 4, 1822, died May 31, 1898.  William A. Cloud, the father of the
family, died November 2, 1861, and his widow passed away April 19, 1865,
having reached the age of eighty-five years.

"Pusey Cloud, son of William A. and Hannah (Wickersham) Cloud, was born
June 26, 1818, on the old homestead, in East Marlborough township, Chester
county, married Hannah Gatchel, and their children were: 1. Elisha G.,
born March 5, 1844, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work; 2.
Abbie K. (1), born March 25, 1845, died young; 3. George Martin, born
September 24, 1847, married Rachel Ann Pyle, and has three children: Mary
R., born February 9, 1882; Pusey, born June 26, 1886; and Samuel P., born
October 6, 1888.  4. Abbie K. (2), born February 24, 1849.  5. William P.,
born August 29, 1851, married Carrie Wickersham, born November 6, 1857,
and has the following children: Hannah M., born December 24, 1882; Elsie
K., born May 26, 1885; and Emma W., born July 21, 1889.  6. Jesse, born
June 8, 1854.  7. P. Allen, mentioned at length hereinafter.  8. Elizabeth,
born March 28, 1861.  9. Charles B., born September 9, 1862, married Emma
Moyer.  10. Sarah E., born January 6, 1864.  11. Wendell P., born January
25, 1867, married Anna E. Wickersham.  Mr. Cloud, the father of these
eleven children, died October 14, 1867.

"P. Allen Cloud, son of Pusey and Hannah (Gatchel) Cloud, was born Decem-
ber 2, 1859, on the old homestead, in East Marlborough township, Chester
county, and received his education in the schools of the neighborhood, and
at the State Normal School in West Chester, Pennsylvania.  He has made
general farming the business of his life, but the circle of his interests
is not limited to the duties of his calling.  He is active in local af-
fairs and takes a prominent part in every undertaking having for its object
the advancement of the public welfare.  He was formerly a director of the
Kennett Square Building and Loan Association, and is at present a director
of a similar association, the London Grove Building and Loan Association
at Avondale.  In religion he is a Friend, adhering to the doctrines for
which his ancestors were, in former times, sometimes obliged to contend.
His mother, Hannah Cloud, was disowned by the Hicksite Friends for assis-
ting in the organization of the Longwood Meeting, and an anecdote is
related which illustrates the courageous spirit by which she was animated
in what she felt to be a righteous cause.  At one time, when the feeling
was very strong against the Longwood Friends, the doors of their former
meeting were closed against them, but at the suggestion of Mrs. Cloud a
man climbed through one of the windows and threw the doors wide open.  It
is pleasant to relate that the Friends thus at variance arrived at an
amicable settlement of their differences of opinion, and that Mrs. Cloud
was requested to return to her former place in the society.

"Mr. P. Allen Cloud married, March 26, 1885, Tillie, daughter of Ezekiel
and Margaret (Crosley) Bailey.  The former was born August 25, 1840, and
was a son of Ezekiel and Margaret Bailey.  Mrs. Cloud was born April 16,
1862, in Delaware, but was brought up and educated in Chester county.  Mr.
and Mrs. Cloud are the parents of two children: Jesse, born August 27,
1886; and Elizabeth, born July 30, 1888."