OBITUARY: Joseph E. Cloud, 20 Aug 1888 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 1 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, November 22, 1888, p. 7, c. 4 CLOUD.—Joseph E. Cloud was born in South Carolina, Dec. 19, 1853, and came to Texas in after years and was married to Miss J. A. Baker, of Smith county, Texas, Oct. 8, 1882. He joined the M. E. Church, South, at Red Springs, Tyler circuit, under the ministry of Rev. C. H. Smith, in 1872. Bro. Cloud lived a quiet and peaceable life. He was a kind husband and loving father. He was kind to all those whom he met. He departed this life Aug. 20, 1888, leaving a wife with two little children to mourn his absence. The night before he died he called his wife and children to his bedside and bid them good-bye, and told them he was prepared to die, and to meet him in heaven; also addressing his friends around him bade them all farewell, urging them to meet him in the better world. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from all their labors. J. C. Mullins. Red Springs, Texas.