Murray County, Georgia
The 1850 census shows Isaac Cloud, Jr. residing in Murray County. A Benjamin F. Cloud shows up in the household of Isaac Jr. on the census. He would have been about 22 years of age at this time. Murray County is across the state line from Polk County, Tennessee where Eliza Jane Pearce was born in 1842.
The Chief
Vann House, called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation", is located in
Murray County. This two story classic brick mansion was built by Chief James
Vann in 1804. Decorated with beautiful Cherokee hand carvings, done in natural
colors of blue, red, green, and yellow, the home features a cantilevered
stairway and many fine antiques.
In 1825, the Cherokee national legislature established a capital called
New Echota. A thriving town, this new governmental seat became headquarters
for the small
independent
Indian nation that once covered present-day northern Georgia, western North
Carolina, eastern Tennessee and northwestern Alabama. Today, visitors can
tour original and reconstructed historic structures and learn about the dreams
and lives of the Indians who tried to pattern their government and lifestyle
after the white man only to be uprooted from their land and removed westward
on the Trail of Tears in 1838-39. A remarkable development in the Cherokee's
progress came in 1821 when a written form of their native language was adopted.
New Echota's resourceful natives soon put this new invention to use when
in 1828, their national press began printing a newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix,
in both Cherokee and English.
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