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Cloyds of Washington County

Searching for death dates and burial places of two brothers from Washington County, Barton Barr Cloyd and Martin Van Buren Cloyd. The two are thought to have been conscripted into Turney's First Tennessee in 1864 before deserting. Census records indicated that both men lived and probably died in Washington County. Martin was born in 1836 and probably died before 1900 while Barton (Bayless) Cloyd is thought to have died in 1912.