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- The following original letters are in the possession of Bruce Evans in 1999.
Information from Delilah Folsom
Another version of Delilah's history is told by her Cloud descendants of Louisiana. They say she was born at Grand Encore, Louisiana. Her granddaughter, Delilah Cloud wrote the following history about 1935.
"David Fulsom came from Holland and married a Miss Darkus in Holland and came up Red River from New Orleans to Grande Core and Delilah was born there December 31, 1808. Two Indians told them of a trail that led to Hot Springs, Arkansas. They went there and built the first house and tried to get Deeds to the land but Government would not give deed so David and wife died there. They had five daughters and two boys. Mahalah married Kepler. Lottie married Burell Busset. Delilah married a man near Hot Springs (in other Cloud family data he was said to be a Mr. Campbell). She was Divorced then married Noah Cloud Sr. Stephen died near Campti of Swamp fever. Eb married Jennie Lee and moved to Houston, Texas. Lottie Busset had five children. Her daughter Lottie married a Dentist McCornie from Alabama."
In a letter from another of Delilah's granddaughters, Mary Izora "Manie" Cloud Stothard, written in 1938, she gives her version.
"The Folsoms...came from Holland. Greatgranpa Folsom died and his widow married a Davis. I don't know if she had any Davis children. She had two sisters, Mrs. Hughs, Mrs. Basset. Mrs. B. died and Grandma Cloud raised her son Noah Bassett. One brother was a captain on a steamboat, he took sick and fell overboard and was never found. Grandma was born at Grand Encore, Louisiana, so Mollie (her older sister) said."
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