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Washington B. Cloyes’ birth occurred in Henry County, Tenn., April 14, 1831. His parents, James and Penelope (Nichols) Cloyes, were born, respectively, in Marblehead, Middlesex Co., Mass., in 1782, and in North Carolina, in 1794. From seventeen up to twenty-five years of age the father traveled, and at the latter date settled in Christian County, Ky., where he married, and after the birth of most of his children, moved to Henry County, Tenn., thence to Hickman County, thence to Obion County, where he died in September, 1852. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. His wife died in the same county in February, 1870. Our subject is the tenth of their eleven children. He received the rearing and education of the average farmer’s boy and has made agriculture his chief business through life, owning at the present time 120 acres of good land. December 7, 1851, he was married, in Fulton County, Ky., to Martha E. Hanberry, daughter of C. W. Hanberry. Mrs. Cloyes was born in Fulton County, Ky., February 4, 1831, and became the mother of nine children: Margaret T. (Mrs. Jerome Kelley), Matilda J., Laura I. (Mrs. J. F. Bloodworth), Job, John C., Thomas S., Noah W., Robert L. and Samuel B. Mr. Cloyes was an old line Whig, but has voted the Democratic ticket since the war. He is a Mason, and he and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.