Major David Montjoy Cloud was born Warren County, Virginia, June 29, 1837. He was a 1858 graduate of Dickinson University in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He accepted a job as Superintendent of a high school in New Hampshire. When the War began he returned home to Virginia and became a member of  the 7th Regiment Virginia Volunteers in the Army of Northern Virginia. He later became a member of the Confederate Intelligence Service with his friend Captain Thomas Conrad, They worked in the Washington, D C, area. After the surrender, Major Cloud migrated from Virginia to Vicksburg, Mississippi, and became superintendent of the Vicksburg Public Schools. He soon married Miss Emma Gilbert. This union was to produce at least one son. Major Cloud died in 1870 and was buried in the Cloud lot in Vicksburg City Cemetery, very near Soldiers Rest. (This was a common practice for gallant Confederate soldiers of this time. They were not qualified to be buried in Soldiers Rest, but wished to be buried as close to their comrades as possible.)

Mrs. Cloud and her son continued to live in Vicksburg until her death January 21, 1935, and is buried in the Cloud lot.

One of their sons, Daniel Montjoy Cloud, Jr., was born in Vicksburg November 20, 1870. He was a veteran of World War I. Daniel, Jr., died October 22, 1964, and is buried in the Cloud family lot.