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Subject: Hood.Creed.1837.Adair.BIOS


Creed Hood March 2, 1837 - unknown
Adair County KyArchives Biography

Author: Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, 3rd edition, 1886, Lincoln Co.

CREED HOOD was born March 2, 1837. His grandfather, Jesse Hood, was married in North Carolina to Miss Jarvis, and about 17989 they immigrated to Adair County, where Jesse Hood purchased 1,000 acres at 44 per acre. He also brought a good number of slaves with him. He was a farmer and dealer in tobacco, which he would load on flatboats and carry to New Orleans. On one of his trips, about 1818, he was taken ill and died near Louisville, where he is now buried, and a large amount of money he had on his person, the proceeds of the sale of a boatload of tobacco, was never recovered. Some of the slaves were sold to finish paying for the land but his children, Patsy (Murry), Martha (Sharp), Eliphalet, John, Joel, Napoleon and Jesse inherited a small estate. His sons, John, Joel, Napoleon and Jesse enlisted and served as privates in the Mexican War, and the first three died in Mexico. Jesse Hood served in the late war, dying in the service. Eliphalet Hood, father of Creed Hood, was born in 1801, in Adair County and married to Miss Kalista, daughter of Joseph and Fanny (Bondurant) Taylor, both Virginians, who came to Kentucky when their daughter Kalista was only six years old. Eliphalet Hood was the father of ten children: Jesse, Thomas, Joseph, Creed, Sarah Ann (Kelly), William, Elizabeth (Young), Robert, John and Louellen, of whom Thomas, John, Robert, William and Louellen are now deceased. Thomas and Joseph enlisted in the Federal service, and Thomas Hood was killed at Chickamauga. Eliphalet Hood died in 1872, and his widow on May 22, 1885, in the seventy-sixth year of her age. Creed Hood, a native of Adair County, remained at home working for his father until his nineteenth year, when he began life on his own account. His occupation has always been farming, and he was worth at the outbreak of the civil war about $1,000. In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, First Kentucky Confederate Cavalry, and after participating in several skirmishes, he was honorably discharged in Chattanooga in June, 1862. He then returned to Kentucky, and in October, 1862, at Hopkinsville, he enlisted in Company H, Second Kentucky Cavalry, a part of Gen. Morgan's celebrated command. He was captured in May, 1863, at home while on a furlough, and confined at Camp Douglas twenty-one months, but was exchanged in February, 1865, in Virginia. After traveling to the salt works in West Virginia by rail, he came the rest of the way to Adair County afoot. He arrived barefooted and bare-headed, and went to work on his father's farm. The first crop he made was stolen or destroyed by Federal troops, but by industry and economy he has accumulated some property. He was united in marriage, December 25, 1876, to Miss Fanny, daughter of Francis and Jane (Mason) Clemons, of Russell County, and there have been born to him five children: Allie M.; Mnelvin, who died in childhood; Dollie, who died in infancy; Walter A. and Myrtie Valeria. Twelve years ago Mr Hood purchased the farm of 120 acres formerly owned by his father, since which he has bought 150 acres additional near Cane Valley. During the past ten years Mr. Hood has, besides farming, traded in mules, selling them in the South. Mr. And Mrs. Hood are both members of the Mt. Pleasant congregation of the Christian Church, and Mr. Hood in politics has been a life-long Democrat.



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