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W. Strickland Hood W. Strickland Hood. The agricultural affairs of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, are ably represented, among others, by the subject of this sketch, who is a son of Bryant Hood, who was born in Washington County, Georgia, and died in 1886, at the age of eighty years. The grandfather, William Hood, was a resident of Georgia all his life, in which state he was also born. W. Strickland Hood was born in Coweta County, Georgia, in 1832, and removed with his parents to Chambers, Louisiana, where he grew to maturity and received a common-school education. He was the second of the following named children: Martha A. (is the deceased wife of Joseph Swine), W. Strickland, Mary (the deceased wife of William Watson, of Claiborne Parish), Frances (widow of Fred Dugan), Susanna (is the deceased wife of G. W. Belcher, of Arkansas), Levena (wife of Thomas Coleman), Bryant W., and Martinia (wife of John W. Hollowman.
W. Strickland Hood came to this parish in 1851, and here has
since made his home, from here enlisting in 1862 in Company D,
Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry, serving until the surrender, the
most of his service being confined to the State of Louisiana, on
detail duty. He was married to Miss Mary L. Brown in 1855, and
to them the following four children have been born: James B.,
William T, Joseph B. and M. Lulu. Mr. Hood owns 300 acres of
good land, the half of which is under cultivation, and in the
conduct of this property he has shown that he is a man who
thoroughly understands his business, for thrift and industry are
his watchwords. Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890
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