Biographies, Adair County KY, Creed HOOD, born 02-Mar-1837
Submitted by: Sandi Gorin
   http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404
Submission Date: 29-Jun-2005
Source: “Genealogy and Biography”, Volume V, 3rd edition, 1886
   Lincoln Company

Creed HOOD was born 02-Mar-1837. His grandfather, Jesse Hood, was
married in North Carolina to Miss JARVIS, and about 1798 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 22-May-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 Jun-1861, he enlisted in Company A,
First Kentucky Confederate Cavalry, and after participating in several
skirmishes, he was honorably discharged in Chattanooga in Jun-1862. He
then returned to Kentucky, and in Oct-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 Feb-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, 25-Dec-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.; Melvin, 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.

Surnames: BONDURANT, CLEMONS, HOOD, JARVIS, KELLY, MASON, MURRY, SHARP,
TAYLOR, YOUNG

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