Bio:  W. Strickland Hood, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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W. Strickland Hood.  The agricultural affairs of Claiborne Parish, La., are
ably represented, among others, by the subject of this sketch, who is a son of
Bryant Hood, who was born in Washington County, Ga., 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, Ga., in 1832, and removed with his parents to Chambers, Ala.,
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
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, and 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.  He has been a member of the A. F & A. M. for many years, and is
now a member of the Farmer's Union, and his wife, as well as himself, belongs
to the Missionary Baptist Church.

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