Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


[This is William Franklin Hood (Nov 1841-22 March 1909) ]

The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – April 5, 1909 – Page: 4

Buried with Masonic Honors

Streetman, Tex., April 4 – W. F. Hood, a well known citizen and member of the
Masonic Lodge of Streetman, died quite suddenly from heart failure.  Mr. Hood
was a Confederate soldier.  He was sixty-eight years old at his death.

Mr. Hood’s funeral was conducted by the Masonic order, several lodges being 
represented also.

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In Memoriam Bro. W.F. Hood

To the W.M. Wordens and Bretheren of Birdston Lodge No 333 AF and AM. The death 
call of nature, calmly awaited by all of us has summoned us our beloved brother 
W.F. Hood who has faithfully served in the quarry and prepared his work for the 
Grand Masters squrere, he was secretary of Birdston Lodge for several years. A 
zealous officer and a man universally respected. He was born in Alabama in 1841, 
moved to Mississippi and in 1853 to Arkansas where he grew into manhood and 
remained with his father until the Civil War. In 1861 he joined Col. Churchill's 
regiment known as the first Arkansas Mounted Rifles and was wounded in the battle 
of Skillet Rush, July 28, 1864, and was disabled for about one month, the only 
time he was from duty during the war and surrendered with his company at 
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865, returned to Arkansas and from there 
to Louisiana where his father had moved in his absence. Where he married Miss 
Margaret (Lucy) Aycock, Jan. 17, 1866 and in the fall of 1866 moved overland to 
Lamar County, Texas. In 1873 he came to Freestone County and lived one year and 
moved to Navarro County, and then to Wortham where Mrs. Hood died Jan 26,1908.

In 1909 Bro. Hood married Mrs. Fannie Gamewell and they lived happily and 
contented until Bro. Hood died on the 22 day of March 1909. He was for many years 
a true and leading member of the Missionary Baptist Church and a member of the 
Birdston Lodge since 1875.

Therefore be it resolved, that; in the death of Bro. Hood, Birdston Lodge has 
lost a faithful member. His country and honorable citizen, his family a loving 
and indulgent father. 

2nd, That a copy to be set apart in our minutes to his memory and that the Lodge 
wear the usual badge of morning for thirty days,

3rd, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his widow and to the Worthan 
Journal and Corsican Light.

C.T. Gilbert
J. A. Thompson
J.R. Cooper
Committee