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JOHN KERLEY HOOD (JR) born: 1 NOV 1877 COOPER CO, MO or TIPTON MO (records conflict) married: 29 APR 1899: PEARL ALBINA JENKINS died: 28 SEP 1930 (died of Dropsie at home, surrounded by loved ones) buried: KIOWA KS Riverview cemetery child: ALICE, STELLA b1902, LOREN b1910, WAYNE b1907, D.(Living), DELBERT b1916, FRANCES MARIE b1913, GRACE KATHERINE b 1919, d. inf. dau. John K Hood Jr never knew his father, he died 7-8 months after his fathers death. He was close to his Unclue Luke though as he watched out after the family. John K came to Oklahoma from Missouri to make the Cherokee Strip Land Run with his brothers and older sisters. In 1899 he married Pearl Albina Jenkins, they eventually had a large family, but John died fairly early in his life of �Dropsie�, and left Pearl to raise the younger kids, He died at their home. He must have been a good man, Ive never heard Granny Hood or any of his offspring ever say anything bad about him. Several John Hoods in Missouri were Masons, and the part of Missouri he was from, was a mainstay of pro-slavery unrest. His father died just prior to his birth, so he never knew his father. He was very attached to his sisters Mary and Mamie . He became the owner of 2 farms after inheriting nearby acreage in �Fritzenlen�, a ghost town now, in upper Woods County OK, near Capron and Hartdner Ks. His Military registration form describes him as tall, its hard to read but it looks like he was 5� 10�, 40 yrs old, (in 1917-1918). Some online records have his birthday as 1878, and his middle name spelled wrong, but he wrote on his draft card himself , �John Kerley Hood, Nov 1 1877�.
JOHN K HOODS JR's WIFE PEARL ALBINA ( JENKINS ) HOOD born: 26 APR 1882 SMITH CENTER KS married: 29 APR 1899 JOHN K HOOD ( JR ) CAPRON/ KIOWA area died: 27 DEC 1979 ALVA OK Buried: KIOWA KS Riverview cemetery Child: ALICE, STELLA b1902, LOREN b1910, WAYNE b1907, D.(Living), DELBERT b1916, FRANCES MARIE b1913, GRACE KATHERINE b 1919, d. inf. dau. Pearl came to Oklahoma for the land run also, she walked by a Conastoga wagon most of the way, the family members took turns riding in the wagon. It took about a month and they ran into some flooded rivers and had the wait out the water .On their new homestead, they first lived in a dugout, then �papa built a Soddy�, later a woodframed house. In 1900 her family became aquainted with the mother of the Temperance movement , Carrie Nation. After starting her saloon-smashing crusade, she came out to the farm near Hardtner and played the piano, sing and pray with our family. This has been recorded in an old issue of Frontier Times our famiy use to own, whereabouts unknown today. 2 of her sisters argued over who would get that piano someday, then Pearl ended up outliving most of her children. The Piano went to Aunt Frances, then me. I gave it to my sister Sherri, beliving she could restore it to its original beauty. I just couldn�t part with the piano bench though, all my memories of holidays are surrounded around that piano bench, not to mention my most of my memories of Granny Pearl Hood. Pearl said she loved John from the first time she saw him (I believe they were at a church function). They married and while John farmed wheat, she sewed, cleaned, cooked�.worked as hard as a man at harvest, but raised her many babies with love , a firm but respectful hand. Pearl had bad luck with things getting into her bonnet when she was outside. Once a snake crawled in, and once a scorpian crawled in, it stung her face on the way down and she always had a patch of redness there the rest of her life. When the 30s rolled around Bonnie and Clyde stole a neighbors new car and went speeding by their farm. There was always a lot of activity on the farm with the animals and crops and children. Eventually she helped raise several grandchildren and great grandkids also. Pearl was a gardener and always had a large garden of either vegetables or flowers. Some of her plant clippings were given to a friend back in the 70s�.this was Mrs. Chaffee, then in the 90s, Mrs Chaffee gave me clippings from those same plants , and I�ve re-dug and replanted them many times, and still have live plants of theirs in my garden today. *Pearls daughter Frances Marie Hood -Lee (My great Aunt) inherited her mothers love for growing things. She had prize winning vegetables and flowers every year. Her most imressive was a 50 lb head of cabbage that made the local newspaper. She never had any children of her own, so Im making a special mention of her now, but she helped raise neices and grandneices, and was a very generous and loving woman. She is also buried in the Riverview Cemetery outside of Kiowa Kansas, but not buried with the family. She is buried with her Husband W P Lee.
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