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Camp] (Mosley) Hood, natives of Virginia, as were his grandparents.His paternal grandfather, Sterling Hood, and
his maternal grandfather, William Mosley, both fought in the Revolutionary
War.His father, Frederick, fought with
General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812.
In 1849, Mr. Hood came
to this county and bought the land where his grandsons, Clarence and Everett Hood, live at the
present time.He was nearly ruined by
floods in 1882 and in 1883, losing much of his cattle.
When he first settled
here, there were but five or six families living on the TyronzaRiver
for a distance of fifty miles and no road to Memphis except a trail.What few people lived here were prosperous
and happy, mostly depending on trapping for support.The early settlers of the era were compelled
to go to a horse mill at Crawfordsville, so Mr. Hood erected a band-mill, two
rawhide bands attached to leaves and run by horsepower.Many Indians still roamed the woods and the
Chiefs, Moonshine and Cornmeal, came with their tribes and hunted during the
winter, but went west in summer.
In 1849, Sterling Hood married Rhoda Richards.They were the parents of seven children, J.
W., Nancy (wife of B. F. Rush), Robert, Laura (wife of Thomas Wilkins in PhillipsCounty) and Edward.(Two died in infancy.)
Mr. Hood was Constable
and Deputy Sheriff for twenty years and until he was too old to serve any
longer.He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and took great interest in public schools, churches, etc.He favored all public improvements and
extended a welcome to immigrants from other countries to come to this area.