Alfred Hood
GIFFORD, HOOD, MCNEIL
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/7/2004 at 12:43:07
Alfred Hood, Winterset, farmer; born in North Carolina, in 1808; he emigrated to Indiana in 1829; in 1843 he removed to Iowa and settled in Mahaska county, and came to this county in 1856; he owns 42 acres of land; he represented this district in the State legislature in 1861-62, and voted for all the appropriations for the support of the government; he also held the office of coroner three terms and county supervisor for two years; he married Miss M. Gifford in 1832; she was born in New York, and died in February 1869; he married for his second wife Rachel A. McNeil, in Aug. 1869; has four children by first marriage: Sarah, Adeline, James and Daniel; and two by his second marriage: Jennie & Fred
Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 538
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