Marshall & Clara Hood

HOOD ILLINGSWORTH

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/22/2010 at 17:02:40

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Marshall and Clara (Illingsworth) Hood
By Mrs L H Fymbo

Robert Watts, born December 20, 1904, Suffolk, England; died October 6, 1887, Dexter, Iowa; married Matilda Gower, born February 14, 1815, Earsham, England; died November 25, 1892, Davenport, Iowa. Their children were: James Watts, born May 13, 1833, Earsham, England; died September 10, 1850, Chichtowaga, New York State; Mary Ann Watts, born May 6, 1834, Earsham, England; Robert Watts, born April 17, 1836, Earsham, England; and William Watts, born August 13, 1837, Earsham England.

Nathaniel Illingsworth, born March 11, 1898, Keithy, Yorkshire, England, married February 9, 1839, in Leeds, England, to Elizabeth Longfield, born August 25, 1805, Otley, Yorkshire, England. Their son, Edwin Norris Illingsworth, married Mary Ann Watts, April 1856 and their children were Clara Illingsworth, born May 17, 1857, and William Edwin Illingsworth, born June 1, 1860. Clara Illingsworth married Marshall Jay Hood, born July 20, 1857, Lockport, Niagara County, New York; died September 23, 1904, Sioux City, Iowa; on August 19, 1878. Later Clara Elizabeth Illingsworth was married and divorced from a Mr Hutchinson, lived in Farlin and Earlham, Iowa. She married G G John about 1930 and lived in Springdale, Arkansas, until her death in 1947.

The children of Clara and Marshall Hood were: Freddie Bell Hood, born June 1, 1879, Davenport, Iowa; died March 3, 1881; Wayne Allison Hood, born February 26, 1882, Davenport, Iowa, died 1950’s in San Diego, California; Frank Melville Hood, born November 23, 1884, Council Bluffs, Iowa, died 1947, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa; Marie Illingsworth Hood, born November 18, 1886, Council Bluffs; Leslie Illingsworth Hood, born November 9, 1888, Sioux City, died Pasadena, California.

Frank Melville Hood married Marie Loveridge, born October 24, 1886, died September 27, 1948, on March 4, 1905 in Vermillion, South Dakota. Their children were: infant still born 1907; Frances Mildred, born February 18, 1909 (see Lloyd H Fymbo story); and Loveridge, born April 2, 1912, died March 31, 1916.