Wife
HOOD, Chloe Lydia 19 Jan 1920 13 May 1983 (w/o William Nathan Hood; d/o William and Snella McCafferty Morris)
Obituary:
Mrs. Chloe Lydia Hood, 63, Goodsprings, died Friday, May 13, 1983, at Parkview Hospital, Nashville. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, May
15, at Bennett-May Chapel with burial in Shores Cemetery, Elmore Howell and James Nave officiating. A native of Giles County, she was the daughter of the
late William and Snella McCafferty Morris and was married to the late Nathan Hood. She was a member of the Baptist Church. She is survived by two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Lila Pearl Barnes, Nashville, and Miss Joyce Patricia Hood, Goodsprings; three sons, Thomas Milton Hood, Goodsprings, Charles Hubert Hood,
Pulaski and Morris Wayne Hood, Lawrenceburg; three sisters, Lillie Mae Glover, Pulaski, Katherine Phillips, Columbia, and Edith Rippy, Nashville; eight
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Husband
HOOD, William Nathan 23 Apr 1911 19 Jul 1974 (h/o Chloe Lydia Morris Hood; s/o Walter Duncan and Martha Frances Curtis Hood)
Obituary:
William Nathan Hood, 63, Maremont-Gabriel employee and farmer of the Shores Community of Giles County was killed instantly in an early afternoon tractor
accident Friday, July 19, on his farm. Funeral services for Mr. Hood were held in the chapel of Bennett-May Funeral Home at 2:00 Sunday afternoon, July 21, con-
ducted by the Rev. Elmer Howell. Burial followed in the Old Shores Cemetery. As related by James D. Nave, a neighbor of Mr. Hood and the one who first found the
body, Mr. Hood was pulling an old horse drawn team mower with his tractor. He started to turn up a small bank when the tractor reared straight up and fell back on
him, crushing him to death. It is thought that Mr. Hood was killed instantly. Mr. Nave discovered the body after two boys first discovered the overturned tractor.
The accident is believed to have taken place sometime between 2:30 and 3:30 Friday afternoon. A native of Alabama, Mr. hood was born April 23, 1911, the
son of William Duncan and Martha Curtis Hood. Mr. Hood is survived by his wife, Chloe Lydia Morris Hood of the Shores Community; two daughters, Mrs.
Lydia Pearl Barnes of Nashville and Miss Joyce Hood, of the Shores Community; three sons, Milton Hood of the Anthony Hill Community, Hubert Hood of Pulaski,
and Wayne Hood of the Shores Community; one brother, Sam Hood of Pulaski; one sister, Mrs. Carrie Evans of the Five Points Community of Lawrence County
and six grandchildren. The Giles County Ambulance Services answered the call. Bennett-May Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Sources are obviously Giles County Tennessee Cemeteries by the Genealogical Society 1986, Newspaper abstracts of Giles County Tennessee 1840 - 1899. Graveyard research by Wayne Austin. Census Records of 1850-1900. Sent in by Sue Davis years ago
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