He is married to Mary Wallace.
They got married about 1770 at Ireland.
Child(ren):
Another version from Theresa Hazlerig:
Having come to this country in early life, he was sixteen years of age at the time when the war with England was inaugurated. He joined a cavalry company and was soon afterward elected captain, serving with that rank until after the cessation of hostilities. After his return to civil life he married Mary Wallace, whose acquaintance he had made in rather a romantic way. While stopping at her father's house for a meal one day he met the little maiden, then twelve years of age. She cooked his dinner for him and his men, and his attention being attracted, on leaving the place he told her that he would return for her after the war; which he did and she became his wife. She was Irish or Scotch and of a noble family. She performed some noble deeds, and at one time was instrumental in securing the arrest of a band of Tories. About fifteen in number, they called at her father's home and demanded dinner. They also made free to feed their horses, and finding some apple brandy they became very drunk. When little Mary's mother was apparently cheerfully preparing their dinner, the daughter ran as fast as she could to a swamp to notify a little band of Whigs, who made a rush on the place and captured the entire number of Tories, two of whom they hung for having previously committed a murder. Captain Hood put up the first cotton gin in the York district of South Carolina, and while at work at his bench after the war he one day heard some men who were standing on the other side of the bench discuss the war. One of them called out, "Hurrah for King George!" Whereupon Captain Hood jumped across the bench, seized the man by the hair, jerked him down and with a handsaw commenced to saw off his head. The fellow begged and pleaded for mercy, and finally took the oath never to mention the name of King George again long as he lived. His neck was badly cut with the saw, but his patriotic assailant nursed him well again and the man became a good neighbor. Captain Hood was a member of the Seceder or Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church, to which his wife also belonged. She died in Texas at the age of ninety-two years, and was buried at Mount Vernon. She was blind for several years before her death. Her physician said that she could repeat about one-half of the Bible, and this was a great comfort to her, and she died in the firm belief in an immortality.
Biographical Sketch of Captain John Hood
By Phil Norfleet
Captain John Hood is the man who murdered Lieut. Colonel John Mayfield, the Tory, by shooting him in the back!
The Draper Manuscripts, Sumter Papers, at pages 16VV321 - 323, contain part of an interview conducted by Dr. John H. Logan, in about 1858, with Colonel A. S. Wallace regarding his recollections of events that occurred during the Revolution. The interview contains several references to Captain John Hood and Major James Meek, including an account of their murder of Lieutenant-Colonel John Mayfield, as follows:
" ... Maj. [James] Meek, Capt. John Hood & several other Whig partisans succeeded in ridding the Country of the notorious Mayfield of Union, whose house was the rallying point for the Tories. He was a muscular bully of the time, and kept also a grocery. He was disposed of in the following manner: They dressed themselves in British uniforms & approached the house dragging Meek along with them as a Whig prisoner. Mayfield knew none of them, & was disposed to believe them to be what they seemed; but before getting quite into their hands, he suspected something, & turned to fly. Hood exclaimed "You may run sir, but I have something here to overtake you" & leveling his rifle [he] shot him dead. The ball passed through his head. Meek was father-in-law of Mr. John S. Moore of York.
"Meek and Hood went side by side through all the privations and dangers of the Revolution and escaped without a wound. They were at Briar Creek, Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock, Sumter's Defeat, Fishing Creek, Fish Dam Ford, Blackstocks, Biggin Church and Eutaw Springs. At Eutaw Springs Hood's hunting shirt was pierced with seven bullets.
"At [the battle of] Fishing Creek, Hood lost his gun and horse [and] escaped on foot. The camp was totally unprepared for an attack. Some of the men were asleep, some bathing in the creek, some playing cards and some cooking. Sumter was asleep in a brush tent and when awakened by his men on the approach of the enemy, he rose up, rubbed his eyes, took in at a glance his situation and exclaimed, "let every man take care of himself!" Wilson says that he sprung upon his horse, jerked the bridle from the limb to which it was hitched, and made his escape with a couple of British troopers close on his heels, across the old Nation Ford.
"Hood was an Irishman, a most excellent man, a millwright, brave and generous to a fault, but uncompromising and unforgiving to the Tories. He did good service after the War in ridding the country of the race of horse thieves that then infested it. He lived on Clark's Fork just above its junction with Bullock's Creek. He died about forty years ago [prior probably to about 1858 - which would indicate about 1818 - note by Lyman Draper] in the Sequatchie Valley of Tennessee. His widow, Mary Hood, removed to Texas, Titus County, and died there in 1857.
"Hood, towards the close of the War, in the reckless license of the times, shot a Tory while sitting in his wife's lap; he [the Tory] had just come in from his camp or hiding place to see his family and Hood ... stopped his career forever. This act he [Hood] never ceased to regret and to affect his life. He became ever afterwards nervous and cowardly. He was especially afraid of thunder storms and would skulk away into some hiding place with fear and trembling."
The QuarterlyMarch 1990
SUGGS-HOOD DESCENDANTS MOVE TO OKLAHOMA
(The following is copied from a biographical sketch of Col. Sidney Suggs of Ardmore, Oklahoma, and was printed in Indian Territory--Descriptive Biographical and Genealogical...The Lewis Publishing Co., New York and Chicago, 1901. Thanks to Dr. Mel Meek for sharing it with us.)
....The [Suggs] family is of Dutch and Welsh lineage and the ancestry can be traced back to George Sugg the great-grandfather of our subject. Before or about the time of the Revolutionary War he and his brother Harbard added the "s" to the name. George Suggs served his country in the war for independence and was an army officer, probably a colonel. After the successful establishment of the republic he built his house on the boundary line between North and South Carolina. He married Miss Katherine Sanders, and they became the parents of three sons: Laban, the grandfather of our subject, Thomas E., and John, known as Jack Green. The last named was never married. The daughters of the family were Luvenia, Mary and Ione. The first named married Joseph Kendrick and reared a large number of children, some of their descendants now being residents of Texas. Mary, who was called Polly, married Tom Johnson, and Ione became the wife of Jacob Harry and had three children--Amanda, Ione and John. After the death of his first wife, George Suggs married a Miss Ward and had four children: George, William, Wiley and Mulvina. The father of these children was either English or Scotch, and it is believed that he was reared in England, near the Scotch border. After coming to America he prospered, and in his life followed the Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member.
On the maternal side Colonel Suggs, of this review, traces his ancestry back to Captain John Hood, one of his great-grandfathers and a native of Ireland. Having come to this country in early life, he was sixteen years of age at the time when the war with England was inaugurated. He joined a cavalry company and was soon afterward elected captain, serving with that rank until after the cessation of hostilities. After his return to civil life he married Mary Wallace, whose acquaintance he had made in rather a romantic way. While stopping at her father's house for a meal one day he met the little maiden, then twelve years of age. She cooked his dinner for him and his men, and his attention being attracted, on leaving the place he told her that he would return for her after the war; which he did and she became his wife. She was Irish or Scotch and of a noble family. She performed some noble deeds, and at one time was instrumental in securing the arrest of a band of Tories. About fifteen in number, they called at her father's home and demanded dinner. They also made free to feed their horses, and finding some apple brandy they became very drunk. When little Mary's mother was apparently cheerfully preparing their dinner, the daughter ran as fast as she could to a swamp to notify a little band of Whigs, who made a rush on the place and captured the entire number of Tories, two of whom they hung for having previously committed a murder.
Captain Hood put up the first cotton gin in the York district of South Carolina, and while at work at his bench after the war he one day heard some men who were standing on the other side of the bench discuss the war. One of them called out, "Hurrah for King George!" Whereupon Captain Hood jumped across the bench, siezed the man by the hair, jerked him down and with a handsaw commenced to saw off his head. The fellow begged and pleaded for mercy, and finally took the oath never to mention the name of King George again long as he lived. His neck was badly cut with the saw, but his patriotic assailant nursed him well again and the man became a good neighbor. Captain Hood was a member of the Seceder or Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church, to which his wife also belonged. She died in Texas at the age of ninety-two years, and was buried at Mount Vernon. She was blind for several years before her death. Her physician said that she could repeat about one-half of the Bible, and this was a great comfort to her, and she died in the firm belief in an immortality.
Laban Suggs, the grandfather of our subject, was married at the age of eighteen years to Ione Hood, the daughter of the worthy couple mentioned above. She was then sixteen years of age. They bought a tract of land five miles north of Yorkville, South Carolina, and there Laban Suggs developed a fine farm. In their family were fourteen children, of whom two died in childhood, while twelve reached maturity, namely: George, John, Isaac, Andrew, Green, William, Sylvanus, Josiah, Mary, Katherine, Martha and Clementine....
Dr. Isaac T. Suggs, the father of our subject, was born and reared in South Carolina, and near Yorkville married Miss Jane Fullwood. Her grandmother was born while her parents were on the ocean, probably at the time when they were emigrating to America. The ancestors came from Holland. Robert Fullwood, the grandfather of Colonel Suggs, married a Mrs. White, a widow, who had one son, Joe, who was the owner of a fine estate in the Sumter District of South Carolina, and afterward removed to Georgia. After the death of his first wife Robert Fullwood married a Miss McGee, a daughter of Colonel McGee, of a good family of York District. Soon after their marriage Dr. Suggs and his wife removed to Mississippi, in 1838, remaining there until 1866, when they went to Texas, settling in Mount Pleasant, where they spent their remaining days, the Doctor's death occurring in September 1877, when he was seventy-four years of age, while his wife was called to her final rest in January, 1891, when seventy-one years of age. He was a post surgeon and had charge of the hospital at Tupelo, Mississippi.
[The last part of the article told of Sidney Suggs' highly successful business career. With his brother, Hugh, he operated a cotton gin, corn and flour mills, a saw-mill and lumber yard, and they had a herd of high-grade cattle. Sidney Suggs also published a newspaper in Ardmore, Oklahoma.]
Data From Dan Bradshaw (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX) posted 25 Aug 2001
Name: John HOOD
Given Name: John
Surname: Hood
Sex: M
Birth: 1750 in Ireland
Death: 1814 in ,Bledsoe,Tennessee
Change Date: 13 Jun 2000
Note: !Family records, Joseph Hart papers, Hisorical center, SC. Willleft in York Co., SC.
Marriage 1 Mary WALLACE b: Cal 1767 in ,,Ireland
Children
Robert HOOD b: 1771
Mary HOOD b: 1773 in ,,Ireland
George HOOD b: 1775 in ,,Ireland
Isabelle "Iby" HOOD
Elizabeth HOOD
Agnes HOOD
Martha HOOD
Permilia HOOD
Malinda Jane HOOD
James HOOD
Jane HOOD b: 3 Dec 1790 in York,South Carolina
Following data from Theresa Hazlerig (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)
Having come to this country in early life, he was sixteen years of age atthe time when the war with England was inaugurated. He joined a cavalrycompany and was soon afterward elected captain, serving with that rankuntil after the cessation of hostilities. After his return to civil lifehe married Mary Wallace, whose acquaintance he had made in rather aromantic way. While stopping at her father's house for a meal one day hemet the little maiden, then twelve years of age. She cooked his dinnerfor him and his men, and his attention being attracted, on leaving theplace he told her that he would return for her after the war; which hedid and she became his wife. She was Irish or Scotch and of a noblefamily. She performed some noble deeds, and at one time was instrumentalin securing the arrest of a band of Tories. About fifteen in number, theycalled at her father's home and demanded dinner. They also made free tofeed their horses, and finding some apple brandy they became very drunk.When little Mary's mother was apparently cheerfully preparing theirdinner, the daughter ran as fast as she could to a swamp to notify alittle band of Whigs, who made a rush on the place and captured theentire number of Tories, two of whom they hung for having previouslycommitted a murder.
Captain Hood put up the first cotton gin in the York district of SouthCarolina, and while at work at his bench after the war he one day heardsome men who were standing on the other side of the bench discuss thewar. One of them called out, "Hurrah for King George!" Whereupon CaptainHood jumped across the bench, seized the man by the hair, jerked him downand with a handsaw commenced to saw off his head. The fellow begged andpleaded for mercy, and finally took the oath never to mention the name ofKing George again long as he lived. His neck was badly cut with the saw,but his patriotic assailant nursed him well again and the man became agood neighbor.
Captain Hood was a member of rhe Seceder or Associated ReformedPresbyterian Church, to which his wife also belonged. She died in Texasat the age of ninety-two years, and was buried at Mount Vernon. She wasblind for several years before her death. Her physician said that shecould repeat about one-half of the Bible, and this was a great comfort toher, and she died in the firm belief in an immortality.
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