Joseph Hood & Caroline Downing

Caroline A Downing was the daughter of Hiram Downing and Nancy Vincent.  Hiram and Nancy had 4 children according to sites that I visited but it appears that only Caroline had any family.

Caroline married a farmer named Joseph R Hood who was born in 1831 at Colchester Co, NS, the son of John Hood & Helen Stewart who were from Scotland.  James & Caroline had five children in Nova Scotia and then relocated to Franklin, MA where they had their last child. 

Joseph had become a stone mason in the US and died tragically....

Chester Times, Wed, 1 Sep 1886
A Fatal Refuge From Rain
Franklin, Mass - Sept 1 - Hugh McCloskey and Joseph Hood were run over and killed by a railway car under which they had taken refuge from the rain, supposing it to be detached from the engine.

Once Joseph died, Caroline relocated to Michigan with her youngest and his wife and died in 1921.

courtesy of Susan Connelly & James Bianco

Of their children, Mary Emma married a Herbert Alvin Cook and they are buried at the Union Street Cemetery in Franklin, MA with their 3 children.

courtesy of James Bianco

Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Marion married twice, first to a Joseph Johnson and had one son and then Benjamin Franklin Flagg who she out lived by nearly 50 years.  Benj received a military burial at Riverside Cemetery in Royalston, MA.  Elizabeth was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park cemetery in Glendale, LA where she lived with her son.

courtesy of James R Mason

Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug 1940

Flagg - Lizzie Flagg, beloved mother of Albert Johnson.  Services Wednesday 2 pm from the chapel of Graham and Isbell.

John Thomas married a Marie Bourbeau and she is buried in her father’s family plot at St Mary’s Cemetery, Franklin, MA but I couldn’t find a burial location for John.  He was a blacksmith who might have owned his own shop in Franklin and the family never lived in Rhode Island but that is where John died. 

George William married an Alice Coburn and they lived in California with their children.  George was a milk inspector and is buried at the Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, LA.

Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb 1941

Hood - George W Hood, beloved husband of Alice T Hood; father of Mrs Olive Clare, Mrs Constance Goodykoontz, Mrs Anita Boughman, Albert E, Roy C, and George W Hood Jr.  Services Friday, 2 pm, from the chapel of Graham & Isbell.

Nancy Ellen married William Albert Hewes and they too lived in California, I didn’t find any children for them.

Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar 1930

HEWES - Mar 1, Nancy Helen Hewes, beloved wife of William A Hewes of 2310 Harcourt Street.  Funeral services Tuesday, 2 pm from the Armstrong Funeral Home, 769 Venice Boulevard.

Their baby boy who was born in Massachusetts was James Robert Hood and he married a girl by the name of Cora Angeline, u/k last name.  He died in Merced, CA but I couldn’t find an obit or where he was buried.  

What’s interesting about him was that he a Telephone Installer turned farmer who never owned a phone!