Hood - Early
Early Hood
Source: Waveland Independent Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana July 17, 1925
On the evening of the Fourth, Willie Moore received a telegram from Glasgow, Ky., saying that his brother-in-law, Early Hood, and his son, Arnold, had been killed by a tree. He jumped at the conclusion that death had been caused by lightening. Mr. Moore, with his wife and children and William Hester left here at ten at night and reached the home of his brother-in-law seven miles from Tompkinsville, at noon the next day. It seems that there had been a storm a few days previously, and that a large red oak had been partially blown down and was resting between two other trees and hanging over the public highway. The supervisor had been notified to look after the tree but had not done so.
The local paper tells the following story about the tragic death of Mr. Hood and his son, and the almost miraculous escape of the wife and two children, Argus and Ina. "A most distressing accident occurred near Mud Lick, Monroe County, last Saturday, in which two lives were snapped out. Mr. and Mrs. Early Hood had attended the "Fourth" celebration at Turner graveyard, and were returning home in their car, when a short distance from home, they had to pass under a dead tree, which leaned over the road so low that the top of the car barely missed the trunk, which was more than 20 inches in diameter.
Mr. Hood and his 13 year old son, Arnold, were on the front seat and just at the moment they were under the tree, it fell with a crash, breaking the necks of both father and son, besides crushing them in a horrible manner, and demolishing the front end of the machine. Mrs. Hood and the two smaller children were on the back seat, and escaped without injury. Mrs. Hood had been in the habit of riding on the front seat with her husband, but that day the boy begged to be allowed to ride in the front seat with his "Daddy" and with his "Daddy" he crossed the river from which there is no return."
Mr. Hood leaves one brother, Mr. Dewey Hood of the same section. He was forty years of age, and was one of the best citizens in this community. His wife was Miss Effie Moore, a daughter of Mr. James Moore of the same community. The burial was in the Cemetery at Bethlehem, Sunday afternoon, in the presence of a great concourse of sorrowing friends, many of whom were from Glasgow and other sections of the County. Rev. Rayburn delivered the discourse and the burial was under the auspices of the Masonic Fraternity, both bodies being buried in the same grave. - typed by kbz