Patrick Vernon Hood (1908 - 1923)

Ancestors

Died 16 Jan 1923 at age 15 in Herington, Dickinson County, Kansas

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Biography

Patrick Hood died young.

Pat grew up in Herington, Kansas, the son of Nel and Vernon Hood, born January 8, 1908. In the weeks before Pat turned 7 years-old, there was a diphtheria epidemic which killed his younger brother, Willie, December 8, 1914.

During the Holiday season eight years later, Pat was playing with a cap pistol in his coat pocket on his way to St John's Church. He stopped in the park across the road from the church and rinsed his hand in a stream of cool water. He contracted tetanus and died January 16, 1923.

Three siblings survived: a sister (Rose-Mary) and two bothers (Mark and John).

Pat was buried at St Johns Cemetery, Herington, KS

Sources

• Family records and memories of Patrick's sister, Rose-Mary (Hood) Balaun

• US Census Records:

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2CQ-2T7 : accessed 1 August 2020), Patrick V Hood in household of Vernon Hood, Herington Ward 1, Dickinson, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 49, sheet 19B, family 409, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 437; FHL microfilm 1,374,450.

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF67-GSZ : accessed 1 August 2020), household of Vern Hood, Herington, Dickinson, Kansas, United States; citing ED 47, sheet 14A, line 6, family , NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 530; FHL microfilm 1,820,530.

See also: Find A Grave: Memorial #42602961