Lake County Biographies

Erastus Claburn Hood was born August 1865, Harris County, Georgia, son of Erastus C. Hood and Mary A. L. Cochran.  He died June 22, 1927, Cataula, Harris County, Georgia and was buried Lone Oak Cemetery, Leesburg, Florida.

 

E. C. married Lola E. Wright, October 20. 1891, Ocala, Marion County, Florida.

 

Lola was born February 1866 in Union Springs, Bullock, Alabama, daughter of Robert G. Wright and Jane G. Frazier Jelks.  She died June 1958 and was buried Lone Oak Cemetery, Leesburg, Florida.

Jane “Jennie” Mary born October 22, 1892 and died January 12, 1977.  She married December 2, 1914, Julian Herndon born February 5, 1887, Elberton, Georgia, and died October 1966.  Children: Lola Elizabeth Herndon Matthews & Julian H. Herndon, Jr

 

Elizabeth was born January 6, 1896, Columbus, Georgia and died Leesburg, February 22, 1938.  She married about 1917, James Harper Worrill, born December 19, 1891 and died April 5, 1961.

Children: James Harper Worrill Jr, Edmond Hood Worrill, Elizabeth “Betty” J. Worrill (m. Basil Lionel Truscott)

Submitted by: GFahs@aol.com