Annie Easton

1874 - 1962  (87 years)

• Name	Annie Easton
  Born	26 Sep 1874	Wallacestone, Stirlingshire, Scotland
  Gender	Female
  Died	17 Jul 1962	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Buried	21 Jul 1962	Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States
  Person ID	I872	Mortensen-Jensen
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2015

  
  

  Family	Thomas Hood,   b. 13 Mar 1868, West Calder, West Lothian, Scotland ,   d. 10 Oct 1931, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States  (Age 63 years)
  Married	28 Jun 1890	Almy, Uinta, Wyoming, United States
  Children	1. Neil Stillman Hood,   b. 12 May 1914, Fairview, Uinta, Wyoming, United States ,   d. 18 Jul 1984, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  (Age 70 years)
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2015
  Family ID	F335	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Married - 28 Jun 1890 - Almy, Uinta, Wyoming, United States Died - 17 Jul 1962 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Buried - 21 Jul 1962 - Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States  = Link to Google Earth
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  Annie Easton Hood

  
  

  Documents		Marriage record for Thomas Hood and Annie Easton, 1890
  		1940 US Census, Lincoln County, Wyoming Hood, Thomas-Head-M-W-62-M-Scotland Hood, Annie-Wife-F-W-55-M-Scotland Hood, Easton-Son-M-W-23-Wyoming Hood, Flora-Daughter-F-W-19-S-Wyoming Hood, Neil S-Son-M-W-15-S-Wyoming Hood, Francis F-Son-M-W-13-S-Wyoming

  
  

  Headstones

  Headstone for Annie Easton Hood Wife of Thomas Hood

  
  

• Notes

  Obituary for Annie Easton Hood (19 July 1962) Star Valley Independent Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Afton Second-Third Ward Chapel for Mrs Annie Easton Hood, who died in a rest home in Salt Lake City Tuesday. Burial will be in the Fairview Cemetery. Mrs Hood was a lifelong pioneer resident of Star valley, and moved to the rest home only a short time ago, after she became aged and feeble. The Independent will endeavor to have a suitable obituary in next week's issue. Funeral Services Are Held for Annie E. Hood Funeral services were held Saturday, July 21 in the Afton LDS Second Third Ward Chapel for Annie Easton Hood, who died July 17 in a Salt Lake City rest home. Services were conducted by Bp. Neal Kennington. Interment was in the Fairview Cemetery. Annie Easton was born on Sept 26, 1874 in Wallacestone Stirlingshire, Scotland, the daughter of Alexander and Janet Wetherspoon Easton. Her formal schooling ws received at Longrigg, Lanarkshire, Scotland until she was 11 years of age at which time with her mother and four brothers, set sail from Liverpool England for America. They arrived in New York City in June of 1886, and Annie, her mother and brother, William went to a small town in Illinois. Her other brothers went to Richfield, Utah where they soon heard of the coal mines near Almy Wyo. Being coal miners, they sent for the rest of the family in Illinois. Annie was baptized a member of the LDS Church soon after they moved to Wyoming. When 14, Annie met her future husband, Thomas Hood, when he threw a snowball at her, thus beginning a courtship that resulted in marriage 2 1/2 years later on June 28, 1890. They were married in Almy and then traveled to Logan to be sealed in the temple. They lived in Almy for two years and moved to Star Valley in July 1892, when homestead land was opened for settlement. While unloading the wagon in Star Valley, Mr Hood was accidentally shot in the arm by his shotgun. The wound took about a year to heal. Annie was left alone much of the time the first winter in Star Valley, as Mr Hood had to work and could not get home some of the time. During the next 12 years they moved back and forth from Star Valley to Almy several times. In 1912 they bought ground near Fairview and built a home. here, the last two sons were born, making 13 children in all. In 1923 the family moved to Frontier, Wyo., where they lived for eight years until the depression in 1931. They moved back to Fairview, where Mr Hood passed away in September 1931/ Annie lived in Star Valley until 1961, when she went to Salt Lake City to the Crestwood Rest Home to live. She moved to Afton in 1941. She loved to sing and did so many times with church and civic groups. In 1904 she went to Salt Lake and studied music under Evan Stephans, the famed Tabernacle Choir leader. Mrs Hood was preceded in death by seven of her 13 children, Thomas, Mary, James, Clarence, Annie, Bessie and flora. Her six living children are Janet, Beatrice, Ralph, Easton, Neil and Francis. Her posterity numbers well over 200. It was stated at her funeral that she lived a full rich life. Those attending the funeral from out of town were: Mr and Mrs William I. Gomm and daughter, Alda Mae, of Roy, Utah; Mrs Beatrice Campbell, Mr and Mrs Irid Schnyder, Mr and Mrs Jerald Walker of Lewisville, Idaho; Ralph Hood, Wake Island, Pacific; Paul Robison and Mr and Mrs grant Callister and family of Fillmore, Utah; Mr and Mrs Neil S. Hood and two children, Mr and Mrs Francis F. Hood and sons and Mr and Mrs Easton Robison and family of Salt Lake City; Roy Beachler, Mrs Mae Beutler and Mrs Olive Beachler of Kemmerer; Mr and Mrs Wallace Hughes and family of Redding Calif,; Mr and Mrs Thomas E. Hood of Provo; and Mr Warren G. Allred of Albuquerque N.M.