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The Presley Connections~
from NC ... on...
Capt.Tunis Hood Remembered
(a/k/a
Tuenis Hood,
Antuenis Hood)
A cousin of Elvis, and gggranddaughter
of Tunis Hood, Rustee Lane, President of the Mint Hill NC Elvis
Fan Club, took the last full measure of honoring our history and
heritage by insuring that Tunis Hood, progenitor of the Hood clan,
received a special plaque and dedication, attended by many of his
descendants still living in Mint Hill, North Carolina.
This was the Hood family tribute to Tunis, whose
burial place in an unkempt 200-year old cemetery was marked only
by a fieldstone with the initials "T.H." etched on it.
Dr. Chris Hood replaced the stone in 1989 with the one shown in
the photo. During the ceremony, the Hood family descendants in NC
also paid tribute to cousin Elvis and cousin Minnie Mae Hood, also
descendants of Tunis, by placing a marker to Minnie Mae below that
of her ancestor. Rustee did a masterful service to the Hood family
and all Hood relations, and to the memory of Elvis and Minnie Mae,
and we thank her for all her diligent efforts in putting this together.
The Hoods and Presleys lived side-by-side and knew one another since
the early days in North Carolina.
The Hood family became associated with the Harrison family through
Tunis Hood's marriage to Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of Samuel
Harrison and Abigail Smith. The Harrison line gave us three Presidents:
Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, who died while only one
month in office, and Abraham Lincoln, a ggrandson of Isaiah Harrison.
Regarding Tunis Hood, well, he was one of Mecklenburg
County's most prominent citizens. He was county commissioner for 10
years, and third largest plantation owner, owning 2,000 acres of land
along the McAlpine Creek. He provided supplies for the patriots during
the American Revolution. He was a Dutch farmer, born in New York,
and raised in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Tunis followed his sons to Mecklenburg County, NC, in 1775 where he
died in 1797.
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Tunis Hood Family descendants
of Mecklenburg County, NC. Rustee Lane is in white shirt holding
program. (click photo to enlarge)
Below is the monument
dedicated to Tunis Hood at his grave and also the plaque denoting
where his home stood in Mint Hill, NC. (click to enlarge)
Dr. Chris Hood
 Rustee
Lane here with Dr. Chris Hood and family.
(click to enlarge}
Dr.Hood was
responsible for placing the present- day tombstone for Tunis in
1989.
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Minnie
Mae's father was William Hood married
Minnie
Mae Hood
