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NORRIS C. HOOD, farmer and apiarist, post-office Reeds, was born in Maury county, Tenn., Aug. 3, 1843, and when ten years of age he came with his parents to Jasper county. Mo. At the breaking out of the war he became a member of Captain Craven’s Company of Guards, subsequently he enlisted in Company I, First Regiment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and went into active service as body guard to General Herron. Afterwards he composed a part of General Davidson’s cavalry division, and marched from Pilot Knob, Mo., to Little Rock, Ark., and was at the battles of Prairie Grove, Little Rock, Jenkins’ Ferry, and many others of less importance in Arkansas and Missouri; was mustered out June 15, 1865, and returned to his home in Jasper county in August of the same year. He was married Feb. 27, 1867, to Miss Winnie F., daughter of Robert and Lavinia Whittaker. From this union there are two sons and three daughters: Marietta, born Jan. 3, 1868; Eunice H., born March 26, 1869; Almeda O., born Oct. 30, 1870; Ira V., born Jan. 19, 1872; and Constant B., born Nov. 28, 1878. He moved upon the farm where he now lives in 1872; it is situated on Center Creek, two miles southwest from Reeds. For the past four years Mr. Hood has turned his attention to bee culture, and now owns an apiary of thirty-five colonies. He uses an improved hive of his own invention, designed especially to protect the bees from the inclemency of the weather. Evidently it is a valuable adjunct to bee-keeping, as his bees are healthy and remarkably productive.