When Starling Walker Hood was born on 10 August 1884, in Pickens, South Carolina, United States, his father, Starling Jones Hood, was 40 and his mother, Arvilla R. Watson, was 35. He married Sarah Bell Duncan about 1905. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Dacusville, Pickens, South Carolina, United States in 1900 and Pickens, Pickens, South Carolina, United States in 1910. He died on 18 July 1964, in Williamston, Anderson, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Williamston Cemetery, Anderson, South Carolina, United States.
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English hod, hood, hodde ‘hood’, either for someone who wore a hood (like the medieval folk hero Robin Hood) or who made and sold hoods. In Kent and Sussex the name may sometimes have been confused with Hoad .
English: from the Middle English personal name Hod(e), a variant of Ode or Odd with prosthetic H-; see Ott and Oates and compare Hodson 2.
English and Scottish: variant of Hudd, from the Middle English personal name Hudde, Hutte, which could represent Old English Hud(d)a or its ancient Germanic equivalent Hud(d)o, but is more likely from Anglo-Norman French Hud(de), a pet form of Hugh.
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