Hood - Forest
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Wednesday 30 Sept 1891
One mile east of the city there is a neighborhood which Dr. Taylor yesterday placed in quarantine. Several families there are down with diphtheria and a very malignant form of it. Yesterday afternoon, Forest, the five year old son of A. W. Hood and wife, died and his elder brother is not expected to live. Several other cases in the same neighborhood are very likely to prove fatal and the health officers are taking every precaution to prevent the disease getting out of the neighborhood and to this city, where it would prove a terrible thing. The funeral of the little Hood boy was strictly private and the family in which the disease has manifested itself are not allowed to mingle with the neighbors who have as yet escaped. This is something more than a scare and parents would do well to look after the health of their children and be extremely cautious about exposing them.
Source: Weekly Argus News 3 Oct 1891 p 1
Forest, the five-year-old son of AW and India Hood, died with diptheria at their home east of Crawfordsville yesterday afternoon. Their seven-year-old son Harold died with the same disease this morning.