This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CI.2ADEB/9302.1 Message Board Post: I found the two surnames interesting. In Chester Co. S.C. in 1850 census there was a William Adams in the home of J.H. Hood living next door to other Adams family members. I believe this is a child of John Adams and Mary Brown who died in 1844 and their children were raised by various family members. Wondered what the connection was to the name Hood.