This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Byrd Hood Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.wilkes/4050.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: He may have some connection to my family. But Im not sure. My Great Aunt Alice Hood married Parks Gordon Byrd b.1887 NC They are in Wilkes on the 1910 and 1930 Census. They are in Browns Creek, Mc Dowell County WV in 1920. My ggrandfather Alfred Hood is Alice's Brother. He relocated from Wilkes to Mc Dowell County WV. He was a coal miner Your Marcus may be related to Parks. If so Park's father is John Byrd and Sarah Henderson ( per Park's death record in Caldwell county)