Hood family gathers for 71st annual family reunion

Descendants of the E.G. and Anna Hood family held their 71st reunion at Diehl Lake. In 1932, E.G. relocated the Ohltown family home up the ridge to Mineral Ridge when the Meander Reservoir was built. Mrs. Hood’s father, Lafayette McCoy, served as a sergeant in the 105th Ohio Infantry during the Civil War and was a casualty of the Battle of Murfreesboro in 1863. He is named on the war memorial in downtown Youngstown. The family celebrated Lelia Hood Sanzenbacher for her upcoming 100th birthday. She is a founding member of the reunion and is a retired from the Austintown school system where she was an elementary school teacher.