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Adelaide Louise Ferris |
George Kendall Hooton, 1945 |
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Adelaide Louise Ferris |
George Kendall Hooton, 1945 |
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Adelaide Louise Ferris 22 mos. old -- December 1899 |
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Adelaide Louise Ferris Hooton, ca. 1943 |
Nancy and Daniel Hooton |
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Daniel and Nancy Hooton 1929 |
Kendall and Adelaide Louise Ferris Hooton 1925 |
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Nancy Hooton Underwood 1943
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Nancy and Boyd Underwood 1990 |
Nancy, Boyd, daughter Susan, son David 1994 |
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Susan Louise Underwood Kramp, daughter of Nancy and Boyd Underwood, great granddaughter of F. M. Ferris |
David Kendall Underwood, son of Nancy and Boyd Underwood, great grandson of F.M. Ferris |
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Left to right: Top row: Daniel Hooton, Daniel Hooton Jr. Bottom Row: Janice, Mary Ann, and Jonathan Hooton 1968 |
From a letter from Dan to Byron: I knew your grandfather and grandmother (Marion and Ethel) very well. On those occasions when we would drive to Chicago, I would stay overnight at their house in La Grange and also at Aunt Jessie Moyer, our great- grandmother Addie's sister. Your uncle Ted and I were about the same age. Your uncle Jimmy spent some time with us in Danville one summer prior to the war. He bought an old second hand guitar, taught me how to play a few chords and gave it to me as a present when he left. All the brothers were musical and I imagine your mom and Molly were, too. Ray and June were active in the Barbershop society which was one of my serious interests also. The last time I saw your uncle Fran was in 1964 when we lived in Hinsdale, IL. Saw your mom several times when Bobbie (Moyer) Kidston would have family get-togethers. The picture of the Wisconsin farm brought back memories. I spent two whole summers working on it -1942 & 1943. Bob Ferris and I were the same age which made it nice. We both entered the Navy in 1944. I think the departure of his labor force convinced Uncle Bud to give up farming and try his hand at a farm implement dealership which he did and which cousin Bob carried on after his dad died.
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(Double picture of) Christine Louise Poulin, Granddaughter of Nancy and Boyd Underwood |
Jason Phillip Poulin, Grandson of Nancy and Boyd Underwood
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Mary Elizabeth, Nora, and Jon Hooton, 1999 |
THE HOOTON FAMILY
By Nancy Underwood,1998
The Hooton family of Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois was established in 1846 by the arrival of Reason Alva Hooton and his family. He and his wife Nancy Mullen had eight children born to them between 1832 and 1852. Reason was considered a substantial citizen of the town. Abraham Lincoln was his friend. Danville was one of Lincoln's stops on his circuit as a young lawyer in Illinos. Reason Hooton's name was put into nomination for Vice President of the United States by the Illinois Delegation to the Democratic convention of 1856. Reason declared he had no wish to be a candidate and, over the objections of his supporters, he asked that his name be withdrawn.
Reason Hooton's great grandson George Kendall Hooton was born in Danville in 1895. He attended Lake Forest Academy and served with the Field Artillery in the famous 42nd "Rainbow" Division in France during WWI. In 1920 he married Adelaide Louise Ferris, only daughter of Francis Marion Ferris. The Ferris family came to Danville from Kansas City, Missouri in 1896 when Adelaide was a year old.
Kendall, along with his father Charles B. Hooton, carried on with the family lumber business begun by Kendall's grandfather George Washington Hooton. When the depression hit the business began to fail and was finally sold in 1938. Subsequently Kendall received an appointment to the State of Illinois Insurance Department. At the time of his death in 1964 he was Acting Chief Examiner.
Kendall and Adelaide Hooton had a daughter Nancy Louise and a son Daniel Edwards. Nancy attended MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. In 1946 she married Boyd D. Underwood, her high school sweetheart, upon his return from service with the 12th Armored Division, European Theater, in WWII. Boyd secured a position with Bankers Life & Casualty Company in Chicago, Illinois as Assistant to the Treasurer. A company owned by the billionaire John D. MacArthur. Boyd stayed with this organization for 42 years ... moving to Birmingham, Alabama in 1953 and subsequently to Florida in 1962. Ultimately serving as Director of Operations for the Florida office. He retired in 1988.
Boyd and Nancy had a daughter Susan Louise and a son David, both born in Chicago. Susan married her 1st husband in 1973 and they had a son Jason Phillip and a daughter Christine Louise. Susan married again in 1995. She works as a secretary in a law office in Lake Worth, Florida. Jason has a managerial position with the Publix Supermarket chain. Christine is still in high school. David is a confirmed bachelor and has a position in the Dietary Divison of JFK Hospital in Atlantis, Florida.
Daniel Edwards Hooton served stateside in the U.S. Navy in WWII. After his discharge he attended and graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Bacteriology. While at the university he met his future wife Janice Roberts and they married in 1951. Daniel had positions with various companies: the Research Divison of the Glidden Company in Chicago, then moved to San Francisco, later was with the Anderson Clayton firm in Houston and Dallas, Texas. Ultimately settling in Minneapolis, first with Dawson Mills and then with Land O'Lakes. He retired to Bella Vista, Arkansas several years ago.
Dan and Janice Hooton's children are Daniel Edwards Jr., Jonathan Roberts, and Mary Ann. Daniel Jr. is an officer in the US Air Force stationed at the Pentagon. He has recently been selected for promotion to Lt. Colonel. He and his wife Joyce live in Waldorf, Maryland and have five children: Daniel Edwards III, Julie Suzanne, Rachel Christine, Christopher Michael, and Jennifer. Daniel III attends Texas Tech at Lubbock. Julie is enrolled at a community college studying nursing.
After Kendall Hooton died in 1964, Adelaide returned to Danville to live where she had an extensive circle of friends, all widowed as she was. She remained there for 19 years but divided her time between visiting with Dan and his family once a year or so and spending her winters with Nancy and her family in Florida. She moved to Florida permanently in the fall of 1983 and passed away a year later November 1, 1984.
Jonathan has a Masters Degree in Agriculture from Texas Tech and owns a thriving business in Plainview, Texas. Mary Ann has a degree in languages and teaches English as a second language at a college and lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
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