FOURTH GENERATION

66. Ransom HOOKS was born on 22 Jun 1865.⁽⁴⁹⁾ He died on 24 Feb 1932.^{(50) (49)} Ransom helped pay for Bennett Hardy Hooks' funeral.
Ransom gave money to son (Barnes Hooks) to build a brick house in country so he could live with one of this children; after house was built, his son said there was no room for him. Ransom committed suicide soon after.
Bertha cheated out of any inheritance because estate was settled without letting her know about his death. She was told it was an oversight.
He had been dead a little more than a year before Bertha found out. Mary Louise wrote a letter to her grandfather (Ransom) and it was delivered to Ransom Pollard by mistake. (He was named after Ransom Hooks.) Ransom Pollard wrote Mary Louise to tell her that Ransom Hooks had died about a year earlier. This is how family found out. He was a farmer in Fremont, NC.^{(51) (50)} "had large fruit orchards; shipped fruit all over" He was buried in Hooks-Bass Cemetery, S.R. 1354, Fremont, NC.⁽⁴⁹⁾

He was married to Lou SASSER.⁽⁵¹⁾ Lou Sasser was Ransom Hooks' "last wife" Ransom HOOKS and Lou SASSER had the following children:

+125 i. Barnes C. HOOKS.
+126 ii. Bennett Hardy HOOKS.