General Notes

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These family notes were written by Daisy Roulston, great granddaug
ht er of Judia and W.B.
Judia (grandma) Underwood is remembered by her grandchildren (at t
he ti me these notes were written some were still alive) as being tall a
nd not t oo heavy, she was a clean and neat person. She always carri
ed an old Bar lo knife to clean her pipe as she smoked a clay pipe. Geor
ge Underwood, Fr ank Deeds and Jennie Deeds Langsford (her grandchildre
n) can remember ligh ting her pipe by taking a small coal of fire from t
he big open fireplace a nd placing it on the tobacco in the pipe. She w
as almost blind and would h ave one of the children walk in front of h
er so she could see the bu lk of them to find her way. But in her last da
ys she was totally blind.
She was living with her son Lawrence and family when she died. Th
ey we nt to wake her one morning and she was dead, she had died in her sle
ep. Th ey were living at Bates, Arkansas and she is buried there. She liv
ed arou nd forty years after William Berry died. Her and the boys farme
d. Later Wi lliam Frank , Edd(my grandfather), Bob and Lawrence all move
d. Then Lawren ce moved back to Delaware.
I have heard my daddy tell about when Lawrence moved back from Bat
es he w as over there and came back with them. They moved by wagon and tea
m, b ut I don't know what kind of team they had. They came over the moun
ta in at Driggs and it was pretty rough. He said they would take turns a
bo ut riding as it was too big a load for them to all ride. I think t
he te am was oxen as that is what they used to log with. They worked in t
he timb er.
While talking to my uncle Arthur Rollans he told me about his Grandma Un
de rwood(Judia) and when she lived just west of the Graves Cemetery on t
he no rth side of the road(now hwy 22). We do nor know what year this wa
s, but w hile she lived there she heard what she thought was a woman screa
ming a nd she answered the screaming. It was coming closer and she discov
er ed it was a panther. It frightened her so she got the children and cl
os ed up the house. (Daisey states that she doesnt know the rest of the st
ory )
It may be that Grandpa and Grandma lived at the same place when he w
as hu rt by the negro slave and died some time later. We have no way of kn
owi ng except that he was on the creek at the time he was attacked some w
he re near Tall Lynn place.
Grandma had a brother (Bart or Barton) who ran the Burnham ferry about 1
87 5. He could remember that himself.
Grandmas father and brothers had been ferrymen and wood cutters. Just w
he re they lived or where they are buried so far we do not know. B
ut we do kn ow that the US Census have them listed in Shoal Creek and Dela
ware Townshi ps.