General Notes

REFN: 9573
[lillief.ged]
Rev. Hiram C. Underwood who lived near the Crooked Sourwood, was sudd
en ly and unexpectedly stricken with paralysis last Wednesday night abo
ut 7 o 'clock while at Zion Church, dying the next day about 11o'clock a.
m.  He l ived 72 years, 2 months and 23 days. He leaves an afflicted wif
e, two brot hers, one sister, two  daughters and many othe near  and de
ar relatives a nd friends to morn his loss. He came to church that eveni
ng apparent ly in his usual health and opened the services with an appreci
ative religi ous talk and then called on a brother in the assembly to le
ad in prayer, a fterwich when a sony had been sung the minister rose to co
ntinue the servi ce. In a few moments brother was seen falling out of t
he chair in wahin ch he was sitting in the rostrum. Immediately he was lif
ted up by frien ds and carried to the other end of the church and soon aft
erward was tak en to his buggy and carried home, a distance of about a mi
le and a hal f. He spoke few sords after the stroke but soon became uncons
ious . Aft er death his body was brought back to the church where the fune
ral servic es were conducted by Rev. Lewis Warren, after which the body w
as laid to r est in the Sprowls buring ground on Alex Fork of Pitman Cree
k, Kentucky.