General Notes

These family notes were written by Daisy Roulston, great granddaughter of Judia and W.B.

Judia (grandma) Underwood is remembered by her grandchildren (at the time these notes were written some were still alive) as being tall and not too heavy, she was a clean and neat person. She always carried an old Barlo knife to clean her pipe as she smoked a clay pipe. George Underwood, Frank Deeds and Jennie Deeds Langsford (her grandchildren) can remember lighting her pipe by taking a small coal of fire from the big open fireplace and placing it on the tobacco in the pipe. She was almost blind and would have one of the children walk in front of her so she could see the bulk of them to find her way. But in her last days she was totally blind.

She was living with her son Lawrence and family when she died. They went to wake her one morning and she was dead, she had died in her sleep. They were living at Bates, Arkansas and she is buried there. She lived around forty years after William Berry died. Her and the boys farmed. Later William Frank , Edd(my grandfather), Bob and Lawrence all moved. Then Lawrence moved back to Delaware.

I have heard my daddy tell about when Lawrence moved back from Bates he was over there and came back with them. They moved by wagon and team, but I don't know what kind of team they had. They came over the mountain at Driggs and it was pretty rough. He said they would take turns about riding as it was too big a load for them to all ride. I think the team was oxen as that is what they used to log with. They worked in the timber.

While talking to my uncle Arthur Rollans he told me about his Grandma Underwood(Judia) and when she lived just west of the Graves Cemetery on the north side of the road(now hwy 22). We do nor know what year this was, but while she lived there she heard what she thought was a woman screaming and she answered the screaming. It was coming closer and she discovered it was a panther. It frightened her so she got the children and closed up the house. (Daisey states that she doesnt know the rest of the story)
It may be that Grandpa and Grandma lived at the same place when he was hurt by the negro slave and died some time later. We have no way of knowing except that he was on the creek at the time he was attacked some where near Tall Lynn place.

Grandma had a brother (Bart or Barton) who ran the Burnham ferry about 1875. He could remember that himself.
Grandmas father and brothers had been ferrymen and wood cutters. Just where they lived or where they are buried so far we do not know. But we do know that the US Census have them listed in Shoal Creek and Delaware Townships.