General Notes

Rev. Hiram C. Underwood who lived near the Crooked Sourwood, was suddenly and unexpectedly stricken with paralysis last Wednesday night about 7 o'clock while at Zion Church, dying the next day about 11o'clock a.m.  He lived 72 years, 2 months and 23 days. He leaves an afflicted wife, two brothers, one sister, two  daughters and many othe near  and dear relatives and friends to morn his loss. He came to church that evening apparently in his usual health and opened the services with an appreciative religious talk and then called on a brother in the assembly to lead in prayer, afterwich when a sony had been sung the minister rose to continue the service. In a few moments brother was seen falling out of the chair in wahinch he was sitting in the rostrum. Immediately he was lifted up by friends and carried to the other end of the church and soon afterward was taken to his buggy and carried home, a distance of about a mile and a half. He spoke few sords after the stroke but soon became unconsious . After death his body was brought back to the church where the funeral services were conducted by Rev. Lewis Warren, after which the body was laid to rest in the Sprowls buring ground on Alex Fork of Pitman Creek, Kentucky.