| General Family Notes | ||||||||||
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| PHOTOGRAPHS and DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE UNDERWOOD'S | ||||||||||
| Some experiences of WILLIAM BERRY | |||||||||||
| William Berry enlisted in the army during the Civil war on February 28, 1862 at Dardenelle, Arkansas. He served with the Confederacy in Company K, 31st Regiment, Arkansas Infantry. Like many other soldiers from Logan County who served in the war, William Berry learned that the real dangers and horrors were to be found more in the home territory than in the battlefields. He was attacked by a slave just before the close of the war. He met a black man on a foot log neat Tall Lynn's place on the Deleware creek. The black man was a run away slave and was afraid that Underwood would tell his master, so the Negro said "dead men don't tell tales" and stab bed Underwood with a knife and cut him across the stomach. They were fighting in the water and Underwood had the black man almost drowned when he noticed his own entrails floating in the water. Underwood let the black man go and gathered up his entrails and walked a half mile to a house. They got a Dr. from Dardenelle. By that time the entrails were swollen badly, so they took a tub of warm water and got the swelling out. The Dr. put the entrails back and sewed him up, and Underwood survived the ordeal. However, he lived only a year or two after that, his death on February 3,1867 was caused by these injuries. He was 46 years of age. This information was submitted to the Logan County Arkansas "Is History and Its People" by Mrs. Arthur Rotert. 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 Bar lo 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 doesn't know the rest of the story ). It may be that Grandpa and Grandma lived at the same place when he was hurt by the black man 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 whe re 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. | |||||||||||
| An item concerning WILLIAM BERRY UNDERWOOD and his wife JUDIA | |||||||||||
| William Berry is buried at the Graves Cemetery in Delaware, Logan County, Arkansas and Judia is buried at the Sliger Cemetery2 in the Harper field there in Bates, Arkansas in Scott County, Arkansas. Judia was living with one of her sons when she died. William Berry has a military marker on his grave. /td> | |||||||||||
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