VITAL RECORDS
Birth: 2 May 1752 in North Carolina, USA
Marriages: Date to Margaret CAMPBELL in Location, USA; and Date to Ruth WINTER in Location, USA
Death: 24 May 1834 in Highland County, Ohio, USA
Burial: After 24 May 1834 in Clearcreek, Highland County, Ohio, USA
CHILDREN with Margaret CAMPBELL
- Daniel
- John
- James
- Ann
- Mary
- Alexander
- Catharine
- Margaret
- William
- Green
- Samuel
CHILDREN with Ruth A. WINTER
0. No Issue
CENSUS CLUES
Look for James in the following locations on the decennial years:
1830: Under Construction
1820:
1810:
1800:
1790:
SKETCH FROM UNSOURCED FAMILY HISTORY BOOK
"809. James Underwood of Auburn, Highland Co., Ohio, (son of Samuel 808*) b. 2 May, 1752, in Chatham Co., N.C.; m. Margaret Campbell, dau. of Capt. Laughlin Campbell, and had ten [see Notes] children:
i. Daniel, b. ---. (See no. 810.)
ii. John, b. ---. (See no. 821.)
iii. James, b. ---. (See no. 822.)
iv. Ann, (twin) b. ---; m. James Hadley of Fairfield, N.C., a son of Jeremiah Hadley and Mary Dickey, and had children [Anna, a son, James]....
v. Mary, (twin) b. ---; m. Stephen Hussey (brother-in-law to Alexander Underwood, her brother) and had children [a daughter, and a son]....
vi. Alexander, b. ---. (See no. 832.)
vii. Catharine, b. ---; m. Moses Smith and had children [Moses and another son]....
viii. Margaret, b. --- in Chatham county, N.C.; unm[arried]....
ix. William, b. ---. (See no. 833.)
x. Green,* b. ---; d. in Missouri. [*Note: "It is not certain that this man belongs here. He is not mentioned by Daniel Underwood, no. 816, in giving the list of his grandfather's children and the only knowledge we have of him is a single line in a letter of James Hadley to Daniel in whvcih he says 'Uncle Green finished his earthly course somewhere in Missouri.'"]
xi. Samuel, b. ---. [Note: "This name is given in the traditional list by Mrs. Ockerman but as she omits Daniel it is possible that the two names have become confused."]
"Margaret Campbell Underwood d. 24 March, 1808, and was buried in Chatham Co., N.C., and James m. (2) Ruth Winter, b. in 1752, a dau. of Daniel Winter. He had no children by the second marriage.
"James Underwood was a large and powerful man, weighing 280 lbs. in his prime. It is said of him that he was as strong as two or three ordinary men, and that he carried nine bushels of wheat from a wagon upstairs into a mill. He was a farmer and lived many years in Chatham Co., N.C. The old homestead, a large colonial mansion, is said to be still standing about five miiles southwest of Silver City, Chatham Co., N.C.
"James Underwood made several trips to Ohio when the whole country northwest of the Ohio river was a vast wilderness. According to one tradition he made his first trip in 1798, a second in 1801, and finally rem. [removed] to Ohio in 1815. According to Mrs. Ockerman (great-granddaughter of James Underwood) he visited his children in 1809 in Highland Co., Ohio, where they had settled a few years earlier, and in 1816 with his wife, Ruth, rem. [removed] to Auburn, in that county, and settled there. It is related of him that he once killed a big buck deer with a stone. Having lost his gun, when the deer attacked him he jumped on its back and killed it with a stone which he picked up in the ravine where the scuffle occurred.
"He was a soldier of the Revolution serving in the North Carolina Continental Line. He was also in the militia service and engaged in the campaign against the Chicamauga Indians in 1776. In 1784 a special law was passed by the legislature of North Carolina releasing James Underwood from a bond of 500 [pounds] for the appearance of Daniel Campbell before the Superior Court of Hillsborough District under treasonable charges, on the ground that execution of the judgment would reduce him and family to very great distress, the said Campbell having failed to appear.
"James Underwood d. 24 May, 1834, and is buried at Clearcreek, Highland Co., Ohio. Ruth Winter Underwood d. 14 May, 1825."
CITATION:
Lucien Marcus Underwood, compiler, The Underwood Families of America, Howard J. Banker, editor, 2 volumes (Lancaster. Pa.: The New Era Printing Co., 1913), II: 441-443.
Available on microfiche at the Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Mo.: Call number UMI G0620.
Note: Lucien Marcus Underwood died in 1907. I am not breaking his copyright by quoting from his book since copyright lasts for the author's lifetime plus 75 years.