When Robert Joseph Underwood was born on 14 December 1859, in Roane, Tennessee, United States, his father, Nimrod Underwood, was 42 and his mother, Anna Hester, was 40. He married Ida Lois Green on 22 January 1896, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Yellow Creek, Bell, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 3, Bell, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 5 January 1948, in Pineville, Bell, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Bell, Kentucky, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived below a wood on a hillside, from Middle English under + wude, wode ‘wood’, or a habitational name for someone from any place so named.
History: Joseph Underwood emigrated from England to Watertown, MA, in 1637. William Underwood came from England to Concord, MA, before 1640, later settling in Chelmsford, MA. In VA, the name was established by Thomas William Underwood, who came from Norfolk, England, in 1675.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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