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Surnames: UNDERWOOD - PLASTER
Classification: Query
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Cristy,
I am not sure whether this will be of help or not, but I am familiar with the John
Underwood that lived in Fulton township in 1834. He was my gggg-grandfather. The
following is taken from the biography of Azariah D. Brown written in the Portrait and
Biographical Record of Parke, Fountain, Montgomery Counties of Indiana, published in 1893
(my copy came from Rockville Public Library).
"In 1872 Mr. Brown wedded Mrs. Olive, widow of Michael Plaster. She was born in this
township February 2, 1830, being a daughter of John and Margaret (Givens) Underwood,
natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia, respectively. The former came to this county in
1827 and bought a farm, which he improved. In 1833 he sold out and purchased one in
Fountain County, where he farmed and ran a sawmill until his death, in March, 1845. He
was politically a Whig, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His widow
still survives. By her first marriage she had three sons and four daughters. Two of the
former served in the late war; James enlisted in the Thirty-first Indiana and died at
Nashville, Tenn. The mother afterward became the wife of William Johnson."
According to the 1850 census Margaret, John's widow, is the wife of William Johnson of
Otter Creek Township in Vigo County, Indiana. The Underwood children listed in the
household are, Mariah, Rebecca, James, John and George. The missing Caroline is
"Olive" listed above as the wife of Azariah D. Brown. Her full name was Olive
Caroline Underwood-Plaster-Brown. This info matches what Sharon found in the court
records for John Underwood.
Olive is my ggg-grandmother. Olive and her first husband Michael Plaster are my
brickwalls.