The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-04-11
WHO SAID UNDERWOOD
WAS not A SOUTHERNER?


Atlanta Gaspeca)ceran newspapers having made
the Of Representatives candidate for President the United
States in which they stated among other things nay M
paher from family Of Northern
statement from MI Underwood nmse
regarding charges Of Mr. I'm
derwoods campaign yesterday
minds the the Democratic party and the leading
American that he is Southern man but
many voting him. and do not
think meanpted untuthfui statements should g I'M
answered How unuhf these statements are can be best uos from
reading Mr. Underwood's own words. which follow:
W. Underwood born in Louisville KY the 6th day Of
May paena descended from family Of law
England and settled IN Virginia in 1884
grandfather Thomas Underwood plan
ter before the Revolutionary high sheriff Of Gochand county and
delegates Of Virginia His grand
fathers father Underwood planter and at one time high her
Ia Of Goohnd also member Of the house delegates m
grandfather was born IN Goochand county and wnen ~ o N
Kentucky with his Edmund Rogers and General George Rogers
grandfather was Joseph Underwood 1890 and
lieutenant Of the companies organized in Kentucky n the
peaIs Of Kentucky was elected to congress Wing
served in the United states Henry
He with his advocacy Of gradual emancipation Of
the slaves and IN the early Of the aes emncpated all his slaves
desired their condition that they would to Liberia to
live About half accepted their freedom under these conditions
he expense Liberia them the
Of his remained with him until
tie aide i The Union m SON Eugene underwood was born at Glasgow
KY in 1878 He pcced Bowling with
his father subsequently moved Nashville Tenn and pracce law
Louisville before
the Civil Louisville and engaged in the practice
Of law in that city.
Southern sympathizer'
with sympahze but subsequently
the part either
side the Two Of his brothers served in the Confederate
John Underwood living New York was major in the
Confederate side in the battle
Shiloh other battles the Of the he captured
until the houes
of the outbreak of the Civil aligned him
consistently voted the Democratic
his youth he voted the
wing ticket Joseph R Underwood
Wing Civil after that time he aligned
himself with party always
Of the national Democratic convention that
president All Of Oscar w underwoods
his paenal side Southern people, either Vrgnan Ken
tuchans.
grandfather bez Smith who born in
when boy eighteen
built the cotton mills the South Pc
that city before the
Civil He always Democrat and came from Democratic fam
Civil his sympahes with the South
dining the
grandsns Confederate his
sons being during
grandmother Miss Waha OF old Virginia family and
cousin OF the Senator Walthal Of Mississippi
Why They Left South.
When w Underwood three old In the fall OF 1865 his
they
Mime when frontier country and there only ten miles
Of railroad the state His father lived there until 1870 when he
Kentucky with him
Louisville where his father established the family
Underwood remained school until
when the University Of Virginia and graduated there
~ law Ia june 1884
IN Birmingham.
the only remained there about months from there going to
William Underwood
business In Birmingham Oscar w Underwood was admitted to the bar
IN Birmingham Aa on the first day Of September 1884 and pacced
until elected In 1884 His
that city his home for nearly
eight His first wife Miss Eugena Masse whom ne married
Chazloesvle who member of Virginia family of
His second wife Miss Bertha Woodward who
Wheeling w Va her father moving to Birmingham Aa
old and has resided there since
that time