Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Asa Underwood    
                Born: May- 7-1861          in Tyler Co, (W)VA  1,2
                Died: Apr-19-1932          in Shirley, Tyler Co, WV  3
              Buried:                      in Shirley Cemetery, Shirley, Tyler Co, WV  4
              Census: 1930                 in Shirley, Tyler Co, WV  
              Census: 1900, 1910, 1920     in McElroy District, Tyler Co, WV  
          Occupation: 1930                 farmer  5
          Occupation: 1920                 head sawyer at sawmill  6
          Occupation: 1910                 farmer  7
          Occupation: 1900                 teamster  8
              Father: John Grant Underwood   (1829 - 1902) 
              Mother: Mary Ellen Harris   (1830 - 1888) 
                Wife: Ellen Nowery     
             Married: ca 1888               8
         No children:                        7
                Born: May-15-1859          in Mason Co, WV  9 (see note 1)
                Died: Jan-31-1942          in Shirley, Tyler Co, WV  3,9
              Buried:                      in Shirley Cemetery, Shirley, Tyler Co, WV  4
              Census: 1930, 1940           in Shirley, Tyler Co, WV  
              Census: 1900, 1910, 1920     in McElroy District, Tyler Co, WV  
              Census: 1880                 in Union District, Wood Co, WV  
              Father:
              Mother:
Notes 
           F Child 1: Ethel O. Straight [adopted]       
                Born: Feb-  -1889          in Tyler Co, WV  8,9,10
                Died: May-10-1913          in Meade District, Tyler Co, WV  11,9
              Buried:                      in Shirley Cemetery, Shirley, Tyler Co, WV  4
      Cause of death:                      spinal meningitis  11
              Census: 1900, 1910           in McElroy District, Tyler Co, WV   (see note 2)
             Resided: 1908                 in Shirley, Tyler Co, WV  10
             Husband: Leroy W. Seckman  b. 1889  
       Also known as: Roy Seckman 12
             Married: Dec-20-1908          in Tyler Co, WV  10

Sources:
(1) West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(2) 1880 Census, Tyler County, WV. 
(3) West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(4) Findagrave.com. 
(5) 1930 Census, Tyler County, WV. 
(6) 1920 Census, Tyler County, WV. 
(7) 1910 Census, Tyler County, WV. 
(8) 1900 Census, Tyler County, WV. 
(9) Headstone (year only) 
(10) Tyler County Marriage Records, Middlebourne, WV. 
(11) Tyler County Death Records, Middlebourne, WV. 
(12) Death record of son. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Birth date given in 1900 Census as Apr 1859.
Note (2) Enumerated in June 1900:  Head of household Asa Underwood, 38, b. May 1862,
teamster, married 12 yrs; wife Ellen Underwood, 41, b. Apr 1859, married 12 yrs,
no children; adopted daughter Ethel Straight, 11, b. Feb 1889.  (Note:  Asa
Underwood was an informant for Ethel's marriage license in 1908.)







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