Notes for: Margaret George

Samuel Underwood's property in Tyler County was among those surveyed for Oberlin College by abolitionist John Brown in the early 1840s. At that time, John Brown made his headquarters at the home of Squire William Underwood at Ripley Mills, now Alma in Tyler County, West Virginia.
[Source: "John Brown and the Oberlin Lands" by Boyd Stutler, http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh12-3.html ]

1850 Census, Tyler Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Aug 1 1850:
Samuel Underwood, 57, b. Delaware, farmer, value of real estate $3000; Margaret, 47, b. Virginia, cannot read or write; Jonathan, 26; Daniel, 20; David, 18; Isaiah, 16; Hyram, 14; Ruth, 12; Mary, 8.

1860 Census, Tyler Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Aug 7 1860:
Samuel Underwood, 67, farmer, value of real estate $9100, value of personal estate $1264; Margaret, 56; David, 28; Mary, 18; Martin Carder, 17, farm hand; William L. Kinney, 10.