Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 96-97.  Christian Co.

GEORGE B. UNDERWOOD

     George B. Underwood, a coal dealer and one of the representative
business men of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was born here January 19, 1849, the
son of Kentucky parents.  B.T. Underwood, his father, was for many years a
merchant in Christian county, and for six years served as clerk of the
circuit court.  He was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and was a stanch Republican.  During the war of the rebellion he fought for
the preservation of the Union.  He was a captain in the Twenty-fifth
Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, was all through the war and participated in
numerous engagements, including the battle of Pittsburg Landing.  He
married Ethalina C. Campbell, who, like himself, was a native of Kentucky,
and they became the parents of two children, a son and daughter, George B.
and Mary Alice, this son being the only survivor of the family.
     George B. Underwood was reared and educated in his native place, and
received his early business training in his father's grocery store.  After
his marriage, which event occurred in 1871, he went to Evansville, Indiana,
and engaged in the wholesale shoe business, remaining there a year and a
half.  Returning to Hopkinsville, he turned his attention to the coal
business, and has been successfully dealing in coal ever since that time.
     Mr. Underwood was married in Hopkinsville, in 1871, to Miss Laura E.
Foulks, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of E.L. Foulks, of
Hopkinsville.  She died in 1886, and in 1888 Mr. Underwood married Miss
Adelia Ducker, a native of Georgia, and a daughter of William Ducker, a
Kentuckian. Mr. and Mrs. Underwood have had five children, namely: George
B., Mary, William D., Laura Dee, and Jennie C., all living at this writing
except Mary.
     Mr. Underwood is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and of the
order of Knights of Pythias.  He was one of the prime movers in the
organization of Evergreen Lodge, K. of P., and was its first chancellor
commander.

Underwood Campbell Foulks Ducker
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