Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Underwood, Lizzie Mason 1940
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Independent Enterprise
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, February 22, 1940

PIONEER PATRON PASSES MONDAY

Mrs. Lizzie Underwood Dies In This City;
Funeral Wednesday

Mrs. Lizzie Mason Underwood, Idaho pioneer, died here late Monday.  She was 
born in Como, Ill., July 12, 1856, spent her early life in Como and Sterling, 
Ill., where she married John L. Underwood on February 12, 1876.  They moved to 
Idaho, first to Paris and later to Soda Spring and Montpelier.

Mrs. Underwood and her husband were pioneer settlers of eastern Idaho in a true 
sense of the word, having come to Soda Springs from Evanston, Wyoming, the 
western terminus of the railroad with a team of horses and a buckboard.

The early years of her married life were saddened by the death of her first 
children, two little boys, who died of diphtheria within a week of each other.

The Underwoods moved from Soda Springs to Montpelier where Mr. Underwood was 
postmaster for fifteen years and deceased acted as his assistant.

It was here that Mrs. Underwood began her amazingly active life of working for 
the community in which she happened to live.  She was one of the early founders 
of the Presbyterian church in Montpelier.  She helped the choir, played the 
organ and taught a Sunday school class.  She was a charter member of the Civic 
club, Maccabees and the Rebekahs of that town.

After the death of Mr. Underwood on February 14, 1914, Mrs. Underwood lived in 
Salt Lake with her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Marks, until she came to Payette in 1918 
to make her home until death, with her daughter, Mrs. Bernard Eastman.

Mrs. Underwood was an active member of the Portia club, taking part in a 
program of last November, 1939.  She was also very active in D. A. R. work, 
becoming first a member of the Spirit of Liberty chapter in Salt Lake and was 
later a charter member of Dorion chapter of this city.

Mrs. Underwood had been historian and press correspondent since the chapter’s 
organization, and kept her records and papers with meticulous care.

Mrs. Underwood had many distinguished ancestors one of whom was Col. William 
Turner who had been active in forming the first law-making bodies of the 
Thirteen Original States.  She was also a kinswoman of Dr. Marcus Whitman, the 
well known pioneer missionary doctor who has been credited with saving the 
Oregon Territory for the United States.

Mrs. Underwood was to have been an honored guest at the forthcoming annual 
state conference of the D. A. R. to be held in Payette March 15 and 16 of this 
year.

To pay just tribute to this fine honorable woman who was above the pettiness of 
life, and who undoubtedly had a great influence wherever she lived, seems 
impossible, and one can only say that the world is better for her having lived 
and that it is a privilege to have known her. 

Three of her four children preceded her in death.  Two sons, Phillip and Frank, 
died in infancy, and a daughter, Mrs. Esther Marks, died at her home in Los 
Angeles in 1936. Survivors besides Mrs. Eastman, are three grandsons, Boyd 
Marks and Phillip Eastman, of Los Angeles, and Bernard Eastman, Jr., Nyssa, 
Ore., and one great-grandson, Michael Geoffrey Eastman, of Nyssa.

Other survivors are two brothers, Henry B. Whitman, of Montpelier, Edwin D. 
Whitman of Soda Springs, and a sister, Mrs. Carrie B. Lane of Houston, Texas.

Funeral services were held at the Payette Methodist church Wednesday at 2 p.m., 
with the Rev. E. R. Kaemmer officiating and Landon’s funeral home in charge.  
The body was then sent to Soda Springs for burial.


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