OBIT: Malissa Davis Underwood (1842-1934)
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Submitted: March 15, 2003
Submitter: Sherry Lowe
           pp01406@email.kcc.edu
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Obituary published in the Carter County Herald issue of March 22, 1934:
 
GOOD WOMAN DIES
 
"Malissa, daughter of David and Alice Kilgore Davis, was born in Scott 
County, Virginia, February 20, 1842; died at the home of her daughter, 
Mrs. Mallie Fultz, of Carter, Ky., March 15, 1934, at the age of 92 
years and twenty-five days.  She had been more or less feeble for the 
past three years.  A few weeks ago she contracted a heavy cold, which 
developed into pneumonia and lived but a few days.
 
Grandma Underwood was of direct Scotch ancestry.  Her parents were of 
the Douglas-Kilgore family, who obtained a family charter from the English 
king to emigrate to America.  The intermediate members of the Kilgore 
family settled in what is now known as Virginia.  At the age of eleven 
years, she came, with her parents to Carter County, Kentucky, where she 
remained until her death.  She was united in marriage to Elverton W. 
Underwood of Carter County in 1861.  To this union was born 7 children, 
two dying in infancy.  Three preceded her in death.  They were Mrs. Jennie 
Jacobs, Mrs. Mary Fultz and W. C. Underwood. Her husband passed on in the 
year 1879.
 
As a yound girl, she united with the Baptist Church and from that time lived a 
devoted Christian life.  The fullness of that Christian soul impressed all of 
those with whom she came in contact.  She had great strength and courage, and 
carried on under great difficulties.
 
She leaves to mourn her passing two daughters, Mrs. Mallie Fultz, of Carter, 
and Mrs. Martha Gilbert of Soldier; nineteen living grandchildren, fifty-five 
great-grandchidlren and one great-great-grandchild; also three sisters, Mrs. 
Winnie Danner of Greenup, Ky., Mrs. Martha Fultz and Mrs. Polly Danner of 
Wesleyville, and a host of relatives and friends to whom we wich to say 'her 
soul is not dead, but sleepeth.'  Funeral services were conducted at Bethel 
Church Friday, with Rev. Outland, of the Olive Hill Baptist Church officiating.  
Interment followed in the Bethel Cemetery."

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