Old Roseboro; The Town and its People

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Can anyone help with names and year? Thanks!
04/24/2026

Can anyone help with names and year? Thanks!

Thomas Arthur "T. A." Underwood 1883-1965Tom Underwood, 81, farmer and fertilizer salesman of Rt 1, Roseboro, died Frida...
07/31/2025

Thomas Arthur "T. A." Underwood 1883-1965

Tom Underwood, 81, farmer and fertilizer salesman of Rt 1, Roseboro, died Friday. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 3 P M at the Butler Funeral Home by the Rev H S Garris and the Rev J M Roberts.

Burial will be in the Roseboro cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs Ella M Underwood; four daughters, Mrs Annie White Wells and Mrs Edith Williams, both of Roseboro, Mrs Grace Harsey and Mrs Frances Harsey, both of Columbia, SC, two sons, Gordon Underwood and Livious Underwood, both of Roseboro; one sister, Mrs Clyde Davis of White Oak; one brother, The Rev W J Underwood of Bonlee; and 16 grandchildren. He was a member of the Roseboro Methodist Church.

Here is the location of a hotel on Railroad St as shown by the Sanborn Fire Maps done in 1922. This would be about the ...
07/30/2025

Here is the location of a hotel on Railroad St as shown by the Sanborn Fire Maps done in 1922. This would be about the location of the old Roseboro Community building.

Underwood Hotel - Railroad St
07/30/2025

Underwood Hotel - Railroad St

I was looking through some old newspapers online last night and came across an article about a fire in Roseboro, so it c...
07/30/2025

I was looking through some old newspapers online last night and came across an article about a fire in Roseboro, so it caught my attention. What surprised me was I had not ever heard of the man that owned the house that burned, John Wright "J. W." Underwood. I recognized all the other names in the article that had homes near his but not him. So I started doing some research and found out alot about him, but I am curious, where was his house? I have found out that he was one of the men that donated land in the future town of Roseboro for the railroad to come through, and he married a local Culbreth woman, having 10 children. His house burned in December, 1910 and a new one was built in the same location in 1911. It also appears that he owned a hotel with 15 rooms on "Railroad St." When he died in 1928, he was living 2 miles east of Roseboro but actually died in his original house that his son was living in and he was buried in the Roseboro Cemetery.

Some of his children were:
Timothy Lucian "TL" Underwood of Roseboro
William James "WJ" Underwood
Mary Elizabeth Underwood m. Thomas Edmond Owen
Fleet Martin Underwood of Elizabethtown
Thomas Arthur "TA" Underwood of Roseboro
Annie Laurie Underwood
Henry Waller Underwood
John Lucian "JL" Underwood of Roseboro

These are the ones I have access to right now without digging deeper, so does anyone recognize the three men of Roseboro and where they might have lived? I will share some more information when I can organize it better. I have shared a picture of him and his wife.

Sept. 1926
07/04/2025

Sept. 1926

Man of Mystery.....Dr William Payne and the missing bag.
07/04/2025

Man of Mystery.....Dr William Payne and the missing bag.

I was speaking to the mayor about the mysterious Dr William L. Payne and I was under the impression that he died in the ...
07/04/2025

I was speaking to the mayor about the mysterious Dr William L. Payne and I was under the impression that he died in the old hotel, where Mr. Phillip Williams lives now, however, I found this article that says he died in J. Abner Barkers home which stood where Butler Funeral Home is today. If you are interested in Dr. Payne, there is a picture of him and some of his story in a previous post a while back.

Since I posted the picture of the Roseboro Rotary Club, I looked them up and found this article that talks about its ori...
07/04/2025

Since I posted the picture of the Roseboro Rotary Club, I looked them up and found this article that talks about its origins in Roseboro. Article dated Dec 13, 1928.

Roseboro Rotory Club, 1950's. I do not have a list of names.
07/04/2025

Roseboro Rotory Club, 1950's. I do not have a list of names.

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