sentences:  Born in Goochland County, Virginia, on August 7, 1808, to John Underwood (1767-1837), a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and his wife Frances Rogers (d.1809), he had several older brothers and sisters.His grandfather Thomas Underwood (1740-1815) had been a colonel in Goochland County during the American Revolutionary War, and also served on the Committee of Safety.His older brother Joseph Rogers Underwood had moved to Kentucky five years before he was born, and represented Kentucky's 3rd Congressional district a decade before Warner Underwood.