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The Tyler
County Museum pays tribute through memorials to those
who have lived and worked in this small rural county.
Perhaps its most notable native son is former two-time
Governor Cecil H. Underwood.
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Cecil Harland Underwood, was born on November 5, 1922 in
Josephs Mills and died November 24, 2008. He spent all of his
early years in Tyler County, graduating from Tyler County
High School in 1939 and Salem
College in 1943. He earned a master's degree from West
Virginia University in 1952. |
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Governor Underwood gave us old photographs of his
family
farm at Josephs Mills, where they show his
humble beginnings; his mother with her large
flower gardens that she always enjoyed.
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Included
in the far corner of the
Underwood room is the
dress
that the former governor's mother, Mrs.
Della Underwood, wore at her son's first
inauguration
in 1957. A glass cabinet
displays the
toys the governor played with
on the
family farm when he was a little boy. |
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