Eliza Underwood (née Brown; 15 March 1866? – 27 January 1981) was an American woman, who at the time of her death might have been the oldest person ever. Eliza Jane was born as the daughter of former slaves Charlie and Violet (née Butler) Brown, in Clinton, North Carolina on 15 March 1866. She grew up in Clinton and was reared by a family of white neighbors. She married her husband Isham Underwood in 1890 and shortly thereafter moved to Georgia. Her only daughter, Lenorah, was born in 1891.