1930 Census, Sevier County, Tennessee

Wilda Ada Worth age 7 married Theodore Roosevelt (Ted) Ellis on 2 Apr 1950 in Jefferson County.  Ted was the son of Joseph Benjamin (Joe) Ellis and Daisy Mae Nichols, the grandson of Robert Russell Wyatt Nichols and Sarah Louisa Ida (Ida) McAndrew, and the great grandson of my second great grandparents John H. B. Nichols and Martha P. Reneau.  As such, Robert was the brother of my great grandmother Clarissa Loretta (Retta or Rett) Nichols, and Daisy Mae Nichols was the first cousin of my grandmother Ruby Priscilla Cox.

Wilda was the daughter of William Jackson Worth age 45 and Bertie Angeline Keeler age 40.

Dr. James Delozier age 6 later married Minnie Ethel (Ethel) Cox.  Ethel was the daughter of John Anderson Franklin Cox and Mary Jane Slaton.  As such, Ethel was the niece of my grandmother Ruby Priscilla Cox.  Also, Ethel was the grandniece of my second great grandmother Susan A. Slaton.

James is the son of Andy Delozier and Gertrude King.

Mel Cate was the son of John Cate and Margaret (Mag) Underwood.  As such, Mel was the second great grandson of my fifth great grandparents John Cate Sr. and Mary.  Mel's line was John Cate Sr. and Mary -> James T. Cate and Elizabeth Lindsey -> James Baldwin (Baldwin) Cate and Sarah (Sallie) Davis -> John Cate and Margaret (Mag) Underwood.  Furthermore, Mel was the great grandson of my third great grandparents William Ramey Underwood and Martha Langston.  The Underwood line of Mel Cate was William Ramey Underwood and Martha Langston -> Enoch Pleasant (Pless) Underwood and Susan M. Pollard -> Margaret (Mag) Underwood.

J. Reed Cate age 6 connects with the family another way.  He married Geneva Imogene Underwood, daughter of John Amos Underwood and Lola Helen Bryan.  Aunt Lola was the daughter of my second great grandparents William Allen (Will) Bryan and Malissa E. Underwood.

Mel Cate's wife was Hattie Bailey.

Virgil Elmer (Jack) Wolfe age 21 later married Sallie Mable (Mable) Bryan.  Mable was the daughter of Thomas Allen (Allen) Bryan and Ida Bell Cate, and the granddaughter of William Enyard Bryan and Amanda Keener.  William Enyard Bryan was the brother of my third great grandfather Peter H. Bryan.  Also, Ida Bell Cate was the second great granddaughter of my fifth great grandparents John Cate Sr. and Mary.

Jack Wolfe's parents were Charles Houston (Charlie) Wolfe and Lucy Malissa Joslin.

Lena Vesta (Vestie) Bryan (known as Aunt Vestie to my father) was the daughter of my second great grandparents William Allen (Will) Bryan and Malissa E. Underwood.  As such, Aunt Vestie was the sister of my great grandfather William Harley (Harley) Bryan.

Peter Walker (Walker) Cate was the son of Allen Perry (Perry) Cate and Harriet Rebecca (Hattie) Cate.  The Cate ancestry in this line is a little tricky.  Perry Cate was the second great grandson of my fifth great grandparents John Cate Sr. and Mary, and Perry also was the second great grandson of my fifth great grandparents William P. Cate and Mary Enyard.  Hattie Cate was the daughter of Henry Clay (Harry) Cate and Mary Jane Johnson.  Hattie and Perry were first cousins who married, and Hattie also had John Cate Sr., Mary, William P. Cate, and Mary Enyard as second great grandparents.

Stanley was Ray Stanley (Stanley) Cate.  Mark was Mark Walker Cate.  Macks was Max Vernon Cate.  Mauree was Maurice Bryan (Doc) Cate.  Willie was Willie Fayette Cate.  Wilburn was Wilburn Hal (Hal) Cate.  John B. was John Buford Cate.

Treva May Wheeler age 16 married Ray Stanley (Stanley) Cate on 20 Oct 1984.  It was the second marriage for both of them.  Treva married first Frank Liston.  Stanley married first Ethel Hatcher.

Stanley Cate was the son of Peter Walker (Walker) Cate and Lena Vesta (Vestie) Bryan.  Aunt Vestie was the daughter of my second great grandparents William Allen (Will) Bryan and Malissa E. Underwood.  As such, Aunt Vestie was the brother of my great grandfather William Harley (Harley) Bryan.

I'm related to Walker Cate in almost too many ways to count.  He was the son of the first cousins Allen Perry (Perry) Cate and Harriet Rebecca (Hattie) Cate.  Both of Perry and Hattie Cate were second great grandchildren through their common paternal grandfather Elisha Cate of my fifth great grandparents John Cate Sr. and Mary.  In addition, both Perry and Hattie Cate were second great grandchildren through their common paternal grandmother Mary Elizabeth Newman of my fifth great grandparents William P. Cate and Mary Enyard.

Treva May Wheeler was the daughter of Loy Waters Wheeler age 46 and Belle Sheubert age 43.

Elmer Otto Bryan was the son of my second great grandparents William Allen (Will) Bryan and Malissa E. Underwood.  As such, Uncle Elmer was the brother of my great grandfather William Harley (Harley) Bryan.  Uncle Elmer's wife was Maud I. Atchley.

Uncle Elmer was generally called "Uncle Elmer Bryan" rather than just "Uncle Elmer" to distinguish him from "Uncle Elmer Cox".

Uncle Elmer and Aunt Maud never had any children, but they loved children.  There was some consideration that they might adopt my father after my father's mother died.  But the decision instead was that my father was raised by Robert Elmer (Elmer) Cox and Lydia Ethel (Ethel) Bryan until my grandfather remarried.

James P. (Jim) Bryan age 73, Adeline/Emeline (Ada) Bryan age 65, and Margaret M. (Maggie) Bryanage 67 were the children of my third great grandparents Peter H. Bryan and Mary Ann (Polly Ann) Cate.  As such, they were siblings of my second great grandfather William Allen (Allen) Bryan.

Jim and Ada never married.  They are buried next to each other, and some researchers have therefore listed them as husband and wife instead of brother and sister.

Maggie married first Stewart Erastus Trotter and married second Henry Randolph.  In 1930, she was the widow of Henry Randolph.

Frank M. Bryan was the son of Silas Amberson Bryan and Amanda Melzina (Mandy) Slaton.  Uncle Silas was the brother of my great grandfather William Harley (Harley) Bryan.  Aunt Mandy was the niece of my second great grandmother Susan A. Slaton.

The net result of these family relationships is that the children Carroll Baxter Bryan and Helen Pauline Bryan were my father's second cousins as Bryans and my father's third cousins as Slatons.  A third child of Frank and Stella named Dama Lee Bryan was born and died on 21 Nov 1921.

Stella Rickard was the daughter of Arthur Rickard and Victoria Van Dyke.  Frank and Stella were married on 6 Oct 1920 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, so they were married after the 1920 census.  I have found Stella and her parents living in Jefferson County in the 1920 census.  But I have not found Frank in the 1920 census, neither in Sevier County nor in Jefferson County.  He was not enumerated in the home of his parents in 1920.  But he must have been nearby if he was married to a Jefferson County woman later in the same year.

Malissa E. Underwood age 73 was my second great grandmother.  She was the daughter of of my third great grandparents William Ramey Underwood and Martha Langston, and she was the wife of my second great grandfather William Allen Bryan.  William Allen (Will) Bryan had died in 1928, a couple of years before the census.

Thomas Allen Bryan was the son of William Enyard Bryan and Amanda Keener.  As such, he was the nephew of my third great grandfather Peter H. Bryan.  I have visited the house of Charles Thomas (Charlie) Bryan who was age 25 in 1930.  It is at the corner of Dumplin Valley Road and Bryan Road.

Inman Mark Watson age 1 10/12 married Mary Rene Scarbrough on 22 Jan 1949 in Rossville, Walker County, Georgia.  Mary was the daughter of Roy Earl (R.E.) Scarbrough and Julia Ann (Julie) Long, and the granddaughter of Tolbert Ross (Ross) Scarbrough and Cordelia Rene (Cordie) Cole.  Aunt Cordie was the daughter of my second great grandparents William (Will) Cole and Vesta Clay (Vestie) England.  As such, Aunt Cordie was the sister of my great grandmother Sallie Jane Cole, and R.E. Scarbrough was the first cousin of my grandfather Ernest Lester (Lester) Peters Sr.

Inman was the son of Everette Watson age 27 and Marie M. Nolan age 22.

Dorothy Jean Snyder age 3 9/12 married Max Vernon Cate on 24 Aug 1942.  Max Vernon Cate was the son of Peter Walker (Walker) Cate and Lena Vesta (Vestie) Bryan.

Aunt Vestie was the daughter of my second great grandparents William Allen (Will) Bryan and Melissa E. Underwood.  As such, Aunt Vestie was the sister of my great grandfather William Harley (Harley) Bryan.

Walker Cate was the son of Allen Perry (Perry) Cate and Harriet Rebecca (Hattie) Cate.  The Cate ancestry in this line is a little tricky.  Perry Cate was the second great grandson of my fifth great grandparents John Cate Sr. and Mary, and Perry also was the second great grandson of my fifth great grandparents William P. Cate and Mary Enyard.  Hattie Cate was the daughter of Henry Clay (Harry) Cate and Mary Jane Johnson.  Hattie and Perry were first cousins who married, and Hattie also had John Cate Sr., Mary, William P. Cate, and Mary Enyard as second great grandparents.

Lydia Bethel (Bethel) Solomon was the daughter of John Wesley Solomon and Rhoda Rebecca (Becky) Harrison.  Becky Harrison was the daughter of my second great grandparents Joseph Harrison and Susan A. Slaton.  So Bethel Solomon was the first cousin of my grandfather Emmert Oral Bryan.

Allie Cate was the son of William Lawrence Cate and Elizabeth (Betty) Byous.  I'm a little suspicious of the spelling of Elizabeth's surname, but "Byous" is the best I can do right now.  Allie was the third great grandson of my fifth great grandparents John Cate Sr. and Mary, but his line is very different than mine.  I am descended from John Cate Sr.'s son Joshua Cate, whereas Allie was descended from John Cate Sr.'s son James T. Cate.

Settlers by the Long Grey Trail  has Allie and Bethel backwards, listing Bethel as the husband and Allie as the wife.  A number of GEDCOM's on the Internet contain the same error, probably having gotten their data from Settlers by the Long Grey Trail.

Girty Hazel (Hazel) Huffaker age 33 married first Nathan Silas Henry age 39 and married second Elmer Otto Bryan.  Elmer married first Maude I. Atchley, and they had been married for 54 years at the time of Maude's death.  Hazel and Elmer were married when she was about 76 years old and when he was about 90 years old.  Elmer was famous in the family for having married at such an age.

Elmer was known in the family as Uncle Elmer Bryan to distinguish him from Uncle Elmer Cox.  Uncle Elmer Bryan was the son of my second great grandparents William Allen (Will) Bryan and Malissa E. Underwood.  As such, Uncle Elmer Bryan was the brother of my great grandfather William Harley (Harley) Bryan.

Hazel Huffaker was the daughter of James E. Huffaker and Nancy Malinda Johnson.

Nathan Silas Henry was the son of Oliver Andrew (Andy) Henry and Elizabeth J. (Lizzie) Talbert.  I'm not really a Henry researcher, but there were a lot of Bryan-Henry marriages, so I dabble a little bit in Henry family history.  Oliver Andrew (Andy) Henry was apparently not connected to the famous Hugh Henry family.  Rather, Andy appears to have been the son of Samuel Henry and Martha W. Douglass, and the grandson of Benjamin Henry and Elizabeth Hammel.

Omer Templeton Underwood age 25 was the son of George Thomas Underwood and Australia Hodge, the grandson of Robert Sneed (Dock) Underwood and Elizabeth Hickman, and the great grandson of George Underwood and Nancy Elizabeth Conner.  George was the son of my fifth great grandparents John Underwood and Mary Kirby.  As such, George was the brother of my fourth great grandmother Nancy Underwood who married her first cousin Enoch Underwood.

Omer's wife was Trula E. Snyder age 18.  Trula was the daughter of Robert James F. (Bob) Snyder and Mollie E. Bailey age 40.  Bob Snyder died in 1921, and Mollie appeared in the 1930 census as head of household.

Ollie Frances (Frances) Bryan age 51 was the daughter of John Greenwood/Greenberry Bryan and Sarah Elizabeth (Sally) McMahan.  As such, Frances was the niece of my second great grandfather William Allen (Will) Bryan.

Alexander Andrew (Alex) Underwood age 51 was the son of Enoch Pleasant (Pless) Underwood and Susan M. Pollard.  As such, Alex was the nephew of my second great grandmother Malissa E. Underwood.

Will Bryan and Malissa Underwood were husband and wife, so Alex Underwood and Frances Bryan were respectively the nephew and niece of my second great grandmother and my second great grandfather.

William Alexander (Alex) Underwood age 72 was the son of my third great grandparents William Ramey Underwood and Martha Langston.  As such, he was the brother of my second great grandmother Mallisa E. Underwood who married William Allen (Will) Bryan.

Anna Thornburg age 68 was the daughter of Thomas Lowery Thornburg and Mary Jane Johnson.

George Lloyd (Big Lloyd) Hickman age 38 was the son of William Enoch Hickman and Ida Woods.  William Enoch Hickman was the son of Thomas Aaron Hickman and Joannah Underwood, and the grandson of my fourth great grandparents Enoch Underwood and Nancy Underwood.  Ida Woods was the daughter of William T. Woods and Suzanna Luzetta Underwood, and the granddaughter of my third great grandparents William Ramey Underwood and Martha Langston.  William Ramey Underwood in turn was the son of the aforementioned Enoch Underwood and Nancy Underwood, and the brother of the aforementioned Joannah Underwood.  So Lloyd was essentially his own second cousin once removed.

Lloyd's wife was Mary (Frenchie) Brooks age 32.