Clauda Lee Bryan was the granddaughter of my third great grandparents Peter H. Bryan and Polly Ann Cate. As such, she was the first cousin of my great grandfather William Harley (Harley) Bryan.

My interest in her death certificate is that there is a little mystery which I cannot resolve. There is an infant's grave next to the graves of Peter H. Bryan and Polly Ann Cate which says INFANT OF J.A. AND CLAUDA UNDERWOOD, APRIL 27, 1923. Clauda Lee Bryan married John Amos Underwood, so this should be her infant. However, her death certificate confirms that she died April 7, 1919. The dates seem impossible to reconcile. Perhaps the infant's stone was placed years after the death, and the infant's date of death is incorrect. Another possibility is that John Amos Underwood's second wife was Clauda's cousin Lola Helen Bryan.  Perhaps it was her infant.

Arguing for the likelihood that the infant was Clauda's is the fact that she was raised by her grandparents Peter H. Bryan and Polly Ann Cate.  So it seems that she might well have buried her infant next to the grandparents who raised her.  However, in general it does not seem possible to resolve the mystery.

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County: Sevier, Civil Dist.: 8, Registration District: 47908, File number: 85, Village: Kodak, Tenn.; Primary Registration District No.: 8, Registered no.: 9.
2. FULL NAME  Clauda Lee Underwood
3. SEX  Female
4. COLOR OR RACE  white
5. SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR DIVORCED   married
6. DATE OF BIRTH  Oct 2nd, 1884
7. AGE  35 yrs  6 mos.   5 ds.
8. OCCUPATION a) Trade, profession, or particular kinds of work .... Housekeeping  b) General nature of business, or establishment in which employed....
9. BIRTHPLACE  Tenn
10.  NAME OF FATHER  J C Bryan
11.  BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER   Tenn
12. MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER  Adda Mynatt
13.  BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER   Tenn
14.  THE ABOVE IS TRUE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE (Informant) signed Amos Underwood (address) Kodak, Tenn
15. Filed 4/8, 1919  G.C. Johnson.
16. DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1919,
17. I HEREBY CERTIFY that I attended deceased from Dec 1918 to April 6, 1919 and that I last saw her alive on April 6, 1919 and that death occurred on the date stated above at M.  The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows:  Tuberculosis of the lungs  Signed W M Ferguson, M.D., April 8, 1919,  (Address) Dandridge, Tenn
18. LENGTH OF RESIDENCE
19. PLACE OF BURIAL OR REMOVAL  Oak Grove  DATE OF BURIAL April 8, 1919
20. UNDERTAKER E.U. Huffaker  ADDRESS Kodak, Tenn