On 27 November 1940, Eva Claire Brizendine died at Center Cross, Essex County, Virginia. She was female; white; married; husband was Phillips [sic] C. Brizendine; age 58 [no date of birth]; occupation house keeper; born in Essex County, Virginia [may say Howerton P.O.]; father was Bill Harmon who was born in Essex County, Virginia; mother was Emma Harmon, who was born in Essex County, Virginia; informant was Kathryn [illegible] of Center Cross, Virginia; burial at Lebanon Church Cemetery on 29[?] November 1940; cause of death cerebral hemorrhage, hypertension, arteriosclerotic [sic]. (Certificate is very sloppy.) [Commonwealth of Virginia, Certificate of Death 25802.]