Clarke County formation
Clarke County separated from Frederick County on March 8, 1836, by the county history's date.
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People and places of Clarke County
Every person, place, organization and object gathered here. 690 subjects, and the 102 connections between them that the evidence supports. Open any one to see the statements underneath it.
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The November 1867 shirt receipt
A November 1867 receipt for a shirt Josephine Williams sold to her former enslavers, described in Clermont's account. The original is not reproduced here.
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Clarke County Mechanics Liens, 1870–1904
A Clarke County court record series of mechanics liens, 1870–1904, which the 2014 Josephine City Historic District nomination describes as giving rare documentation about dwellings in Josephine City in the mid-1870s and 1880s.
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Josephine School Community Museum
The museum makes its home in the former Josephine City schoolhouse, renovated in 2002. It dates its inaugural exhibit to July 12, 2003.
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Ruritan Club of Clarke County
The civic club that took on the county fair in 1954 and bought the former horse-show grounds in 1960. When it was founded, and under what charter, is not in the accounts here.
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Smalley Package Company
A Berryville pallet producer that a 1989 county survey named as one of the town's three major industries. When it began, who owned it, how many it employed and what became of it are all outside the record here.
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Berryville Grille
A restaurant listed at 9 East Main Street in tourism and Main Street captures from 2015, 2021 and 2022, and named without an address in a Main Street portal captured in 2012. The 2015 page describes lunch and dinner with wine and beer. Its opening and closing dates are not established.
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SueCat's Bistro
A casual restaurant with a southern-inspired menu at 9 East Main Street, in a February 2025 directory capture and on its own site that March. The site later carried an undated closing notice; the date it went up and the last day of service are not established.
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Aztec City Mexican Restaurant
A Tex-Mex restaurant at 9 East Main Street, in an April 2026 directory capture and in the county tourism listing read in September 2026, which describes Tex-Mex favorites and dishes inspired by Mexican cooking. Its opening date is not established.
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Miller's Fruit Stand
A roadside produce business at Route 7 and Chilly Hollow Road that John U. Miller Jr. remembered in 2013 as starting with a wagon of watermelons in 1942 and growing in the 1950s into a stand supplied by five greenhouses along Route 7, which he ran for more than 45 years. Distinct from the family's river farm and Watermelon Park.
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Battletown Inn (business)
A hospitality name attested in 1925 at an earlier site on West Main Street and, by a 2015 account, moved in 1952 to the Sarah Stribling House at 102 W. Main, where it ran as restaurant, tavern and inn until a closure reported in June 2015. The name is not the building, and not a single unbroken business.
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The Sign of the Motor Car Inn
An inn, garage and service station the Elder family opened at 102 W. Main in 1919, by a 2015 account, and listed in the 1920 Automobile Blue Book. A 1925 newspaper page treats it as separate from the Battletown Inn, which is reported to have taken over the house in the early 1950s.
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Blandy Experimental Farm
712 acres bequeathed from Tuleyries to the University of Virginia in 1926, farmed commercially under a farm manager at first and planted as an arboretum from the 1930s. In 1976 it stopped farming for profit, leasing about 500 acres to a local farmer and keeping about 80 for teaching. Designated the State Arboretum of Virginia in 1986.
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Fire House Gallery
A shop for handmade arts and crafts that Downtown Berryville Inc., better known as Berryville Main Street, ran at 23 E. Main from January 2010, with incubator space for start-ups. In August 2019 it announced it would close that September 30.
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Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
An international health organization, EIN 53-0242962, whose tax year 2020 federal return put its headquarters on the Carter Hall land at Millwood and described the property as also serving as a conference center. Its own history page dates its incorporation to December 29, 1958 and names Dr. William B. Walsh as founder. Clarke County's assessment record carries a 2021 transfer of the Carter Hall parcel away from a grantor of that name. When it arrived, when it left, and what it held title to are not in the records read here.
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Barns of Rose Hill
A community arts center in Berryville presenting live music, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and art classes. It publishes a Berryville street address.
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Clarke County Education Foundation
An independent public charity that raises private support for students and staff in the Clarke County Public Schools. It publishes a Berryville street address.
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Clarke County Historical Association
Keeps an archive of Clarke County records, photographs and newspapers for researchers, and runs a museum at what its own site calls its headquarters in Berryville. This site already cites its Proceedings as a source.
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FISH of Clarke County
A volunteer-led food pantry and clothing ministry whose stated mission is that everyone in Clarke County can get food, clothing and support. It publishes a Berryville street address.
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Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association
An association recognized by the IRS in Berryville; its own site could not be read for a description (a captcha refused every request). It publishes a Berryville street address.
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Clermont Foundation
Operates Clermont Farm, a 360-acre historic property in Clarke County, in partnership with the farm's owner, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Successor to the Clermont Charitable Trust.
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Casey Trees
A Washington, DC organization that grows trees for the capital's tree canopy on a 730-acre farm along the Shenandoah River in Clarke County.
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Audley Farm (business)
The farm business trading as Audley Farm at 752 Audley Lane, Berryville. It describes its current work as thoroughbred breeding and training, registered Black Angus cattle, beef and hay sales, and events at Audley House, and it sells beef at the Clarke County Farmers Market on Saturdays from May through October. Its legal entity is not established here: the land's owner of record is a differently named corporation that bills to the same Berryville post office box the farm publishes as its mailing address.
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Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
A wildlife hospital on Island Farm Lane in Boyce that treats injured and orphaned native animals free of charge, trains wildlife veterinarians and rehabilitators, and runs education programs in schools across the region. It publishes a Clarke County address for its own premises, on land it says a private foundation provides at no cost.
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John H. Enders Fire Company and Rescue Squad
The volunteer fire and rescue company serving Berryville and Clarke County, which entered its 125th year in 2025. This record carries only what the 2025 annual letter establishes about it.
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Coiner Grand Emporium
A general store trading at 26 East Main Street in Berryville since December 2024, in the building of Coiner's Department Store. The business and the building are separate things, and this record is about the business.
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The Retreat of Berryville
An assisted living and memory care facility in Berryville, which launched an Adopt a Grandparent program for high school students in 2025.
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Mountain Gap Market
A farm market opened by the Taylor family at 119 John Mosby Highway in Paris, about five miles east of the Waterloo intersection. This record is about the business, not the premises.
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Clarke County Conservation Easement Authority
The county body that holds conservation easements and publishes Take a Hike!, a guide to twelve walks in the county.
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Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains
A nonprofit that, with other citizen groups, raised clear cutting, water use and traffic over a proposed Blue Ridge resort during 2025.
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Friends of the Shenandoah River
The organization whose long-running monitoring of the Shenandoah supplies the data presented by The Downstream Project's WaterWatch tool, described in the September 2025 issue.
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Low Water Bridge Band
A Clarke County band which the county's monthly paper described in September 2025 as one of the most well-traveled and better-known musical acts to come out of the Northern Shenandoah Valley in years.
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Clarke Monthly
The county's own monthly paper, published in full each month and the single source behind the 2025 annual letter. Its columns and community dispatches are cited here as what the paper printed.
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Clarke County School League
An organization named in the People's Journal in 1927 as the sponsor of a county-wide Fall Meet at Boyce, organized with one named representative for each of seven communities.
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Clarke Courier
Clarke County's general-circulation weekly, published at Berryville on Thursdays in 1925. Used here as a second, independent newspaper alongside the People's Journal; the two served different readerships and named the same places and institutions differently, which is why they are kept as separate independence families. Its digitized run at the Library of Congress begins in 1869 and the catalog gives the title as running to 1997, but neither endpoint is established by anything in this corpus, so no dates are recorded.
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The People's Journal
A monthly newspaper published at Berryville, Clarke County, and described by its own running head as established in 1895. Eighteen issues covering 1899 to 1927 survive in digitised form.
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Millwood Colored School
A Black school listed as Millwood Colored in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, with J. P. Rier as principal and Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton as teachers.
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White Post Colored School
A Black school listed as White Post Colored in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, with Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson as teachers, though the paper's schedule that October names Emma E. Alexander for White Post.
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Louisville Colored School
A Black school listed as Louisville colored in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, with Emma E. Alexander as teacher, though the paper's schedule that October names Estelle Mitchell for Louisville. The 1992 Kalbian survey lists a Lewisville School, number 21-307, in its table of earlier-surveyed schools; it is treated here as the same school under another spelling, an editorial ruling that no source itself states and that does not locate any building.
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Bristol Colored School
A Black school listed as Bristol colored in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, with George W. Carter as teacher; whether Bristol is the place the People's Journal spells Bristow is not established.
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Berryville High School
A Berryville public school whose staff for the 1925-26 session the Clarke Courier listed under principal D. G. Cooley, from high school teachers down to the first grade, and whose Junior League gave $10 to Shenandoah Valley, Inc. in January 1925.
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Boyce High School
A Boyce public school whose staff for the 1925-26 session the Clarke Courier listed with Winter Royston as principal and teachers for agriculture, home economics, the high school and every grade from the first to the seventh.
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A.M.E. Church, Berryville
An A.M.E. congregation listed in the People's Journal's church directory as A.M.E. Church, Berryville, with Rev. Geo. Lee as pastor in June 1910. Later directory entries name an A.M.E. church with Rev. A. J. Nixon (January 1912) and Rev. R. A. Mays (February 1914) without naming the town; a May 1913 notice says Nixon had held Berryville.
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Primitive Baptist Congregation, Josephine City
A Primitive Baptist congregation that the People's Journal's church directory listed at Josephine City, preaching every fourth Sunday under Robert Williams, in January 1912 and February 1914. A May 1913 notice has Rev. Robert Williams of Millwood holding meeting there every fourth Sunday without naming a denomination.
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Taylors' Chapel
A congregation that the People's Journal named in April 1925 together with Ivanhoe A.M.E. Church, under one pastor, Rev. W. J. White; where it stood is not recorded.
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Bristow Baptist Church
A congregation listed in the People's Journal's October 1924 program for a church rally at Rippon, W. Va.; whether Bristow is the place the Clarke Courier spells Bristol is not established.
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Galilean Fishermen Society
A fraternal society that the People's Journal listed as meeting on the first and third Thursday of each month in 1910 and 1912, and reported turning out in full regalia at a funeral in 1910.
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Gideon's Tabernacle No. 14
A numbered tabernacle whose resolution of respect, naming Cora B. Jones as ex-Scribe, the People's Journal printed in June 1910; the order it belonged to is not stated.
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Rose of Sharon Juvenile Tabernacle No. 61
A juvenile tabernacle at Berryville whose resolution, naming Edward M. Jones as R.W.S., the People's Journal printed in June 1910.
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Berryville Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 213
A Knights of Pythias lodge that, with Eastern Star Courts of Calanthe No. 239, announced a second annual picnic at Bell's Grove, east of Berryville, in the People's Journal of August 1921.
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Eastern Star Courts of Calanthe No. 239
A Court of Calanthe that, with Berryville Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 213, announced a second annual picnic at Bell's Grove, east of Berryville, in the People's Journal of August 1921.
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Milton Valley Cemetery Company
A company with stockholders that advertised in the People's Journal in 1910 and 1912 with G. W. Lightfoot as secretary. In 1926 a notice from the Cemetery Board of Milton Valley Cemetery, printed under the heading "Milton Valley Cemetery Company," asked every lot holder to pay a yearly $1.00 tax.
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Shenandoah Free Baptist Association
Two separate People's Journal entries. In October 1924 it reported a "Free Baptist Association" in its 44th session at Berryville; in August 1927 it carried a notice of the 47th annual session of the "Shenandoah Free Baptist Association" at Bedford, Virginia. The two names are not shown to be one body; the session numbers suggest it, but do not establish it.
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Independent Club, of Millwood and Berryville
A club named for Millwood and Berryville whose social at the Fishermen's Hall on December 28, 1911, the People's Journal called one of the most enjoyable of the season.
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Millwood Glee Club
A glee club listed among the evening programs of a 1924 church rally at Rippon, W. Va., in the People's Journal.
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Frosty Feet Redsocks
A team that, according to a Berryville item in the People's Journal of July 1926, defeated the Morgan Grove team.
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Missionary Society, Zion Baptist Church
Two separate People's Journal entries. Its May 1, 1913 program for the dedication of Zion Baptist Church's new chapel includes a Missionary Society devotional, with Mrs. Lucy Franklin as president. Its June 1, 1925 issue reports that Rev. Mrs. Fry of Washington, D.C., preached for the Missionary Society of Zion Baptist; that item does not say which Zion Baptist church is meant, and the two entries are not shown to be one society.
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Mrs. Mary L. Harris, dressmaking
A dressmaking business that Mrs. Mary L. Harris of Berryville advertised in the People's Journal in June 1910, offering to "cut, fit and make all suits in the latest style"; a Mrs. L. Harris advertised dressmaking in the paper again in January 1912.
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Mrs. L. E. Carr, First-Class Restaurant
A restaurant on Church Street that the People's Journal named in June 1910 as Mrs. L. E. Carr's First-Class Restaurant, with meals at all hours.
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Ben Jefferson's New Store
A store that Mr. Ben Jefferson announced in the People's Journal in June 1910 as a "New Store!", back at his old stand, "the Brandy place".
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H. W. Jackson, Lunch and Ice-Cream
A lunch and ice-cream business on Liberty Street, Berryville, that the People's Journal carried under H. W. Jackson's name in October 1924.
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Jack L. Davis, Barber Shop
A Berryville barber shop that the People's Journal named under J. L. Davis in 1921 and 1925 and under Jack L. Davis in 1924, read here as one shop.
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The First Minnesota
A newspaper that Library of Congress catalog records describe as a publication of the First Minnesota Regiment of Union troops which occupied Berryville, issued with the Berryville Conservator in March 1862; it ceased that year.
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The Winchester Star
A Winchester newspaper that the Clarke Courier quoted in January 1925 on Clarke County's gifts to Winchester Memorial Hospital, and that reported in September 2026 on the endowment campaign of Barns of Rose Hill.
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Berryville Freedmen's Bureau-era school
A school at Berryville in the Freedmen's Bureau years, known from an agent's report of April 30, 1868 which records Mrs. Sarah S. Jackson taking it over as teacher.
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Boyce Colored School
A Black school at Boyce, built in 1885 and standing vacant at 35 South Greenway Avenue when the Boyce Historic District was nominated in 2003.
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Clarke County Training School
The county's Black training school, built at Josephine City in 1930 and carried later under the Williams and Johnson-Williams names. It was enlarged under a 1949 bond proposal, became the integrated Johnson-Williams Middle School in 1966, and the building survives as housing.
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Bank of Clarke County
A commercial bank organized in Berryville in the winter of 1881. Its directors decided in February of that year to put up a building of its own, and the Clarke Courier followed the work from the decision through to the roof going on in September. The foundation dig is the reason this collection holds a record of human remains found on the site.
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Berryville Basket Company
A Berryville company chartered in 1921 to make fruit containers beside the Norfolk & Western tracks. The Clarke Courier reported it turning gum logs into baskets for greens and apples through the 1930s, and announced its sale in 1938 to Herbert M. Smalley of Bridgeton, New Jersey.
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Clarke County aircraft warning posts
The Clarke county station of the Virginia Aircraft Warning Service, which the Clarke Courier reported being formed in June 1941 by H. B. Harris and Townsend Burwell. Its volunteer observation posts were concentrated in 1942 at Berryville, Boyce and White Post and closed by War Department order in July 1943.
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Lanham's Grocery (Boyce)
A grocery store in Boyce where, according to the Winchester Evening Star, Philip Cunningham ran in to write down a getaway car's license number during the April 1, 1965 bank robbery.
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Locke and Co. (Millwood)
A store in Millwood operated by Philip Cunningham and his brother, named in the Winchester Evening Star's report of the April 1, 1965 Boyce bank robbery.
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Old Chapel, near Millwood
A chapel near Millwood in Clarke County that Gold's 1914 history of the county, Bishop Meade's account of the Virginia parishes and the 1906 book on the chapel call the Old Chapel. The cited passages report an 1834 decision to build a larger church near Millwood, a burying ground that Lancaster (1915) says is sometimes called the Burwell graveyard, and eighteen soldiers buried there.
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Berryville Baptist Church (Buck Marsh)
A Baptist church at Berryville that Gold's 1914 history of the county says was constituted as Buck Marsh church in 1772 and whose name, Gold says, changed from "Buck Marsh" to "Berryville" about 1840. Taylor's Virginia Baptist Ministers (1913 and 1915) name a "Berryville Church" in sketches of ministers; whether those pages are about this same church rests on the name.
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Cunningham Chapel Parish
A name that Gold's 1914 history of Clarke County, Bishop Meade, the 1906 Old Chapel book and a 1921 list use in different ways. Gold says the old log house near the Old Chapel was "known as Cunningham Chapel," reports that the name "Cunningham Chapel parish" was adopted in 1866 for the parish and calls it a misnomer; Meade writes "Cunningham's Chapel"; the 1906 book names a rector of "Cunningham Chapel Parish" from 1858 to 1881; and a 1921 list prints "Cunning [sic] Chapel Parish; Questionnaire." The old log house and the stone Old Chapel are named as two buildings on nearby ground, and the 1921 item is tied to this name as Likely, not Confirmed.
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Christ Church, Millwood
The Episcopal church at Millwood in Clarke County that Gold's 1914 history says was built in 1834 on a two-acre lot given by Mr. George Burwell of Carter Hall, after the Millwood congregation of the Old Chapel became a separate body in 1832. Gold lists its rectors from 1835 to 1881, the 1906 Old Chapel book names a Christ Church Rectory at Millwood in 1888 and a gift of the land, Bishop Meade says communion vessels are used at "the congregation and church at Millwood," and a 1921 list prints "Millwood Prot. Epis. Church; Quest.; by B. D. Chambers," which is tied to this church as Likely, not Confirmed.
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Berryville Methodist Church
The Methodist congregation at Berryville as Gold's 1914 history describes it: early preaching in houses and the old Academy, a first building not dated ("probably between 1840 and 1850"), a strong church before the war, a new church "some years ago," and the dispute of the 1860s between the Rev. Wm. Hedges and the Rev. Mr. Lanahan after the Baltimore Conference was divided, which ended with "our people kept their church." Gold never prints "M. E." for it; a 1921 list prints "Berryville M. E. Church; Report; 3 pp.; by W. H. Ballinger," which is tied to this congregation as Likely, not Confirmed.
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Grace Episcopal Church, Berryville
The Episcopal church at Berryville that Gold's 1914 history describes under the heading "Berryville Episcopal": a church building completed under Rev. Jared Rice for Episcopalians only, Grace Church in Berryville improved in 1848, and a new edifice begun in 1856 and consecrated by Bishop Meade on August 29, 1857, enlarged in 1883. Gold names Grace Church once, for 1848; the later pages say "the present edifice" and "the church."
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Berryville Presbyterian Church
The Presbyterian church at Berryville that Gold's 1914 history says was organized on June 10, 1854 by a commission of the Winchester Presbytery with eleven members, built largely through Rev. Mr. Baber, with Rev. Chas. White as first pastor until 1875 and its building not injured by U. S. troops in the war. Gold says the Berryville, Stone's Chapel and Clearbrook churches unite in supporting a pastor.
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Stone's Chapel
A church that Gold's 1914 history places about six miles from Berryville, built for the Lutheran and Presbyterian denominations and by then served by the same pastor as the Berryville Presbyterian church; Gold says it was named, it is supposed, for the man who gave the land, that there is record of preaching there in 1786, and that the present building is probably the third.
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Bethel Baptist Church
A Baptist church that Gold's 1914 history says was organized in 1808 with 13 members, most of them from the "Buck Marsh" church at Berryville, and built its brick building in 1833; Gold also says a Baptist church at Millwood was organized in 1888 by members of Bethel. The page prints no place for Bethel.
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Lloyd Williams Post No. 41, American Legion
The American Legion post at Berryville, with its Woman's Auxiliary. The Clarke Courier shows the post calling an Armistice Day meeting at Winston Hall in 1919 and, with the Auxiliary, leading the town's Armistice Day and Memorial Day observances from the 1920s to 1946.
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Clarke Rifles (Co. I, 2nd Virginia Infantry)
The Berryville company of the Stonewall Brigade. A 1948 local history says it was organized in October 1859 as the Clarke Guards and reorganized as the Clarke Rifles, Co. I, 2nd Virginia Infantry; its captains were Bowen, S. J. C. Moore and J. H. O'Bannon. Its members' obituaries in the Clarke Courier, 1905-1920, tell its story.
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Clarke Cavalry (Co. D, 6th Virginia Cavalry)
The Clarke County cavalry company of the Confederate army, Co. D of the 6th Virginia Cavalry. Its survivors formed the Association of the Survivors of the Clarke Cavalry in 1884, met each summer into the 1910s, and led the effort for the county's Confederate monument, unveiled in 1900. The Clarke Courier reported their meetings.
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Daniel Morgan
Gold's 1914 county history ties the name Battletown to tavern fighting and to Daniel Morgan. Whether his fighting produced the name is unconfirmed.
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Josephine Williams
Enslaved at Clermont before emancipation, she sold a shirt to her former enslavers in November 1867. In Clermont's account a September 1870 plat identifies her with Lots 1 and 2 in Josephine City, and a May 1871 clerk record describes a sale of Lot 1 with her husband, Phillip Williams. Her age and death date remain unresolved in that account.
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Thomas D. Gold
Author of the 1914 county history that carries the Battletown-name story. His preface frames the book as a Confederate-veteran remembrance project.
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Jack Schutte
A Clarke County resident appointed by the Governor of Virginia to a four-year term on the Virginia Sheep Industry Board, reported in April 2025. Nothing further about him is established here.
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Alma B. Layton
Named as a teacher at Boyce Colored school by the Clarke Courier in July 1925 and as secretary of the Clarke County School League by the People's Journal in August 1927.
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Rev. E. T. Johnson
Named by the People's Journal in 1924 as pastor of the Free Baptist Church and principal of the Berryville school, and by the Clarke Courier in 1925 as a teacher at the Josephine colored school and as president of the county's Black school league. Named again as League president by the People's Journal in 1927. He is the strongest single bridge between the two newspapers in this corpus.
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Fannie Jenkins
Named as an assistant at the Berryville school by the People's Journal in October 1924 and as a teacher at the Josephine colored school by the Clarke Courier in July 1925. Spelled Fanny by the first and Fannie by the second.
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Florine Johnson
Named as a teacher at the Josephine colored school by the Clarke Courier in July 1925. The People's Journal's 'Mrs. F. Johnson', an assistant at the Berryville school in October 1924, is probably the same person, but that reads an initial as a name and is recorded as probable rather than settled.
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George Cooper
Named by the People's Journal in 1910 as killed by a freight train at the Josephine City crossing.
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G. L. D. Harris
Editor and proprietor of the People's Journal, Berryville, named in that role from 1899 to 1927, and a signatory as a retired public-school teacher in 1925. Everything known of him here comes from his own newspaper.
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Josephine Johnson
Advertised a lunch room in Josephine City in the People's Journal in March 1925 and again in August 1927.
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Lucy Franklin
Advertised her Josephine City residence for autumn and winter boarders in the People's Journal in January 1912.
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S. W. Brown
Advertised a grocery store in Josephine City in the People's Journal from 1910, styled Elder in the paper's other columns.
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D. G. Cooley
Principal of Berryville High School in 1925. The Clarke Courier names him principal in January and on the appointments list for 1925-26 in July, and reports him in charge of the new building in September. In October it records him as president of the Clarke County teachers' institute and in charge of the Berryville public health pictures.
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Frances Wolfe
Assistant principal of Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, as the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and its staff notice of September record, and treasurer of the Clarke County teachers' institute from October 1925.
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Louise Kerfoot
A high school teacher at Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and again among the principal's assistants in its staff notice of September.
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Willie M. Snouffer
A high school teacher at Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and, in full as Willie Morris Snouffer, in its staff notice of September.
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Ella Holland
The seventh-grade teacher at Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and in its staff notice of September, which places her in the new building on Main Street.
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Mary D. Sowers
The sixth-grade teacher at Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and in its staff notice of September, which places her in the new building on Main Street.
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Beatrice Kackley
The fifth-grade teacher at Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and in its staff notice of September, which places her in the new building on Main Street.
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Mrs. Wilbur Price
The teacher of the combined fourth and fifth grades at Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and in its staff notice of September, both times only by her husband's name.
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Agnes Fenton
The fourth-grade teacher at Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925, whom the Courier reported in September 1925 had been put in charge of the school's old building on Academy Street.
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Ella Hughes
The first-grade teacher at Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and in its staff notice of September, which places her in the old building on Academy Street.
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Virginia Pierce
A teacher at Berryville High School who, the Clarke Courier reported on April 30, 1925, had married Dean Colston and would return to finish her session's work before leaving with her husband.
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T. F. Akers
Principal of the Boyce Agricultural High School, as the Clarke Courier called Boyce High School when he announced its January honor roll in February 1925.
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Winter Royston
Named principal of Boyce High School for the 1925-26 session on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925, under a headline announcing a new Boyce principal. In October the Courier records him as vice-president of the Clarke County teachers' institute and in charge of the Boyce public health pictures.
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E. W. Roller
The agriculture teacher at Boyce High School for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
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Ruth Royston
One of the two high school teachers at Boyce High School for the 1925-26 session, named with Bettie Teel Miller on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
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Bettie Teel Miller
One of the two high school teachers at Boyce High School for the 1925-26 session, named with Ruth Royston on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
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Katharine Jones
The home economics teacher at Boyce High School for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925, and secretary of the Clarke County teachers' institute from October 1925.
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Grace Johnston
The seventh-grade teacher at Boyce High School for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
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Audrey Fritts
The teacher of the fifth and sixth grades at Boyce High School for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
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Ruth Berlin
The teacher of the third and fourth grades at Boyce High School for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
Mary Thompson
The teacher of the first and second grades at Boyce High School for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
Leslie D. Kline
Superintendent of schools for the division of Clarke and Frederick Counties in 1925. The Clarke Courier prints his February statement that he would attend meetings called in protest concerning the division superintendent, names him listing the county's teacher appointments for 1925-26, and records him at two meetings about a school for the county's Black children: billed to speak at one in January, and given charge of the other in May.
4 statements0 connections
Holmes J. Hardesty
A member of the Clarke County School Board in 1925. The Clarke Courier places him on the rostrum at the exercises at the new high school building in March, and names him as the board's secretary when two members spoke on the county's school situation in June.
1 statement0 connections
J. P. Rier
Principal of the Millwood colored school for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925, and named for Millwood in the Courier's October schedule of public health pictures for the colored schools.
1 statement0 connections
Clarissa Layton
A teacher at the Millwood colored school for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 after principal J. P. Rier and Louise Bannister.
1 statement0 connections
Matilda Herbert
A teacher at the Boyce colored school for the 1925-26 session, named with Alma Layton on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
George W. Carter
The teacher of the Bristol colored school for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
C. Agnes Miller
The teacher of the Providence Chapel school for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and for Providence Chapel in the Courier's October schedule of public health pictures.
1 statement0 connections
Edna Grim
The teacher of the Bethel school for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
Eunice Carper
The teacher of the Kinderhook school for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
Gladys Jenkins
One of the two teachers of the Millwood school for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925, which lists that school apart from the Millwood colored school.
1 statement0 connections
Gladys Rowland
One of the two teachers of the Riverside school for the 1925-26 session, named with Mary Lee Meade on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
Mary Lee Meade
One of the two teachers of the Riverside school for the 1925-26 session, named with Gladys Rowland on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
Ida Payne
The teacher of the Marvin Chapel school for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
Lola Jenkins
The teacher of the Oak Grove school for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
Nellie Mae Evans
The teacher of the Hawthorne school for the 1925-26 session, as named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.
1 statement0 connections
Mrs. Walter Foley
The teacher of the Glendale school for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 only by her husband's name.
1 statement0 connections
Mrs. C. C. Elsea
The teacher of the Pine Grove school for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 as Mrs. C. C. Elsea.
1 statement0 connections
Eugene Glover
Clerk of Clarke County in 1925. The Clarke Courier names him as the County Clerk issuing wedding licenses in April and as the clerk attesting a Circuit Court chancery notice in January.
1 statement0 connections
W. A. Bradford
Treasurer of Clarke County through 1925. The Clarke Courier reports him settling the county's dog license account in January and names him, as treasurer, at a school play in Boyce in December.
2 statements0 connections
W. W. Smallwood
Sheriff of Clarke County in 1925, named in a Circuit Court chancery notice in January and signing a sheriff's sale notice in October.
2 statements0 connections
S. D. Estep
A justice of the peace of Clarke County, whose order to sell a car at the Boyce Garage the Clarke Courier printed in October 1925.
1 statement0 connections
C. T. Hardesty
Chairman of the Local Board of Equalization of Assessments of Clarke County, who signed the board's notice of its November 1925 meetings.
1 statement0 connections
Dan T. Shepherd
A game warden who signed a September 1925 notice of the sale of strayed horses in front of the Court House.
1 statement0 connections
Robert B. Crawford
County agent for Clarke and Warren counties until January 1925, whose move to a similar post in Prince Edward County the Clarke Courier reported that February.
1 statement0 connections
John H. Enders
Berryville funeral director and chief of the Berryville Fire Company in 1925, quoted in October on the town's $55,000 reservoir plan.
1 statement0 connections
Rose MacDonald
Judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court of Clarke County in 1925, reporting school truancy cases in February, and chairman of the county's Woman's Democratic Club that July.
2 statements0 connections
John T. Crow
A Clarke County magistrate whose decision in a suit over automobile repairs was appealed to the County Court early in 1925.
1 statement0 connections
Frank B. Whiting
Judge of the Circuit Court of Clarke County in 1925. In February the Clarke Courier reports him hearing an appeal and a complaint over drink permits, and in September it names him as ordering the town's water bond election.
3 statements0 connections
W. T. Lewis
Chairman of the Clarke County Democratic Executive Committee in 1925, named at an April mass meeting, on the committee's June resolution for a primary and at the August convention.
3 statements0 connections
T. B. Hardesty
Secretary of the Clarke County Democratic Executive Committee, who signed its June 1925 resolution for a direct primary.
1 statement0 connections
Joseph Denny
A White Post member of the Clarke County Democratic Committee who headed a mass meeting in April 1925 and presided at the county convention that August, when the Clarke delegation planned to put him forward for the state senate.
2 statements0 connections
Frederick Adams
A farm hand living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Emma Walker on January 6, 1881, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Elijah Addison
A farm hand living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Arrena Harris on September 28, 1878, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Philip J. Afflick
A blacksmith living in Berryville who married Marcella Deahl on October 4, 1866, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Benjamin F. Alexander
A farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Eliza Willingham on October 17, 1872, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Robert E. Allder
A farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Laura V. Knight on October 14, 1875, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Edward Allen
A farm hand living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Sally Thompson on March 25, 1885, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Roger P. Annan
A merchant living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Adelaide S. Hall on October 23, 1867, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
William B. Atkins
A shoemaker living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Annie Virginia Lock on October 8, 1867, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Welby H. Baldwin
A farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married L. V. Gordon on March 6, 1884, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
John Banks
A farm hand living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Maria Marston on February 3, 1881, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
William Banks
A farm hand living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Betsey Hubbard on August 28, 1884, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
James Barber
A farm hand living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Barbara A. Edmonds on December 26, 1877, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Julius Karr Bartlett
A farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Bettie L. Berlin on December 12, 1877, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Cyrus D. Baughman
A miller living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Mary E. Young on February 13, 1878, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Milton A. Baughman
A miller living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Mary S. Duble on August 28, 1884, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Silas F. Baughman
A merchant living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Laura V. Parshall on February 25, 1886, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
William Baxter
A farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Sarah E. Alexander on August 19, 1879, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Thomas Bayles
A farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Elizabeth Littleton on February 24, 1881, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
James W. Bennett
A farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Ella E. Pope on April 27, 1882, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
Walter T. Bennett
A clerk living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Hannah Elizabeth Osburn on July 3, 1866, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.
1 statement0 connections
B. F. Lippitt
Game warden in 1923 and first sergeant among the Berryville guardsmen in 1924. The Clarke Courier prints his notice on dog license tags in February 1923 and names him in the guard of honor at the funeral services of Brig. Gen. Robert F. Leedy in January 1924.
1 statement0 connections
Cassie Pidgeon
Teacher in the Berryville school. The Clarke Courier lists her among the Berryville High School appointments in July 1923 and as the second-grade teacher in September 1924.
1 statement0 connections
Edith Estep
Teacher of English at Berryville High School in 1924. The Clarke Courier lists her among the school's appointments in July 1923 and names her as accompanying Miss Frances Payne to the district oratorical contest in April 1924.
1 statement0 connections
H. C. Barthel
President of the Gaylord School community league. The Clarke Courier names him its president when the league was organized in November 1923 and reports him explaining its purpose at a meeting in February 1924.
1 statement0 connections
J. Ed. Ogden
Treasurer of the Corporation of Berryville. The Clarke Courier prints his annual report to the Town Council in January 1923 and his notice that water taxes were due in November 1924.
1 statement0 connections
Joseph F. Moore
Commonwealth's Attorney in 1923 and 1924. The Clarke Courier reports him at home with the flu in January 1923 and reports a new private secretary in his office in May 1924.
1 statement0 connections
Lillie Garver
Teacher at Boyce High School. The Clarke Courier lists her among the school's appointments in July 1923 and on its faculty, teaching the fifth and sixth grades, in September 1924.
1 statement0 connections
Lola Funkhouser
Student at Boyce Agricultural High School. The Clarke Courier names her as a Boyce debater in the literary contests of May 1923 and as secretary of the senior class in May 1924.
1 statement0 connections
Mrs. Frank B. Whiting
Chairman of the committee on women in industry of the Berryville Branch of the Virginia League of Woman Voters in 1923. The Clarke Courier names her in that office in February 1923 and reports her injury in a fall in February 1924.
1 statement0 connections
Coleman Dunn
Auctioneer named in public sale notices in the Clarke Courier in January and March 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Clifton Price
President of the Berryville Local and a vice-president of the Clarke County Farmers' Union in 1923, and that year the unopposed Democratic candidate for the Board of Supervisors from Battletown District.
1 statement0 connections
John H. Huyett
Owner of a picture theater in 1923. The Clarke Courier of February 1, 1923 reports that he installed two machines there to show a ten-reel picture without a stop.
1 statement0 connections
Lucy A. Allen
Deputy clerk of the Circuit Court of Clarke County in 1923. The Clarke Courier of April 26, 1923 prints her certificate in a court notice.
1 statement0 connections
Kate Powers
President of the Woman's Club of Clarke County, elected at its annual meeting of April 26, 1923 and listed as president in the club's program for 1923-24.
1 statement0 connections
Emma Jones
Berryville woman elected vice president of the Woman's Club of Clarke County in April 1923, who in December 1923 took a position with the First Presbyterian church at Durham.
1 statement0 connections
Frank McCormick
Battletown District member of the Clarke County Board of Supervisors, renominated without opposition in June 1923. The board adopted resolutions on his death in September 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Henry Rutherford
Member of the Democratic Executive Committee from Longmarsh District, elected in June 1923 to fill the vacancy of the late John Rutherford.
1 statement0 connections
William H. Mesmer
Chairman of the Clarke County Electoral Board and a retired farmer in 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Jessie T. Scott
County worker and county nurse of Clarke County from August 1923, beginning with infant welfare work. The Clarke Courier printed her statement on the fight against tuberculosis in December 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Alice C. Ferguson
Member of the program committee of the Woman's Club of Clarke County for 1923-24.
1 statement0 connections
Annie T. Ferguson
Member of the social committee of the Woman's Club of Clarke County for 1923-24.
1 statement0 connections
Ollie Thomas
Vice-president of the Golden Rule Circle of the King's Daughters, elected in October 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Mamie White
Treasurer of the Golden Rule Circle of the King's Daughters, elected in October 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Agnes Tapscott
Delegate of the Golden Rule Circle of the King's Daughters to the state convention at Staunton in October 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Nettie Owens
Chaplain of Treadwell Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, when the chapter was instituted late in 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Ernest Locke
Treasurer of Lloyd Williams Post, No. 41, American Legion, named in December 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Mamie Spates
Vice president of the Old Chapel School Community League when it was organized in November 1923.
1 statement0 connections
John W. Riely
Treasurer of Battletown Lodge No. 98, I. O. O. F., elected in December 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Bessie Thornton
Bessie Thornton, listed as a teacher for the Riverside school in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments of July 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Clara Rush
Clara Rush, listed as a teacher for the Riverside school in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments of July 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Josephine Stipe
Josephine Stipe, listed as a teacher for the Oak Grove school in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments of July 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Elsie Kelley
Elsie Kelley, listed as a teacher for the Pine Grove school in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments of July 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Elva Kelley
Elva Kelley, listed as a teacher for the Providence Chapel school in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments of July 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Mary Wharton
Mary Wharton, listed as a teacher for the Mt. Carmel school in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments of July 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Emmett Day
Emmett Day, listed as a teacher for the Shenandoah school in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments of July 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Lawrence Phillipps
Teacher listed first for the school printed as "Millwood Col." in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments of July 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Carolyn Kackley
Teacher of the Hawthorne school in February 1923, listed among its appointments again in July 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Mattie Marlowe
Teacher at the Riverside school, with Mrs. Miller, in the Clarke Courier's attendance report of February 15, 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Helen Jobe
Teacher of the Marvin school in February 1923, as the Clarke Courier reported in its attendance figures that March.
1 statement0 connections
Della McAboy
Teacher of the Pierce school in February 1923, as the Clarke Courier reported in its attendance figures that March.
1 statement0 connections
Bruce Golightly
Principal of the Old Chapel School in March 1923, who set his pupils to learn about the Clarke County men buried in the historic graveyard.
1 statement0 connections
Ella Gray
Teacher in the Berryville school in the 1922-23 session, who did not intend to teach the next year.
1 statement0 connections
Bertie Lesser
Telephone operator at Berryville who helped rouse the citizens during an attempted post office robbery reported in March 1923, and was given a medal by the C. & P. Telephone Company.
1 statement0 connections
Ernest L. Alger
Unopposed Democratic candidate for overseer of the poor for Chapel District in the November 1923 election.
1 statement0 connections
Holmes E. McAboy
Wadesville man who ran for overseer of the poor in Long Marsh District in 1923 and thanked the voters for electing him in the Democratic primary of August 7.
1 statement0 connections
John F. Stinson
Democratic nominee and unopposed candidate for justice of the peace in Chapel District in 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Mary Elisabeth Pidgeon
Wadesville woman who lectured for the extension department of the University of Virginia and was to speak at the Harrisonburg Normal School's summer session in 1923. She had worked for ratification of the woman suffrage amendment.
1 statement0 connections
William Graham Reynolds
Berryville man, a captain in the 23rd Infantry, listed in the Virginia War History as awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism at St. Etienne on October 4, 1918.
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James Lindsey
Boyce man who received a war medal for valor at the front in France in the World War. The Clarke Courier noted in 1923 that the Virginia War History left out his name.
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A. S. Robinson
Vice president of the Wadesville local of the Farmers' Union when it was organized in January 1922.
1 statement0 connections
Baker Chamblin
Vice president of the White Post local of the Farmers' Union in the membership list the Clarke Courier printed in August 1921.
1 statement0 connections
C. E. Murphy
Secretary-treasurer of the Wadesville local of the Farmers' Union when it was organized in January 1922.
1 statement0 connections
W. T. Chamblin
Treasurer of the Berryville local of the Farmers' Union in 1921, to whom farmers were asked to send their unpaid dues.
1 statement0 connections
S. S. Thomas
Berryville farmer named a director of the new Berryville Basket Co. in 1921, and in 1922 the Berryville local's member of the county Farmers' Union executive committee and one of the twelve farmers on the county agent's Advisory Council.
1 statement0 connections
Jos. Shenk
One of the twelve farmers named in April 1922 to the Advisory Council for Clarke County's agricultural agent.
1 statement0 connections
Mary Washington Gold
Woman of "Ellwood" whose few acres of V. P. I. 131 wheat passed the Virginia Crop Improvement Association's inspection in 1923, which the Clarke Courier called probably the first certified wheat produced in Clarke County.
1 statement0 connections
Baker Tapscott
Judge and commissioner of election for the Mt. Airy precinct, named by the Clarke County Electoral Board in March 1921.
1 statement0 connections
Earnest Dearmont
White Post man who testified in the Harrison-Paul election contest in February 1921, and was named registrar for the Lindseys precinct that March.
1 statement0 connections
George E. Morgan
Registrar for the Court House precinct and the Corporation of Berryville, appointed in March 1921 in place of N. F. Smith.
1 statement0 connections
Jos. W. Lloyd
Registrar for the Morgan's Mill precinct in the Clarke County Electoral Board's appointments of March 1921.
1 statement0 connections
Page Rutherford
Registrar for the Russells precinct, who testified in the Harrison-Paul election contest in February 1921 about how he registered women voters.
1 statement0 connections
R. H. Ritter
Registrar for the Millwood precinct in the Clarke County Electoral Board's appointments of March 1921.
1 statement0 connections
L. K. Briggs
Assessor of lands for Clarke County, listed in the county's financial statement for the year ending September 1, 1921.
1 statement0 connections
J. M. Litton
Deputy sheriff of Clarke County who signed a February 1922 notice of a public sale for Sheriff W. W. Smallwood.
1 statement0 connections
Dan Hickerson
Berryville street superintendent and police chief in 1921 and 1922, re-elected town sergeant and superintendent of the water works in September 1922.
1 statement0 connections
George C. Thomas
Former mayor of Berryville and superintendent of the Green Hill Cemetery Co., a judge and commissioner of election for the Court House precinct in 1921, who turned 81 in January 1922.
1 statement0 connections
J. F. McDonald
Superintendent of the Berryville and Charles Town and Berryville and Summit Point turnpikes in Battletown District for thirteen years and nine months to January 1922, whose tolls of $37,272.37 paid for four concrete bridges and thirteen culverts.
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John Yowell
Boyce man superintending construction of the state road between Old Chapel and Boyce in June 1923.
1 statement0 connections
Mae Traister
Assistant postmaster of Berryville in 1921, who returned to her duties that June after an operation for appendicitis.
1 statement0 connections
Sarah Elder
Berryville woman elected commander of the Auxiliary of the Lloyd Williams Post, American Legion, in January 1921, who led the Woman's Auxiliary at the unveiling of a memorial tablet that June.
1 statement0 connections
Mrs. J. M. H. Clagett
Berryville woman elected vice commander of the Auxiliary of the Lloyd Williams Post, American Legion, in January 1921, and named to its executive board in 1922.
1 statement0 connections
Elizabeth Moore
Berryville woman elected secretary of the Auxiliary of the Lloyd Williams Post, American Legion, in January 1921.
1 statement0 connections
Fannie Fenton
Treasurer of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Lloyd Williams Post, American Legion, elected for 1922.
1 statement0 connections
Mrs. Raleigh C. Carter
Secretary of The King's Daughters of Clarke County, whose annual report was approved at the June 1921 convention and who was elected secretary for the year ahead.
1 statement0 connections
Mrs. W. M. S. Hammond
Elected president of the Woman's Club of Clarke County in April 1922.
1 statement0 connections
Bettie Bradford
Presided over the Clarke County Community League's February 1922 meeting at Boyce in the absence of its chairman and vice chairman.
1 statement0 connections
Holly Pifer
Elected secretary of the Clarke County Community League in June 1921.
1 statement0 connections
E. G. Butler
Named with his wife to chair the recreation committee of the Clarke County Community League in August 1922.
1 statement0 connections
A. Moore, Jr.
Retired president of the Bank of Clarke County who presided at the first stockholders' meeting of the new Clarke County Building and Loan Association in September 1922, an association he had long urged.
1 statement0 connections
C. H. Phillips
One of the directors of the new Berryville Basket Co. named in February 1921.
1 statement0 connections
Charles W. Marks
Manager of the Clarke Opera House in 1921, who bought a lot on Liberty Street in Berryville that March to build a home.
1 statement0 connections
D. L. Fries
Proprietor of The Battletown Inn at Berryville, quoted in the Clarke Courier's March 1922 tribute to the lawyer Conrad Kownslar.
1 statement0 connections
Holmes Hibbard
Local superintendent of the Northern Virginia Power Company at Berryville in 1921, who bought a lot on the Charles Town pike that March to build a home.
1 statement0 connections
J. H. Goss
Proprietor of the Berryville Supply Company in 1922.
1 statement0 connections
Norval L. Carter
Proprietor of the Berryville Garage, who bought the People's Garage from its receiver in January 1921 to run it as the Central Garage.
1 statement0 connections
Pete Rutherford
Manager of the Clarke County Creamery in 1922, which closed for the Fourth of July so he could spend it with the Woodmen.
1 statement0 connections
R. L. Aylor
New owner of the Clarke Milling Co. in 1922, who bought and remodeled the Longerbeam house on South Church Street in Berryville.
1 statement0 connections
T. Eddy Brown
Berryville grocer who sold his store and house on Church Street to D. D. Brown for $6,000 in May 1921 and sold off his groceries at cost.
1 statement0 connections
Frank B. Neville
Auctioneer of public sales near Millwood and at Boyce in the fall of 1922.
1 statement0 connections
W. H. Ballengee
Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Berryville for two years, who in March 1922 asked to be retired on account of his health and planned to live in Winchester.
1 statement0 connections
Jas. W. Gaver
Secretary of the quarterly conference of the Berryville charge of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who signed its March 1922 resolution on the Rev. W. H. Ballengee's retirement.
1 statement0 connections
J. D. Russell
Chaplain of the Order of Fraternal Americans at Millwood, who held its Mother's Day service in May 1922.
1 statement0 connections
Elizabeth Houghton
Teacher of the higher grades at the Millwood school in 1921, a position she had held for the two years before.
1 statement0 connections
Lucy Parke Shepherd
Fifth-grade teacher at Berryville High School for the session opening September 14, 1921.
1 statement0 connections
A. C. Arnett
Clarke landowner whose action to have the Board of Review reopen the assessment of his land was dropped in the Circuit Court in 1921.
1 statement0 connections
E. B. Jacobs
Horseman whose entries took three silver cups at the Blue Ridge Hunt Club's show at Carter Hall in May 1922, and who won the silver cup for the Clarke County hunter at the Berryville Horse Show that August.
1 statement0 connections
John R. Castleman, Jr.
Clarke County man, son of the late John R. Castleman of Mosby's Rangers, whom the Clarke Courier of May 26, 1921 reported as valedictorian of his Virginia Polytechnic Institute class with the highest four-year average, and as awarded a Distinguished Service Medal for bravery in an air battle. A Courier list of April 26, 1923, compiled from the Virginia War History, names a Distinguished Service Cross for a John R. Castleman of Berryville; the two items are not reconciled here.
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Thomas M. Lippitt
Berryville-born passed assistant surgeon in the U. S. Navy, recalled in 1922 as badly wounded in the leg in the Boxer uprising, and quoted that June on his schoolmate Henry G. Shirley.
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Wilbur Price
Berryville farmer whose plan to divide automobile license taxes equally between the state and the counties, endorsed by the Berryville Local of the Farmers' Union, passed the House of Delegates in 1922.
1 statement0 connections
J. T. Murphy
Farmer and member of the Berryville Methodist Church, South, whom the Clarke Courier of January 6, 1921 reported dead near Aldie in Loudoun County; it calls him Clarke-born and a veteran of White's Battalion.
1 statement0 connections
Joseph C. Jones
Millwood man, son of the Rev. Joseph R. Jones of Cunningham Parish, who had kept a drug store at Millwood and died on January 4, 1921, aged 47.
1 statement0 connections
Agnes B. Page
Wife of R. Powel Page of "Saratoga," born at "Carter Hall" in 1851 the youngest child of George H. Burwell, who died on January 22, 1921 and was buried at the Old Chapel.
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Mary F. Page
Clarke County woman named in January 1921 among the five children of Agnes B. Page of "Saratoga."
1 statement1 connection
John Hummer
Farmer of the Briggs neighborhood, born in Clarke County, who died after a long illness with lung trouble in February 1921.
1 statement0 connections
Mrs. Isaac Bowman
Berryville woman, second wife of Isaac Bowman and sister of Mayor D. H. Jones, who died after a stroke of paralysis in February 1921.
1 statement1 connection
Harriet Washington
Berryville woman, daughter of Dr. Henry Washington and great-granddaughter of Warner Washington, who died in February 1921 aged 89, after living all her life in the Washington cottage on West Main Street.
1 statement1 connection
Thomas T. Garthright
Harness and saddle maker at George C. Thomas's carriage works in Berryville from 1870 to 1880, later superintendent of the Lynchburg city home, whose death at 83 the Clarke Courier reported in February 1921.
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Elizabeth Simons Hart
Berryville Baptist church worker, wife of William E. Hart and daughter of Elijah Simons, who died at 36 after an operation at the Winchester Memorial Hospital in 1921.
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Elijah Simons
Berryville man named in March 1921 as the father of Mrs. Elizabeth Simons Hart, who survived her.
1 statement1 connection
Annie E. Robey
Berryville wife of John Robey, born in Frederick County, who died at 80 after a long illness in March 1921.
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Mary E. Allen
Widow of William Temple Allen of Clarke County, for many years of an Allen farm adjoining "Clifton," who died suddenly in Washington in February 1921 at 94.
1 statement0 connections
Sarah Elizabeth Stolle
Berryville woman, wife of L. V. Stolle and daughter of Adam and Barbara Greenwalt, who died suddenly of a ruptured artery of the brain at 68 in February 1921.
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Mrs. Thomas Howell
Berryville woman named in March 1921 among the six children of Sarah Elizabeth Stolle.
1 statement1 connection
Mrs. P. L. Hannum
Berryville Methodist, born near Berry's Ferry, who died at the home of her son Howard C. Hannum in March 1921 and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.
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William A. Locke
Son of James Locke of near Wadesville, a National Guard veteran of the Mexican border, who died of tuberculosis at the government hospital at Fort McHenry in March 1921.
1 statement0 connections
Newton H. Carpenter
Clarke County farmer whom the Clarke Courier of March 17, 1921 called "one of Ashby's brave men" and reported dead at 78; it says he was for many years first lieutenant commander of Turner Ashby Camp, Confederate Veterans, of Winchester.
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Martha Harper
Eastern Star leader of Washington, for whom the Martha Lodge was named, who died in April 1921 at her sister Mrs. Phillip M. Ricamore's home in Berryville, where she had lived for about a year.
1 statement0 connections
William Alexander Renner
Young Clarke County man, son of I. H. and Rosa Hummer Renner, who died at "Springfield Farm" on March 29, 1921 at 19, after three days' illness.
1 statement1 connection
Mrs. Turner Huff
Clarke County woman named in April 1921 among the sisters of William Alexander Renner.
1 statement1 connection
Susan Lanham
Woman of near Mt. Weather who died at 67 in April 1921 on the farm where she was born, and was buried in the family lot at Providence Chapel.
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Eddy Hugh Garvin
Former Clarke County man, born and reared at Millwood, son of A. H. Garvin, who died at 54 in Washington in April 1921 and was buried at White Post.
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John Dixon
Retired farmer, born in Piedmont Virginia, who died at 60 in May 1921 after a stroke, on the farm of Benjamin Vorous, with whom he had lived for ten years.
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Charles H. Smallwood
Road commissioner for Chapel District and a farmer near Boyce, brother of Sheriff W. W. Smallwood, who died at 51 after a long illness in May 1921.
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Betty Morgan
Clarke-born daughter of John Morgan, once owner of the Hook farm, who died at 87 on May 2, 1921 at a home near Berryville and was buried at the Old Chapel.
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Rose Elzey McCormick
Daughter of Mrs. Nannie K. McCormick and the late Thomas McCormick, who died at her home, "Frankford," in May 1921 and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.
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Robert Edgar Russell
Clarke County soldier whose memorial tablet at Stone's Chapel, unveiled in 1921, the Clarke Courier reported as reading: Private, Company C, 128th Infantry, 32nd Division, killed in action October 12, 1918, Meuse-Argonne, France. The Courier of September 15, 1921 reported his body brought home and buried beside his mother's grave after services at the Presbyterian Church; the cited passage does not name the cemetery.
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Fenton P. Whiting
Clarke County native, born December 19, 1853, the son of Francis Henry Whiting, who died at Roanoke in June 1921 after a long illness and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.
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Mrs. Samuel McCormick
Berryville woman named in June 1921 as a sister of Maude Lewis Whiting, widow of Fenton P. Whiting, and of William Travers Lewis.
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John C. Lee
Farmer and stockman of Clarke and Warren counties and a candidate for the House of Delegates, killed in June 1921 when a Norfolk and Western express struck his automobile at Kennedy's Crossing near White Post.
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Joseph H. Hardesty
Farmer and stock dealer whom the Clarke Courier's obituary of June 30, 1921 reports dead at 88. It calls him a former Confederate soldier, says he was made captain when the militia company was organized into the Clarke Cavalry, says he served several terms as mayor of Berryville, and gives his birth at Rock Hall in 1833. Other records print his middle initial differently; the claim's uncertainty section says how.
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Charles W. Fritts
Farmer and businessman of Greenway District who died of heart trouble in June 1921, a week after John C. Lee, and was buried at Meade Memorial Church.
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Nannie McGuire
Berryville woman of the McGuire family, ill for months, whose death was reported in July 1921; a sister of Dr. Edward McGuire of Richmond.
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Edward McGuire
Clarke-born physician of the McGuire family, son of Dr. William D. McGuire, who died at his home in Richmond in October 1921 and was buried at Hollywood.
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Laura Shopland
Widow of Henry Shopland, a Clarke farmer, and daughter of Lewis Herlin, who had lived on a Longmarsh District farm and died after a long illness in August 1921.
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William Nelson Clarke Willson
Merchant and grain dealer of Berryville from the months after the Civil War, a native of Frederick County, Maryland, and nephew of Joseph T. Griffith, who died in August 1921 at the old Griffith home on Church Street.
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Mary V. Brown
Millwood widow of R. A. Brown, born in Frederick County, who died at her home at Millwood in August 1921 at 69 after a long illness.
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R. C. Brown
Berryville man named in August 1921 as a son of Mrs. Mary V. Brown of Millwood.
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H. E. Brown
Millwood man named in August 1921 as a son of Mrs. Mary V. Brown.
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Florence Hummer
Millwood woman named in August 1921 as a daughter of Mrs. Mary V. Brown.
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Mary Josephine Crown
Sister of John O. Crown, editor of the Clarke Courier for nearly half a century, and a Maryland public school teacher for over fifty years, who retired to Berryville and died suddenly while visiting a niece at Ruxton, Maryland, in August 1921.
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Sarah B. Crown
Berryville woman named in August 1921 as a niece of Mary Josephine Crown.
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Maria P. Whiting
Widow of Frances D. Whiting of Clarke County and granddaughter of Bishop Meade, who died at her home, "Edgewood," near Millwood in September 1921 and was buried at the Old Chapel.
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William Nelson Meade
Episcopal rector at Tappahannock, born at "Prospect Hill" in Clarke County and a grandson of Bishop Meade, who died of heart trouble at "Edgewood" in September 1921 just after his sister's funeral, aged 67.
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Mrs. D. H. Jones
Wife of Mayor D. H. Jones of Berryville for nearly 49 years and a leader of the Berryville Baptist Church, born in Clarke County, who died at 72 after a stroke in October 1921.
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Samuel K. Harris
Native of Baltimore County, Maryland, who had lived in Berryville for fifteen years and died of paralysis at 72 in November 1921.
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Louisa B. Ross
Clarke County native, sister of W. A. Bradford and wife of Lieut. Gordon Ross of the National Naval Reserves, who died in November 1921 at Saranac Lake, New York.
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J. Douglas Bruce
Civil engineer, educated at V. M. I. under Stonewall Jackson and for many years a citizen of the Boyce neighborhood, who died at 86 at Millwood in January 1922.
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Mrs. Henry Jenkins
Millwood woman at whose home Col. J. Douglas Bruce lived for more than a year before his death in January 1922.
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Letha Swisher
Telephone operator at the C. & P. exchange in Berryville, from Capon Bridge, who died in a Richmond hospital in February 1922 after going there for an operation.
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George C. Neville
Millwood man, son of A. V. Neville, who died at 62 on January 25, 1922 at the Springfield State Hospital, Sykesville, Maryland, and was buried at the Old Chapel.
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Jane L. Hardesty
One of the oldest residents of Clarke County, born in the county on January 5, 1832, widow of Charles Hardesty, who died at her home on Treadwell Street in Berryville in 1922, aged 90.
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Helen Helm Dortch
Daughter of Mrs. Hattie Williams Dortch of "Mt. Hebron" Farm, killed when the Knickerbocker roof fell in Washington in January 1922 and buried in Clarke County.
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Hattie Williams Dortch
Woman of "Mt. Hebron" Farm, Clarke County, named in February 1922 as the mother of Helen Helm Dortch, killed when the Knickerbocker roof fell in Washington in 1922.
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Joseph H. Stickles
Former Clarke County man who died at 79 on January 3, 1922 at his son's home in Texas, Maryland; his brothers Thomas and Michael Stickles lived in Clarke.
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Linton Earl Lloyd
World War veteran of Company D, 101st Infantry, one of five Lloyd brothers who served in France, who drowned at 24 in a reservoir near his father's home near Berry's Ferry in February 1922.
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Albert Polhamus
One of the oldest citizens of Berryville, who died at 81 in February 1922 at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. H. Bayliss, and was buried near Round Hill.
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George C. Ricamore
Former Clarke County farmer and Berryville town sergeant whom the Clarke Courier called one of the youngest soldiers who wore the Confederate uniform; it reported his golden wedding in February 1922 and, on August 31, 1922, his death at his daughter's home in Washington.
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Mrs. J. Edward Barnett
Wife of J. Edward Barnett, chairman of the Clarke County Board of Supervisors, who died suddenly after a stroke in February 1922.
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William F. Powers
Miller and farmer of Ashby Station near White Post, born at Kline's Mills near Middletown in 1850, who died at his home on February 14, 1922.
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Cora Shackleford
Berryville trained nurse, daughter of John H. Shackleford, who nursed through the town's epidemic of pneumonia and grip and died of pneumonia in February 1922.
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Peter Fuqua
Former Clarke County farmer whom the Clarke Courier of July 20, 1922 reported dead at 82 and called one of Gen. Pickett's men in the charge at Gettysburg; it gives his birth in Botetourt County on June 10, 1840, and says he farmed the county farm for years. Gold's 1914 county history also prints the name "Peter Fuqua" in a list of members of the J. E. B. Stuart Camp; nothing on that page says it is the same man.
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Milton S. Pyle
Man of near Boyce at whose home his father, Wm. F. Pyle, died at 81 in November 1922.
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Lewis Smallwood
Berryville man named in March 1922 as the son of Mrs. Martha Smallwood, who died at 93 in Loudoun County and was buried at Green Hill.
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Samuel Bonham
Man whom the Clarke Courier of March 2, 1922 headlined as a native of Clarke County, reporting his death at Sherman, Texas, at 90; it names his father as the late Daniel Sowers Bonham, says he went to Texas as a young man, and says he served four years in the Confederate army.
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Logan T. Lloyd
Clarke County man of 20, lately a year in the Army's engineering branch, who died in March 1922 at the Winchester Memorial Hospital after a motorcycle accident.
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Letcher Lloyd
Clarke County man named in March 1922 as the father of Logan T. Lloyd.
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Vienna Osburn
Wife of Decatur Osburn, a retired Clarke farmer, and sister of Dr. A. P. Osborne, who died of pneumonia at her home east of Berryville in March 1922 and was buried in Loudoun County.
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Mason Osburn
Clarke County man named in March 1922 among the stepchildren of Mrs. Vienna Osburn.
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Conrad Kownslar
Berryville lawyer, son of Dr. Randolph Kownslar, born in Berryville about 1852, who died at his home on South Church Street in March 1922 and was buried at Grace Church.
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E. Stover Cooper
Stonemason of Boyce and a Methodist for 54 years, who died of pneumonia at 74 in March 1922 and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.
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Mrs. Jos. N. Payne
Former Clarke County woman, daughter of J. H. Rinker and sister of Mrs. John M. Fishpaw, who once lived on the Winchester pike west of Berryville and died at Martinsburg in March 1922, aged 54.
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William J. Starkey
Retired farmer, merchant and miller, born in Clarke County in 1859, who ran the old Shepherd's mill for fifteen years and died suddenly at his home on the river pike in March 1922.
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L. Kirk Hardesty
Livestock dealer with a wide acquaintance in Jefferson and Berkeley counties, who had lived in that section thirty-odd years and died near Swan Pond in 1922 in his 77th year. The Shepherdstown Register, reprinted by the Clarke Courier on April 6, 1922, calls him a Clarke native and a Confederate veteran who enlisted in a company from Clarke.
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Virginia Washington
Lifelong Berryville resident and great-granddaughter of Warner Washington, the last of the Washington name living in Clarke County, who died of influenza pneumonia in April 1922, aged about 87.
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Joseph O. Wilson
Former Winchester businessman who spent his last days with his sister, Mrs. Harry C. Warner, and died at her home in April 1922 after two years' illness.
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Morgan Van Deventer
Clarke County native, son of Cornelius Van Deventer and grandson of Benjamin Morgan, who died in Baltimore in April 1922 after an operation.
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Wayeman Gaunt
Seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gaunt, who died on April 6, 1922 at a Washington hospital after four operations for mastoiditis.
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Eliza Philipine Myerly
Clarke County native, born near Marvin Chapel in 1867, a daughter of Joseph and Eliza Philipine Anderson, who died at her home near Poolesville, Maryland, on her 55th birthday in April 1922 and was buried at Green Hill.
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Jennie Eleyette
Widow of John Elleyette, who died of pneumonia at 74 at her niece's home at Boyce on March 23, 1922 and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.
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Margaret Elizabeth Vorous
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vorous of Briggs, an invalid for many years, who died in April 1922.
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Irene Ruth Peyton
Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Peyton, who died at their home at Boyce on April 14, 1922, aged three months and seven days, and was buried at the Old Chapel.
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Leonard Peyton
Boyce man named in April 1922 as the father of the infant Irene Ruth Peyton.
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Mary P. Whiting
Millwood woman, a sister of Judge F. B. Whiting, who contributed to Near East Relief in April 1922 and died at her home on September 8, 1922.
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Catherine Lloyd
Warren County native and mother-in-law of Sheriff W. W. Smallwood, who died at 82 on April 14, 1922 at her son Thomas Lloyd's home.
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Mrs. Charles Kenneth Brown
Former Berryville resident, wife of Prof. Charles Kenneth Brown, principal of Berryville High School in 1917-1918, who died at Staunton in April 1922.
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Hattie Helvestine Crampton
Wife of William O. Crampton and daughter of Lewis B. Helvestine of Clarke County, who died at her home after more than a year's illness in April 1922.
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Lucy E. Royston
Wife of Thomas A. Royston and daughter of Christopher Lee of near the old Mt. Carmel Church, mother of eleven, who died at 68 on May 3, 1922 at her daughter's home in Winchester and was buried at Green Hill.
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Hugh McGuire Taylor
Clarke-born Richmond physician and surgeon, son of Major William Taylor and a nephew of Dr. Hunter McGuire, who died at his home at Westhampton in May 1922, aged 66.
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Harry Pearrell
Fruit man from Hagerstown in charge of Harry Warden's orchards below the Berryville depot, formerly of the Rosemont Farm, who died suddenly at his East Main Street home in August 1922, aged 40.
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Henrietta R. Ogden
Widow of Randolph K. Ogden, a leading contractor of the Valley, who died at 78 in August 1922 in the Main Street house in Berryville that had been her home since her marriage in 1869.
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Minnie Ogden
Berryville woman named in August 1922 as a daughter of Mrs. Henrietta R. Ogden.
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Nina R. Long
Wife of James F. Long, tenant of the Ralph Grigsby farm, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Marcus, who died at 26 in the Winchester Hospital after childbirth in August 1922.
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Amelia Hough Carroll
Clarke County native, widow of John Carroll, who ran "Montana Hall," who died at her son's home in Montana in September 1922 at 68 and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.
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Grover Carroll
Millwood man named in September 1922 as a son of Mrs. Amelia Hough Carroll.
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Rice Smith
Berryville-born grandson of Treadwell Smith, a Clarke Cavalry veteran and deputy clerk who went to the Georgia Chemical Works at Augusta in 1880 and retired from the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., who died at Augusta in October 1922.
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Martha A. Sillman
Widow of John A. Sillman, long of Front Royal, who died at her daughter's home at Boyce on September 30, 1922 and was buried at Front Royal.
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Susie Cadwallader
Boyce woman named in October 1922 as the daughter at whose home Mrs. Martha A. Sillman died.
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Fred L. Crown
Berryville-born son of John O. Crown and brother of the Courier's editor, manager of the Mobile Division of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., who died suddenly at Mobile in November 1922, aged 40.
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Florence Jones Tilford
Widow of John B. Tilford of Standard Oil and mother of Frank V. Tilford, who once lived in Berryville and died at Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, in November 1922, aged 77.
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Charles Lewis Willingham
Lifelong Clarke County resident and member of Marvin Chapel M. E. Church, who died at 78 on November 5, 1922 at his son's home near Berryville and was buried at Green Hill.
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Wm. W. Willingham
Man of near Berryville at whose home his father, Charles Lewis Willingham, died in November 1922.
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Kate Cornwell
White Post woman named in November 1922 as a daughter of Charles Lewis Willingham.
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Jennie Cooper
Boyce woman named in November 1922 as the sister of Charles Lewis Willingham.
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Wm. F. Pyle
Retired farmer who lived near Boyce all his life and died at 81 at his son Milton S. Pyle's home in November 1922; buried at the Old Chapel.
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Mrs. John Ritter
Boyce woman named in November 1922 among the surviving children of Wm. F. Pyle.
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Robert Pyle
Boyce man named in November 1922 as the brother of Wm. F. Pyle.
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Mrs. Robert Goodrick
Boyce woman named in November 1922 as the sister of Wm. F. Pyle.
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Norman B. Wynkoop
Farmer near Berryville, son of Geo. W. Wynkoop of Loudoun County, who died at 47 in November 1922 and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.
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M. W. Jones
Berryville man, born near Rippon in 1848, a director and the last acting incorporator on the board of the Bank of Clarke County, who died at his home on December 3, 1922.
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Mrs. George Britton
Berryville woman named in December 1922 as the only sister of M. W. Jones.
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Albert Curtis
Wadesville man named in January 1923 among the four surviving children of E. R. Curtis, farmer and former civil engineer.
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Beatrice Curtis
Wadesville woman named in January 1923 among the four surviving children of E. R. Curtis, farmer and former civil engineer.
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Mrs. G. L. Carter
Berryville woman named in December 1923 among the six daughters of William Andrew Johnston of the Wickliffe section.
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Maggie Higgins Smith
Nurse to the Gilpin children of "Scaleby" and later personal maid to Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin, in the family's service for over thirty-one years, who died of heart failure on January 19, 1923.
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Thomas Shumate
Man of near White Post named in January 1923 as a brother of Charles Shumate, farmer of the Berry's Ferry neighborhood.
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Johnetta Wright
Wadesville woman named in 1923 as a daughter of George H. Wright and, that July, as the half-sister of George Thomas Wright.
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Mrs. E. O. Carroll
Clarke County woman named in February 1923 among the seven surviving daughters of Samuel J. Wiley of Red Bud, Frederick County.
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S. C. Wiley
Millwood man named in February 1923 among the five surviving sons of Samuel J. Wiley of Red Bud, Frederick County.
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Mrs. Maurice Castleman
Berryville woman named in February 1923 among the three daughters of Decatur Osburn, farmer and bank director.
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Mary Rutherford
Mary Rutherford, a woman of near Berryville named in March 1923 among the surviving children of John C. Rutherford.
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Minnie Rutherford
Minnie Rutherford, a woman of near Berryville named in March 1923 among the surviving children of John C. Rutherford.
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Berkley Bowman
Berryville man named in March 1923 as the one son of Isaac Bowman by his second wife, Ellen Jones.
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Frank Tavenner
Man of the Bethel neighborhood named in March 1923 as the brother of Miss Clara Tavenner.
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Jessie Lupton
Berryville woman named in March 1923 among the four sisters of Miss Grace Lupton, a former telephone operator.
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Thomas Lupton
Berryville man named in March 1923 as the one brother of Miss Grace Lupton.
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Mrs. Floyd Dorsey
Berryville woman named in March 1923 as the sister of John Wells of Petersburg, who died there at 20.
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Katie Ryan
Clarke County woman named in March 1923 among the seven sisters of Fred N. Ryan, a druggist formerly of Millwood.
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Mrs. John A. T. Grigsby
Woman named in March 1923 among the seven sisters of Fred N. Ryan, a druggist formerly of Millwood.
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Amos Hoff
Man of near Boyce named in April 1923 as the father of Delany C. Hoff, who died at eleven at the family home.
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Mrs. Amos Hoff
Woman of near Boyce named in April 1923 as the mother of Delany C. Hoff, who died in his sleep at eleven after she put him to bed.
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Joseph Briggs
Clarke County man named in April 1923 as a son of Isham Keith Briggs, with whom he worked part of the George H. Byrd farm.
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J. S. Kitchen
White Post man named in April 1923 as a brother of Miss Virginia C. Kitchen, who died suddenly in a doctor's office at White Post.
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Mrs. J. H. Myers
Clarke County woman named in April 1923 as a sister-in-law of Isaac Myers, a Clarke native who farmed in Jefferson County.
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Estelle Castleman
Berryville woman named in May 1923 as the sister of Mrs. George H. Carter, a daughter of Charles M. Castleman of "North Hill," who died at Front Royal.
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Thomas Hugh Burwell
Member of the Burwell family, of "Fairview" near Millwood, who died at his home in May 1923 and was buried at the Old Chapel.
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Mrs. E. B. Jacobs
Boyce woman named in May 1923 as a daughter of Thomas Hugh Burwell of "Fairview."
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Mrs. Lewis Meade
Woman of "The Vineyard," Clarke County, named in May 1923 as a daughter of Thomas Hugh Burwell of "Fairview."
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Mary Willing Burwell
Clarke County woman named in May 1923 as a sister of Thomas Hugh Burwell of "Fairview."
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Earnest Hillyard
Former Boyce man, son of Mrs. Mary Ann Hillyard, who had gone into business in Washington and drowned while bathing near the city in June 1923.
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John W. Hillyard
Boyce man named in June 1923 as a brother of Earnest Hillyard, who drowned near Washington.
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Mrs. Joseph Heflin
Woman of near Berryville named in June 1923 as a sister of Earnest Hillyard, who drowned near Washington.
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Jane C. Moore
Berryville woman named in July 1923 among the four sisters of Dr. Lawson B. Moore, a Berryville native who died at Charlottesville.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Wright
Boyce woman named in July 1923 as a sister of John Thomas Huff, a carpenter who died at his Berryville home.
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Mrs. Walter Bell
Woman named in August 1923 among the eighteen children of John W. Boyd of Rocks Ferry, Jefferson County, with a group given as of Clarke County.
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Mrs. William Licklider
Woman named in August 1923 among the eighteen children of John W. Boyd of Rocks Ferry, Jefferson County, in a group given as of Clarke County.
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Luther Poston
Clarke County man named in August 1923 as the one brother of Thomas Poston, who spent his boyhood in Clarke and died at Bluemont.
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Martin Mallory
Berryville man who served overseas with Company I, 116th Infantry, in the World War, named in August 1923 as the husband of Mrs. Martin Mallory, who died at his parents' home.
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Annie Baker
Boyce woman at whose home her mother, Mrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, died at 98 in August 1923.
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George Baker
Farmer near Boyce named in August 1923 as a son of Mrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, who died at 98.
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Elizabeth Brown
Berryville woman named in August 1923 as one of the two children of Charles F. Brown, who came from Westmoreland County.
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Hugh Armel
White Post farmer's son of 23, lately employed at the Berryville basket factory, killed in September 1923 when a log being unloaded rolled down the pile and pinned him against a freight car.
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John Armel
White Post farmer named in September 1923 as the father of Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory; the funeral was held from his home.
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Mrs. John Armel
White Post woman named in September 1923 as the mother of Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory.
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Thomas Armel
Boyce man named in September 1923 as a brother of Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory.
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Floyd Armel
White Post man named in September 1923 as a brother of Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory.
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J. W. Butler
White Post man named in September 1923 as the father of the widow of Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory.
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Ethel Carter O'Fallon
Millwood woman named in September 1923 as a daughter of Mrs. Mary Carter Shreve O'Fallon, who died at "Red Gate."
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Mrs. Jas. H. Nolan
Berryville woman named in September 1923 among the children of Mrs. Mary Carter Shreve O'Fallon of "Red Gate."
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Mrs. Wm. F. Randolph
Woman of "Athlone," Millwood, named in September 1923 as a stepdaughter of Mrs. Mary Carter Shreve O'Fallon of "Red Gate."
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C. A. Rosenberry
Man of near Briggs named in September 1923 as the father of Charles Randolph Rosenberry, who died at one year old.
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Mrs. C. A. Rosenberry
Woman of near Briggs named in September 1923 as the mother of Charles Randolph Rosenberry, who died at one year old.
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Robert Rust
Clarke County man named in October 1923 as the brother of Sam Rust of Loudoun County, who died there.
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George Parker
Boyce man named in November 1923 among the five children of J. W. Parker, a Berryville blacksmith who died at his home on North Church Street.
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Anderson Boyd
Man living near the Shenandoah River in Clarke County, named in November 1923 as the father of Downey Boyd, who died at fifteen.
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Mrs. Anderson Boyd
Woman living near the Shenandoah River in Clarke County, named in November 1923 as the mother of Downey Boyd, who died at fifteen.
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Henry Boyd
Clarke County man named in November 1923 as the one brother of Downey Boyd, who died at fifteen after an operation for appendicitis.
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Viola Orndoff
Clarke County woman named in November 1923 among the three sisters of Downey Boyd, who died at fifteen.
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Violet Boyd
Clarke County woman named in November 1923 as a sister of Downey Boyd, living with her parents near the Shenandoah River.
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Edgar Bayliss
Berryville man named in December 1923 as the husband of Mrs. Rosa Lee Bayliss, who died at 35 after an operation.
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Mrs. Thomas N. Johnson
Clarke County woman named in December 1923 as the mother of Mrs. Rosa Lee Bayliss, who died at 35 after an operation.
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Thomas N. Johnson
Clarke County man named in December 1923 as the father of Mrs. Rosa Lee Bayliss, who died at 35 after an operation.
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Joseph Bayliss
Berryville man named in December 1923 as the brother of William Martin Bayliss, a Frederick County farmer who died at Winchester.
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Annie Shiley
White Post woman named in December 1923 as a daughter of James F. Smith, a Frederick County farmer who died near Stephens City.
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John Billmyre
Gaylord man named in December 1923 as the father of Miss Mary Billmyre, who died at 43 at the Home for Incurables in Richmond.
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Custis Lewin
Man who married Miss Edith Hummer of Millwood at a Winchester parsonage on December 23, 1920, the couple settling near Millwood.
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Edith Hummer
Millwood woman who married Custis Lewin at a Winchester parsonage on December 23, 1920, the couple settling near Millwood.
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Maude Kennerly
White Post woman, daughter of Frank Kennerly, married to Thomas E. Blackwell of Reedville at Monumental Church, Richmond, in January 1921.
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Walter Hardesty
Farmer near Berryville, son of O. J. Hardesty, whom the Clarke Courier of February 24, 1921 described as having served twenty-three months in the war as a sergeant and motor mechanic, twenty of them in France. The same item reports his marriage to Miss Alice N. Grant of Martinsburg and does not date the wedding.
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Alice N. Grant
Martinsburg woman, daughter of J. O. Grant, who married Walter Hardesty of Berryville at Martinsburg in February 1921.
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George L. Ziler
Cumberland, Maryland, man who married Miss Edna E. Shewbridge of Berryville at the Methodist parsonage in Berryville on February 19, 1921.
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Edna E. Shewbridge
Berryville woman who married George L. Ziler of Cumberland, Maryland, at the Methodist parsonage in Berryville on February 19, 1921.
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Fleda May Ramey
Berryville woman, daughter of William T. Ramey, married to LeRoy McNamara, a Jefferson County farmer, in Washington on March 24, 1921; the couple settled near Halltown.
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Raleigh Colston Carter
Clarke County farmer who married Miss Josephine Holladay at "Pond Quarter," her parents' home, on April 5, 1921.
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Charles Campbell MacLeod
Lynchburg man whom the Clarke Courier of July 14, 1921 reported as awarded the French Croix de Guerre in the World War, and who married Miss Margaretta Colston Carper at Emmanuel Chapel, Boyce, on July 6, 1921.
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Margaretta Colston Carper
Boyce woman, daughter of J. L. Carper, who married Capt. Charles Campbell MacLeod of Lynchburg at Emmanuel Chapel on July 6, 1921.
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Camille Capper
Winchester woman, daughter of E. Bruce Capper, who married Maurice F. Wisecarver, a Berryville clothing merchant, at her home in July 1921; the couple settled in Berryville.
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Verne R. Mason
Physician, lately resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, who married Miss Lucy Meredith Ginn at Christ Church, Millwood, on August 17, 1921, the couple going to Los Angeles.
1 statement1 connection
Lucy Meredith Ginn
Nurse, daughter of Joseph Ginn formerly of Clarke County, who had served in France with the Red Cross and married Dr. Verne R. Mason at Christ Church, Millwood, in August 1921.
1 statement2 connections
Treadwell Gibson
Man of near Millwood who, with his wife, gave the luncheon after the August 1921 wedding of his niece, Lucy Meredith Ginn.
1 statement1 connection
Gretta Bee Wyndham
Berryville musician and teacher, eldest daughter of A. B. Wyndham, who married Charles Leroy Isenberg at Robertsville, Ohio, on August 18, 1921.
1 statement0 connections
Nancy Goodwin Williams
Berryville woman, daughter of Goodwin H. Williams of "Airlee," who married Tom Lewis Peyton of Washington at Grace Church on October 15, 1921.
1 statement1 connection
Tom Lewis Peyton
Washington man who married Miss Nancy Goodwin Williams at Grace Church, Berryville, on October 15, 1921.
1 statement1 connection
Willie Belle Colston
Daughter of Frank P. Colston of near Boyce, whose marriage to Charles J. Enders of Berryville the Courier reported in November 1921.
1 statement0 connections
Joseph Edward Ritter
Boyce man who married Miss Irene Pine of Millwood at the Methodist parsonage in November 1921; the couple settled at Boyce.
1 statement1 connection
Irene Pine
Millwood woman, daughter of Thomas Pine, who married Joseph Edward Ritter of Boyce at the Methodist parsonage in November 1921.
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Thomas Pine
Millwood man named in December 1921 as the father of Miss Irene Pine, married to Joseph Edward Ritter.
1 statement1 connection
Mrs. Wm. Shackleford
Berryville woman named in January 1922 as the mother of Mrs. Grace Eaton, married in Washington on Christmas Day 1921.
1 statement0 connections
Audrey Zombro
Berryville girl of 16, daughter of the late T. L. Zombro, who married John Lanham at Charles Town on February 1, 1922.
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John Lanham
Berryville man of 20, only son of Charles F. Lanham, who married Audrey Zombro at Charles Town on February 1, 1922.
1 statement1 connection
Mary Elliotte
Widow of Charles Elliotte, who married John Gore of White Post at Hagerstown in February 1922.
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John Gore
White Post man who married Mrs. Mary Elliotte at Hagerstown in February 1922.
1 statement1 connection
Mrs. Wm. Mallory
Berryville woman named in February 1922 as the sister of Mrs. Mary Elliotte, at whose wedding to John Gore she was present.
1 statement1 connection
Mable Barnett
Berryville woman, daughter of J. E. Barnett, former chairman of the Board of Supervisors, who married Ambrose B. Hummer at her father's home on May 3, 1922.
1 statement1 connection
William M. Struder
Millwood man, for years a justice of the peace of Chapel District, who at 75 married Miss Carrie Mae Zombro of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, at the Berryville Methodist parsonage on February 18, 1922.
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Carl L. Wellinger
Martinsburg, West Virginia, man who married Miss Stella Augusta Trenary at her uncle J. W. Kercheval's home on February 24, 1922.
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Stella Augusta Trenary
Daughter of A. B. Trenary and of Augusta Stolle Trenary, formerly of Berryville, who married Carl L. Wellinger at her uncle J. W. Kercheval's home on February 24, 1922.
1 statement1 connection
Sophie Gieski Powers
Berryville woman, granddaughter of Phillip M. Powers of "Auburn," who married John Davidson Rhodes, a West Virginia mining engineer, at her mother's home in April 1922.
1 statement1 connection
John Davidson Rhodes
West Virginia mining engineer, son of Mrs. R. M. Rhodes of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who married Miss Sophie Gieski Powers at her Berryville home in April 1922.
1 statement1 connection
Virginia Gaunt
Clarke County woman, daughter of John Gaunt, who married Cornelius H. Webster of Cumberland, Maryland, at the Berryville Baptist Church on Easter Monday, April 17, 1922.
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Cornelius H. Webster
Cumberland, Maryland, businessman in the wholesale confectionery trade with his brother, who married Miss Virginia Gaunt at the Berryville Baptist Church on April 17, 1922.
1 statement1 connection
John Gaunt
Clarke County man named in April 1922 as the father of Miss Virginia Gaunt, married at the Berryville Baptist Church.
1 statement1 connection
Mrs. E. L. Alger
Millwood woman who, with Mr. E. L. Alger, attended the wedding of Ira E. Painter, formerly of Boyce, at Glenarm, Maryland, in April 1922.
1 statement0 connections
Rosa Woolfolk
Daughter of Mrs. Eliza Turpin and granddaughter of Capt. William N. Nelson, who married Richard P. Whiting at Westminster, Maryland, in April 1922, the couple settling near Millwood.
1 statement0 connections
Mettie Levi
Berryville telephone operator, daughter of John Levi, who married J. Perry Smith at the Methodist parsonage in Charles Town in 1922.
1 statement0 connections
Arthur Ashwood
Son of S. M. Ashwood, who married Miss Naomi Willingham at the Royston home near Briggs on May 31, 1922.
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Naomi Willingham
Clarke County woman, daughter of the late D. W. Willingham, who married Arthur Ashwood at the Royston home near Briggs on May 31, 1922.
1 statement1 connection
E. P. Royston
Man of near Briggs at whose home, with Mrs. Royston, Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood were married on May 31, 1922.
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Dorothy Murphy
Berryville woman who was maid of honor at the wedding of Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood near Briggs in May 1922.
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Winter Bushong Sowers
Berryville Garage mechanic, son of the orchardist Clayton K. Sowers, who married Miss Mary Denny at her mother's home on Main Street on June 7, 1922.
1 statement0 connections
Evelyn Turpin
Granddaughter of Capt. William N. Nelson, who married Sumner F. Dudley Walters at Christ Church, Millwood, on June 14, 1922.
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Sumner F. Dudley Walters
Man of Montclair, New Jersey, by the Courier's report, who married Miss Evelyn Turpin at Christ Church, Millwood, on June 14, 1922.
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Ellen McGill Baker
Berryville woman, daughter of Henry William Baker, president of the First National Bank of Berryville, who married Alfred Moss Kerfoot at Grace Church on June 21, 1922.
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Broaddus Morris
Berryville man, son of F. H. Morris, managing the office of his father's implement business, who married Willa Hough of Findlay, Ohio, at Cumberland, Maryland, on September 7, 1922.
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Sylvia DeBeck Lewis
Native of Denmark who summered in Berryville in the former home of Dr. Cyrus McCormick, and whose marriage to Richard Isreal of Washington the Courier reported in October 1922.
1 statement0 connections
William Johnson
Clarke County man who married Miss Elsie Marie Jenkins at the Methodist parsonage in November 1922, the register abstract giving his middle name as Orlan.
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Elsie Marie Jenkins
Clarke County woman who married William Johnson at the Methodist parsonage in November 1922.
1 statement1 connection
Arthur Wright
Man of West Main Street, Berryville, whose household had a new daughter in May 1923 and whose daughter Irene married Edwin L. Yancey at the family home that September.
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Elmer Smallwood
Boyce man named in June 1923 as the father of Earl Ray Smallwood, married to Mary M. Shepherd at Millwood.
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Mrs. Elmer Smallwood
Boyce woman named in June 1923 as the mother of Earl Ray Smallwood, married to Mary M. Shepherd at Millwood.
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Thos. Shepherd
Man of the Morgan's Mill neighborhood named in June 1923 as the father of Mary M. Shepherd, married to Earl Ray Smallwood.
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Mrs. Thos. Shepherd
Woman of the Morgan's Mill neighborhood named in June 1923 as the mother of Mary M. Shepherd, married to Earl Ray Smallwood.
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B. W. Vorous
B. W. Vorous, a Berryville man named among the guests from Berryville at the wedding of Ernest Locke and Virginia Chrismore at Winchester in June 1923.
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Chas. Galloway
Chas. Galloway, a Berryville man named among the guests from Berryville at the wedding of Ernest Locke and Virginia Chrismore at Winchester in June 1923.
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Mrs. M. F. Wisecarver
Berryville woman who, with Mr. M. F. Wisecarver, attended the wedding of Ernest Locke and Virginia Chrismore at Winchester in June 1923.
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Thos. Elsea
Thos. Elsea, a Berryville man named among the guests from Berryville at the wedding of Ernest Locke and Virginia Chrismore at Winchester in June 1923.
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Joseph Starkey
Farmer of near Berryville named in August 1923 as the father of Sarah U. Starkey, married to Harry J. Symons at Frederick.
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J. W. Kercheval
Berryville man named in October 1923 as the father of Cassell C. Kercheval, married to Evelyn E. Wisecarver of Winchester.
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Bernard Jones
Berryville man in the wedding party at the Hagerstown marriage of Thomas A. Jones and Mrs. Maria Peters in November 1923.
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Sigismund S. Ware
Berryville clergyman named in December 1923 as the father of Mrs. John Anker, formerly Cornelia Ware, married at White Plains, New York.
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Effie Butler
White Post woman who married Lennis Brown of Milldale at the Methodist parsonage on December 8, 1923.
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Lennis Brown
Milldale man who married Miss Effie Butler of White Post at the Methodist parsonage on December 8, 1923.
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Alma R. Owens
Berryville woman named in December 1923 as the sister of Effie Butler, married to Lennis Brown.
1 statement1 connection
Eva Lee
Boyce woman named in the February 1921 Minnie Wood letter as a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Emmart.
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Mrs. James Vandeventer
Berryville woman named in February 1921 as the mother of Mrs. William B. Crisp and of C. Vandeventer, cashier of the Boyce State Bank.
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Mrs. Lloyd Dofflemyer
Clarke woman named with her husband in the 1921 Minnie Wood letters, visiting and visited by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Dofflemyer.
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Mrs. Roy Pyles
Boyce woman named in the 1921 Minnie Wood letters as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Dofflemyer, who spent Easter with her and her husband.
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J. W. Barringer
Berryville man whose house on East Main Street was struck by lightning in the April 1921 hailstorm; he was dazed on the porch but unhurt, and his watch stopped.
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Mrs. I. K. Briggs
Clarke County woman named in May 1921 as the mother of Edgar M. Briggs, a Columbia, South Carolina restaurant owner married there that spring.
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Rose Moreland
Berryville woman who bought the old Moreland home on Rice Street when it was sold at public auction in May 1921.
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Mrs. Frank Galloway
Castleman's Ferry woman named in May 1921 as the aunt of Alice Lee Hansucker, married to Leonard H. Bell of Berryville at Shepherdstown.
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D. D. Brown
Berryville grocer and butcher who bought the T. Eddy Brown building on Church Street in 1921, named that August as a son of Mrs. Mary V. Brown of Millwood.
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Key Meade
Man of near Boyce at whose home his son Kidder Meade, a New York newspaperman, was recuperating in 1921 from a breakdown suffered in the Argonne Forest.
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C. C. Lewis
Brother of Mrs. Fenton P. Whiting and of Commonwealth's Attorney W. T. Lewis, named in 1921; a Conrad C. Lewis long of the Fishery Service spoke that August of E. Lee Trinkle.
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Mrs. C. H. Blake
Berryville woman named in June 1921 as the mother of Charles A. Blake, a former Berryville High School athlete married in Washington.
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James Feltner
Berryville man whose new house on South Church Street had its foundation completed in June 1921, among a number of houses then being built in town.
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Florence Wheat
Woman of near Berryville visited in August 1921 by her son, J. Allen Wheat of Charlottesville.
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Cosie Byrd Wyndham
Berryville woman who went with the couple to Robertsville, Ohio, as the only attendant at the wedding of Gretta Bee Wyndham and Charles Leroy Isenberg in August 1921.
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W. G. Coleman
Berryville man visited in August 1921 by his brother John Coleman of Eccles, West Virginia, who then left with their mother to visit another brother in Maryland.
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Estelle Rutherford
White Post woman named in the 1921 Minnie Wood letters, visiting relatives there and staying with her grandfather, J. C. Rutherford.
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C. H. Young
Berryville butcher who in 1921 inoculated hogs on the Young Bros. farm near Wickliffe against cholera and tested the treatment on a gilt at his home.
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Charles A. Lanham
Boyce hunter who claimed the county's rabbit-killing championship in 1921, with 73 rabbits on the opening day and 115 for the season so far.
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J. C. Erb
Farmer north of Berryville who posted his land against hunters in November 1921, saying careless hunters had shot a steer and a sheep on his farm the year before.
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L. J. Foley
L. J. Foley, a Berryville man named in November 1921 among those who supplied Clarke's figures to the state Game Commissioner.
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H. W. Kerfoot
H. W. Kerfoot, a Berryville man named in November 1921 among those who supplied Clarke's figures to the state Game Commissioner.
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W. A. Dearmont
White Post man named in November 1921 among those who supplied Clarke's figures to the state Game Commissioner.
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W. O. Wisecarver
W. O. Wisecarver, a Berryville man named in November 1921 among those who supplied Clarke's figures to the state Game Commissioner.
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William F. Dutterer
Clarke County man named in December 1921 as a brother of Jacob H. Dutterer, a Jefferson County farmer and fruit grower who died suddenly.
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Rosa Randolph
Clarke County woman named in December 1921 as the mother of Percy Charrington Randolph, married to Jean McNeill Carson at Riverton, and widow of William F. Randolph.
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Louisa Glass
Berryville woman reported in the White Post news of February 1922 as visiting a cousin there.
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Mrs. C. A. Rutherford
White Post woman named in the Minnie Wood letters of 1922 and 1923, the mother of Estelle Rutherford, visiting her husband's relatives there.
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Mrs. M. B. Pulliam
Berryville woman named in April 1922 as the mother of Katerine Pulliam, a trained nurse who was at the Willard Hotel in Washington when its top floors burned.
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Mrs. C. M. Gardner
White Post owner of the Gardner building, her home and W. M. Snell's store, which burned to the ground in May 1922; she and her eight children escaped with only the clothes they wore.
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Mrs. Turner Ashby
White Post woman living next door to the Gardner building, whose house and outbuildings the Boyce fire engine saved when it burned in May 1922.
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James Frank Moore
Man whom a letter in the Clarke Courier of June 29, 1922 calls an old Confederate warrior from the Blue Ridge; the headline says he risked his life to save his brother in the Shenandoah River.
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Lydia R. Hardesty
Berryville woman present as a great-aunt at the Pierce family reunion at "Fountain Head" in August 1922.
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Edith Lloyd
Berryville woman reported in August 1922 as visiting near Upperville with Mr. and Mrs. Turner Huff and attending the Loudoun Camp Meeting.
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Mrs. L. M. Allen
Clarke County woman named in January 1923 among the three children Maggie Higgins Smith had nursed in the Gilpin family, and that October as moving to Winchester with Dr. L. M. Allen.
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George W. Atkinson
Berryville man who with Mrs. Atkinson was among the family at Capt. and Mrs. Jacob Warden's fifty-fifth wedding anniversary in 1923, and among the guests at the Withers silver wedding.
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Wise Sowers
Owner in 1923 of the farm near White Post where, the Courier said, the grandfather of the writer James Hay Jr. had lived and his father was born.
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Dorothy Louise Moore
Dorothy Louise Moore, a Berryville woman named among the guests from Berryville at the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat" in March 1923.
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Jos. Harris
Jos. Harris, a Berryville man named among the guests from Berryville at the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat" in March 1923.
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Mary Miller
Mary Miller, a Berryville woman named among the guests from Berryville at the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat" in March 1923.
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Noble Pierce
Noble Pierce, a Berryville man, with Mrs. Pierce, named among the guests from Berryville at the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat" in March 1923.
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Mrs. Noble Pierce
Mrs. Noble Pierce, a Berryville woman, with Mr. Pierce, named among the guests from Berryville at the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat" in March 1923.
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Triplett Hardesty
Triplett Hardesty, a Berryville man named among the guests from Berryville at the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat" in March 1923.
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Wilbur Gaunt
Wilbur Gaunt, a Berryville man, with Mrs. Gaunt, named among the guests from Berryville at the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Withers at "Soldier's Retreat" in March 1923.
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T. W. Whitaker
Berryville man named in April 1923 as the father of Roy Whitaker, in a report on a Civil War pistol that a Mr. Spealman hoped to recover in Clarke.
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Carter Mullikin Lockwood
Berryville woman who gave the Corinthian class cup at the 1923 Berryville Horse Show in honor of her father, Charles Mullikin, and was named that September among the grandchildren of Mary Carter Shreve O'Fallon.
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Henry Brooke Gilpin
Boyce man who with Mrs. Gilpin owned "Scaleby Manor," where their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Gilpin, gave a large dance in 1923.
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Nannie Levi
Clarke County woman who became housekeeper of the Charles Town Hospital on November 1, 1923, after filling the post temporarily the winter before.
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J. R. Strode
J. R. Strode, a Boyce man reported in the November 1923 personals as a visitor to Berryville, known here only from that one line.
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Charles A. Moore
Charles A. Moore, a Boyce man reported in the November 1923 personals as a visitor to Berryville, known here only from that one line.
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P. C. Randolph
Millwood poultryman, called one of the county's most successful, whose December 1923 experiments comparing Wyandottes with White Leghorns the Courier reported.
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Malvin Longerbeam
One of the seven Berryville High School graduates of 1921, who gave the "Key Oration," presenting a gilded "key of knowledge" to the junior class.
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Alice Mesmer
One of the seven Berryville High School graduates of 1921, who delivered the class will at the closing exercises.
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Louise Ramsburg
One of the seven Berryville High School graduates of 1921, who made the humorous class "Presentations" at the closing exercises.
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Marion Levi
Valedictorian of the seven-member Berryville High School class of 1921, first in the class by a fraction of a point.
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Ruth Dean
One of the seven Berryville High School graduates of 1921, chosen to give the class prophecy at the closing exercises.
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Catherine M. Denny
Catherine M. Denny, one of the three graduates of the Boyce Agricultural High School in June 1921, who delivered addresses at the closing exercises.
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Nellie K. Jones
Nellie K. Jones, one of the three graduates of the Boyce Agricultural High School in June 1921, who delivered addresses at the closing exercises.
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Elizabeth Fishpaw
Elizabeth Fishpaw, one of the eight young women who received diplomas from Berryville High School at the close of the 1921-22 session.
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Gertrude Rush
Gertrude Rush, one of the eight young women who received diplomas from Berryville High School at the close of the 1921-22 session.
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Grace Young
Salutatorian of the Berryville High School class of 1922, one of eight young women who graduated that spring.
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A. Rice Green
Boyce Agricultural High School graduate of 1922 who received the prize for best all-around athlete at the closing exercises.
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C. Chamblin Funkhouser
Boyce Agricultural High School graduate of 1922, called the star athlete of Clarke County, who was to give the salutatory and go to Blacksburg, and won an athletic medal.
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F. Margaret Rodgers
Named in the June 1922 announcement as one of the five Boyce Agricultural High School graduates, though the report of the exercises leaves her out.
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Kathryn M. Sprint
Boyce Agricultural High School graduate of 1922, named in the June announcement of the exercises and in the report that she received her diploma.
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Albert Clark
Boyce High School pupil awarded an athletic medal in June 1922 for the most points in his class at the Berryville field and track meet of May 20.
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Anna Hemsley
Boyce pupil awarded an athletic medal in June 1922 for the most points in her class at the Berryville field and track meet, and promoted from the eighth grade.
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Adah Levi
Needlework prizewinner at the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with first prizes for a luncheon set, crocheted table mats, a centerpiece and a knitted article.
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Catherine Funkhouser
White Post girl who won first prize for the best baby beef in the Boys' and Girls' Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair.
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Harry Vernon Pifer
Prizewinner in the Boys' and Girls' Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, placing first in a Poland China pig class.
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Kenneth Simpson
Prizewinner in the Boys' and Girls' Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, placing first in a second Poland China pig class.
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Robert Hardesty
Prizewinner in the Boys' and Girls' Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, placing first in the Hampshire pig class.
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Fleeta McNamara
Leading prizewinner in the Woman's Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with first premiums for canned vegetables, canned fruits, preserves and a table mat.
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Mrs. Frank Hart
Prizewinner in the Woman's Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with first prizes for pickles, vinegar, catsup and home-made soap.
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Mrs. Harry Pearrell
Prizewinner in the Woman's Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with a first prize for a crocheted centerpiece.
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Mrs. Howard Locke
Embroidery prizewinner at the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with first prizes for French and colored embroidered centerpieces.
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Lora Stimson
Prizewinner in the Woman's Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with first prizes for a bureau scarf and a handkerchief.
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Mrs. M. W. Jones
Prizewinner in the Woman's Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with a first prize for home-made rugs.
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Mrs. R. H. McAtee
Quilting prizewinner at the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with first prizes for a silk quilt, a quilt square and a yard of crocheted lace.
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Mrs. John Shewbridge
Baking prizewinner at the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with the first prize for the best salt-rising bread.
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Mrs. T. M. Hooker
Prizewinner in the Woman's Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with first prizes for the best tatting and in the miscellaneous class.
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Mrs. Will Moore
Prizewinner in the Woman's Department of the 1922 Berryville Horse Show and Fair, with a first prize for a colored embroidered bureau scarf.
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Herman Bell
Berryville man who graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1923 to take up teaching at Hampden-Sydney, where by December he taught French and had spoken before the State Teachers' Association.
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Ernest Falbush
Man who pleaded guilty in the Clarke Circuit Court in April 1921 to charges of violating the prohibition laws, and was fined $50 with a suspended jail term.
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Russell Coffman
Nine-year-old son of George Coffman of the old Osborne property on the Shenandoah, who broke his arm at play at the Riverside School in April 1921.
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Billy Gaunt
Young son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Gaunt, reported in the July 1921 Minnie Wood letter as badly scalded when he fell back into a bucket of hot water.
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Brookus Lee
Man indicted by a special grand jury of the Clarke Circuit Court in November 1921 on a charge of breaking into Spates and Feagans' store at Briggs.
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Lester D. Ritter
Man indicted with Granville Kirby in the Clarke Circuit Court in November 1921 for making liquor, both fined with 30-day jail sentences suspended.
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Justice Longerbeam
Man of the Boyce neighborhood found guilty by a jury in the Clarke Circuit Court in February 1922 on a charge of seduction and given two years, with a new-trial motion pending.
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Sarah Phillips
Wife of Walker Phillips and daughter of Edward Jenkins, seriously hurt about the head when thrown from a buggy in a runaway in March 1922.
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Fannie Kennerly
White Post woman knocked down and run over by an automobile outside Meade Memorial Church in April 1922 when the driver was blinded by another car's lights; her shoulder was badly hurt.
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Walker Grubbs
Driver whose car knocked down Miss Fannie Kennerly outside Meade Memorial Church at White Post in April 1922, after another car's lights blinded him.
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Mrs. William A. Owens
Mother of Claud Owens, badly hurt in May 1922 when she fell in her yard; Dr. J. E. Harris feared her hip was fractured.
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Frank M. Galloway
Mechanical engineering superintendent of Armour's packing plant in South America, of La Plata, Argentina, who in April 1923 set out to visit his father, Frank Galloway of Clarke County.
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Mrs. Arthur Wright
Woman of West Main Street, Berryville, congratulated with her husband on the birth of a daughter on May 6, 1923.
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George Reynolds Green
White Post man congratulated with his wife on the birth of a baby girl in June 1923, who told Berryville friends he would not trade her for a dozen boys.
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Mrs. George Reynolds Green
White Post woman congratulated with her husband on the birth of a baby girl in June 1923; the notice says mother and baby were doing well.
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Mrs. William Levi
Berryville woman named in December 1923 as the mother of Mrs. Cecil Marlowe of Alexandria, whose son Charles William was born on December 10.
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Harry Lee Boxwell
Harry Lee Boxwell, a Berryville parent whose children masqueraded with the Walnut Street neighborhood children ahead of Hallowe'en in October 1937.
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Bob Creel
Bob Creel, a Berryville parent whose children masqueraded with the Walnut Street neighborhood children ahead of Hallowe'en in October 1937.
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Doug Carter
Doug Carter, a Berryville parent whose children masqueraded with the Walnut Street neighborhood children ahead of Hallowe'en in October 1937.
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Mrs. Mason Osborne
Berryville woman remembered in a 1947 Courier column, with her husband, as a masquerader in the town's annual Hallowe'en parade up Main Street, always recognizable by some mannerism.
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Martha W. Levi
Clarke Courier household columnist who in October 1947 recalled the whole town turning out for Berryville's annual Hallowe'en parade on Main Street.
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Alec Cary
A Black man of Clarke County killed on the turnpike between Millwood and Berryville on the night of September 29, 1869, as reported by the Clarke Courier a week later. The same paper later called him Elliott Cary, and once "Alec, (or Elliott) Cary".
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Pinkey Blakely
A Black man named by the Clarke Courier's 1869 inquest account as the man who stabbed Alec Cary. The same account says he escaped. Three weeks later the paper reported that a grand jury had found a true bill against "Pinkey" for the killing, and that a constable had gone to arrest him in Madison County, his former home, on a report that proved false. No arrest, trial or outcome appears in any report found.
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Mary F. Lewis
A Clarke County woman living near Boyce whose claim for supplies taken by Union forces in 1864 went from Congress to the Court of Claims in 1888, was valued at $1,002 in 1891 and appropriated in 1899. Her family knows her as Mary Frances (Bell) Lewis of Locust Grove.
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Mamie R. Sprint
Named in B. F. Humston's 1902 will as "my daughter Mamie R. Sprint," with a life interest in the Bellview farm. A published marriage abstract gives her 1886 marriage to Thomas H. Sprint as Mamie Humston, the name her son's 1944 obituary also uses.
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J. Ashby Sprint
A Winchester apple exporter named in Clarke Courier reports of 1928 to 1933: an orchard acquisition near Kabletown, a Berkeley Springs cold-storage company, and a lease of railway land under a White Post packing house. His brother's 1944 obituary names their mother as Mamie Humston.
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Philip Cunningham
A Millwood storekeeper (Locke and Co., with his brother) who, at the Boyce branch of the Bank of Clarke County to cash checks on April 1, 1965, saw two men leave the bank, followed them on foot, and wrote down their getaway car's license number at Lanham's Grocery. His account was printed by the Winchester Evening Star the next day.
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Edith W. Rodgers
Manager of the Boyce branch of the Bank of Clarke County, who told the Winchester Evening Star that she and teller Frances Hudson faced two armed men during the April 1, 1965 robbery and were ordered into a back room.
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Frances Hudson
Teller at the Boyce branch of the Bank of Clarke County, reported by the Winchester Evening Star to have faced two armed men alongside manager Edith W. Rodgers during the April 1, 1965 robbery.
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R. L. Bruce
A Virginia state trooper who, according to a Winchester Evening Star profile by Jack Davis, heard the April 1, 1965 Boyce robbery alert on his radio while driving toward a funeral, spotted and followed the matching getaway car, and stopped it near Double Toll Gate.
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Kenneth Lloyd Presgraves
One of four people charged in the April 1, 1965 robbery of the Boyce branch of the Bank of Clarke County. The Winchester Evening Star reported he pleaded guilty on May 10, 1965 and was sentenced by Judge Elliott D. Marshall on July 12, 1965 to 20 years in the state penitentiary. The held reports do not establish how much time he actually served.
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Buford Homer Shupe
One of four people charged in the April 1, 1965 robbery of the Boyce branch of the Bank of Clarke County. The Winchester Evening Star reported he pleaded guilty on May 10, 1965 and was sentenced by Judge Elliott D. Marshall on July 12, 1965 to 15 years in the state penitentiary. The held reports do not establish how much time he actually served.
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James Clarence Powell
One of four people charged in the April 1, 1965 robbery of the Boyce branch of the Bank of Clarke County. The Winchester Evening Star reported he pleaded guilty on May 10, 1965 and was sentenced by Judge Elliott D. Marshall on July 12, 1965 to 10 years in the state penitentiary. The held reports do not establish how much time he actually served.
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Mary Matilda Shupe
One of four people charged in the April 1, 1965 robbery of the Boyce branch of the Bank of Clarke County. The Winchester Evening Star reported that she initially pleaded innocent, changed her plea to guilty on August 10, 1965, then was permitted to withdraw that plea and plead innocent again on September 13, 1965, with a November 9, 1965 trial date and a $2,500 bond continued. Her final verdict, dismissal or sentence is not established in the reports held for this account.
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William Moore
A man listed as "Moore, William; Sergeant, promoted to lieutenancy in the Company, died of wounds received in action at Five Forks, Va., April 2, 1865" in a roll printed in Gold's 1914 history of Clarke County. The entry gives a given name and surname only.
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Pius Francis Topper
A man listed as "Topper, Pius Francis, wounded in action June 9, 1863, at Brandy Station; killed in action Sept., 1864, near Luray, Va." in a roll printed in Gold's 1914 history of Clarke County.
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R. O. Allen
A man printed as "R. O. Allen" in three places in Gold's 1914 history of Clarke County: a roll entry giving him as 2nd Lieut., permanently disabled by a wound at Brandy Station on June 9, 1863; a battle narrative naming "Lieut. R. O. Allen, of the Clarke Cavalry"; and a list of members of the J. E. B. Stuart Camp. The pages give initials and surname only, and no record read here says that the three are one man.
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Thomas D. Gold (Co. I, 2nd Virginia Infantry)
A man whom the Winchester Evening Star of December 6, 1915 reports dead at "Ellwood" in Clarke County, born February 23, 1845, who enlisted at 16 in Company I, Second Virginia Regiment, was wounded at the second Manassas, was captured in May 1864 and was exchanged in the spring of 1865. A compiled service record for a Thomas D. Gold, Co. I, 2nd Virginia Infantry (the Clarke Riflemen) shows a private enrolled at Berryville on April 18, 1861, a sergeant in 1862, a parole sent from Elmira on February 20, 1865 and an oath of parole at Winchester on April 21, 1865. That the cards are the man of the obituary rests on the name, company and regiment, and is Likely, not Confirmed.
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Edmund Pendleton
A lieutenant of Co. C, 11th Virginia Cavalry whom the Virginia Military Institute Memorial (1875) heads "of Clarke County, Virginia" and says was born at Fairfield, Clarke County, on October 4, 1843. The accounts of his death conflict: the VMI sketch says he was killed on the 6th of May (1864), at Spotsylvania in its own sentence and at the battle of the Wilderness in a letter of General Rosser that it quotes, while Gold's 1914 county history lists "Lieut. Edmond Pendleton, killed at Jack's Shop, fall of 1863." The spellings Edmund and Edmond are kept as printed, and the same man is Likely, not Confirmed. Gold's inscription list also prints "LIEUT. E. PENDLETON."
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James W. Thomson
A major of horse artillery whom the Virginia Military Institute Memorial (1875) heads "of Clarke County, Virginia" and says was born at Berryville on October 28, 1843, second lieutenant of Chew's Battery in 1861, in command of it in February 1864, and later a major commanding a battalion of horse artillery in Rosser's Cavalry Division; the sketch, signed by Colonel R. Preston Chew, says he was wounded on April 5, 1865 and killed the day after. This is the only source for him: no other held book names him.
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James L. Ashby
A private of Co. D, 6th Virginia Cavalry (the Clarke Cavalry) whom the Virginia Military Institute Memorial (1875) heads "of Clarke County, Virginia," says was born in Clarke County on November 6, 1831, son of Buckner and Sophia G. Ashby, who lived in Warren County before the war, and says "fell dead" near Trevyllian Station on June 11, 1864. Gold's roll of the Clarke Cavalry prints no James Ashby but prints "Ashby, Lewis; killed in action at Trevillian Station, June 11, 1864"; the print does not show whether they are one man, so James L. Ashby and Lewis Ashby are two separate entries here and are not merged.
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Lewis Ashby
A man printed "Ashby, Lewis; killed in action at Trevillian Station, June 11, 1864" in Gold's 1914 roster of the Clarke Cavalry (the first entry under "ENLISTED MEN"), with an "L. Ashby" under Co. D, 6th Virginia Regiment, Cavalry on the inscription list Gold prints. Gold also prints a Lewis Ashby in a Co. I, 12th Virginia list, which nothing shows to be the same man. The Virginia Military Institute Memorial has a James L. Ashby of the same company killed at the same place on the same day; the print does not show whether they are one man, so the two are separate entries here and are not merged.
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John W. Ashby
A private whom the Virginia Military Institute Memorial (1875) heads "of Clarke County, Virginia," says was born near White Post, Clarke County, on December 15, 1833, second son of Buckner and Sophia G. Ashby, and says served in Co. A, 7th Virginia Cavalry and then in Co. I, 12th Virginia Cavalry, a company organized in Warren County where he resided before the war; the sketch says a shell fragment struck him on the morning of the 9th (April 1865) and death quickly ensued. Gold's inscription list prints "J. W. Ashby," initials only. His later residence was Warren County; his Clarke link is the birth statement.
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Janey Lee Pope
Staff sergeant from near Berryville whose death in action in Germany on December 19, 1944 the Clarke Courier of December 28, 1944 reported; so far as the paper could learn, he was the first Clarke County soldier killed in action in the war.
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Isaac Bowman
Confederate artilleryman and, as the Clarke Courier put it in 1921, for years one of the leading business men of Berryville. His obituary in the Courier of March 15, 1923 names his son Berkley Bowman of Berryville.
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Edward Jones
Clarke County man who served in the World War and was gassed at the front. The Clarke Courier of February 8, 1923 reported his death in Detroit at 26 and his burial in Milton Valley Cemetery.
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John O’Connor
War of 1812 soldier of the 4th Virginia Regiment, a substitute for his brother Dennis O’Connor, who died at Millwood on March 1, 1832, as the Old Chapel cemetery record gives it.
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Lloyd W. Williams
Marine Corps officer, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin H. Williams of Berryville, whom the Clarke Courier reported in July 1918 as the first son of Clarke killed in France. He died of wounds received at Belleau Wood in June 1918; the papers give the day as June 11, 12 and 17. The American Legion post at Berryville was named for him, and his body was brought home and buried at Green Hill Cemetery in July 1921.
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Fred H. Shackleford
Private of Berryville, of the 29th Division, who died in France on August 10, 1944. The Clarke Courier first reported him killed, presumably in action, then accidentally shot by a captured German sub-machine gun held by a companion; the War Department's 1946 list counts him among those who died in non-battle. His body was brought home to Berryville in 1948.
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Places 48
Berryville
Incorporated in 1798 and known before that as Battletown. It became the county seat when Clarke County separated from Frederick in 1836, and the railroad reached it in 1879.
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Clermont
The estate where, by its own account, Josephine Williams was enslaved before emancipation. Its research supplies the short sequence of records that follows her afterward.
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Josephine City
Twenty-four formerly enslaved African Americans bought the land here in 1870, a 31-acre parcel inside Berryville. The state's historic-resources record counts Josephine Williams among them and calls her the presumed namesake.
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Josephine City School
Neighbors gave labor and money to the schoolhouse that went up in 1882. It was moved from its Josephine Street lot in 1930, taught home economics until 1971, and was renovated in 2002 as the Josephine School Community Museum, which opened its first exhibit on July 12, 2003.
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Sarah Stribling house
A Federal-period house of about 1810 at 102 W. Main Street: residential at first, later a boarding house and tradesmen's quarters, from 1919 the Sign of the Motor Car Inn, and by one account the Battletown Inn from 1952 until it closed there by June 2015. The building is older than the inn name and outlived its use.
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Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds
The former Berryville Horse Show grounds, bought and renamed by the Ruritan Club in 1960 by a 2024 account, and in use by the 1980s for banquets as well as the fair. The grounds, the club that owns them and the fair held on them are three different subjects.
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9 East Main Street, Berryville
Archived listings name three restaurants at 9 East Main Street: Berryville Grille in 2015, 2021 and 2022, SueCat's Bistro in 2025, and Aztec City Mexican Restaurant in 2026. The listings do not establish ownership transfers or the start and end of each tenancy.
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Winston Hall
A two-story hall on East Main Street built by Siz Daingerfield, a Black barkeeper — 1881 by one account, 1884 by the other. Shops below, a meeting hall and theater above: the Legion recalls Post 41 meeting there from 1920 to 1938 and the National Guard renting the upstairs as an armory from 1922 to 1939. The Bank of Clarke County bought the building in 1957 and took it down in 1962 for its expansion and parking.
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Earlier Battletown Inn site, West Main Street
Three descriptions, two sources, one site: where the Battletown Inn stood before 1952 is given once as a street address, once as a landmark, and once as a corner, and the three do not resolve to the same place. The 1987 National Register nomination says the site is "where the present Lighthouse Inn now stands" in its narrative and gives "5 W. Main Street" in its account of the automobile era; a 2015 article says "the Virginia Hotel, on the southeast corner of Main and Church". The same nomination inventories the Virginia House / Lighthouse Restaurant at 9-13 W. Main. The descriptions are kept as the sources give them and are not reconciled.
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Tuleyries
An estate near Boyce whose land carried a commercial apple orchard under Upton Boyce from the 1880s — eighty-three acres of it by 1905 — and a packing shed of about 1900. Graham Blandy's will gave 712 of its acres to the University of Virginia in 1926, excluding the mansion and the land beside it. The mansion and its grounds are not the experimental farm.
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Hawthorne Hall (Treadwell Smith House), 100 W. Main Street
A Federal brick house at Main and Buckmarsh, dated about 1820 by the 1987 survey, with a family account of building in three phases. A tavern from 1830 and a doctor's office and small hospital from 1887, by a 2017 local history; then the Clarke Courier shows the building at work — a children's clinic in 1931, a dress shop in 1934, and the Hawthorne Library lending books in 1935, 1939 and 1947, in the same building as the Tappans' apartments. Offices and apartments after a 2006 sale.
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Norfolk & Western passenger depot, Berryville (1910-1990)
A brick passenger station approved in January 1910, begun that spring and all but finished by August. The 1987 survey recorded it vacant; Norfolk Southern demolished it on July 2, 1990, after an effort to make it a visitors' center failed, and one of its iron window guards went up at Hogan's Alley in 2024. No source here records the day it opened. The survey says South First Street and a 2024 report says Station Avenue; the earlier freight-and-passenger station north of Main is a different building.
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23 East Main Street, Berryville
A town-owned building with a mid-twentieth-century office front on nineteenth-century rear sections, one of them a brick ell the 1987 survey says had been a livery. The fire company's own history puts a firehouse on East Main in 1935 and the building in town and police service from 1958, though it prints no street number. Police and town offices in 1987; the Fire House Gallery from January 2010 to a scheduled close in September 2019; a business incubator in Suite 202 as of 2026.
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Carter Hall
A limestone house off Route 255 near Millwood, which a 1973 National Register survey dates to 1792–1800 and says was built for Nathaniel Burwell. The survey traces its owners to Frank E. Christopher in 1948; the Clarke Courier reported the 1929 sale to Gerard B. Lambert. Project HOPE’s tax year 2020 return described the estate as donated to it and as the site of its headquarters, and county records carry a 2021 transfer from a grantor bearing that organization’s name. How and when the foundation took title is not documented: the instrument the county’s index cites, Deed Book 124, page 616, has not been inspected.
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Audley Farm
An 822-acre tract in the Battletown district of Clarke County, carried in the county's records as account 2397, tax map 15-A-4, under the legal description “AUDLEY FARM & BUENA VISTA.” Sixteen street addresses on Audley Lane and Nellie Custis Lane belong to the one parcel. Audley holds Virginia Department of Historic Resources file number 21-4 and was documented in the state's 1989 rural survey of the county; no individual listing for it was found in the Virginia Landmarks Register master list read in September 2026. The land's owner of record is a corporation, not a party named Audley Farm.
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Norfolk and Western railway depot, Boyce (1913)
The 1913 station at Boyce, under the stewardship of the Boyce Railway Depot Foundation. Distinct from the Berryville passenger depot, which is a different building in a different town.
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Wayside Farm
A 120-acre family farm at 5273 Harry Byrd Highway east of Berryville, owned by the brothers Philip and Mark Shenk with Theresa and Beth Shenk, which opens to visitors in the fall.
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Boyce
Clarke County community. Named in the Clarke Courier's 1925 teacher list as having a Boyce Colored school with two teachers, and in the People's Journal's 1927 League committee as having its own representative.
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Bristol
Named in the Clarke Courier's 1925 teacher list as having a Bristol colored school taught by George W. Carter. The People's Journal's 1912 roster names a community it spells Bristow. The two spellings may denote one place, but that is NOT established here and the two are deliberately kept as separate names pending evidence.
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Louisville
Clarke County community. Named in the People's Journal's rosters and in the Clarke Courier's 1925 teacher list as having a Black school, and in the People's Journal's 1927 League committee as having its own representative. The two papers name different teachers nine months apart and neither says why. Maral S. Kalbian's 1992 survey of Clarke County, which spells the name Lewisville, names the community among the Black communities that arose after the Civil War, recommends it for intensive survey alongside Josephine City, and lists a Lewisville School, number 21-307, in its table of earlier-surveyed schools. The two spellings are treated here as one community; each source is reported in the spelling it uses.
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Millwood
Clarke County community. Named in the Clarke Courier's 1925 teacher list as having a Millwood Colored school with a principal and two assistants, and in the People's Journal's 1927 League committee as having its own representative.
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Stone Bridge
A Clarke County community named in the 1927 Clarke County School League committee list, with Jno. Toggins as its representative. Not otherwise named in the sources gathered here.
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Webbtown
A Clarke County community named in the 1927 Clarke County School League committee list, with Geo. Carter as its representative. The same name appears elsewhere in the paper as a subscriber address.
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White Post
Clarke County community. Named in the People's Journal's 1924 roster as having a school taught by a Miss Mitchell, in the Clarke Courier's 1925 list as White Post Colored with Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson, and in the People's Journal's 1927 League committee as having its own representative.
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Clarke County
The Virginia county these census figures are tabulated for. The Census Bureau counted 7,165 residents on January 1, 1920 and 7,167 on April 1, 1930. Virginia's independent cities are tabulated separately from counties and Clarke contains none, so the county total is the whole tabulated population.
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Hawthorne Schoolhouse
A schoolhouse listed as Hawthorne Schoolhse, number 21-247, among the schools from past rural surveys in a 1992 architectural survey of Clarke County.
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Gaylord School
A schoolhouse listed as Gaylord School, number 21-332, among the schools from past rural surveys in a 1992 architectural survey of Clarke County.
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Riverside School
A schoolhouse listed as Riverside School, number 21-431, among the schools from past rural surveys in a 1992 architectural survey of Clarke County.
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Meade's School
A schoolhouse listed as Meade's School, number 21-659, among the schools from past rural surveys in a 1992 architectural survey of Clarke County.
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Valley View School
A schoolhouse listed as Valley View School, number 21-705, among the schools from past rural surveys in a 1992 architectural survey of Clarke County.
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Page's School
A schoolhouse listed as Page's School, number 21-706, among the schools from past rural surveys in a 1992 architectural survey of Clarke County.
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Mt. Carmel School
A rural schoolhouse, number 21-932, that a 1992 architectural survey of Clarke County documented and presented as a typical example of the county's small rural schools.
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High Meadows schoolhouse
A stone schoolhouse at High Meadows, number 21-936, which a 1992 architectural survey of Clarke County says was built as a private school for the owners of the property.
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Quality Hill
A locality named in the People's Journal in April 1924 as the place where Stephen L. Green had built another room onto his house; where it lay is not recorded.
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Shoe-shop and dwelling house on Miss Fanny Massy's Academy lot
A small shoe-shop and a dwelling house that, the People's Journal reported in June 1910, Miss Fanny Massy had built on her Academy lot and rented out.
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Josephine Street
The street of Josephine City: the historic-district nomination places the community's 31 lots on either side of it, and the index to Kalbian's 1992 survey lists nineteen resources along it.
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Church Street, Berryville
A Berryville street, named in 1925 at one end of the block of Main Street the state highway department agreed to repair, and as the place where the American Legion post hung a new lighted sign.
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Main Street, Berryville
Berryville's Main Street, which Kalbian's 1992 survey calls the "Great Road" that connected Winchester to Snicker's Gap; in 1925 the state highway department agreed to repair its block between Church and Buckmarsh Streets.
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North Buckmarsh Street
A street named in the People's Journal of January 1925, which reported that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor's house on it was completed.
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Liberty Street, Berryville
A Berryville street where the People's Journal listed H. W. Jackson's Lunch and Ice-Cream in 1924, and where the Clarke County Oil Company was finishing a new office beside the Norfolk and Western tracks in 1925.
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Blackburn Street
A street on which the index to Kalbian's 1992 survey of Clarke County lists nine surveyed resources.
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Lincoln Avenue
A street named in the People's Journal of March 1899 as the residence of Mrs. Lizzie Carter.
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Frogtown
A Clarke County hamlet that Kalbian's 1992 survey lists among those recorded by earlier surveys; the same survey records a House in Frogtown among past school sites, and a Frogtown Store still working as a rural country store.
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Milton Valley Cemetery
A cemetery whose marked burial of Mary Slowe in 1874 is the oldest resource of the Josephine City Historic District; the People's Journal reported a burial there in 1910, and volunteers cleaned its headstones in 2025.
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Richmond’s wartime prisons
The Confederate prisons in Richmond, Virginia, which a Clarke Courier item of 1886 reached back to. Prisoners of war were held first in converted tobacco warehouses at Rocketts under an officer the Richmond Dispatch called Capt. Gibbs; early in March 1862 they were moved into the Libby and Sons building, which became Libby Prison under Lieutenant Thomas P. Turner. Castle Thunder, a separate Richmond prison often confused with Libby, was commanded by Captain George W. Alexander. This entity exists because the anecdote turns on which prison and which officer, and those are different questions.
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Bellview farm
A Clarke County farm that B. F. Humston's 1902 will gave his daughter, Mamie R. Sprint, for life, with remainder to her children. It appears as "Bellview Place" in his 1904 inventory and as "Bellview, 300 acres" in a 1935 tax list. Its exact boundaries and modern parcel have not been established.
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Double Toll Gate
A Clarke County locale near which, according to a Winchester Evening Star profile of Trooper R. L. Bruce, he heard the April 1, 1965 Boyce robbery alert on his radio while driving toward a funeral.
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Green Hill Cemetery
A cemetery at Berryville. The Clarke Courier reported Decoration Day services there in 1912 and, from the 1920s to 1946, Confederate memorial services and the American Legion's Memorial Day exercises; in 1932 it noted that soldiers of the Civil War, the Spanish American War and the World War are buried there.
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How they connect
102 connections, each with its evidence.
A connection is a statement like any other: it is assessed on its own sources. A relationship recorded in a later account is not proof that two people met.
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Community within Berryville
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C18
✓ Supported by a sourceDHR places Josephine City within Berryville.
What the source supports
A geographic relationship supported by the district account.
Uncertainty
This prototype does not map the district boundary or imply routes between properties.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine City Historic District, 168-5029
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-02-17 (last update)
Locator: Opening historical paragraph: location within Berryville
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Named among the land buyers
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C08
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsDHR includes Josephine Williams among the buyers and calls her the presumed namesake.
What the source supports
Both her inclusion and the source's qualification are retained.
Uncertainty
The naming explanation is not presented as conclusively established.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine City Historic District, 168-5029
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-02-17 (last update)
Locator: Opening historical paragraph
Relevant passageincluding Josephine Williams, the presumed namesake of Josephine City.
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Earlier life at Clermont
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C16
✓ Supported by a sourceClermont's account places Josephine in enslavement at Clermont before emancipation.
What the source supports
An institutional account supports this biographical connection.
Uncertainty
This short profile is not a complete biography and does not infer undocumented motives.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine Williams
Clermont Farm / Cory A. Van Horn
Locator: Opening paragraph; final two historical paragraphs
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Open sourceSource family: clermont-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Built to serve this community
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C12
✓ Supported by a sourceDHR dates the Josephine City School to 1882 and describes local contributions of labor and money.
What the source supports
The school's date and community funding are supported by the institutional account.
Uncertainty
School-board and building records remain separate retrieval targets.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine City School, 168-5027
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-02-17 (last update)
Locator: First historical paragraph
Relevant passageThe building was erected with contributions of labor and money from the local black citizenry
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Museum chapter of the building
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C14
✓ Supported by a sourceThe museum dates its inaugural exhibit to July 12, 2003.
What the source supports
A specific milestone from the institution's own history.
Uncertainty
It does not establish present opening hours or public access.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
History
Josephine School Community Museum
Locator: Final paragraph, inaugural museum exhibit
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Open sourceSource family: jschool-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Appears in a later naming story
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C03
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsGold's 1914 history links the Battletown name to tavern fighting and Daniel Morgan.
What the source supports
The explanation is present in a later published account.
Uncertainty
Existing OCR was read; page images were not inspected. This is not contemporary proof of the eighteenth-century events.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
History of Clarke County, Virginia and its connection with the war between the states
Thomas D. Gold · 1914 (publication)
Locator: Printed p. 16, paragraph beginning "Among the men"
Relevant passagewhere he had many fisticuffs and no doubt helped to give the town its name.
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Open sourceSource family: gold-1914. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
History of Clarke County, Virginia and its connection with the war between the states
Thomas D. Gold · 1914 (publication)
Locator: Printed p. 30, Chapter IV: Battletown or Berryville
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Open sourceSource family: gold-1914. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Author of the later account
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C03
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsGold's 1914 history links the Battletown name to tavern fighting and Daniel Morgan.
What the source supports
The explanation is present in a later published account.
Uncertainty
Existing OCR was read; page images were not inspected. This is not contemporary proof of the eighteenth-century events.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
History of Clarke County, Virginia and its connection with the war between the states
Thomas D. Gold · 1914 (publication)
Locator: Printed p. 16, paragraph beginning "Among the men"
Relevant passagewhere he had many fisticuffs and no doubt helped to give the town its name.
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Open sourceSource family: gold-1914. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
History of Clarke County, Virginia and its connection with the war between the states
Thomas D. Gold · 1914 (publication)
Locator: Printed p. 30, Chapter IV: Battletown or Berryville
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: gold-1914. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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A separately dated building
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C17
✓ Supported by a sourceDHR dates the Sarah Stribling house, long associated with the Battletown Inn, to 1810.
What the source supports
The extant house has a date distinct from the settlement's earlier history.
Uncertainty
The house is not identified here as the specific tavern in Gold's origin tale.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Berryville Historic District, 168-0012
Virginia Department of Historic Resources · 2024-09-16 (last update)
Locator: Final historical paragraph, Sarah Stribling house
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Receipt described by Clermont
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C09
✓ Supported by a sourceClermont describes a November 1867 receipt for a shirt sold by Josephine to her former enslavers.
What the source supports
A specific document has been identified by the institution.
Uncertainty
The source description, not the original receipt, was read. No amount or full transcription is supplied.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Josephine Williams
Clermont Farm / Cory A. Van Horn
Locator: Four-document list, item 2: November 1867 receipt
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clermont-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
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Bought the horse-show grounds and renamed them, as reported in 2024
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C101
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsClarke Monthly reports that when the Berryville Horse Show Association disbanded, the Ruritan Club bought the 30-acre Berryville Horse Show grounds in 1960 and renamed them the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds.
What the source supports
The reported purchase, acreage and renaming in 1960, which is why the grounds and the club are linked here.
Uncertainty
A 2024 retrospective; no deed was inspected and the association's disbanding is not dated. The article's later statement that the grounds grew to almost 50 acres with 20 structures is undated and is not claimed.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The purchase and rename sentence.
Ruritan Club Embarks On A Modern-Day Barn Raising
Cathy Kuehner, Clarke Monthly · 2024-03-02 (publication)
Locator: History section, on the 1960 purchase
Relevant passageWhen the Berryville Horse Show Association disbanded, the Ruritan Club bought the 30-acre Berryville Horse Show grounds in 1960 and renamed it the Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
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Listed at the address in captures from 2012 to 2022
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C107
✓ DocumentedThat it was soArchived directory pages list a restaurant named Berryville Grille at 9 East Main Street, Berryville: by name in a Main Street portal captured 24 February 2012, and with the address in tourism and Main Street listings captured 7 March 2015, 16 June 2021 and 11 December 2022.
What the source supports
That a business of this name was listed at this address across a span of captures from 2012 to 2022.
Uncertainty
Each capture attests one day. Nothing here gives an opening date, a closing date or continuous operation between captures; the 2012 page shows the name without an address.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2012 portal names the Grille among member restaurants.
Shop, Berryville Main Street portal (captured 24 February 2012)
Berryville Main Street · 2012-02-24 (publication)
Locator: Restaurants list on the captured Shop page
Relevant passageBerryville Grille
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: berryville-main-street-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2015 tourism page gives the address.
Berryville Dining, Clarke County Tourism website (captured 7 March 2015)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2015-03-07 (publication)
Locator: Berryville Grille entry on the captured Berryville Dining page
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 E. Main St. ... a varied menu that includes both dinners and lunches at more than reasonable prices ... Wine and beer available with meals.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2021 tourism page gives the address.
Eat, Clarke County Virginia Tourism website (captured 16 June 2021)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2021-06-16 (publication)
Locator: Eat list, first entry
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 East Main Street, Berryville
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2022 Main Street page gives the address.
Dine, Berryville Main Street website (captured 11 December 2022)
Berryville Main Street · 2022-12-11 (publication)
Locator: Dine list, Berryville Grille entry
Relevant passageBerryville Grille 9 East Main Street, Berryville
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: berryville-main-street-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
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Listed at the address in a February 2025 capture
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C109
✓ DocumentedThat it was soA Berryville Main Street directory page captured 14 February 2025 lists SueCat's Bistro at 9 East Main Street as a casual restaurant with a southern-inspired menu; the listing's address field still carried the words "The Berryville Grille".
What the source supports
That a second business was listed at the same address by early 2025, and what it said it served.
Uncertainty
The leftover "Berryville Grille" in an address field is a trace of an earlier listing, not evidence of when one restaurant closed and the next opened, nor of any transfer between them. The lane reported a closing notice on the bistro's own site in September 2026; that page could not be read by this project, so no closure is claimed.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The directory listing with its address field.
SueCat's Bistro, Berryville Main Street directory listing (captured 14 February 2025)
Berryville Main Street · 2025-02-14 (publication)
Locator: Listing address field and description
Relevant passageThe Berryville Grille, 9, East Main Street, Berryville Historic District, Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia, 22611 ... SueCat's is a casual restaurant with a southern inspired menu
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: berryville-main-street-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: contextualizes. The bistro's own site, captured March 2025, describing the same menu and its bar.
SueCat's Bistro website, home page (captured 24 March 2025)
SueCat's Bistro · 2025-03-24 (publication)
Locator: Home page description
Relevant passageSueCat's is a casual restaurant with a southern inspired menu ... the ever changing variety of eight craft beers we have on tap
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Open sourceSource family: suecats-self. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
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Listed at the address in 2026
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C110
✓ DocumentedThat it was soA Main Street directory page captured 15 April 2026 and the county tourism listing read on 10 September 2026 list Aztec City Mexican Restaurant at 9 East Main Street; the directory describes Tex-Mex favourites and dishes inspired by Mexican cooking.
What the source supports
That a third business was listed at the address in 2026, and what it said it served.
Uncertainty
Listed-as-of statements. No opening date, ownership or relationship to the earlier occupants is established, and "current" means the day the page was read.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The 2026 directory listing.
Aztec City Mexican Restaurant, Berryville Main Street directory listing (captured 15 April 2026)
Berryville Main Street · 2026-04-15 (publication)
Locator: Listing address and description
Relevant passage9 E Main Street, Berryville, VA ... a diverse menu that features both classic Tex-Mex favorites and authentic dishes inspired by the rich culinary heritage of Mexico
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Open sourceSource family: berryville-main-street-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The live tourism listing on 10 September 2026.
Eat & Drink, Experience Clarke County website (read 10 September 2026)
Clarke County Economic Development and Tourism · 2026-09-10 (publication)
Locator: Eat & Drink list
Relevant passageAztec City Mexican Restaurant 9 E Main Street Berryville 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-tourism-listings. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
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On East Main Street, Berryville, by both accounts
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C111
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA history page maintained for American Legion Post 41 states that Winston Hall stood on East Main Street where the Bank of Clarke County driveway is now, that it was built in 1881 by Siz Daingerfield, whom it describes as a Black barkeeper, and that it was named for the singer Jenny Winston.
What the source supports
The Legion's account of the builder, the date and the name, and its description of the site.
Uncertainty
An uncited retrospective. The bank's history gives 1884 as the building date, an 1885 opening, and spells the builder's name Dangerfield; the two accounts are not reconciled here. "Where the driveway is now" is the source's locator, not a parcel.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The Legion page's opening sentences.
Early Meeting Hall (Post 41 Berryville, Virginia, American Legion Centennial Celebration site)
American Legion Post 41, Berryville (post-submitted history)
Locator: First paragraph
Relevant passageWinston Hall was on East Main Street where the Bank of Clarke County driveway is now located. Built in 1881 by Siz Daingerfield, a black barkeep, it was named for singer, Jenny Winston.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: legion-post-41-centennial. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: complicates. The bank history's different date and spelling.
Bank of Clarke County history, page 102
Bank of Clarke County
Locator: Page 102, on the building's origin
Relevant passageIt was originally built in 1884 by a black man named Siz Dangerfield who operated a saloon for whites across the street. It was known as Winston Hall (named after Jennie Winston who gave a performance there the night the hall was opened in 1885)
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Open sourceSource family: bank-of-clarke-history. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
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Opened in the house in 1919 and lasted into the early 1950s, by a 2015 account
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C125
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe feature reports that in 1919 the Elder family bought the building and opened "The Sign of the Motor Car Inn", listed in the 1920 Automobile Blue Book as a garage and service station as well as an inn, and that it stayed in business until the Battletown Inn took it over in the early 1950s.
What the source supports
A separate, named business at 102 W. Main between the house's domestic phase and the Battletown Inn.
Uncertainty
The Blue Book was not inspected. The takeover date is given loosely ("early 1950s") in this paragraph and as 1952 elsewhere in the same article.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The 1919 opening, the Blue Book listing and the takeover.
Wanted: The Battletown Inn
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Paragraphs on the Sign of the Motor Car Inn
Relevant passageIn 1919 ... the Elder family bought it and opened ... "The Sign of the Motor Car Inn." ... listed in the 1920 version of the Automobile Blue Book, Volume 3, as a garage and service station as well as an inn. ... it remained in business until the Battletown Inn took it over in the early 1950s
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: contextualizes. OCR of a 1925 newspaper page treats The Sign of the Motor Car and the Battletown Inn as two establishments.
Clarke Courier, 1925, selected issues (Library of Congress, Chronicling America OCR)
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1925 (publication)
Locator: Issue of 4 June 1925, page 4 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025371/1925-06-04/ed-1/?sp=4): a social column naming a guest at The Sign of the Motor Car and, separately, guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Pulliam at the Battletown Inn. OCR text only; page image not seen.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-1925. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
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At the earlier West Main site, attested 1925, until the reported 1952 move
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C122
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe same nomination places a "former Battletown Inn" at 5 W. Main Street in its account of the automobile era, says the Battletown Inn stood where the Lighthouse Inn then stood on the reputed site of an earlier "Old Tavern", and separately inventories the Virginia House, by 1987 the Lighthouse Restaurant and Berryville Variety Store, at 9-13 W. Main as a late-nineteenth-century hotel; it does not reconcile 5 with 9-13.
What the source supports
That the nomination itself knows a Battletown Inn other than the Sarah Stribling House, and where it puts that earlier inn; and that the address question is the source's, not this site's.
Uncertainty
The Old Tavern and Daniel Morgan story is "reputed" in the source and is treated on this site as a retelling (see the Battletown story). The 5 W. Main versus 9-13 W. Main discrepancy is left unresolved. "Lighthouse" is not an alias of the Sarah Stribling House.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The former Battletown Inn at 5 W. Main.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 66, historical narrative on the automobile era
Relevant passageThe former Battletown Inn at 5 W. Main Street attracted vacation travelers from Route 7, which runs through the town, and from Route 50, south of Berryville.
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Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The Lighthouse Inn site and the reputed Old Tavern.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 63, historical narrative
Relevant passageWhere the present Lighthouse Inn now stands was the Battletown Inn, reputed to be the site of the earlier "Old Tavern", where Daniel Morgan, a local resident and Revolutionary war hero, was known to participate in brawls and fistfights.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: contextualizes. The Virginia House / Lighthouse Restaurant inventory at 9-13 W. Main.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 37, W. Main Street inventory, 9-13
Relevant passageVirginia House-historic name. Lighthouse Restaurant/Berryville Variety Store-present name. Restaurant/commercial store-present use. Hotel-original use. Victorian Vernacular. Late 19th Century.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: dhr-berryville. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
Evidence C123
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA 2015 Clarke Monthly feature says the Battletown Inn "we have known" began in what was then the Virginia Hotel at the southeast corner of Main and Church streets, and that the name moved to 102 W. Main when the earlier inn's proprietors bought that property in 1952.
What the source supports
The reported origin of the later inn at another site and the reported 1952 move of the name to the Sarah Stribling House.
Uncertainty
A local retrospective naming no proprietors and citing no deed. Its "southeast corner of Main and Church" is not reconciled here with the nomination's 5 W. Main or 9-13 W. Main.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Virginia Hotel origin and the 1952 transfer.
Wanted: The Battletown Inn
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph on the earlier inn and the name transfer
Relevant passageThe Battletown Inn we have known actually started a couple of blocks down in what was then the Virginia Hotel, on the southeast corner of Main and Church streets. ... The name moved over to the current location when it was bought by the erstwhile Battletown Inn proprietors in 1952.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
Evidence C126
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsNormalised OCR of the Clarke Courier for 1925 names The Sign of the Motor Car and the Battletown Inn as separate establishments on one page (4 June), and reports the Shenandoah Valley Hotel and Inn Association meeting at the Battletown Inn as guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Pulliam (8 October).
What the source supports
That in 1925 the two names belonged to two places, and that a couple named Pulliam hosted at the Battletown Inn, as far as OCR can show.
Uncertainty
OCR text normalised by the research package; the page images could not be opened (loc.gov script challenge on 10 September 2026). Nothing is quoted. Hosting a meeting shows an operating role, not ownership. Other 1925 notices in the package (a card party, a lodge social, a resident's death at the inn) are held until a page image is read.
Source
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The 4 June 1925 page, by OCR.
Clarke Courier, 1925, selected issues (Library of Congress, Chronicling America OCR)
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1925 (publication)
Locator: Issue of 4 June 1925, page 4 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025371/1925-06-04/ed-1/?sp=4): a social column naming a guest at The Sign of the Motor Car and, separately, guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Pulliam at the Battletown Inn. OCR text only; page image not seen.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-1925. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary report Evidence role: supports. The 8 October 1925 report, by OCR.
Clarke Courier, 1925, selected issues (Library of Congress, Chronicling America OCR)
Clarke Courier (Berryville) · 1925 (publication)
Locator: Issue of 8 October 1925, page 1 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025371/1925-10-08/ed-1/?sp=1): a report that the Shenandoah Valley Hotel and Inn Association met on the Tuesday at the Battletown Inn as guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Pulliam. OCR text only; page image not seen.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier-1925. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
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In the Sarah Stribling House from the reported 1952 name transfer to the closure reported in 2015
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C123
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA 2015 Clarke Monthly feature says the Battletown Inn "we have known" began in what was then the Virginia Hotel at the southeast corner of Main and Church streets, and that the name moved to 102 W. Main when the earlier inn's proprietors bought that property in 1952.
What the source supports
The reported origin of the later inn at another site and the reported 1952 move of the name to the Sarah Stribling House.
Uncertainty
A local retrospective naming no proprietors and citing no deed. Its "southeast corner of Main and Church" is not reconciled here with the nomination's 5 W. Main or 9-13 W. Main.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Virginia Hotel origin and the 1952 transfer.
Wanted: The Battletown Inn
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Paragraph on the earlier inn and the name transfer
Relevant passageThe Battletown Inn we have known actually started a couple of blocks down in what was then the Virginia Hotel, on the southeast corner of Main and Church streets. ... The name moved over to the current location when it was bought by the erstwhile Battletown Inn proprietors in 1952.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
Evidence C127
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Rotary Club of Clarke County's history says its Charter Night, with 26 members, was held at the Battletown Inn on 10 October 1998, and that Joseph Kerr secured the inn as the club's meeting place.
What the source supports
The inn at 102 W. Main in use as a civic meeting place at the end of the 1990s.
Uncertainty
The club's own account; it names neither the inn's owner nor its operator.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The Charter Night sentence and the meeting-place sentence.
History (Rotary Club of Clarke County)
Rotary Club of Clarke County
Locator: Section "Clarke County, Virginia"
Relevant passageThe Club's Charter Night, with 26 members, was held at the Battletown Inn on October 10, 1998. ... secured the Battletown Inn as a meeting place
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Open sourceSource family: rotary-clarke-self. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
Evidence C129
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA 2013 Clarke Monthly feature names James Lynch and Ming Chan as co-owners of the establishment since 2006, reports renovations (a patio, refreshed rooms and bathrooms, new kitchen equipment, no major structural change), and describes the second-floor Gray Ghost Tavern with a full-service bar, dishes such as fried green tomatoes and shrimp and grits, and live music, at 102 W. Main Street.
What the source supports
The inn as a working restaurant, tavern and lodging in 2013, and who said they ran it.
Uncertainty
"Co-owner of the establishment" is the article's phrase and does not establish title to the real estate. The article's "built in 1809" and "restaurant off and on for more than two centuries" are not carried.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The ownership statement and the renovations.
Battletown Inn's Gray Ghost Tavern
Ethan Vaughn, Clarke Monthly · 2013-04-16 (publication)
Locator: Opening paragraphs
Relevant passageJames Lynch, who, along with Ming Chan, has been a co-owner of the establishment since 2006. ... "We built a patio so people could dine outside, and we renovated all the rooms in the inn and added new equipment in kitchen. We didn't change a lot of structural aspects, though."
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The tavern, the dishes and the address.
Battletown Inn's Gray Ghost Tavern
Ethan Vaughn, Clarke Monthly · 2013-04-16 (publication)
Locator: Paragraphs on the tavern and the kitchen
Relevant passageThe kitchen can whip up some mean fried green tomatoes, and the shrimp and grits is considered a restaurant highlight. The Gray Ghost meanwhile, offers something that's hard to find in Berryville: a real, full-service bar. ... The Battletown Inn is located at 102, W. Main Street in Berryville.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
Evidence C130
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsBy 17 June 2015 Clarke Monthly reported the inn's door locked, with a sign promising a reopening that had not occurred; it described a restaurant with several dining areas, an upstairs bar and private rooms, and a separate building of twelve guest rooms with private baths, nine finished, and named the Bernstein Family Foundation as the owner, making repairs and offering the property for sale.
What the source supports
The closure as reported in June 2015, the property's layout, and its reported owner at that date.
Uncertainty
The final day of service is not stated anywhere inspected. No later reopening, successor business or present use has been verified; "currently" means 17 June 2015.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The locked door, the guest-room building and the owner.
Wanted: The Battletown Inn
Wendy Gooditis, Clarke Monthly · 2015-06-17 (publication)
Locator: Opening paragraph and the paragraph on the property in 2015
Relevant passagefound it locked, with a sign that said it would reopen soon. But thus far, that has not occurred. ... a separate building with 12 guest rooms with private baths, nine of which are finished. ... currently owned by the Bernstein Family Foundation
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-battletown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Fable 5.1) · 2026-09-10. How this project checks its sources
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On 712 acres of the Tuleyries property, excluding the mansion and adjacent lands, by the 1926 bequest
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C133
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe article says Graham F. Blandy died in 1926 and that his will left 712 acres of the Tuleyries property, not including the mansion house and adjacent lands, to the University of Virginia, to be called the Blandy Experimental Farm with the goal to "teach boys how to farm"; the University took possession in 1926. It adds that Horace J. Martin had been farm manager of Tuleyries during the first two decades of Blandy's ownership.
What the source supports
The bequest that created the institution, the land it did and did not include, and the owner-versus-manager distinction on the estate before it.
Uncertainty
The will and deed were not inspected. The 712 acres are not the whole estate: the mansion and adjacent lands stayed out, so Tuleyries and Blandy are different pieces of ground with different histories after 1926.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The manager, the death and the bequest's exclusions.
Roots of a Clarke County Treasure: From Alexander Henderson to Joseph Tuley and Graham Blandy, the Virginia State Arboretum and Blandy Experimental Farm Have Been 225 Years in the Making (Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Volume XXVIII, 2012, printed pages 45-56)
Clarke County Historical Association; adapted from the Blandy Experimental Farm "Phase 1 Archeological Investigations" prepared by Rivanna Archeological Services, Charlottesville (no individual byline) · 2012 (publication)
Locator: Printed pages 53-54, on the farm manager under Blandy and the bequest
Relevant passageDuring the first two decades of Blandy ownership, Horace J. Martin was the farm manager of Tuleyries. Graham F. Blandy died in 1926. His will left 712-acres of the Tuleyries property, not including the mansion house and adjacent lands, to the University of Virginia.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: ccha-proceedings-28. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The name, the purpose and the 1926 possession.
Roots of a Clarke County Treasure: From Alexander Henderson to Joseph Tuley and Graham Blandy, the Virginia State Arboretum and Blandy Experimental Farm Have Been 225 Years in the Making (Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Volume XXVIII, 2012, printed pages 45-56)
Clarke County Historical Association; adapted from the Blandy Experimental Farm "Phase 1 Archeological Investigations" prepared by Rivanna Archeological Services, Charlottesville (no individual byline) · 2012 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 54, on the will and possession
Relevant passageThe will stipulated that the property was to be called the "Blandy Experimental Farm" with the goal to "teach boys how to farm." The University of Virginia took possession of Blandy Experimental Farm in 1926.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: ccha-proceedings-28. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Open at the address from January 2010 to its scheduled closing in September 2019
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C152
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Fire House Gallery at 23 E. Main Street opened in January 2010 and was announced in August 2019 to close on 30 September that year. Its opening day is reported two ways: Virginia Main Street, writing in November 2010, says 8 January; Clarke Monthly, writing in August 2019, says 9 January. The August 2019 report says the Town of Berryville owns "the historic, two-story former fire station building" and had rented it to Downtown Berryville Inc., which ran incubator space for start-ups.
What the source supports
The gallery's dates and the town's ownership, and the "former fire station" description the report uses.
Uncertainty
The closing date is the scheduled one, reported in advance, and no source inspected here reports the last day the gallery actually opened. The one-day difference between the two opening dates is left standing. "Former fire station" is the 2019 report's description; for dates, see the fire company's own history and its address caveat.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The opening paragraphs.
Fire House Gallery To Close
Clarke Monthly staff, Clarke Monthly · 2019-08-12 (publication)
Locator: Opening paragraphs
Relevant passageThe gallery, located at 23 E. Main St., will close on September 30. The Fire House Gallery opened on January 9, 2010 ... The Town of Berryville owns the historic, two-story former fire station building and has rented it to Downtown Berryville Inc.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly-downtown. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: complicates. Virginia Main Street gives 8 January 2010, a day earlier than the gallery's own organisation later gave.
Main Street Communities Bring History to Life (Virginia Main Street)
Virginia Main Street (Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development) · 2010-11-22 (publication)
Locator: Award paragraph
Relevant passageThe gallery, which opened on January 8, is housed in a restored 1930's firehouse.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: virginia-main-street. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Later historical account Evidence role: contextualizes. The fire company's history, which dates a firehouse and a municipal use the gallery report does not.
History (John H. Enders Fire Company)
John H. Enders Fire Company
Locator: History page, paragraph on the East Main firehouse
Relevant passageIn 1935 a Firehouse was built on East Main Street a couple of doors up from the John H. Enders Funeral Home. It has been used as offices for The Town of Berryville and its Police Department since 1958.
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At the intersection of West Main and North Buckmarsh streets, by the 1987 survey
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C139
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe 1987 Berryville Historic District nomination inventories 100 W. Main Street as the Treadwell Smith House (historic name) and Hawthorne Hall (present name), a Federal brick house of ca. 1820, residential in origin and a doctor's office in 1987, with a two-storey rear wing and a twentieth-century portico, "the only original building left" at the Main and Buckmarsh intersection.
What the source supports
The surviving building's survey date, original and 1987 uses, from the nomination.
Uncertainty
"Ca. 1820" is an architectural attribution; no deed or datestone was inspected. The nomination gives no occupant chronology.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The inventory entry.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 48, W. Main Street inventory, 100
Relevant passageTreadwell Smith House-historic name. Hawthorne Hall-present name. Doctor's Office-present use. Residential-original use. Federal. ca. 1820. ... 2-story rear brick wing; altered and portico added in 20th century; only original building left at the intersection of Main and Buckmarsh Streets
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Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The architectural analysis naming it beside the Sarah Stribling House.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 5, architectural analysis
Relevant passageThree of the most imposing examples are the ca. 1820 Treadwell Smith House (Hawthorne Hall) located at the intersection of West Main and North Buckmarsh streets, the adjoining ca. 1810 Sarah Stribling House (Battletown Inn)
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South of Main Street; South First Street by the survey, Station Avenue by the 2024 report
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C147
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe 1987 nomination says a new railroad depot was built by 1910 near the industrial area on South First Street, a brick station with a hipped roof, bracketed eaves and iron grillwork over the main windows, and inventories the Norfolk and Western Railway Station, Tudor Revival, 1910, as vacant in 1987.
What the source supports
The depot's construction date and appearance, and its vacancy at survey date, from the survey.
Uncertainty
The survey locates it on South First Street; the 2024 article says Station Avenue south of Main Street, opposite the gristmill. Both are carried; neither is mapped.
Source
Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The architectural analysis.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 8, architectural analysis, on the railroad depot
Relevant passageBy 1910 a new railroad depot was built near the industrial area on South First Street. It is a typical early 20th-century brick station with a hipped roof and wide overhanging eaves supported by large curvilinear brackets. ... the fanciful iron grillwork covering the main windows.
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Later historical account Evidence role: supports. The inventory entry, vacant in 1987.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 32, S. First Street inventory
Relevant passageNorfolk and Western Railway Station. Vacant-present use. Train Station-original use. Tudor Revival. 1910. Brick (irregular); 1 1/2 stories, 7 bays (asymmetrical); hipped, standing seam metal roof
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Evidence C148
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsA 2024 Clarke Monthly report says the first railway station, north of Main Street on First Street, handled both freight and passengers until 1910, when the Norfolk and Western built a passenger station south of Main Street on Station Avenue opposite the gristmill, the First Street station continuing as a freight station.
What the source supports
That there were two stations, and which one this record is about.
Uncertainty
A retrospective without a cited railroad record. The first station is a different building and is not profiled here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The two-station paragraphs.
New Main Street Feature Honors R. John Hogan and Berryville History
Cathy Kuehner, Clarke Monthly · 2024-04-14 (publication)
Locator: Paragraphs on the two stations
Relevant passageThat station handled both freight and passengers until 1910. In 1910, Norfolk Southern - then Norfolk and Western - built a passenger station south of Main Street along Station Avenue, opposite the big gristmill, while the First Street station continued to receive freight.
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Later historical account Evidence role: contextualizes. The survey's "South First Street" placement of the 1910 depot.
Berryville Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination, DHR 168-0012 (1987)
Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks (nomination preparers not individually named in the pages read) · 1987 (creation)
Locator: PDF page 8, architectural analysis, on the railroad depot
Relevant passageBy 1910 a new railroad depot was built near the industrial area on South First Street. It is a typical early 20th-century brick station with a hipped roof and wide overhanging eaves supported by large curvilinear brackets. ... the fanciful iron grillwork covering the main windows.
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Headquarters and conference use, on the organization's own tax year 2020 return. Start and end are not established by any record read.
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C168
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsOn its tax year 2020 Form 990, filed November 12, 2021, the organization stated that the landmarks donated to it include “THE CARTER HALL ESTATE AND MULTIPLE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS IN MILLWOOD, VIRGINIA,” that “THE FOUNDATION HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS LOCATED ON THIS LAND,” and that it “ALSO USES THE PROPERTY TO PROVIDE A CONFERENCE CENTER.”
What the source supports
That the organization itself, in a return filed under EIN 53-0242962, described Carter Hall as its headquarters and as a conference property. The link between the organization and the place therefore rests on the filer's own statement rather than on matching names between two systems.
Uncertainty
This is the organization's account of itself in a filed return, not an independent observation. Schedule D Part III line 4 is a description, and the return does not say whether it speaks to the tax year or to the filing date. It gives no start date, no end date, and no statement about who held title. It describes the estate as donated but does not say by whom or when.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The filer's own Schedule D passage. This is the load-bearing link between the organization and the property.
Form 990 for Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc, tax year 2020 (original e-filed return, IRS object id 202103169349303080)
Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. (filer); Internal Revenue Service (publisher) · 2021-11-12 (filing)
Locator: Schedule D, supplemental information, form-and-line reference "PART III, LINE 4:"
Relevant passageHISTORICAL LANDMARKS AND COLLECTIONS DONATED TO PROJECT HOPE INCLUDING THE CARTER HALL ESTATE AND MULTIPLE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS IN MILLWOOD, VIRGINIA. THE BUILDINGS ARE LOCATED ON A LARGE PIECE OF LAND AND THE FOUNDATION HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS LOCATED ON THIS LAND. PROJECT HOPE ALSO USES THE PROPERTY TO PROVIDE A CONFERENCE CENTER.
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The business trading as Audley Farm gives 752 Audley Lane as its physical address, one of the sixteen addresses the county attaches to the parcel. Start and end are not established by any record read.
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C175
✓ DocumentedThat it was soThe business trading as Audley Farm publishes audleyfarm.com and gives 752 Audley Lane, Berryville, as its physical address. It describes its current work as thoroughbred breeding and training, registered Black Angus cattle, beef and hay sales, and events.
What the source supports
What the business says it currently does, and where it says it is. The county's own assessment record classes the parcel as agricultural and zones it agricultural, open space and conservation, which is consistent with a working farm.
Uncertainty
The activities are the business's own description of itself; no inspection, licence, brand registration, race record or sales record was read. The assessment record's agricultural class and zoning are an assessor's classification of land, not a record of any particular enterprise.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The business's own statement of what it does.
Audley Farm website (the farm's own site, read September 11, 2026)
Audley Farm · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Home page, the summary line under the farm name
Relevant passageOur expertise includes thoroughbred race horses, registered Black Angus cattle, premium beef sales, hay farming and sales, and special events, each founded on the cornerstone of tradition and performance.
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Open sourceSource family: audley-farm-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Contemporary document Evidence role: contextualizes. The county's agricultural class and zoning for the parcel, which is a classification of land rather than a record of the enterprise.
Clarke County CAMA property record, account 2397 (Audley Farm & Buena Vista)
Clarke County, Virginia · 2026-09-05 (last update)
Locator: Parcel Information and Legal Desc fields, property page for account 2397
Relevant passageTown/District BATTLETOWN; Total Acres 822.8; Legal Desc 1 AUDLEY FARM & BUENA VISTA; Legal Desc 2 TRACT 1 822.798 ACRES; Zoning AGRICULTURAL/OPEN SPACE/CONSERVATION; State Class AGR/UNDEV 100 UP ACR
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Advertised a grocery in Josephine City
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C62
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsElder S. W. Brown advertised a grocery store in Josephine City in the People's Journal, listing coffee, tea, baking powder, soda, laundry and toilet soap, coal oil, salt, matches, prunes, rice, vinegar and candies.
What the source supports
That a named person advertised a general grocery in Josephine City, and what he said he stocked.
Uncertainty
An advertisement establishes what the advertiser claimed, not the shop's size, takings, premises or duration. The same advertisement recurs in later issues of the same paper and those recurrences are not independent corroboration.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The advertisement in the proprietor's own first person, with the stock list quoted.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 June 1910, Vol. XVI No. 173
G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1910-06-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, display advertisement
Relevant passageBe it known to the public that I; S. W. Brown, has opened a lttile [little] Grocery Store, in Josephine Ciiy [City], and do ask the patronage of public; I keep on hand, coffee, tea, Baking powders, soda Laundry and Toile [Toilet] Soaps, coal Oil, salt, macthes [matches]; prunes, rice, vingar [vinegar] and candies.
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Advertised boarding in her Josephine City residence
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C63
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsMrs. Lucy Franklin advertised that she had opened her residence in Josephine City to autumn and winter boarders.
What the source supports
That a named woman advertised a lodging business run from her own house in Josephine City.
Uncertainty
An advertisement, not a business record. Later issues of the same paper carry board-and-lodging advertisements under her name without naming Josephine City, and those are not treated here as evidence of the same premises.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The advertisement naming both the proprietor and Josephine City.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 January 1912, Vol. XVII No. 192
G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1912-01-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, display advertisement
Relevant passageMRS. LUCY FRANKLIN. Has opened her RESIDENCE In Josephine City FOR FALL & WINTER BOARDERS. Berryville, Virginia.
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Advertised a lunch room in Josephine City
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C64
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsMrs. Josephine Johnson advertised a lunch room in Josephine City selling ice cream and daily fresh pies and bread, in March 1925 and again in August 1927.
What the source supports
That a named woman advertised a food business in Josephine City, and that the same advertisement was still running two years and five months later.
Uncertainty
Two appearances of one advertiser's copy in one newspaper. It does not establish continuous trading between the two dates, and the two notices are not independent of each other. No connection to Josephine Williams or to the community's name is claimed, and the shared given name is not evidence of one.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The March 1925 advertisement.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 March 1925, No. 337
G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1925-03-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, display advertisement headed Josephine City
Relevant passageJosephine City. MRS. JOSEPHINE JOHNSON. LUNCH ROOM. ICE-CREAM. FRESH PIES DAILY. BREAD DAILY. REASONABLE PRICES. POLITE ATTENDANCE. GIVE ME A CALL. BERRYVILLE VIRGINIA.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The August 1927 advertisement, near-identical wording, establishing the later endpoint.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 August 1927, No. 360 (masthead: Vol. XLI No. 366)
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, display advertisement headed Josephine City
Relevant passageJosephine City. MRS. JOSEPHINE JOHNSON. LUNCH ROOM. ICE-CREAM. FRESH PIES DAILY. BRAED [BREAD] DAILY. REASONABLE PRICES. POLITE ATTENTION. GIVE ME A CALL. BERRYVILLE VIRGINIA.
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Editor, publisher and sole proprietor
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C67
✓ DocumentedThat it was soG. L. D. Harris is named as editor and proprietor of the People's Journal of Berryville in its masthead in 1899 and is still named as its editor in 1927.
What the source supports
That one man's name appears in the same role on this newspaper across at least twenty-eight years.
Uncertainty
The newspaper is the only witness to its own masthead. No external record of Harris has been consulted, and nothing about his birth, death, family, residence or race is claimed here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The 1899 masthead, the earlier endpoint.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 March 1899, Vol. IV No. 39
G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1899-03-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, masthead and imprint
Relevant passagePEOPLE'S JOURNAL. G. L. D. HARRIS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. THE PEOPLES JOURNAL published monthly at FIFTY CENTS ... Entered at the Post Office at Berryville, Clarke County, Va. as second class matter. "OF THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE."
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Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The 1921 ownership statement, showing the same man in the same role twenty-two years later.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 August 1921, Vol. XXV No. 294
G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1921-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, statement of ownership required by the Act of 24 August 1912
Relevant passageSTATEMENT of the Ownership, Managment [Management] ... of The People's Journal, published monthly, Berryville, Va., as required by the act August 24, 1912. editor: G. L. D. Harris Berryville, Va. Publisher; G. L. D. Harris Berryville. Known bondholders mortgages, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities: The ownership being individual, no securities have been issued. G. L. D. Harris Editor, Publisher, Owner.
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Evidence C68
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe statement of ownership printed in the People's Journal in August 1921, as required by the Act of 24 August 1912, declares G. L. D. Harris to be editor, publisher and owner, and states that the ownership being individual, no securities have been issued.
What the source supports
That a filing required by federal postal law, printed in the paper, declares sole individual ownership with no bondholders or mortgagees.
Uncertainty
This is the printed statement, not the filing held by the Post Office Department, which has not been sought. It establishes what was declared in 1921 and says nothing about ownership before or after that date.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The statement itself, quoted including the securities declaration.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 August 1921, Vol. XXV No. 294
G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1921-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, statement of ownership required by the Act of 24 August 1912
Relevant passageSTATEMENT of the Ownership, Managment [Management] ... of The People's Journal, published monthly, Berryville, Va., as required by the act August 24, 1912. editor: G. L. D. Harris Berryville, Va. Publisher; G. L. D. Harris Berryville. Known bondholders mortgages, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities: The ownership being individual, no securities have been issued. G. L. D. Harris Editor, Publisher, Owner.
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Published at Berryville
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C67
✓ DocumentedThat it was soG. L. D. Harris is named as editor and proprietor of the People's Journal of Berryville in its masthead in 1899 and is still named as its editor in 1927.
What the source supports
That one man's name appears in the same role on this newspaper across at least twenty-eight years.
Uncertainty
The newspaper is the only witness to its own masthead. No external record of Harris has been consulted, and nothing about his birth, death, family, residence or race is claimed here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The 1899 masthead, the earlier endpoint.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 March 1899, Vol. IV No. 39
G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1899-03-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, masthead and imprint
Relevant passagePEOPLE'S JOURNAL. G. L. D. HARRIS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. THE PEOPLES JOURNAL published monthly at FIFTY CENTS ... Entered at the Post Office at Berryville, Clarke County, Va. as second class matter. "OF THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE."
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Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The 1921 ownership statement, showing the same man in the same role twenty-two years later.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 August 1921, Vol. XXV No. 294
G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1921-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, statement of ownership required by the Act of 24 August 1912
Relevant passageSTATEMENT of the Ownership, Managment [Management] ... of The People's Journal, published monthly, Berryville, Va., as required by the act August 24, 1912. editor: G. L. D. Harris Berryville, Va. Publisher; G. L. D. Harris Berryville. Known bondholders mortgages, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities: The ownership being individual, no securities have been issued. G. L. D. Harris Editor, Publisher, Owner.
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Community with a named League representative
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C71
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke County School League committee printed in August 1927 lists a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities: Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge, Webbtown and White Post.
What the source supports
That the League organised itself by community with one named person for each, and that Stone Bridge and Webbtown were treated as Clarke County communities with their own representatives.
Uncertainty
A committee list. It does not establish that these were the only communities involved, nor anything about the size, boundaries or location of any of them. No coordinates are claimed for Stone Bridge or Webbtown, and neither has been located on any map.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The committee list within the same announcement, community by community.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 August 1927, No. 360 (masthead: Vol. XLI No. 366)
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
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Community with a named League representative
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C71
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke County School League committee printed in August 1927 lists a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities: Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge, Webbtown and White Post.
What the source supports
That the League organised itself by community with one named person for each, and that Stone Bridge and Webbtown were treated as Clarke County communities with their own representatives.
Uncertainty
A committee list. It does not establish that these were the only communities involved, nor anything about the size, boundaries or location of any of them. No coordinates are claimed for Stone Bridge or Webbtown, and neither has been located on any map.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The committee list within the same announcement, community by community.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 August 1927, No. 360 (masthead: Vol. XLI No. 366)
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
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Community with a named League representative
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C71
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke County School League committee printed in August 1927 lists a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities: Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge, Webbtown and White Post.
What the source supports
That the League organised itself by community with one named person for each, and that Stone Bridge and Webbtown were treated as Clarke County communities with their own representatives.
Uncertainty
A committee list. It does not establish that these were the only communities involved, nor anything about the size, boundaries or location of any of them. No coordinates are claimed for Stone Bridge or Webbtown, and neither has been located on any map.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The committee list within the same announcement, community by community.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 August 1927, No. 360 (masthead: Vol. XLI No. 366)
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
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Named as president by the Clarke Courier in 1925 and by the People's Journal in 1927
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C80
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier reported on 18 June 1925 that a County League of Negro schools had been organised on 11 July 1924, beginning with $28 to its credit.
What the source supports
That a Clarke County newspaper printed a specific founding date and opening balance for a Black county-wide school organisation. The date is arithmetic on the paper's own phrase 'the 11th of July one year ago' in an issue dated 18 June 1925.
Uncertainty
A newspaper report published eleven months after the event it dates. It establishes what the Courier printed, not that the organisation was founded on that day. Nothing here establishes who called the founding meeting, where it was held, or who attended.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Courier's own sentence giving the founding date and the opening balance.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 18 June 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-06-18 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, report: NEGRO SCHOOL LEAGUE MADE FINE SHOWING
Relevant passageThe County League of Negro schools was organized the 11th of July one year ago, at which time $28 was placed to its credit. The purpose of the league is to raise money with which to establish a County Training school for negro children. Through special drives, entertainments and contributions from both white and <*>lored [colored] friends the league was able to report on Tuesday night June 9th. $1265.95 toward the project in view. Before it can locate and begin to build $234.15 must be raised. A special drive has been arranged to end August 7th, at which time the league hopes to raise the required sum. The president, Rev. E. T. Johnson, wishes to thank every contributor and further solicits your good will.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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Evidence C81
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier reported on 18 June 1925 that the League's purpose was to raise money to establish a County Training School for Black children, that $1,265.95 had been reported on 9 June 1925, that $234.15 remained to be raised before it could locate and build, and that its president was Rev. E. T. Johnson.
What the source supports
That the League had a stated building purpose, a named president, and a specific published financial position ten and a half months after its founding, funded by contributions the paper describes as coming from both white and Black donors.
Uncertainty
Figures as printed by the newspaper; no accounts were inspected. The report does not say where the school was to be built, and explicitly says the League had not yet located a site. It does not establish that the school was ever built. The word rendered '<*>lored' by OCR is read as 'colored'.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The same report, for the purpose, the two money figures, the drive deadline and the president's name.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 18 June 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-06-18 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, report: NEGRO SCHOOL LEAGUE MADE FINE SHOWING
Relevant passageThe County League of Negro schools was organized the 11th of July one year ago, at which time $28 was placed to its credit. The purpose of the league is to raise money with which to establish a County Training school for negro children. Through special drives, entertainments and contributions from both white and <*>lored [colored] friends the league was able to report on Tuesday night June 9th. $1265.95 toward the project in view. Before it can locate and begin to build $234.15 must be raised. A special drive has been arranged to end August 7th, at which time the league hopes to raise the required sum. The president, Rev. E. T. Johnson, wishes to thank every contributor and further solicits your good will.
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Evidence C83
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soThe county-wide Black school organisation the Clarke Courier called the Clarke County Colored school league and the County League of Negro schools in 1925 is the same organisation the People's Journal called the Clarke County School League in 1927.
What the source supports
That two independent newspapers, one white and one Black, were describing one organisation under three different names, so that the Courier's 1925 founding date, purpose and finances and the People's Journal's 1927 officers and community delegates describe a single continuous body.
Uncertainty
Neither paper states the other's name for the organisation, so this is an identification and not a reported fact. It rests on three convergent details: both describe a county-wide organisation of Black schools in Clarke County, both name Rev. E. T. Johnson as its president, and the dates are two years apart with no gap in between established either way. It does not establish continuity of membership, constitution or activity across those two years, and it does not establish that the County Training School the 1925 report describes was ever built.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Courier in 1925 naming Rev. E. T. Johnson as president of the County League of Negro schools.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 18 June 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-06-18 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, report: NEGRO SCHOOL LEAGUE MADE FINE SHOWING
Relevant passageThe County League of Negro schools was organized the 11th of July one year ago, at which time $28 was placed to its credit. The purpose of the league is to raise money with which to establish a County Training school for negro children. Through special drives, entertainments and contributions from both white and <*>lored [colored] friends the league was able to report on Tuesday night June 9th. $1265.95 toward the project in view. Before it can locate and begin to build $234.15 must be raised. A special drive has been arranged to end August 7th, at which time the league hopes to raise the required sum. The president, Rev. E. T. Johnson, wishes to thank every contributor and further solicits your good will.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal in 1927 naming Rev. E. T. Johnson as President on the Clarke County School League committee. Written by a different paper for a different readership, so this is corroboration and not repetition.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 August 1927, No. 360 (masthead: Vol. XLI No. 366)
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
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Reporting Evidence role: contextualizes. The Courier's third name for the body, 'Clarke County Colored school league', which is closer to the People's Journal's name than its own June wording and shows the naming was unstable within one paper.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 30 April 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-04-30 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 8, notice: W. D. GRESHAM TO SPEAK HERE
Relevant passageProf. W. D. Gresham, supervisor of Negro education of Virginia, will speak at the Court House, Berryville, on Monday night, May 4th, at 8 o'clock. This meeting will be held under the auspices of the Clarke County Colored school league. Every colored man with an educational pride wish for self-help or race development will be there, according to a statement given out by officers of the league. Hie [The] school officials and many white friends of the negro institution of learning are invited, special seats [be]ing reserved for them. Mr. Leslie D. Kline, division superintendent of schools, will preside, it was stated.
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Secretary of the League in 1927
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C87
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soAlma Layton is named as a teacher at Boyce Colored school by the Clarke Courier in July 1925 and as Mrs. Alma B. Layton, secretary of the Clarke County School League, by the People's Journal in August 1927.
What the source supports
A person appearing in both papers in two roles, teaching and League office, which is the kind of bridge that lets the two sources be read as describing one community rather than two.
Uncertainty
An identification from a name, in a county where the Courier's same 1925 list also names Clarissa Layton at Millwood Colored and the People's Journal's 1927 committee names DeRoy Layton for Millwood. Layton is evidently a common surname in this community, so the identification rests on the shared forename Alma and not on the surname. No family relationship between any of the Laytons is claimed.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. Alma Layton at Boyce Colored in the Courier's 1925 list.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Mrs. Alma B. Layton as League secretary in the People's Journal's 1927 committee.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 August 1927, No. 360 (masthead: Vol. XLI No. 366)
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
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Named at the school the Courier called the Josephine colored school, 1925
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C84
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe People's Journal's October 1924 school roster and the Clarke Courier's July 1925 teacher assignment list name the same three teachers, in the same roles, at a school the first calls Berryville and the second calls the Josephine colored school.
What the source supports
That two independent papers printed the same three staff names nine months apart under two different names for the school: Rev. E. T. Johnson as principal with Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins in the People's Journal, and E. T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins and Florine Johnson in the Courier.
Uncertainty
Reading the People's Journal's 'Mrs. F. Johnson' as the Courier's 'Florine Johnson' is an expansion of an initial and is probable rather than certain. The Courier's list does not repeat the People's Journal's designation of Johnson as principal.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal roster: Berryville, Rev. E. T. Johnson principal, Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 October 1924, Vol. XXX No. 332
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Courier list: Josephine colored school, E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Evidence C85
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soThe school the People's Journal called the Berryville school in 1924 and the school the Clarke Courier called the Josephine colored school in 1925 are one school under two names, the Black paper naming it for the town and the white paper for the Black neighbourhood.
What the source supports
That a place-name search across these two papers cannot be relied on to find the same institution, because the two papers named it differently. This is why the absence of the token 'Josephine City' from a body of Courier text is not evidence about coverage of Josephine City.
Uncertainty
An identification from a shared staff of three across nine months, not a statement either paper makes. Two schools could in principle share staff. This claim says nothing about the school BUILDING: the entity josephine-school in this corpus denotes the structure the Department of Historic Resources dates to 1882, and nothing in the cited records establishes that the 1924 and 1925 school was in that building, so that entity is deliberately not linked here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal naming the school for the town.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 October 1924, Vol. XXX No. 332
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Courier naming the same staff under the neighbourhood name.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Named at the school the Courier called the Josephine colored school, 1925
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C84
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe People's Journal's October 1924 school roster and the Clarke Courier's July 1925 teacher assignment list name the same three teachers, in the same roles, at a school the first calls Berryville and the second calls the Josephine colored school.
What the source supports
That two independent papers printed the same three staff names nine months apart under two different names for the school: Rev. E. T. Johnson as principal with Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins in the People's Journal, and E. T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins and Florine Johnson in the Courier.
Uncertainty
Reading the People's Journal's 'Mrs. F. Johnson' as the Courier's 'Florine Johnson' is an expansion of an initial and is probable rather than certain. The Courier's list does not repeat the People's Journal's designation of Johnson as principal.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal roster: Berryville, Rev. E. T. Johnson principal, Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 October 1924, Vol. XXX No. 332
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Courier list: Josephine colored school, E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Evidence C85
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soThe school the People's Journal called the Berryville school in 1924 and the school the Clarke Courier called the Josephine colored school in 1925 are one school under two names, the Black paper naming it for the town and the white paper for the Black neighbourhood.
What the source supports
That a place-name search across these two papers cannot be relied on to find the same institution, because the two papers named it differently. This is why the absence of the token 'Josephine City' from a body of Courier text is not evidence about coverage of Josephine City.
Uncertainty
An identification from a shared staff of three across nine months, not a statement either paper makes. Two schools could in principle share staff. This claim says nothing about the school BUILDING: the entity josephine-school in this corpus denotes the structure the Department of Historic Resources dates to 1882, and nothing in the cited records establishes that the 1924 and 1925 school was in that building, so that entity is deliberately not linked here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal naming the school for the town.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 October 1924, Vol. XXX No. 332
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Courier naming the same staff under the neighbourhood name.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Named at the school the Courier called the Josephine colored school, 1925
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C84
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe People's Journal's October 1924 school roster and the Clarke Courier's July 1925 teacher assignment list name the same three teachers, in the same roles, at a school the first calls Berryville and the second calls the Josephine colored school.
What the source supports
That two independent papers printed the same three staff names nine months apart under two different names for the school: Rev. E. T. Johnson as principal with Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins in the People's Journal, and E. T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins and Florine Johnson in the Courier.
Uncertainty
Reading the People's Journal's 'Mrs. F. Johnson' as the Courier's 'Florine Johnson' is an expansion of an initial and is probable rather than certain. The Courier's list does not repeat the People's Journal's designation of Johnson as principal.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal roster: Berryville, Rev. E. T. Johnson principal, Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 October 1924, Vol. XXX No. 332
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Courier list: Josephine colored school, E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Evidence C85
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soThe school the People's Journal called the Berryville school in 1924 and the school the Clarke Courier called the Josephine colored school in 1925 are one school under two names, the Black paper naming it for the town and the white paper for the Black neighbourhood.
What the source supports
That a place-name search across these two papers cannot be relied on to find the same institution, because the two papers named it differently. This is why the absence of the token 'Josephine City' from a body of Courier text is not evidence about coverage of Josephine City.
Uncertainty
An identification from a shared staff of three across nine months, not a statement either paper makes. Two schools could in principle share staff. This claim says nothing about the school BUILDING: the entity josephine-school in this corpus denotes the structure the Department of Historic Resources dates to 1882, and nothing in the cited records establishes that the 1924 and 1925 school was in that building, so that entity is deliberately not linked here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal naming the school for the town.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 October 1924, Vol. XXX No. 332
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The Courier naming the same staff under the neighbourhood name.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Named at Boyce Colored school, 1925
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C86
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier's teacher assignment list of 9 July 1925 names seven Black schools in Clarke County -- Stone Bridge, Boyce, Millwood, White Post, Josephine, Louisville and Bristol -- with thirteen named teachers between them.
What the source supports
A county-wide list of Black schools operating in the 1925-26 school year, published by the white county paper, which extends the school map the People's Journal rosters of 1912 and 1924 provide and which names Millwood Colored as having a principal and two assistants.
Uncertainty
The quoted passage is the tail of a longer county list, so it establishes which Black schools the list names and not that these were all of them. The Courier's 'Bristol colored' and the People's Journal's 'Bristow' are similar but their identity is NOT established here and no entity merges them. The Louisville teacher differs between the two papers -- Pattie Smith in October 1924, Emma E. Alexander in July 1925 -- which may be a change of teacher, a different school year, or incomplete reporting; nothing here decides. No coordinates, buildings, or races of individuals are inferred beyond the source's own 'colored' designations.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The colored-schools portion of the 9 July 1925 teacher assignment list.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Evidence C87
✓ Supported by a sourceThat it was soAlma Layton is named as a teacher at Boyce Colored school by the Clarke Courier in July 1925 and as Mrs. Alma B. Layton, secretary of the Clarke County School League, by the People's Journal in August 1927.
What the source supports
A person appearing in both papers in two roles, teaching and League office, which is the kind of bridge that lets the two sources be read as describing one community rather than two.
Uncertainty
An identification from a name, in a county where the Courier's same 1925 list also names Clarissa Layton at Millwood Colored and the People's Journal's 1927 committee names DeRoy Layton for Millwood. Layton is evidently a common surname in this community, so the identification rests on the shared forename Alma and not on the surname. No family relationship between any of the Laytons is claimed.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. Alma Layton at Boyce Colored in the Courier's 1925 list.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Mrs. Alma B. Layton as League secretary in the People's Journal's 1927 committee.
People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 August 1927, No. 360 (masthead: Vol. XLI No. 366)
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
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Proposed: named as her daughter in her obituary (Clarke Courier, January 27, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C608
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of January 27, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Agnes B. Page, wife of R. Powel Page of "Saratoga," names Miss Mary F. Page, of Clarke County, among her five surviving children.
What the source supports
That Mary F. Page of Clarke County was named in 1921 as a daughter of Agnes B. Page.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her mother's obituary, which says nothing more of her. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The January 27, 1921 obituary of Mrs. Agnes B. Page.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 27, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-01-27 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. R. Powel Page Dies at Saratoga," survivors
Relevant passageLoving hands laid her to rest Sunday at the Old Chapel ... Mrs. Page is survived by her husband, and five children—Messrs. N. B. Page, of Clarke county; Mr. R. P. Page, Jr., of Philadelphia; Mrs R. G. Mitchell, Miss Agnes R. Page and Miss Mary F. Page, of Clarke county. ... Mrs. Page was born at "Carter Hall , Sept. 28, 1851, and was married to Mr. Page Dec. 18, 1873.
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Proposed: named as his daughter in her obituary (Clarke Courier, March 3, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C614
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of March 3, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Simons Hart, says she was the daughter of Elijah Simons of Berryville and names him among her survivors.
What the source supports
That Elijah Simons of Berryville was living in March 1921 and was named as the father of Elizabeth Simons Hart.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his daughter's obituary. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The March 3, 1921 obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Simons Hart.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 3, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-03-03 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Elizabeth Hart Dies in Hospital," continued
Relevant passageMrs. Hr,it [Hart] was Miss Elizabeth Simons beforj [before] her marr,age She was 36 year* old and the d .ughter of Mr Elijah Simons, of Birryvi’le [Berryville]. She was an earnest church worker in the Baptist fold ... She is survived by a devoted hus oand [husband], her father. Mr. Elijah Simons, and a brother, Mr. H.irry [Harry] Simons, a veteran of the world war.
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Proposed: named as her daughter in her obituary (Clarke Courier, March 3, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C618
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of March 3, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Stolle, names Mrs. Thomas Howell of Berryville among her six surviving children.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Thomas Howell of Berryville was named in 1921 as a daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Stolle.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her mother's obituary, which gives her only by her husband's name. The OCR prints "Berry villa." The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The March 3, 1921 obituary of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Stolle.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 3, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-03-03 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Stolle Dies From Ruptured Brain Artery," family
Relevant passageMrs. Stoiie [Stolle] was born in Clarke county. Her parents were the late Adam and Barbara Grjenwalt [Greenwalt], of this county. ... she U [is] survived by sit [six] children—Messrs. Jesse A Stolle, Carroll Stolle, Wm. F. Stolle of Clarke county; Mr. Herbert Stolle of Washington; Mrs Thomas Howell of Berry villa [Berryville], and Mrs. Frank Hart who makes her home with her fathei [father] and mother. Pnneral [Funeral] services were held frotr [from] the home Sunday aftsrnocu [afternoon] and in torment [interment] mad,J [made] In Green HU: [Hill] Cemetery.
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Proposed: named as his sister in his obituary (Clarke Courier, April 7, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C624
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of April 7, 1921, in the obituary of William Alexander Renner, names Mrs. Turner Huff, of Clarke, among his four surviving sisters.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Turner Huff of Clarke County was named in 1921 as a sister of William Alexander Renner.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her brother's obituary, which gives her only by her husband's name. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The April 7, 1921 obituary of William Alexander Renner.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 7, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-04-07 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary of William Alexander Renner, survivors
Relevant passageWilliam is survived by his parents and four brothers—Messrs. Harry, I.eon [Leon], George and Edward Renner, and four sisters, Mrs. Montie Thompson, of Clarke; Mrs. Wm. Royston. of Rippon; Mrs. Turner Huff, of Clarke, and little Miss Helen at home.
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Proposed: named as a sister of his wife in his obituary (Clarke Courier, June 9, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C633
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of June 9, 1921, in the obituary of Fenton P. Whiting, says his wife, Maude Lewis, was a sister of Commonwealth's Attorney William Travers Lewis, of R. J. Lewis and C. C. Lewis, and of Mrs. Samuel McCormick, of Berryville.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Samuel McCormick of Berryville was named in 1921 as a sister of Maude Lewis Whiting.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from this obituary, which gives her only by her husband's name. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice. She is not linked to Rose Elzey McCormick or any other McCormick.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The June 9, 1921 obituary of Fenton P. Whiting.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 9, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-06-09 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Fenton P. Whiting Dies After Long Illness," family
Relevant passageHe was a native of Clarke and married in 1891 Miss Maude i Lewis, a sister of Commonwealth’s Attorney William Travers Lewie [Lewis], a and Messrs. R. J, Lewis and C. C. Lewis, and Mrs. Samuel McCormick, of Berryville. His widow came here with his body. Mr. Whiting was born Dec, 19, 1853, and was the son of Francis Henry Whiting and Rebecca Whiiiqg [Whiting]
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Proposed: named as her son in her obituary (Clarke Courier, August 25, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C642
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Mary V. Brown of Millwood, names R. C. Brown of Berryville among her surviving children.
What the source supports
That R. C. Brown of Berryville was named in 1921 as a son of Mary V. Brown.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his mother's obituary, which gives only his initials. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The August 25, 1921 obituary of Mrs. Mary V. Brown.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 25, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-08-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Mary V. Brown Dies; Was Long Ill"
Relevant passageMrs. Mary V. Brown, mother of Messrs. R. C. Brown and D. D. Brown of Berryville. died at her home at Millwood Monday after a long illness with Bright's disease. ... Mrs. Brown was born in Frederick county, Va., 69 years ago. She was Miss Mary WeatherholtB before her marriage to the late R. A. Brown of Millwood.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its list of survivors.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 25, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-08-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Mary V. Brown Dies; Was Long Ill," survivors
Relevant passageShe is survived by seven children.' Messrs. D. D. and R. C. Brown, of Berryville, and H. E. Brown, of Mill, wood, and Mrs. Earnest Phillips and ‘Mrs Burtus Whitmore, of Charles Town, and Mrs. Howard Shewbridgo and Mrs. Florence Hummer of Mill, wood. ... Internment made in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester.
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Proposed: named as her son in her obituary (Clarke Courier, August 25, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C643
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Mary V. Brown of Millwood, names H. E. Brown of Millwood among her surviving children.
What the source supports
That H. E. Brown of Millwood was named in 1921 as a son of Mary V. Brown.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his mother's obituary, which gives only his initials. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The August 25, 1921 obituary of Mrs. Mary V. Brown.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 25, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-08-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Mary V. Brown Dies; Was Long Ill," survivors
Relevant passageShe is survived by seven children.' Messrs. D. D. and R. C. Brown, of Berryville, and H. E. Brown, of Mill, wood, and Mrs. Earnest Phillips and ‘Mrs Burtus Whitmore, of Charles Town, and Mrs. Howard Shewbridgo and Mrs. Florence Hummer of Mill, wood. ... Internment made in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester.
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Proposed: named as her daughter in her obituary (Clarke Courier, August 25, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C644
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921, in the obituary of Mrs. Mary V. Brown of Millwood, names Mrs. Florence Hummer of Millwood among her surviving children.
What the source supports
That Florence Hummer of Millwood was named in 1921 as a daughter of Mary V. Brown.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her mother's obituary. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice. She is not linked to any other Hummer.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The August 25, 1921 obituary of Mrs. Mary V. Brown.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 25, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-08-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Mary V. Brown Dies; Was Long Ill," survivors
Relevant passageShe is survived by seven children.' Messrs. D. D. and R. C. Brown, of Berryville, and H. E. Brown, of Mill, wood, and Mrs. Earnest Phillips and ‘Mrs Burtus Whitmore, of Charles Town, and Mrs. Howard Shewbridgo and Mrs. Florence Hummer of Mill, wood. ... Internment made in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester.
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Proposed: named as her niece in her obituary (Clarke Courier, August 25, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C646
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921, in the obituary of Miss Mary Josephine Crown, names her as an aunt of Miss Sarah B. Crown of Berryville.
What the source supports
That Sarah B. Crown of Berryville was named in 1921 as a niece of Mary Josephine Crown.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her aunt's obituary. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The August 25, 1921 obituary of Miss Mary Josephine Crown.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 25, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-08-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Miss Josephine Crown Passes Away Suddenly"
Relevant passageMl«g [Miss] Mary Josephine Crown, sister of the late John O. Crown, for near, ly a half century editor of The Cour. ier, and an aunt of Misg [Miss] Sarah B. Crown and Mr. John R. Crown, of Berryvllle, died suddenly last Friday from heart trouble at the home of 1 her niece, Mrs. R. H. Mottu, at Rux. lon [Ruxton], Md.' where she had gone to visit
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Proposed: named as brother and sister in the report of their deaths (Clarke Courier, September 8, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C648
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of September 8, 1921 reports that the Rev. William Nelson Meade, rector of the Episcopal Church at Tappahannock, died of heart trouble at "Edgewood" on the Friday evening of his sister Mrs. Maria P. Whiting's funeral, having come to Clarke to attend it. It says he was a son of the late Frank R. Meade of "Prospect Hill," Clarke County, where he was born, a grandson of Bishop Meade, and 67 years old, and that after services at Christ Church he was buried at the Old Chapel.
What the source supports
That the Rev. William Nelson Meade, born at "Prospect Hill," died at "Edgewood" at 67, as reported on September 8, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR prints "Kev." for "Rev." and garbles his mother's maiden name, which is not given here. The item dates the death only as Friday evening.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The September 8, 1921 report of the deaths of Rev. William Nelson Meade and Mrs. Maria P. Whiting.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 8, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-09-08 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report "Death Casts Gloom Over Millwood Section"
Relevant passage.Millwood, Sept. 7—The deaths of Kev. [Rev.] William Nelson Meade and Mrs.. Maria P. Whiting, brother and sister the former dying of heart trouble shortly after the funeral of the latter Friday evening, east [cast] gloom over this section of Clarke comity [county]. Mr Meade and Mrs. Whiting were grandchildren of the late nishop [Bishop] Meade ... .'hey [They] breathed their last at “Edge good." [Edgewood] the old home of Mrs. WJilting [Whiting] ltev. [Rev.] Mr. Meade had been making his home at Tappahannock, Va., where he was rector of the Episcopal Church.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of his birth and parents.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 8, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-09-08 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report "Death Casts Gloom Over Millwood Section," continued
Relevant passageHe was the son of the laic [late] ■Frank It, [R.] Meade, of “Prospect Hill." Clarks county, where he was horn [born] His mother was the late Mary Mann! Jur-.vPll Meade. He was G7 [67] year.. »aid, [old] ' -Airs. [Mrs.] Waiting [Whiting] was the widow of the late Frances 1). [D.] Whiting, of Clarke county. She made tier [her] home ai [at] ’“Edgewood."
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of the burials.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 8, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-09-08 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report "Death Casts Gloom Over Millwood Section," funerals
Relevant passageInterment wa8 made at Old Chapel, ! FFuneral services over Rev. Mr. ! Meade were held Sunday afternoon j from Christ Church and interment I •'made at Old Chapel.
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Proposed: named as his sister in his obituary (Clarke Courier, October 13, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C638
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of October 13, 1921 reports that Dr. Edward McGuire, a native of Clarke County and son of the late Dr. Wm. D. McGuire, died at his home in Richmond the Thursday evening before and was buried at Hollywood. It says his sister, Miss Nannie McGuire, died in July, and that one sister, Miss Eve McGuire, a wife and a son survived him.
What the source supports
That Dr. Edward McGuire, a Clarke County native, died in Richmond, as reported on October 13, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR prints "Ilr." for "Dr." The item dates the death only as "last Thursday evening" and the cited passage gives no age. The praise it reprints from the Richmond News Leader is that paper's own. His father, surviving sister, wife and son have no records here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The October 13, 1921 obituary of Dr. Edward McGuire.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 13, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-10-13 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary of Dr. Edward McGuire
Relevant passageIlr. [Dr.] Edward McGuire, a native of Clarke county and son of the late Di. [Dr.] Win. [Wm.] D. McGuire and a member of the noted McGuire family of Virginia ... died at his home at Richmond last Thursday eveuing [evening] at about 7 o'clock ... interment being in Hollywood ... His sister Misg [Miss] Nannie McGuire, died la | [in] July. He i8 [is] sut vived [survived] hy [by] one sister. Miss Eve Mr. Guire [McGuire], and a wife and a son.
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Proposed: named as her daughter in the report of her death (Clarke Courier, February 2, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C658
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of February 2, 1922, reporting the death of Miss Helen Helm Dortch in the "Knickerbocker Theatre" collapse, names her as the daughter of Mrs. Hattie Williams Dortch of "Mt. Hebron" Farm, Clarke County.
What the source supports
That Hattie Williams Dortch lived at "Mt. Hebron" Farm in Clarke County in 1922 and was named as the mother of Helen Helm Dortch.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her daughter's death notice. The item does not state her marriage; the kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The February 2, 1922 report of Miss Helen Helm Dortch's death.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 2, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-02-02 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Helen Dortch Killed Instantly in Theatre Crash"
Relevant passageMiss Helen Helm Dortch, daughter of Mrs. Hattie Williams Dortch, of “Mt. Hebron” Farm, Clarke county, and a descendant of Col. Leroy Peachy, one of the first settlers of Clarke county, was instantly killed when the roof .of the Knickerbocker Theatre at Washington Collapsed last Satur ay [Saturday] night. Miss Dortch attended the theatre with two friends
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Proposed: named as his son in his obituary (Clarke Courier, March 16, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C671
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of March 16, 1922, in the obituary of Logan T. Lloyd, names him as the son of Letcher Lloyd of Clarke County.
What the source supports
That Letcher Lloyd of Clarke County was named in 1922 as the father of Logan T. Lloyd.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his son's obituary. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The March 16, 1922 obituary of Logan T. Lloyd.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 16, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-03-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary "Meningitis Sets In; Logan T. Lloyd"
Relevant passageMr. Logan T. Lloyd, son of Mr. Letcher Lloyd of Clarke county, who suffered a fractured skull when thrown from his motorcycle to the Hard turnpike died in the Winchester Memorial Hospital last Monday morning, meningitis set in after he had shown signs of recovery and caused his death, Mr. Lloyd was 20 years old. He had recently completed a year’s service in the engineer- j ing branch in the U.S. Army ... After leaving the army he made his home with his parents in the county.
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Proposed: named among her stepchildren in her obituary (Clarke Courier, March 16, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C673
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of March 16, 1922, in the obituary of Mrs. Vienna Osburn, names Mason Osburn of Clarke County among her stepchildren.
What the source supports
That Mason Osburn of Clarke County was named in 1922 as a stepson of Vienna Osburn.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from this obituary, which does not name his mother. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The March 16, 1922 obituary of Mrs. Vienna Osburn.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 16, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-03-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary "Mrs. Decatur Osburn Dies of Pneumonia," survivors
Relevant passageShe is survived by one daifgh [daugh] ' ter, Mrs. Maurice F Castleman, her devoted hubsand, and five brothers and sisters ... She also leave a number of step-children—Mr. 1 Mason Osburn. of Clarke countv, | Mrs_ S. M. Chiles, of Frederick
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Proposed: named as her sister, who died in February 1921, in her obituary (Clarke Courier, April 6, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C679
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of April 6, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Washington, the last of the Washington family in Clarke County and a great-granddaughter of Warner Washington, died the Monday morning before at the home of Harry Shopland of influenza pneumonia, aged about 87. It says her sister, Miss Harriet Washington, died in February 1921, and that she was a lifelong resident of Berryville.
What the source supports
That Virginia Washington of Berryville died, aged about 87, as reported on April 6, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR splits her given name ("V irginia") and prints her sister's "Ilariet." The item dates the death only as "Monday morning." Its account of her ancestry is the paper's own.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The April 6, 1922 obituary.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 6, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-06 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary "Last of Washington Family in Clarke County Passes Away"
Relevant passageMiss V irginia Washington, the last of the noted Washington family in Garke [Clarke] county, who was a great granddaughter of Warner Washington, died Monday morning at 5 o’clock at the home of Mr. Harry Shopland, following an attack of influenza pneumonia. She was about 87 years of age. Her sister. Miss Ilariet [Hariet] Washington, died in February 1921. ... She was a life long res - ident of Berryville.
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Proposed: named as his infant daughter in her death notice (Clarke Courier, April 27, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C687
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 names Irene Ruth Peyton, who died at her home at Boyce, as the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Peyton.
What the source supports
That Leonard Peyton of Boyce was named in 1922 as the father of Irene Ruth Peyton.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his daughter's death notice, which breaks his given name across a line. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The April 27, 1922 death notice of Irene Ruth Peyton.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 27, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-27 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, death notice "Little Irene Peyton Dies at Boyce"
Relevant passageLITTLE IRENE PEYTON DIES AT BOYCE ... Died, at her home, Boyce, Friday, April 14, 1922. Irene Ruth Peyton, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon ard Peyton, aged 3 months and 7 days. ... Funeral services were conducted from the late residence by Rev John B. W*lliams, of Boyce, and ■the little body was carefulyy laid to rest in historic Old Chapel cemetery.
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Proposed: named as her daughter in her obituary (Clarke Courier, August 31, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C696
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of August 31, 1922, in the obituary of Mrs. Henrietta R. Ogden, names Miss Minnie Ogden of Berryville among her three children.
What the source supports
That Minnie Ogden of Berryville was named in 1922 as a daughter of Henrietta R. Ogden.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her mother's obituary. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The August 31, 1922 obituary of Mrs. Henrietta R. Ogden.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 31, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-08-31 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary "Mrs. R. K. Ogden Passes Away; Ill a Month," survivors
Relevant passageher IhkIv [body] was laid to rest in (rreen [Green] Hill Cemetery beside that of her late husband. ... She leaves three children. Mrs. George X. [N.] Hardesty, and Miss Minnie Ogden, of Berryville, and Mr. Chester Ogden, of Roanoke
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Proposed: named as her son in her obituary (Clarke Courier, September 14, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C699
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of September 14, 1922, in the obituary of Mrs. Amelia Hough Carroll, names Grover Carroll of Millwood among her five sons.
What the source supports
That Grover Carroll of Millwood was named in 1922 as a son of Amelia Hough Carroll.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his mother's obituary, which breaks his given name across a line. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The September 14, 1922 obituary of Mrs. Amelia Hough Carroll.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 14, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-09-14 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary "Mrs. John Carroll Dies in Montana; Buried at Berryville," survivors
Relevant passageMrs. C'arroH [Carroll] is sur . ived [survived] by five sons and one daughter — Messrs. Edwin. Lewis, Claude, and Arthur Carroll, of Montana, and Mrs. Maggie Gordon, of Montana, and Mr. Grov er Carroll, of Millwood.
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Proposed: named as her uncle in his obituary (Clarke Courier, October 12, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C700
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of October 12, 1922 reports telegrams announcing the death at his home in Augusta, Georgia, that Tuesday morning, of Col. Rice Smith, a retired official of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. and uncle of Miss Sarah B. Crown and Editor John R. Crown of the Courier. It says he was born in Berryville in 1846, a son of Jonathan and Rebecca Smith and a grandson of Treadwell Smith, served in the Clarke Cavalry during the Civil War, was for a few years deputy clerk of court, and in 1880 took a position with the Georgia Chemical Works of Augusta.
What the source supports
That Rice Smith, born in Berryville in 1846 and a retired chemical company official, died at Augusta, Georgia, as reported on October 12, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR garbles his name in the body ("Col. J. Rte* Smith"); "Rice Smith" is read from a quotation later in the item. The telegrams gave no details of his death. His war service is as the item reports it. His parents and grandfather have no records here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The October 12, 1922 obituary of Col. Rice Smith.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 12, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-10-12 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary of Col. Rice Smith
Relevant passageTelegram* [Telegrams] were received In Berry-: vilie Tuesday. announcing the death' at his home In Augusta. *Oa.. [Ga.] that | morning of Col. J. Rte* [Rice] Smith, a re-; tired official of tht [the] Virgiaia-Caroiioa [Virginia-Carolina] i Chemical Co. and an ancle [uncle] of Hi**I [Miss] Sarah B. Crown gad [and] Editor John R j Crown, of The Courier
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of his life.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 12, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-10-12 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary of Col. Rice Smith, continued
Relevant passageCol. Smith was bora [born] in BerryrillC [Berryville] ,in 1846. He was the aon [son] of the late Jonathan Smith and Rebecca Isle* Smith, of BenyriUe [Berryville]. and a grandson of the late Treadwell Smith. ... Col. Smith saved [served] in the Clarke Cavalry during Jte [the] Civij [Civil] War. After serving for a tew [few] years an [as] Deputy Clerk of Court under the late John M. Gibson, he was offered a position with the Georgia Chemical Works of Augusta ... That was In 1880.
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Proposed: named as her daughter in her obituary (Clarke Courier, October 19, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C702
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of October 19, 1922 reports that Mrs. Martha A. Sillman died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Susie Cadwallader, at Boyce.
What the source supports
That Susie Cadwallader of Boyce was named in 1922 as a daughter of Martha A. Sillman.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her mother's obituary. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The October 19, 1922 obituary of Mrs. Martha A. Sillman.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 19, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-10-19 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary "Last Rites for Mrs. M. A. Sillman"
Relevant passageBoyce, V«., Oct. 14..Mrs. Martha A. Sillman died September 30. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Susie Cadwallader at Boyce. She was born |N*ovember 21, 1S33, and was aged S8 years, 10 months and 9 days. She was married to John A. Sllman in [1866. He died in 1882, leaving her 'with seven children ... For many years she lived in and near Front Royal ... Her funeral was held at the Primitive Baptist Church in Front Royal ... and (burial in Prospect HiU Cemetery on ! Monday.
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Proposed: named as her brother in the report of his death (Clarke Courier, November 3, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C703
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of November 3, 1922 reports that Fred L. Crown, a son of John O. Crown of Berryville and a brother of Miss Sarah B. Crown and of the Courier's editor, died suddenly at his home in Mobile, Alabama, the morning before. It says he was 40, born at the Crown home in Berryville, and manager of the Mobile Division of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Its issue of November 9, 1922 prints a tribute from D. C. Snyder.
What the source supports
That Fred L. Crown, a Berryville native, died at Mobile at 40, as reported on November 3, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR garbles his given name and his father's, and prints the editor as "John K. Crown." His wife and sons have no records here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The November 3, 1922 report of the death of Fred L. Crown.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 3, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-11-03 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Fred L. Crown Dies Suddenly in Mobile"
Relevant passage.Mi ^red [Fred] L. Crown, a Bon [son] of the Jsl.n 0. [John O.] Crown ... of Berryville, and a brother of •,‘lss [Miss] Sarah B. Cr-w.i [Crown] and John K. Crown, editor of The Courier, died suddenly at his home in Mobile, Ala., yesterday morning. He was 40 years old and was horn [born] at the Ccown [Crown] home here. He was manager of the Mobile Division of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The November 9, 1922 tribute.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 9, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-11-09 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, tribute "Tribute of Affection to the late Fred. L. Crown"
Relevant passageTribute of Affection to the late Fred. L. Crown ... He was the son of my j longtime most intimate and beloved j friend, the late lamented John O. j Crown, whose memory I will ever j revere. D. C. Snyder.
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Proposed: named as his son in his obituary (Clarke Courier, November 23, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C706
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922 reports that Charles Lewis Willingham died at the home of his son, Wm. W. Willingham, near Berryville, and names him first among three sons.
What the source supports
That Wm. W. Willingham lived near Berryville in 1922 and was named as a son of Charles Lewis Willingham.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his father's obituary, which breaks the surname across a line. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The November 23, 1922 obituary of Charles Lewis Willingham.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 23, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-11-23 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary "Death of Charles Lewis Willingham"
Relevant passageCharles Lewis Willingham, a life i long resident of Clarke county, died ■ at the home of his son, Wm. W. Will-; Ingham, near Berryville, On Nov. 5,. age 7 8 years. ... He ] leaves three sons, Wm. W., of near Berryville; J. H. and L. P. Willingham, of Summit Point, W. Va.; ... two daughters. Mrs. Lucy Armel, of -Bunker Hill, W. Va., and; Mrs. Kate Cornwell, of White Post; also one sister,' Mrs. Jennie Cooper, of Boyce.
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Proposed: named as his daughter in his obituary (Clarke Courier, November 23, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C707
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922, in the obituary of Charles Lewis Willingham, names Mrs. Kate Cornwell of White Post among his two daughters.
What the source supports
That Kate Cornwell of White Post was named in 1922 as a daughter of Charles Lewis Willingham.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her father's obituary. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The November 23, 1922 obituary of Charles Lewis Willingham.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 23, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-11-23 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary "Death of Charles Lewis Willingham"
Relevant passageCharles Lewis Willingham, a life i long resident of Clarke county, died ■ at the home of his son, Wm. W. Will-; Ingham, near Berryville, On Nov. 5,. age 7 8 years. ... He ] leaves three sons, Wm. W., of near Berryville; J. H. and L. P. Willingham, of Summit Point, W. Va.; ... two daughters. Mrs. Lucy Armel, of -Bunker Hill, W. Va., and; Mrs. Kate Cornwell, of White Post; also one sister,' Mrs. Jennie Cooper, of Boyce.
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Proposed: named as his sister in his obituary (Clarke Courier, November 23, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C708
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922, in the obituary of Charles Lewis Willingham, names his one sister, Mrs. Jennie Cooper of Boyce.
What the source supports
That Jennie Cooper of Boyce was named in 1922 as a sister of Charles Lewis Willingham.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her brother's obituary. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice. She is not linked to E. Stover Cooper of Boyce or any other Cooper.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The November 23, 1922 obituary of Charles Lewis Willingham.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 23, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-11-23 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary "Death of Charles Lewis Willingham"
Relevant passageCharles Lewis Willingham, a life i long resident of Clarke county, died ■ at the home of his son, Wm. W. Will-; Ingham, near Berryville, On Nov. 5,. age 7 8 years. ... He ] leaves three sons, Wm. W., of near Berryville; J. H. and L. P. Willingham, of Summit Point, W. Va.; ... two daughters. Mrs. Lucy Armel, of -Bunker Hill, W. Va., and; Mrs. Kate Cornwell, of White Post; also one sister,' Mrs. Jennie Cooper, of Boyce.
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Proposed: named as his son, at whose home he died, in his obituary (Clarke Courier, November 23, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C709
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922 reports that Wm. F. Pyle, aged 81, died on a Monday morning at the home of his son, Milton S. Pyle, near Boyce. It says he was a farmer who had lived near Boyce all his life, names his surviving children, among them Milton S. Pyle and Mrs. John Ritter of Boyce, a brother, Robert Pyle, and a sister, Mrs. Robert Goodrick, both of Boyce, and says he was buried in the Old Chapel cemetery after a funeral on November 21.
What the source supports
That Wm. F. Pyle, a farmer of near Boyce, died at 81, as reported on November 23, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The headline prints "Wm. V. Pyle." The item dates the death only as "Monday morning." Of his relatives, Milton S. Pyle, Mrs. John Ritter, Robert Pyle and Mrs. Robert Goodrick have records here, each linked by proposal.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The November 23, 1922 obituary of Wm. F. Pyle.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 23, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-11-23 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary "Wm. F. Pyle Dies at Home of His Son"
Relevant passageWm. F. Pyle, aged 81 years, died at the home of hia [his] son, Mr. Milton 8. [S.] Pile, near Boyce, Monday morning. 1 at 3:30 o’clock. Mr. Pyle was a far i met [farmer], having lived near Boyce all liis [his] j life. ... Tho following children survive Mr. Milton S. Pyle. Miss Mary Pyle. Mrs. John Ritter, of Boyce; ... also survived by one brother Mr. Robert Pyle and one sister, Mrs. Robert ; Goodrick, both of Boyce. The funeral services wttre [were] conduct : ed Tuesday. November 21 ... interment in ■ Old Chapel cemetery.
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Proposed: named among his children in his obituary (Clarke Courier, November 23, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C710
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922, in the obituary of Wm. F. Pyle, names Mrs. John Ritter of Boyce among his surviving children.
What the source supports
That Mrs. John Ritter of Boyce was named in 1922 as a daughter of Wm. F. Pyle.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her father's obituary, which gives her only by her husband's name. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The November 23, 1922 obituary of Wm. F. Pyle.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 23, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-11-23 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary "Wm. F. Pyle Dies at Home of His Son"
Relevant passageWm. F. Pyle, aged 81 years, died at the home of hia [his] son, Mr. Milton 8. [S.] Pile, near Boyce, Monday morning. 1 at 3:30 o’clock. Mr. Pyle was a far i met [farmer], having lived near Boyce all liis [his] j life. ... Tho following children survive Mr. Milton S. Pyle. Miss Mary Pyle. Mrs. John Ritter, of Boyce; ... also survived by one brother Mr. Robert Pyle and one sister, Mrs. Robert ; Goodrick, both of Boyce. The funeral services wttre [were] conduct : ed Tuesday. November 21 ... interment in ■ Old Chapel cemetery.
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Proposed: named as his brother in his obituary (Clarke Courier, November 23, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C711
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922, in the obituary of Wm. F. Pyle, names his one surviving brother, Robert Pyle of Boyce.
What the source supports
That Robert Pyle of Boyce was named in 1922 as a brother of Wm. F. Pyle.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his brother's obituary. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The November 23, 1922 obituary of Wm. F. Pyle.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 23, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-11-23 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary "Wm. F. Pyle Dies at Home of His Son"
Relevant passageWm. F. Pyle, aged 81 years, died at the home of hia [his] son, Mr. Milton 8. [S.] Pile, near Boyce, Monday morning. 1 at 3:30 o’clock. Mr. Pyle was a far i met [farmer], having lived near Boyce all liis [his] j life. ... Tho following children survive Mr. Milton S. Pyle. Miss Mary Pyle. Mrs. John Ritter, of Boyce; ... also survived by one brother Mr. Robert Pyle and one sister, Mrs. Robert ; Goodrick, both of Boyce. The funeral services wttre [were] conduct : ed Tuesday. November 21 ... interment in ■ Old Chapel cemetery.
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Proposed: named as his sister in his obituary (Clarke Courier, November 23, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C712
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of November 23, 1922, in the obituary of Wm. F. Pyle, names his one surviving sister, Mrs. Robert Goodrick of Boyce.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Robert Goodrick of Boyce was named in 1922 as a sister of Wm. F. Pyle.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her brother's obituary, which gives her only by her husband's name and prints a stray mark in it. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The November 23, 1922 obituary of Wm. F. Pyle.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 23, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-11-23 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary "Wm. F. Pyle Dies at Home of His Son"
Relevant passageWm. F. Pyle, aged 81 years, died at the home of hia [his] son, Mr. Milton 8. [S.] Pile, near Boyce, Monday morning. 1 at 3:30 o’clock. Mr. Pyle was a far i met [farmer], having lived near Boyce all liis [his] j life. ... Tho following children survive Mr. Milton S. Pyle. Miss Mary Pyle. Mrs. John Ritter, of Boyce; ... also survived by one brother Mr. Robert Pyle and one sister, Mrs. Robert ; Goodrick, both of Boyce. The funeral services wttre [were] conduct : ed Tuesday. November 21 ... interment in ■ Old Chapel cemetery.
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Proposed: named as his only sister in his obituary (Clarke Courier, December 7, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C715
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of December 7, 1922, in the obituary of M. W. Jones, names Mrs. George Britton of Berryville as his only sister.
What the source supports
That Mrs. George Britton of Berryville was named in 1922 as a sister of M. W. Jones.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her brother's obituary, which breaks the surname across a line. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The December 7, 1922 obituary of M. W. Jones.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., December 7, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-12-07 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary of M. W. Jones, continued
Relevant passageMr. Doras H. Jones, for many years Mayor ot [of] BerryvUle, Is the only surviving brother, and Mrs. George Brit - ton of Berryville the only stster [sister].
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Proposed: named as the son of Isaac Bowman by his second wife (Clarke Courier, March 15, 1923), as her 1921 obituary also names him
? UnconfirmedEvidence C727
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of March 15, 1923, in the obituary of Isaac Bowman, a Confederate artilleryman, says Mr. Bowman married twice, and that by his second wife, Miss Ellen Jones, he had one son, Berkley Bowman of Berryville.
What the source supports
That Berkley Bowman of Berryville was named in 1923 as the son of Isaac Bowman and his second wife.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his father's obituary. His father has no record here. The link to the released record of Mrs. Isaac Bowman is a proposal: her 1921 obituary names her as Isaac Bowman's second wife, a Jones, and her one son as Berkley Bowman; her given name is garbled there.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The March 15, 1923 obituary of Isaac Bowman.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 15, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-03-15 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mr. Bowman Wounded 8 Times at Fredericksburg"
Relevant passageThe last bugale call was sounded Monday night for Mr. Isaac Bowman, one Of Qen. [Gen.] A. P.'Hill’s heroic artilleryman
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of his marriages and children.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 15, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-03-15 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary of Isaac Bowman, continued
Relevant passage.Mr. Bowman married twice. His first wife was Miss Margaret Retd By this marriage he was the father of three children—Mrs. Frank Huyett, of Charlottesville, Miss Nellie Bowman of Berryville, and the late Mrs. J. T. L. Jones. His second wife was Miss Ellen Jones( and by this marriage he had one son, Mr. Berkley Bowman, of Berryville.
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Proposed: named as his daughter in his obituary (Clarke Courier, May 31, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C741
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of May 31, 1923, in the obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell, names Mrs. E. B. Jacobs of Boyce as one of his two daughters.
What the source supports
That Mrs. E. B. Jacobs of Boyce was named in 1923 as a daughter of Thomas Hugh Burwell.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her father's obituary, which gives her only by her husband's initials. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice. She is not linked to the released record of E. B. Jacobs, since the item does not name her husband beyond his initials.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The May 31, 1923 obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., May 31, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-05-31 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell
Relevant passageThomas Hugh Burwell, member of the old and distinguished Virginia family of that name, died at S o'clock on Thursday evening at his home "Fairvlew” [Fairview], near Millwood, Clarke county, after an lllsess [illness] of some time. ... He is survived by two daughters, Mrs E. B. Jacobs of Boyce, and Mrs. Lewis Meade, of "The Vineyard”, Clarke county. He was a brother of Mrs. Archibald Randolph and MIbs [Miss] Mary Willing Burwell, both of Clarke countyt
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Proposed: named as his daughter in his obituary (Clarke Courier, May 31, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C742
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of May 31, 1923, in the obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell, names Mrs. Lewis Meade of "The Vineyard," Clarke County, as one of his two daughters.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Lewis Meade of "The Vineyard" was named in 1923 as a daughter of Thomas Hugh Burwell.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her father's obituary, which gives her only by her husband's name. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The May 31, 1923 obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., May 31, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-05-31 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell
Relevant passageThomas Hugh Burwell, member of the old and distinguished Virginia family of that name, died at S o'clock on Thursday evening at his home "Fairvlew” [Fairview], near Millwood, Clarke county, after an lllsess [illness] of some time. ... He is survived by two daughters, Mrs E. B. Jacobs of Boyce, and Mrs. Lewis Meade, of "The Vineyard”, Clarke county. He was a brother of Mrs. Archibald Randolph and MIbs [Miss] Mary Willing Burwell, both of Clarke countyt
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Proposed: named as his sister in his obituary (Clarke Courier, May 31, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C743
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of May 31, 1923, in the obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell, names Miss Mary Willing Burwell of Clarke County as one of his sisters.
What the source supports
That Mary Willing Burwell of Clarke County was named in 1923 as a sister of Thomas Hugh Burwell.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her brother's obituary. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The May 31, 1923 obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., May 31, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-05-31 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary of Thomas Hugh Burwell
Relevant passageThomas Hugh Burwell, member of the old and distinguished Virginia family of that name, died at S o'clock on Thursday evening at his home "Fairvlew” [Fairview], near Millwood, Clarke county, after an lllsess [illness] of some time. ... He is survived by two daughters, Mrs E. B. Jacobs of Boyce, and Mrs. Lewis Meade, of "The Vineyard”, Clarke county. He was a brother of Mrs. Archibald Randolph and MIbs [Miss] Mary Willing Burwell, both of Clarke countyt
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Proposed: named as his brother in the report of his drowning (Clarke Courier, June 28, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C745
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923, reporting the drowning of Earnest Hillyard, names John W. Hillyard of Boyce among his brothers.
What the source supports
That John W. Hillyard of Boyce was named in 1923 as a brother of Earnest Hillyard.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his brother's death notice. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The June 28, 1923 report of the drowning of Earnest Hillyard.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 28, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-06-28 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Earnest Hillyard, Former Boyce Boy, Drowned Near Washington City"
Relevant passageNews was received at Boyce Tuesday of the sad death by drowning of Earnest Hillyard, of Washington, son of Mrss. Mary Ann Hillyard, formely of Boyce. Mr. Hillyard was drowned while in bathing near Washington. He lived at Boyce before he went to Washington to engage in business. ... Burial was in Mt. Hebron. He is survived by his mother ... C. E. Hillyard of Winchester, Va.. Otho and John W. Hillyard, of Boyce, and two sisters, Mrs. Lonnie Bettus, of Shenandoah Junction, and Mrs. Joseph Heflin, of near Berryville.
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Proposed: named as his sister in the report of his drowning (Clarke Courier, June 28, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C746
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of June 28, 1923, reporting the drowning of Earnest Hillyard, names Mrs. Joseph Heflin of near Berryville as one of his two sisters.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Joseph Heflin of near Berryville was named in 1923 as a sister of Earnest Hillyard.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her brother's death notice, which gives her only by her husband's name. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The June 28, 1923 report of the drowning of Earnest Hillyard.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 28, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-06-28 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Earnest Hillyard, Former Boyce Boy, Drowned Near Washington City"
Relevant passageNews was received at Boyce Tuesday of the sad death by drowning of Earnest Hillyard, of Washington, son of Mrss. Mary Ann Hillyard, formely of Boyce. Mr. Hillyard was drowned while in bathing near Washington. He lived at Boyce before he went to Washington to engage in business. ... Burial was in Mt. Hebron. He is survived by his mother ... C. E. Hillyard of Winchester, Va.. Otho and John W. Hillyard, of Boyce, and two sisters, Mrs. Lonnie Bettus, of Shenandoah Junction, and Mrs. Joseph Heflin, of near Berryville.
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Proposed: named as his son in the report of his death (Clarke Courier, September 6, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C757
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 names Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory, as the son of John Armel, a prominent farmer of the White Post neighborhood, and says the funeral was held from his home near White Post.
What the source supports
That John Armel, a farmer near White Post, was named in 1923 as the father of Hugh Armel.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his son's death notice. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The September 6, 1923 report of the death of Hugh Armel.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 6, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-09-06 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Hugh Armel Killed Unloading Logs at Basket Factory Plant"
Relevant passageHUGH ARMEL KILLED UNLOADING LOGS AT BASKET FACTORY PLANT ... Hr. [Mr.] Hugh Armel, 23 years old. son of Mr. John Armel, a prominent farmer of the White Post neighborhood, was crushed to death last Thursday morning when a huge log breaking lose from its kooks [hooks] while being unloaded, colled [rolled] down the pile and jammed him against a freight car. ... It is believed he was killed instantly
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of the funeral.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 6, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-09-06 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report of the death of Hugh Armel, funeral
Relevant passageIt was later taken to the home of his father, Mr. John Armel, near White Post, and after funeral services from there Saturday it was interred in Macedenian cemetery in Frederick county. The accident cast a pall over the basket factory. Work was suspended for the day ... A number of the basket factory employes attended Mr. Armel's funeral in a body.
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Proposed: named as her son in the report of his death (Clarke Courier, September 6, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C758
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 names Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory, as the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Armel of White Post.
What the source supports
That Mrs. John Armel of White Post was named in 1923 as the mother of Hugh Armel.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her son's death notice, which gives her only by her husband's name. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The September 6, 1923 report of the death of Hugh Armel.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 6, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-09-06 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report of the death of Hugh Armel, continued
Relevant passageMr. Armel was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Armel, of White Post ... He had been in Berryville only a short time, having accepted employment in the basket factory. ... He is' survived by a wife, who was a Miss Butler, daughter of J. W. Butler, of White Post, and a baby. Besides -’'-his pareuts [parents] he leaves three brothers——Messrs. Thomas Armel, of Boyce, Floyd Armel, of White Post, Lawerence Armel
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Proposed: named as his brother in the report of his death (Clarke Courier, September 6, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C759
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 names Thomas Armel of Boyce among the three brothers of Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory.
What the source supports
That Thomas Armel of Boyce was named in 1923 as a brother of Hugh Armel.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his brother's death notice. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The September 6, 1923 report of the death of Hugh Armel.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 6, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-09-06 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report of the death of Hugh Armel, continued
Relevant passageMr. Armel was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Armel, of White Post ... He had been in Berryville only a short time, having accepted employment in the basket factory. ... He is' survived by a wife, who was a Miss Butler, daughter of J. W. Butler, of White Post, and a baby. Besides -’'-his pareuts [parents] he leaves three brothers——Messrs. Thomas Armel, of Boyce, Floyd Armel, of White Post, Lawerence Armel
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Proposed: named as his brother in the report of his death (Clarke Courier, September 6, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C760
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 names Floyd Armel of White Post among the three brothers of Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory.
What the source supports
That Floyd Armel of White Post was named in 1923 as a brother of Hugh Armel.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his brother's death notice, which splits the surname across a line. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The September 6, 1923 report of the death of Hugh Armel.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 6, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-09-06 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report of the death of Hugh Armel, continued
Relevant passageMr. Armel was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Armel, of White Post ... He had been in Berryville only a short time, having accepted employment in the basket factory. ... He is' survived by a wife, who was a Miss Butler, daughter of J. W. Butler, of White Post, and a baby. Besides -’'-his pareuts [parents] he leaves three brothers——Messrs. Thomas Armel, of Boyce, Floyd Armel, of White Post, Lawerence Armel
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Proposed: named as the father of his wife in the report of his death (Clarke Courier, September 6, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C761
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of September 6, 1923 says Hugh Armel, killed at the Berryville basket factory, was survived by a wife, who was a Miss Butler, daughter of J. W. Butler of White Post.
What the source supports
That J. W. Butler of White Post was named in 1923 as the father of Hugh Armel's wife.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his son-in-law's death notice, which gives only his initials. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The September 6, 1923 report of the death of Hugh Armel.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 6, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-09-06 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report of the death of Hugh Armel, continued
Relevant passageMr. Armel was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Armel, of White Post ... He had been in Berryville only a short time, having accepted employment in the basket factory. ... He is' survived by a wife, who was a Miss Butler, daughter of J. W. Butler, of White Post, and a baby. Besides -’'-his pareuts [parents] he leaves three brothers——Messrs. Thomas Armel, of Boyce, Floyd Armel, of White Post, Lawerence Armel
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Proposed: reported married, December 23, 1920 (Clarke Courier, January 13, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C781
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of January 13, 1921 reports that Custis Lewin and Miss Edith Hummer, of Millwood, were married on December 23 at the Methodist parsonage in Winchester, and would make their home near Millwood.
What the source supports
That Edith Hummer of Millwood married Custis Lewin on December 23, 1920, as reported on January 13, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The body prints the surname "Htfmmer"; the headline gives "Hummer." She is not linked to any other Hummer. The marriage is recorded as a proposed relationship from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The January 13, 1921 wedding notice of Custis Lewin and Edith Hummer.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 13, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-01-13 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, item "Custis Lewin Takes Miss Hummer as Bride"
Relevant passage" CU8TIB LEWlN [CUSTIS LEWIN] TAKES -Sr , MISS HUMMER AS BRIDE Mr. "Custis Lewin and Miss Edith ■ Htfmmer [Hummer], of Millwood, were married by Rev. F. M. Richardson, pastor of the Methodist Church, South, Winchester, December 23, at the parsonage, The couple will make their home near Millwood.
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Proposed: reported married (Clarke Courier, February 24, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C784
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of February 24, 1921 reports that Miss Alice N. Grant of Martinsburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Grant, became the bride of Walter Hardesty of Berryville at the Methodist parsonage in Martinsburg.
What the source supports
That Alice N. Grant of Martinsburg married Walter Hardesty of Berryville, as reported on February 24, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The cited passages do not say where the couple would live. The item does not date the wedding. The marriage is recorded as a proposed relationship from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The February 24, 1921 wedding notice of Walter Hardesty and Alice N. Grant.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 24, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-02-24 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, item "Walter Hardesty Weds Martinsburg Girl"
Relevant passageWALTER HARDESTY WEDS MARTIN SBC RG [MARTINSBURG] GIRL ... At the parsonage of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Martinsburg, Miss Alice N. Grant, of Martinsburg, became the bride of Mr. Walter Haidesty [Hardesty], of Berryville, Va.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of the couple.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 24, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-02-24 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, item "Walter Hardesty Weds Martinsburg Girl," continued
Relevant passage'I ha [The] bride is the attractive daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. O. Grant. The grconTls [groom is] the son of Mr. O. J. Hardesty, of near Berryville, and is a promine.it [prominent] farmer of that section. During I he [the] recent war Mr. Hardesty spent twentv-three months in active service as a motor mechanic, ranking as sergeant of his company and twenty months of his time was spent in active service in France.
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Proposed: reported married, February 19, 1921 (Clarke Courier, March 10, 1921; a register entry is cited as a second record)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C786
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of March 10, 1921 reports that Miss Edna E. Shewbridge of Berryville and George L. Ziler of Cumberland were married by Rev. W. H. Ballengee at the Methodist parsonage on February 19, and left for Cumberland. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Edna Elizabeth Shewbridge, 21, daughter of John and Emma E. Shewbridge, to George S. Ziler at Berryville on February 19, 1921; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and place.
What the source supports
That Edna E. Shewbridge of Berryville married George L. Ziler on February 19, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier breaks the surname across a space. The register abstract's OCR prints her middle name "Ehzabeth." The register entry is cited, not merged into this record.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The March 10, 1921 wedding notice of George L. Ziler and Edna E. Shewbridge.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 10, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-03-10 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item "Miss Shewbridge a Bride"
Relevant passageMISS 8HEWBRIDGE [SHEWBRIDGE] A BRIDE Mr. George L. Ziler, of Cumberland. M<i , and Miss Edna E. Shew bridge, of Berryville, were married by Rev W. H. Ballengee at the Methodist parsonage, Saturday, Feb- 19th Mr. and Mrs. Ziler left immediately for Cumberland, where they, will make their future home
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Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of George S. Ziler and Edna Elizabeth Shewbridge, February 19, 1921, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 183, register entry for the marriage of George S. Ziler and Edna Elizabeth Shewbridge
Relevant passageZILER, George S.; s/o George W. & Martha E. ZILER; 45y; sgl; car repairer; b Doegully W Va: res. 33 Baker St., Cumberland Mo, m. 19 Feb 1921 at Berryville to SHEWBRIDGE, Edna Ehzabeth. d,o John & Emma E. SHEWBRIDGE; 21y; sgl; b. & res. ClrkVA.
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Proposed: reported married, July 6, 1921 (Clarke Courier, July 14, 1921; a register entry is cited as a second record)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C790
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of July 14, 1921 reports that Miss Margaretta Colston Carper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carper, became the bride of Capt. Charles Campbell MacLeod of Lynchburg in Emmanuel Chapel, Boyce, on July 6. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for her marriage, aged 20, daughter of Julian L. and Minnie S. Carper, to Charles Campbell MacLeod at Boyce on July 6, 1921; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and place.
What the source supports
That Margaretta Colston Carper of Boyce married Charles Campbell MacLeod on July 6, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The register entry is cited, not merged. Her parents have no records here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The July 14, 1921 report of the wedding of Margaretta Colston Carper and Charles Campbell MacLeod.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., July 14, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-07-14 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report "Brilliant Wedding at Emmanuel Chapel"
Relevant passageBoyce, July 12—A beautiful wedding of widespread Interest was solemnized in Emmanuel Chapel last Wednesday evening. July 6. at » o’clock, when Miss Margaretta Colston Carper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs J. L. Carper, became the bride of Capt. Charles Campbell MacLeod, of Lynchburg, one of the Virginia heroes of the world war, who was awarded the French war medal, the Croix de One >». [Guerre] for bravery in action.
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Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Charles Campbell MacLeod and Margaretta Colston Carper, July 6, 1921, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 101, register entry for the marriage of Charles Campbell MacLeod and Margaretta Colston Carper
Relevant passageMacLEOD. Charles Campbell: s/o Charles & Leita MacLEOD; 29y; sgl; salesman: b. Lynchburg Va res. Box 368, Lynchburg, Va; m. 6 Jul 1921 at Boyce to CARPER, Margaretta Colston; d/o Julian L. & Minnie S. CARPER: 20y; sgl: b. & res. ClrkVA:
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Proposed: reported married (Clarke Courier, August 25, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C793
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports that Miss Lucy Meredith Ginn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ginn, formerly of Clarke County and then of Chester, Pennsylvania, became the bride of Dr. Verne R. Mason at Christ Church, Millwood. It says she was a graduate of the nurses' training school of the Union Protestant Infirmary in Baltimore and served as a Red Cross nurse in France during the World War.
What the source supports
That Lucy Meredith Ginn, a nurse who served in France, married Dr. Verne R. Mason at Millwood, as reported on August 25, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. Her war service is as the item reports it. The register entry for the groom has the bride's part garbled, so it is not cited for her. The marriage and her uncle, Treadwell Gibson, are recorded as proposals from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The August 25, 1921 report of the wedding of Lucy Meredith Ginn and Verne R. Mason.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 25, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-08-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Ginn the Bride of Dr. V. R. Mason"
Relevant passageMillwood. Va., August 22—A wedding tinged with war romance took place at noon last Wednesday in Christ Protestant Episcopal Church here, when Miss Lucy Meredith Ginn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph n Ginn, formerly of Clarke county, but now of Chester, Pa., became the bride of Dr. Verne R Mason, until recently a resident physician of Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of the bride.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 25, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-08-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Ginn the Bride of Dr. V. R. Mason," the bride
Relevant passageThe bride ... is a graduate of the training school for nurses at the l'a ion [Union] Protestant Infirmary in Baltimore ... She enlisted in the Red Cross hospital service and served as a nurse in Franco [France] dutlng [during] the world war.
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Proposed: named as her uncle in the report of her wedding (Clarke Courier, August 25, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C794
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports that after the wedding of Lucy Meredith Ginn and Dr. Verne R. Mason, the guests were entertained at a luncheon given by Mr. and Mrs. Treadwell Gibson, uncle and aunt of the bride, at their home near Millwood.
What the source supports
That Treadwell Gibson of near Millwood was named in 1921 as an uncle of Lucy Meredith Ginn.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from this wedding report. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The August 25, 1921 report of the wedding of Lucy Meredith Ginn and Verne R. Mason.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 25, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-08-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Ginn the Bride of Dr. V. R. Mason," the wedding luncheon
Relevant passageThe wedding guests were entertained immediately after the ceremony at a buffet luncheon given by 'Mr. and Mrs. Treadwell Gibson, tin. >'le [uncle] and aunt of the bride, at their home near Millwood.
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Proposed: reported married, October 15, 1921 (Clarke Courier, October 20, 1921; a register entry is cited as a second record)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C796
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of October 20, 1921 reports that Miss Nancy Goodwin Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin H. Williams of "Airlee" near Berryville, and Tom Lewis Peyton of Washington were married at Grace Episcopal Church by Rev. George S. Vest. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Tom Lewis Peyton to Nancy Goodwin Williams, 23, daughter of Goodwin H. and Anne H. Williams, at Berryville on October 15, 1921; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.
What the source supports
That Nancy Goodwin Williams married Tom Lewis Peyton at Berryville on October 15, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier dates the wedding only as "last Saturday"; the date is the register entry's. The register entry is cited, not merged. Her parents have no records here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The October 20, 1921 report of the wedding of Nancy Goodwin Williams and Tom Lewis Peyton.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 20, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-10-20 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Brilliant Wedding in Grace Church"
Relevant passageMiss Nancy Goodwin Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mm [Mrs.] Goodwin H. Williams, of “Alrlee,” [Airlee] near Berryville, and Mr. Tom Lewis Peyton, of Washington, fcrere [were] united in marriage. ... The ceremony wag [was] performed by Rev. George 8. [S.] Vest.
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Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Tom Lewis Peyton and Nancy Goodwin Williams, October 15, 1921, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 124, register entry for the marriage of Tom Lewis Peyton and Nancy Goodwin Williams
Relevant passagePEYTON Tom Lewis; s/o Harry & Margaret PcYTON; 24y; sgl; real estate- b WashDC: res. 2623 Garfield St. NW. WashDC; m. 15 Oct 1921 at Berryville to WILLIAMS, Nancy Goodwin; d/o Goodwin H. & Anne H. WILLIAMS: 23y; sgl; b. & res. ClrkVA; (off) Geo. S. VEST;
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Proposed: reported married, November 30, 1921 (Clarke Courier, December 1, 1921; a register entry is cited as a second record)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C800
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921 reports that Miss Irene Pine, daughter of Thomas Pine of Millwood, and Joseph Edward Ritter of Boyce were married the afternoon before at the Methodist parsonage. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Irene Pyne, 20, daughter of Thos. J. and Maude J. Pyne, to Jos. Edward Ritter at Berryville on November 30, 1921; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.
What the source supports
That Irene Pine of Millwood married Joseph Edward Ritter on November 30, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier spells her surname "Pine"; the register abstract gives "Pyne." Both readings are kept. The register entry is cited, not merged.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The December 1, 1921 notice of the marriage of Joseph Edward Ritter and Irene Pine.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., December 1, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-12-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, item "Joe Ritter and Miss Pine Quietly Married"
Relevant passageJOE RITTER AND MISS PINE QUIETLY MARRIED ... I Mr. Joseph Edward Ritter, of i Boyce, and Miss Irene Pine, daughter j of Mr, Thomas Pine, of Millwood. were quietly married at the Met bo | diet [Methodist] parsonage yestrday afternoon by I Rev. W. H. Ballengee. ... i they will make their home at Boyce i upon their return,
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Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Jos. Edward Ritter and Irene Pyne, November 30, 1921, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 134, register entry for the marriage of Jos. Edward Ritter and Irene Pyne
Relevant passageRITTER. Jos. Edward, s/o John H. & Ida RITTER; 22y; sgl; section hand on r. r,; b. ClrkVA; res, Boyce: m. 30 Nov 1921 at Berryville to PYNE, Irene; d/o Thos. J. & Maude J PYNE 20y sgl' b. & res. ClrkVA:
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Proposed: named as his daughter in her wedding notice (Clarke Courier, December 1, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C801
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921, reporting the marriage of Joseph Edward Ritter and Miss Irene Pine, names the bride as the daughter of Thomas Pine of Millwood.
What the source supports
That Thomas Pine of Millwood was named in 1921 as the father of Irene Pine.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his daughter's wedding notice, which prints a comma after "Mr." The register abstract names the bride's father "Thos. J. Pyne"; that entry is not cited for him. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The December 1, 1921 notice of the marriage of Joseph Edward Ritter and Irene Pine.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., December 1, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-12-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, item "Joe Ritter and Miss Pine Quietly Married"
Relevant passageJOE RITTER AND MISS PINE QUIETLY MARRIED ... I Mr. Joseph Edward Ritter, of i Boyce, and Miss Irene Pine, daughter j of Mr, Thomas Pine, of Millwood. were quietly married at the Met bo | diet [Methodist] parsonage yestrday afternoon by I Rev. W. H. Ballengee. ... i they will make their home at Boyce i upon their return,
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Proposed: reported married, February 1, 1922 (Clarke Courier, February 9, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C803
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of February 9, 1922 reports from Boyce that Miss Audrey Zombro, aged 16, and John Lanham, aged 20, both of Berryville, surprised their friends by going to Charles Town on Wednesday, February 1, where they were married by Rev. Mr. Swann, and that the bride is a daughter of the late T. L. Zombro.
What the source supports
That Audrey Zombro of Berryville married John Lanham at Charles Town on February 1, 1922, aged 16.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR prints a stray mark in her name. The marriage took place in West Virginia, so no Clarke register entry is looked for. She is not linked to any other Zombro.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The February 9, 1922 notice of the marriage of Audrey Zombro and John Lanham.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 9, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-02-09 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item "Miss Audrey Zombro Weds John Lanham"
Relevant passageMISS AUDREY ZOMBRO ! WEDS JOHN LANHAM I Bovce [Boyce], Feb. 8—Miss Audrey ' Zombro, aged 16, and Mr. John Lanhain [Lanham], aged 20, both of Berry I ville, surprised their friends bv [by] j quietly going over to Charles iTown, Wednesday, February 1, ' where they were married by Rev. 1 Mr. Swann. The bride is a daugh j ter of the late T. L. Zombro and the groom is the only son of Mr. Charles F. Lanham.
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Proposed: reported married (Clarke Courier, February 9, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C805
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of February 9, 1922 reports that Mrs. Mary Elliotte, widow of Charles Elliotte, and John Gore of White Post were quietly married at Hagerstown the Saturday before by Rev. T. J. Coffman, with her sister, Mrs. Wm. Mallory of Berryville, present.
What the source supports
That Mary Elliotte, widow of Charles Elliotte, married John Gore at Hagerstown, as reported on February 9, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item does not say where she lived before the marriage. It took place in Maryland, so no Clarke register entry is looked for. The marriage and her sister are recorded as proposals from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The February 9, 1922 notice of the marriage of Mary Elliotte and John Gore.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 9, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-02-09 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item "Mrs. Mary Elliotte Bride of John Gore"
Relevant passageMRS. MARY ELLIOTTE BRIDE OF JOHN GORE Mrs. Mary Elliotte, widow of the late Charles Elliotte, and Mr. John Gore, of White Post, were quietly married in Hagerstown last Saturday by Rev. T. J. Coffman. Mrs. Wm. Mallory, of Ber rytfille [Berryville], sister of the bride, and a number of friends witnessed the ceremony.
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Proposed: named as her sister in the report of her wedding (Clarke Courier, February 9, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C807
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of February 9, 1922 reports that Mrs. Wm. Mallory of Berryville, sister of the bride, witnessed the marriage of Mrs. Mary Elliotte and John Gore at Hagerstown.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Wm. Mallory of Berryville was named in 1922 as a sister of Mary Elliotte.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her sister's wedding notice, which gives her only by her husband's name and garbles the town. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The February 9, 1922 notice of the marriage of Mary Elliotte and John Gore.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 9, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-02-09 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item "Mrs. Mary Elliotte Bride of John Gore"
Relevant passageMRS. MARY ELLIOTTE BRIDE OF JOHN GORE Mrs. Mary Elliotte, widow of the late Charles Elliotte, and Mr. John Gore, of White Post, were quietly married in Hagerstown last Saturday by Rev. T. J. Coffman. Mrs. Wm. Mallory, of Ber rytfille [Berryville], sister of the bride, and a number of friends witnessed the ceremony.
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Proposed: named among her survivors in her obituary (Clarke Courier, February 23, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C808
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of February 23, 1922 names Miss Mable Barnett of Berryville among the survivors of her mother, Mrs. J. Edward Barnett. Its issue of May 4, 1922 reports that Miss Mable Barnett, daughter of J. E. Barnett, former chairman of the Clarke County Board of Supervisors, became the bride of Ambrose B. Hummer, a farmer and official of the Berryville Horse Show, at her father's home the day before. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Mabel J. Barnett, 38, daughter of J. E. and Lucy Barnett, to Ambrose B. Hummer at Berryville on May 3, 1922; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.
What the source supports
That Mable Barnett, daughter of J. E. Barnett, married Ambrose B. Hummer on May 3, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier spells her given name "Mable" and "Mabel"; the register abstract gives "Mabel J." The register entry is cited, not merged. The groom's register row is held as an unresolved identity, so no marriage relationship is recorded. The link to her mother's released record is a proposal resting on that obituary naming her.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The February 23, 1922 obituary of her mother, Mrs. J. Edward Barnett.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 23, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-02-23 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. J. Edward Barnett Passes Away Suddenly," survivors
Relevant passageHer good husband, two sons, Mr. Edward Barnett and Dr. Neill Barnett, of Richmond, and Miss Mable Barnett of Berryville survive.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The May 4, 1922 wedding report.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., May 4, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-05-04 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Mabel Barnett Bride of Mr. Hummer"
Relevant passageMISS MABEL BARNETT , . BRIDE OF MR. HUMMER ... of Mr. J, E. Barnett, former Chairman of the Clarke County Board of Supervisors, when his daughter. Miss Mable Barnett, became the bride of Mr. Ambrose B. Hummer, farmer and official of the Berryville Horse Show. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Nathan Maynard, pastor of the Baptist- Church
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Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Ambrose B. Hummer and Mabel J. Barnett, May 3, 1922, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 74, register entry for the marriage of Ambrose B. Hummer and Mabel J. Barnett
Relevant passageHUMMER. Ambrose B.; s/o Jno. W. & Rose A. HUMMER; 41y; sgl; farmer, b. ClrkVA; res. Berryville, m. 3 May 1922 at Berryville to BARNETT, Mabel J.; d/o J. E. & Lucy BARNETT: 38y; sgl: b. ClrkVA; res. Berryville,
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Proposed: reported married, February 24, 1922 (Clarke Courier, March 2, 1922; a register entry is cited as a second record)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C811
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of March 2, 1922 reports that Miss Stella Augusta Trenary and Carl L. Wellinger were married at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kercheval, and that she is the daughter of the late A. B. Trenary and of Mrs. Augusta G. Trenary, who before her marriage was Miss Augusta Stolle of Berryville. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Stella Augusta Trenary, 27, of Martinsburg, to Carl L. Wellinger at Berryville on February 24, 1922; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.
What the source supports
That Stella Augusta Trenary married Carl L. Wellinger at Berryville on February 24, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier does not say where she lived; the register abstract gives Martinsburg. The OCR prints stray marks in her name. The register entry is cited, not merged. Her mother and uncle have no records here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The March 2, 1922 report of the wedding of Stella Augusta Trenary and Carl L. Wellinger.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 2, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-03-02 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report "Pretty Home Wedding Here"
Relevant passage- Miss Stella 'Augusta Trenary* and Mr. Carl L. WeUinger [Wellinger], of Martingsburg [Martinsburg], were quietly mat-; ried at the home of the bride's uncle aod [and] aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J.| W. Kercheval last Friday after ! noon at 2:3000 o’clock.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of the bride.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 2, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-03-02 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report "Pretty Home Wedding Here," the bride
Relevant passageShe is the daughter of 'the late A. B. Trenary and Mrs ‘Augusta G. Trenary. who was be fore her marriage Miss Augusta Stolle, of Berryville, and well re 'membered here.
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Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Carl L. Wellinger and Stella Augusta Trenary, February 24, 1922, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 171, register entry for the marriage of Carl L. Wellinger and Stella Augusta Trenary
Relevant passageWELLINGER, Carl L; s/o G. a Rachael Jane WELLINGER; 30y; sgl: mercantile business; b. Martinsburg W Va; res. 304 East Burke St.. Martinsburg. W Va; m. 24 Feb 1922 at Berryville to TRENARY, Stella Augusta; d/o A. B. a Augusta TRENARY; 27y; sgl; b. a res. Martinsburg W Va;
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Proposed: reported married (Clarke Courier, April 27, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C812
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of March 30, 1922 reports that Mrs. Jaquelin Smith Powers of Berryville announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Sophie Gieski Powers, to John Davidson Rhodes of Taplin, West Virginia. Its issue of April 27, 1922 reports that she was married to him at a home wedding the Saturday afternoon before, by Rev. George Vest, and that she is a granddaughter of the late Phillip M. Powers of "Auburn."
What the source supports
That Sophie Gieski Powers of Berryville married John Davidson Rhodes, as reported on April 27, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The March item prints her middle name "tiieske." No entry for the marriage was found in the OCR of Duncan's register abstract. Her mother's register row is held as an unresolved identity, so no kinship with her is recorded.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The March 30, 1922 announcement of their engagement.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 30, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-03-30 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item "Miss Sophie Powers' Engagement Announced"
Relevant passageMISS SOPHIE POWERS' ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED ... Mrs. Jaquelin Smith Powers, of Berryville, annouuced yesterday the engagement of her 'daughter, Miss Sophie tiieske [Gieski] Powers, to Mr. John Davidson Rhodes, of Taplin
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The April 27, 1922 report of the wedding of Sophie Gieski Powers and John Davidson Rhodes.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 27, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-27 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report of the wedding of Sophie Gieski Powers and John Davidson Rhodes
Relevant passage■A pretty ho-re [home] wedding was solemnized ;a t [last] Saturday aftei - noon at 4:30 r clock, when Miss Sophie Gieski Powers, daug‘1., [daughter of] Mrs. Jacquehn Smith Power-, was married to Mr. John Davia s n [Davidson] Rhodes, of Cary, W. Va.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of the couple.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 27, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-27 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report of the wedding of Sophie Gieski Powers and John Davidson Rhodes, the couple
Relevant passageThe bride is a granddaughter of the late Mdllip [Phillip] M. Powers, of “Auburn,” ... The bridegrcom is a son of Mrs. R. M. Rhodes, of Bethlehem, Pa., is a mining engineer with head quarters at Gary, W. Ya
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Proposed: named as his daughter in the report of her wedding (Clarke Courier, April 20, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C816
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke County, became the bride of Cornelius H. Webster at the Baptist Church on Easter Monday.
What the source supports
That John Gaunt of Clarke County was named in 1922 as the father of Virginia Gaunt.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his daughter's wedding report. The register abstract names the bride's parents John and Adelaide Virginia Gaunt; that entry is not cited for him. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The April 20, 1922 report of the wedding of Virginia Gaunt and Cornelius H. Webster.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 20, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-20 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Virginia Gaunt a Beautiful Bride"
Relevant passageMISS VIRGINIA GAUNT A BEAUTIFUL BRIDE ... Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke county, became the bride of Mr. Cornelius H. Webster, ot [of] Cumberland, Md., at a beautiful weJding [wedding] solemnized in the Baptist Church Easter Monday at 8 o’clock p. :r,. [m.] ... The ceremony was performed by Kcv. [Rev.] Nathan Maynard
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Proposed: reported married, April 17, 1922 (Clarke Courier, April 20, 1922; a register entry is cited as a second record)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C814
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke County, became the bride of Cornelius H. Webster of Cumberland, Maryland, at the Baptist Church on Easter Monday, with Rev. Nathan Maynard officiating, and that her brother Wilbur Gaunt gave her away. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Adelaide Virginia Gaunt, 25, daughter of John and Adelaide Virginia Gaunt, to Cornelius H. Webster at Berryville on April 17, 1922; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.
What the source supports
That Virginia Gaunt, daughter of John Gaunt, married Cornelius H. Webster at Berryville on April 17, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier gives her name as "Virginia Gaunt"; the register abstract gives "Adelaide Virginia." Both readings are kept. The register entry is cited, not merged. Her brother Wilbur Gaunt has no record here.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The April 20, 1922 report of the wedding of Virginia Gaunt and Cornelius H. Webster.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 20, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-20 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Virginia Gaunt a Beautiful Bride"
Relevant passageMISS VIRGINIA GAUNT A BEAUTIFUL BRIDE ... Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke county, became the bride of Mr. Cornelius H. Webster, ot [of] Cumberland, Md., at a beautiful weJding [wedding] solemnized in the Baptist Church Easter Monday at 8 o’clock p. :r,. [m.] ... The ceremony was performed by Kcv. [Rev.] Nathan Maynard
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of the wedding party.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 20, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-20 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Virginia Gaunt a Beautiful Bride," continued
Relevant passageher brother, Mr. Wilbur Gaunt, who gave 1 er [her] away. ... Mr. Webster* a young 1 • riness [business] man, js io th [is in the] 'vholesale [wholesale] confectionery business
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Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Cornelius H. Webster and Adelaide Virginia Gaunt, April 17, 1922, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 170, register entry for the marriage of Cornelius H. Webster and Adelaide Virginia Gaunt
Relevant passageWEBSTER. Cornelius H : s'o George 1A 3 Annie C. WEBSTER; 25y; sgl; salesman; b Cumber'and Md: res. 126 Bedford St., Cumberland Md; m 17 Apr 1922 at Benyx e to GAUNT, Adelaide Virginia; d/o John & Adelaide Virginia GAUNT 25y. sgl b. & res. ClrkVA;
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Proposed: reported married, May 31, 1922 (Clarke Courier, June 1, 1922; a register entry is cited as a second record)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C821
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922 reports that Miss Naomi Willingham, daughter of the late D. W. Willingham of Clarke County, married Arthur Ashwood at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Royston near Briggs on May 31. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Naomi Webster Willingham, 18, of Briggs, daughter of Daniel and Fannie Willingham, to Arthur Ashwood on May 31, 1922; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.
What the source supports
That Naomi Willingham of Briggs married Arthur Ashwood on May 31, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier gives her father as "D. W. Willingham"; the register abstract gives "Daniel." Both readings are kept. The OCR prints a stray mark before her name. The register entry is cited, not merged. She is not linked to any other Willingham.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The June 1, 1922 report of the wedding of Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 1, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-06-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report of the wedding of Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood
Relevant passageBriggs, May 31—Mis* [Miss] Naomi Willingham, daughter of the late D. W. Willingham of CladtM [Clarke] county, was married today at noon to Mr. Arthur Ashwood, son of Mr. S. M Ashwood, at the home of Mr. and Mr*. [Mrs.] E. P. Royston, near here. The cer«tno~ ny [ceremony] was performed by Rev. L. f. Harper> of Berryvill
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Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Arthur Ashwood and Naomi Webster Willingham, May 31, 1922, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 5, register entry for the marriage of Arthur Ashwood and Naomi Webster Willingham
Relevant passageASHWOOD, Arthur; s/o Samuel M. & C. Virginia ASHWOOD: 21y; sgl; farmer; b. ClrkVA; res. Boyce; m. 31 May 1922 at ClrkVA to WILLINGHAM, Naomi Webster; d/o Daniel & Fannie WILLINGHAM; 18y, sgl; b. ClrkVA; res. Briggs; (off) L. F. HARPER;
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Proposed: reported married, June 14, 1922 (Clarke Courier, June 15, 1922; a register entry is cited as a second record)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C825
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of June 15, 1922 reports from Millwood that Miss Evelyn Turpin, granddaughter of the late Capt. William N. Nelson, was married the afternoon before at Christ Episcopal Church to Sumner F. Dudley Walters of Montclair, New Jersey, by Rev. Charles Lee of Macon, Georgia, assisted by Rev. B. D. Chambers. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Evelyn Nelson Turpin, 23, of Millwood, daughter of Wm. C. and Evelyn Nelson Turpin, to Sumner Francis Dudley Walters at Millwood on June 14, 1922; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and place.
What the source supports
That Evelyn Turpin of Millwood married Sumner F. Dudley Walters on June 14, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier does not say where she lived; the register abstract gives Millwood. The register entry is cited, not merged. She is not linked to Rosa Woolfolk, though both are named granddaughters of Capt. Nelson.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The June 15, 1922 report of the wedding of Evelyn Turpin and Sumner F. Dudley Walters.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 15, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-06-15 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Beautiful Wedding at Christ Church"
Relevant passageBEAUTIFUL WEDDING AT CHRIST CHURCH Miss Evelyn Turpin, Granddaughter of Late Capt. Wm. N. Nelson, is the Bride of Mr. Sumner F. Dudley Walters, of Mountclair, N. J., 'Yesterday •Afternoon.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. Its account of the ceremony.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 15, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-06-15 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Beautiful Wedding at Christ Church," continued
Relevant passageand a 'grand daughter of the late Capt. Wm. N'. Nelson, was married to Mr. Sumner F. Dudley Walters, of Mountclair, N. J. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Charles Lee, of Macon, Ga.. assisted by Rev. B. D. Chambers, rector of Christ Church.
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Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Sumner Francis Dudley Walters and Evelyn Nelson Turpin, June 14, 1922, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 168, register entry for the marriage of Sumner Francis Dudley Walters and Evelyn Nelson Turpin
Relevant passageWALTERS, Sumner Francis Dudley: s/o Chas F. & Mary A. WALTERS: 24y; sgl; minister; b Newark N. J.: res. Lawrence Kansas; m. 14 Jun 1922 at Millwood to TURPIN. Evelyn Nelson d/o Wm. C. & Evelyn Nelson TURPIN 23y. sg: 0. Macon, Georgia, res Millwood;
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Proposed: reported married, November 1922 (Clarke Courier, November 30, 1922; a register entry is cited as a second record)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C831
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of November 30, 1922 reports that William Johnson and Miss Elsie Marie Jenkins, both of Clarke County, were married at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. L. L. Lowance on November 2, 1922. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Elsie Marie Jenkins, 18, of Berryville, daughter of Clarence and Naomi Jenkins, to Wm. Orlan Johnson, dated November 22, 1922; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names and officiant.
What the source supports
That Elsie Marie Jenkins of Clarke County married William Johnson in November 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier and the register abstract give different days, November 2 and November 22; both are kept. The OCR prints a stray mark in her name. The register entry is cited, not merged.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The November 30, 1922 notice of the marriage of William Johnson and Elsie Marie Jenkins.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 30, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-11-30 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, item "Married at M. E. Parsonage"
Relevant passageMarried at the Methodist parsonage. Ihy [by] Rev. L. L. Lowance on Wodnes Iduy [Wednesday],"November 2, 1922, William or . Ian Johnson and Miss Elsie Marie : Jenkins, both of Clarke county.
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Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Wm. Orlan Johnson and Elsie Marie Jenkins, dated November 22, 1922, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 82, register entry for the marriage of Wm. Orlan Johnson and Elsie Marie Jenkins
Relevant passageJOHNSON, Wm. Orlan; s/o Wm. Berry & Arabell JOHNSON: 25y: sgl: farming: b. ClrkVA: res. Berryville; m. 22 Nov 1922 at Berryville to JENKINS. Elsie Marie: d/o Clarence & Naomi JENKINS; 18y; sgl, b. ClrkVA; res Berryville; (off) L. L. LOWANCE;
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Proposed: reported married, December 8, 1923 (Clarke Courier, December 13, 1923; a register entry is cited as a second record)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C845
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of December 13, 1923 reports that Lennis Brown of Milldale and Miss Effie Butler of White Post were married at the Methodist parsonage on Saturday, December 8, by Rev. L. L. Lowance, and that the bride is a sister of Mrs. Alma R. Owens of Berryville. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Effie Butler, 18, of White Post, daughter of W. J. and L. C. Butler, to Linnis Brown at Berryville on December 8, 1923; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.
What the source supports
That Effie Butler of White Post married Lennis Brown on December 8, 1923.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The register entry is cited, not merged. The marriage and her sister are recorded as proposals from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The December 13, 1923 notice of the marriage of Lennis Brown and Effie Butler.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., December 13, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-12-13 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, notice "Married"
Relevant passageMARRIED On Saturday, December 8, U23 at the Methodist parsonage. Rev. L. L. Lowance, officiating. Mr. Lennis Brown, of Milldale, and Miss Effie Butler, of White Post. Va.. were united Inmarriage. The birde [bride] is a sister of Mrs. Alma R. Owens, of Berryville.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reference work Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Linnis Brown and Effie Butler, December 8, 1923, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 19, register entry for the marriage of Linnis Brown and Effie Butler
Relevant passageBROWN, Linnis; s/o W. B. & Hattie BROWN; 20y; sgl; farmer; b. & res. Milldale. m. 8 Dec 1923 at Berryville to BUTLER, Effie: d/o W. J. & L. C BUTLER; 18y; sgl; b. WrnVA; res. White Post; (off) Rev. L. L. LOWANCE;
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Proposed: named as her sister in her wedding notice (Clarke Courier, December 13, 1923)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C847
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of December 13, 1923, reporting the marriage of Lennis Brown and Miss Effie Butler of White Post, says the bride is a sister of Mrs. Alma R. Owens of Berryville.
What the source supports
That Alma R. Owens of Berryville was named in 1923 as a sister of Effie Butler.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her sister's wedding notice. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The December 13, 1923 notice of the marriage of Lennis Brown and Effie Butler.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., December 13, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-12-13 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, notice "Married"
Relevant passageMARRIED On Saturday, December 8, U23 at the Methodist parsonage. Rev. L. L. Lowance, officiating. Mr. Lennis Brown, of Milldale, and Miss Effie Butler, of White Post. Va.. were united Inmarriage. The birde [bride] is a sister of Mrs. Alma R. Owens, of Berryville.
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Proposed: named as her son in her obituary (Clarke Courier, August 25, 1921)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C856
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier of June 2, 1921 reports that D. D. Brown, who had recently bought the T. Eddy Brown building on Church Street, would put a glass front in it for his grocery store and butcher shop. Its issue of August 25, 1921 reports the death at Millwood of Mrs. Mary V. Brown, mother of R. C. Brown and D. D. Brown of Berryville.
What the source supports
That D. D. Brown of Berryville kept a grocery and butcher shop on Church Street in 1921 and was named as a son of Mary V. Brown.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The June item prints his initials "1). D." Reading the two items as the same man rests on the matching initials in Berryville. His mother is recorded as a proposal from her obituary.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The June 2, 1921 local item.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 2, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-06-02 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, local items
Relevant passageD Brown, who recently purchased the T. Eddy Brown build ing on Church street, will place a glass front in the building fot [for] his grocery store and butcher shop
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The August 25, 1921 obituary of Mrs. Mary V. Brown.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 25, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-08-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Mary V. Brown Dies: Was Long Ill"
Relevant passageMrs. Mary V. Brown, mother of Messrs. R. C. Brown and D. D. Brown of Berryville. died at her home at Millwood Monday after a long illness with Bright's disease.
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Proposed: named as her daughter (Clarke Courier, August 31, 1922)
? UnconfirmedEvidence C875
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsThe Clarke Courier's Minnie Wood letter of June 15, 1922 reports that Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rutherford of White Post visited the home of John Rutherford. Its letter of August 31, 1922 reports that Miss Estelle Rutherford, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rutherford of White Post, was improving after having her tonsils removed. Its notes of September 20, 1923 report that Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rutherford spent Sunday with the former's sisters, the Misses Mary and Minnie Rutherford.
What the source supports
That Mrs. C. A. Rutherford of White Post was named in 1922 as the mother of Estelle Rutherford.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is given only by her husband's initials. An April 1922 item naming a Mr. and Mrs. "L. A." Rutherford of White Post is not cited, since reading it as C. A. would be a guess. Her daughter is recorded as a proposal.
Source
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The June 15, 1922 Minnie Wood letter.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 15, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-06-15 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, Minnie Wood letter
Relevant passageMr. and Mrs. C. A. Rutherford of White Post, visited the home of Mr, John Rutherford Sunday.
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Reporting Evidence role: supports. The August 31, 1922 Minnie Wood letter.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 31, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-08-31 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, Minnie Wood letter
Relevant passageMiss Estelle Rutherford, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C- A. Rutherford, of White Post, is im proving rapidly after the remov al of her tonsils at the Clinic on last Thursday.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Reporting Evidence role: supports. The September 20, 1923 Minnie Wood notes.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 20, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-09-20 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, Minnie Wood Chapel notes
Relevant passageMr. and Mrs. C. A. Rutherford, of White Post, spent Sunday with the | formers sisters, Misses Mary and Minnie Rutherford,
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Likely the same man: a Co. D, 6th Virginia Cavalry soldier's compiled service record shows him signing his own name both "Jas[James] Louis Ashby" and "Lewis Ashby"
✓ Supported by a sourceEvidence C1428
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsIn the same compiled service record, the soldier signs a November 1861 ration-commutation voucher in his own hand "Jas Louis Ashby", and a separate 1863 Confederate-States voucher for Signal Corps extra-service pay "Lewis Ashby" -- the full given name "James" (as "Jas") and the name "Lewis" both written by the same man, in his own signature, in the same CSR file.
What the source supports
That the man this file calls "J. Lewis Ashby" signed his own name, on different occasions, both as "Jas[James] Louis Ashby" and as "Lewis Ashby" -- direct documentary evidence that "James L." (the form in the VMI Memorial's sketch of James L. Ashby) and "Lewis" (the form Gold prints for the man killed at Trevilian Station) could be one and the same man using two forms of his own name.
Uncertainty
This establishes only that one man of Co. D, 6th Virginia Cavalry used both name forms himself; it does not by itself establish that THIS man is the one the VMI Memorial calls James L. Ashby or the one Gold's roll calls Lewis Ashby, since no record read here names both the VMI sketch's or Gold's own facts (birth date, parents, place, or the Trevilian Station death) alongside either signature. The two signatures are read as "Jas Louis Ashby" and "Lewis Ashby"; the middle/second name could also be read "Lewis" in the first signature (the two readings look alike in this hand) -- either reading still carries a plain "Jas" for James. Read once, at 2.2-3x render resolution, directly from the downloaded Fold3 scan; not independently re-read a second time. No human historian has reviewed this claim. A closer look at the 1863 voucher at full resolution (October 10, 2026) shows a single long stroke before "Lewis Ashby"; it may be an initial "J" or a stray pen stroke, so the signature may read "J Lewis Ashby". Either way the soldier wrote "Lewis" as his own form of the name. A January 1864 forage requisition in the same file (C1429) carries "Lewis Ashby" and "Jas L Ashby" on one sheet.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. Nov. 1861 voucher, signed "Jas Louis Ashby".
Compiled service record of J. Lewis Ashby, Co. D, 6th Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), NARA M324, as viewed on Fold3
U.S. War Department (compiled service records of Confederate soldiers), National Archives microfilm publication M324
Locator: Fold3 file id 7948999, "Ashby, J Lewis", Sixth Cavalry; a Confederate States ration-commutation voucher, page 17 of 23 within the file
Relevant passageThe Confederate States To J. L. Ashby Dr. 1861 Nov 1st For Commutation of Rations for 36 days from July 3rd 1861 to August 8th 1861, while on detached service at 75 cents per day ... $27.00 ... Received at Winchester Nov 5th 1861 Twenty seven dollars in full of above acct. Jas Louis Ashby
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Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. 1863 Signal Corps voucher, signed "Lewis Ashby".
Compiled service record of J. Lewis Ashby, Co. D, 6th Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), NARA M324, as viewed on Fold3
U.S. War Department (compiled service records of Confederate soldiers), National Archives microfilm publication M324
Locator: Fold3 file id 7948999, "Ashby, J Lewis", Sixth Cavalry; a Confederate States extra-service pay voucher, page 19 of 23 within the file
Relevant passageThe Confederate States To J. L. Ashby Co. D, 6th Va. Cav. Dr. 1863 For extra service as a member of Lt. Bellinger's Signal Corps from April 18th '63 to July 4th '63 (inclusive) = 78 days @ 40 cts per day ... $31.20 ... Received at Orange C[ourt] H[ouse] the 1st day of January 1864 of [P. H. ?] Major & Q.M.C.S. Army the sum of Thirty-one Dollars & twenty cents in full of the above account. (Signed in duplicate.) Lewis Ashby
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Evidence C1429
✓ Supported by a sourceAn account existsIn the same compiled service record (Fold3 file id 7948999), a Confederate requisition for forage for one public horse for January 1864, at Harrisonburg Hospital, is made out "in the service of Lewis Ashby, Company D, 6th Regiment of Va Cavy" and is signed twice, at the certificate and at the receipt, "Jas L Ashby Co D 6th Regt". The forage, 372 pounds of corn and 434 pounds of hay, was received at Harrisonburg on January 1, 1864.
What the source supports
One document, of one date, in which "Lewis Ashby" in the body and "Jas L Ashby" in the signature are the same Co. D, 6th Virginia Cavalry soldier.
Uncertainty
The name in the body appears to be in the same hand as the signatures, so the sheet shows the soldier writing his name both ways, not a clerk matching two names. It names none of the VMI Memorial's facts (birth, parents) and says nothing of Gold's Trevilian Station death, so the identity link between James L. Ashby and Lewis Ashby stays Likely. The document does not explain "Harrisonburg Hospital" on its place line. This is an original voucher kept in the file, not one of the War Department's abstract cards. Read from the downloaded Fold3 scan at full resolution; no human historian has reviewed this claim.
Source
Contemporary document Evidence role: supports. The January 1864 forage requisition: "Lewis Ashby" in the body, "Jas L Ashby" in both signatures.
Compiled service record of J. Lewis Ashby, Co. D, 6th Virginia Cavalry (Confederate), NARA M324, as viewed on Fold3
U.S. War Department (compiled service records of Confederate soldiers), National Archives microfilm publication M324
Locator: Fold3 file id 7948999, "Ashby, J Lewis", Sixth Cavalry; a Requisition for Forage for Public Horses for January 1864, page 15 of 23 within the file
Relevant passageREQUISITION for Forage for Public Horses, one in the service of Lewis Ashby Company D 6th Regiment, of Va Cavy C. S. Army, for 31 days, commencing the 1st of January 1864, and ending on the 31st of January 1864, at Harrisonburg Hospital ... I certify, on honor, that the above Requisition is correct and just ... Jas L Ashby Co D 6th Regt ... Received, at Harrisonburg the 1st of January 1864, of Capt A Baker A Qr Mr ... 372 pounds of corn ... 434 pounds of hay ... in full of the above Requisition. Jas L Ashby Co D 6th Regt Cav
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