Person

Albert Curtis

Wadesville man named in January 1923 among the four surviving children of E. R. Curtis, farmer and former civil engineer.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of January 18, 1923 reports that E. R. Curtis of Wadesville, formerly a civil engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died the Saturday before, about 65, and names Albert Curtis of Wadesville among his four surviving children.

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The Clarke Courier of January 18, 1923 reports that E. R. Curtis of Wadesville, formerly a civil engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died the Saturday before, about 65, and names Albert Curtis of Wadesville among his four surviving children.

What the source supports

That Albert Curtis of Wadesville was named in 1923 as a son of E. R. Curtis.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his father's death notice, which prints the father's initials "K K." His father has no record here, so no kinship record is made.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The January 18, 1923 item.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 18, 1923

Clarke Courier · 1923-01-18 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, item "E. R. Curtis, Farmer and Civil Engineer, Dead"

Relevant passage
Mr. K K. [E. R.] Curtis, of Wadesville and a brother-in-law of Mr. Edgar Carter of Berryville. died last Satur jay r being ill with grip. He was about 65 years old. ... A wife and four children survive Mrs. Taylor and Mr. Ray Cures, of Winchester; and Albert Curtis and Miss Beatrice Curtis of Wadesville

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

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