Person

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.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of May 10, 1923 reports that Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wright of West Main Street were receiving congratulations on the arrival of a daughter on Sunday, May 6. Its issue of September 13, 1923 reports that Miss Irene Wright, daughter of Arthur Wright of Berryville, and Edwin L. Yancey of Washington were married at the bride's home on September 4. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Irene Wright, 19, daughter of Arthur Wright and Margaret Carroll, to Edwin Lynwood Yancey at Berryville on September 4, 1923; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.

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What the source supports

That Arthur Wright of Berryville was named in 1923 as the father of Irene Wright, married on September 4, 1923.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. Reading the May personal item as the same man rests on the matching name in Berryville. The infant daughter is not named. His daughter Irene has no record here, so no kinship record is made. The register entry is cited, not merged.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The May 10, 1923 personal item.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., May 10, 1923

Clarke Courier · 1923-05-10 (publication)

Locator: Page 4, personal items

Relevant passage

Mr. and Mrs Arthur Wright of f *vest [West] main street, are receiving the t congratulations of their many friend J a [on] the arrival of a daughter, who r ..me [came] on Sunday May 6th.

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

Open source

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

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The September 13, 1923 wedding notice.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 13, 1923

Clarke Courier · 1923-09-13 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, item "Miss Irene Wright Weds Mr. E. L. Yancey of Washington, D. C."

Relevant passage

MISS IRENE WRIGHT WEDS MR. E. L. YANCEY OF WASHINGTON, D. C. Mr. Edwin L. Yancey, of Washington, D. C., and Miss Irene Wright, daughter of Mr. Arthur Wright, of Berryvllle, were marled at the bride's home on September 4th, at 3 P. M. by the Rev. L. F. Harper.

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

Open source

Source 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 Edwin Lynwood Yancey and Irene Wright, daughter of Arthur Wright, September 4, 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 183, register entry for the marriage of Edwin Lynwood Yancey and Irene Wright

Relevant passage

YANCEY, Edwin Lynwood; s/o Edwin Louis & Edith Marie YANSEY; 26y: sgl; interior decorator; b. CulpVA: res. WashDC: m 4 Sep 1923 at Berryville to WRIGHT, Irene; d/o Arthur WRIGHT & Margaret CARROLL; 19y; sgl;

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

Open source

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

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