Person

Bessie Thornton

Bessie Thornton, listed as a teacher for the Riverside school in the Clarke Courier's teacher appointments of July 1923.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923, in a list of teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, lists Miss Bessie Thornton under Riverside.

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The Clarke Courier of July 19, 1923, in a list of teacher appointments already made for the county's schools, lists Miss Bessie Thornton under Riverside.

What the source supports

That Bessie Thornton was among the teachers listed for the Riverside school in the Courier's appointments of July 1923.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The list calls itself partially complete, and it records appointments announced in July, not who taught during the session. It gives no location, grades or enrollment for the school; none is inferred.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The July 19, 1923 list of teacher appointments.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., July 19, 1923

Clarke Courier · 1923-07-19 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, list of teacher appointments for the county's schools

Relevant passage

Several positions in the county's teaching ofrce [force] have not been filled as yet, so that the list given below is only partially complete. The list of appointments already made is: ... Riverside, Miss Bessie Thornton; Miss Clara Rush. ... Oak Grove, Miss Josephine Stipe. Hawthorne, Miss Carolyn Kackley. ... Pine Grove, Miss Elsie Kelley. ... Providence Chapel, Miss Hazel Martin.; Miss Elva Kelley. ... Mt. Carmel, Miss Mary Wharton. Shenandoah, Mr. Emmett Day. ... Millwood Col., Lawrence Phillipps;

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

Open source

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

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-15. How this project checks its sources

Also indexed as: Miss Bessie Thornton. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.

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