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.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of July 7, 1921, in its Minnie Wood letter, reports that little Billy Gaunt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Gaunt, was very badly scalded on Tuesday morning when he fell back into a bucket of hot water.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of July 7, 1921, in its Minnie Wood letter, reports that little Billy Gaunt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Gaunt, was very badly scalded on Tuesday morning when he fell back into a bucket of hot water.
What the source supports
That Billy Gaunt, a small child, was badly scalded in 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item gives no age. It is not joined to the record of Wilbur Gaunt of Berryville, since reading the two as the same man would rest on the name alone.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The July 7, 1921 Minnie Wood letter.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., July 7, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-07-07 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, Minnie Wood letter
Relevant passageLittle Billy Gaunt, son of Mr. at.d Wrs. Wilbur Gaunt, was very badly scalded Tuesday morning when he fell back into a bucket of hot water.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-16. How this project checks its sources
Also indexed as: Little Billy Gaunt. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.
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