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.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, reports that Miss Catherine Funkhouser of White Post captured the prize for the best baby beef in the Boys' and Girls' Department.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of August 17, 1922, in its report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair, reports that Miss Catherine Funkhouser of White Post captured the prize for the best baby beef in the Boys' and Girls' Department.
What the source supports
That Catherine Funkhouser of White Post showed the prize baby beef at the 1922 Berryville fair.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The award list splits her surname across a line. She is not linked to any other Funkhouser.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The August 17, 1922 report of the Berryville Horse Show and Fair.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 17, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-08-17 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, report "Horse Show and Fair Best Ever Held in Clarke"
Relevant passageHORSE SHOW AND FAIR BEST EVER HELD IN CLARICE [CLARKE] ... That sums up the-opinion of be tween eight and nine thousand people who attended the eBrry ville [Berryville] Horse Show and Fair last Wednesday and Thursday.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. Its list of awards in the Boys' and Girls' Department.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 17, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-08-17 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, awards in the Boys' and Girls' Department
Relevant passageMiss Catherine Funkhouser, oi White Post, captured the pri7e [prize] for exhibiting the best baby beef in the Boys’ and Girls’ Depart ment ... Poland China Pigs, Harry Ver non Pifer, first; Regina Pifer, sec ond ; Poland China Pigs, Kenneth Simpson, first; Melissa McKay second; Dearing McKay, third James Simpson, fourth. ... Hampshire Pigs, Robert Har desty, first; Wm. Clevenger, sec ond.
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
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