Cora Shackleford
Berryville trained nurse, daughter of John H. Shackleford, who nursed through the town's epidemic of pneumonia and grip and died of pneumonia in February 1922.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of March 2, 1922 reports that Miss Cora Shackleford, daughter of the late John H. Shackleford and Mary Lancaster Shackleford of Berryville, died the Tuesday night before of pneumonia at the home of her sister, Mrs. Clinton Newcomb. It says she was a trained nurse and that during the epidemic of pneumonia and grip in Berryville she answered every call to duty.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of March 2, 1922 reports that Miss Cora Shackleford, daughter of the late John H. Shackleford and Mary Lancaster Shackleford of Berryville, died the Tuesday night before of pneumonia at the home of her sister, Mrs. Clinton Newcomb. It says she was a trained nurse and that during the epidemic of pneumonia and grip in Berryville she answered every call to duty.
What the source supports
That Cora Shackleford, a Berryville trained nurse, died of pneumonia, as reported on March 2, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The cited passage does not include her war service or birth date given later in the obituary. The item dates the death only as "Tuesday night." Her family have no records here.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The March 2, 1922 obituary.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 2, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-03-02 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Miss Cora Shackleford Victim of Pneumonia"
Relevant passageMiss Cora Shackleford, daughter of the late John H. Shackleford and Mary Lancaster Shack ieford [Shackleford], of Berryville, died Tuesday night at 9 o’clock, following a lingering illness with peneumo nia [pneumonia]. Death came at the home of ner [her] sister, Mrs. Clinton Newcomb Miss Shackleford, who was a trained nurse with a notable career ... During the epidemic of pneumonia and grip in Berryville she left no call to duty unanswered.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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