Person

Dorothy Murphy

Berryville woman who was maid of honor at the wedding of Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood near Briggs in May 1922.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922, reporting the wedding of Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood at the Royston home near Briggs, names Miss Dorothy Murphy of Berryville as maid of honor.

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✓ Supported by a sourceAn account exists

The Clarke Courier of June 1, 1922, reporting the wedding of Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood at the Royston home near Briggs, names Miss Dorothy Murphy of Berryville as maid of honor.

What the source supports

That Dorothy Murphy of Berryville was maid of honor at the Willingham-Ashwood wedding in May 1922.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from this report, which prints the surname "Murpny." She is not linked to any other Murphy.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The June 1, 1922 report of the wedding of Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 1, 1922

Clarke Courier · 1922-06-01 (publication)

Locator: Page 4, report of the wedding of Naomi Willingham and Arthur Ashwood, attendants

Relevant passage

in the parlor of the Roystott [Royston] home. Miss Dorothy Murpny [Murphy] of Berryville was Maid of Honor

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) · 2026-09-16. How this project checks its sources

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

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