Person

E. Stover Cooper

Stonemason of Boyce and a Methodist for 54 years, who died of pneumonia at 74 in March 1922 and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of March 23, 1922 reports from Boyce that E. Stover Cooper died of pneumonia the Tuesday afternoon before, aged 74, after several weeks' illness, and was to be buried in Green Hill Cemetery after services at the Methodist church. It says he was a stonemason by trade and for 54 years a member of the Methodist church.

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What the source supports

That E. Stover Cooper, a Boyce stonemason, died at 74, as reported on March 23, 1922.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item dates the death only as "Tuesday afternoon." His widow and children have no records here.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The March 23, 1922 obituary.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 23, 1922

Clarke Courier · 1922-03-23 (publication)

Locator: Page 4, obituary "E. Stover Cooper Dies at Boyce"

Relevant passage

Boyce. March 22. — Mr. E. Stover Cooper, a well known citizen of this community, died Tuesday afternoon from pneumonia, with which he had been ill for several weeks. ... interment made in Green Hill Cemetery at Berryville. Mr. Cooper was 74 years of age. For 54 years he had been a consistent member of the Methodist church. He was a ^tone mason [stonemason] by trade

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

Open source

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

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