Elizabeth Simons Hart
Berryville Baptist church worker, wife of William E. Hart and daughter of Elijah Simons, who died at 36 after an operation at the Winchester Memorial Hospital in 1921.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of March 3, 1921 reports that Mrs. Elizabeth Simons Hart, wife of William E. Hart, died on the Sunday before of surgical pneumonia following an operation at the Winchester Memorial Hospital. It says she was 36, a daughter of Elijah Simons of Berryville and an earnest worker in the Baptist church, and that her husband, her father and a brother, Harry Simons, survived her. Its issue of March 10, 1921 reports that her funeral at the Baptist Church drew one of the largest crowds ever gathered there, and that she had been an active member of the church's Ladies' Aid and Missionary societies, the W. C. T. U., the King's Daughters and the Woman's Auxiliary of the American Legion.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of March 3, 1921 reports that Mrs. Elizabeth Simons Hart, wife of William E. Hart, died on the Sunday before of surgical pneumonia following an operation at the Winchester Memorial Hospital. It says she was 36, a daughter of Elijah Simons of Berryville and an earnest worker in the Baptist church, and that her husband, her father and a brother, Harry Simons, survived her. Its issue of March 10, 1921 reports that her funeral at the Baptist Church drew one of the largest crowds ever gathered there, and that she had been an active member of the church's Ladies' Aid and Missionary societies, the W. C. T. U., the King's Daughters and the Woman's Auxiliary of the American Legion.
What the source supports
That Elizabeth Simons Hart of Berryville died at 36 after an operation at the Winchester Memorial Hospital, as reported on March 3, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR prints "Eurabeth" and "Han." The item dates the death only as "Sunday." The March 10 item's last word, "American," runs into a block not read here. Her husband and brother have no records here; her father is linked by proposal.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The March 3, 1921 obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Simons Hart.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 3, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-03-03 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Elizabeth Hart Dies in Hospital"
Relevant passageMrs. Eurabeth [Elizabeth] Simons Hart, wife of Mr. Wi’liam E. Han [Hart], paired [passed] away Sunday attcraoon [afternoon] at 6 o'clock from an attack of surgical pneumonia, which developed Saturday following a severe operation j Winchester Memorial hospital.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. Its account of her family and church work.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 3, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-03-03 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Elizabeth Hart Dies in Hospital," continued
Relevant passageMrs. Hr,it [Hart] was Miss Elizabeth Simons beforj [before] her marr,age She was 36 year* old and the d .ughter of Mr Elijah Simons, of Birryvi’le [Berryville]. She was an earnest church worker in the Baptist fold ... She is survived by a devoted hus oand [husband], her father. Mr. Elijah Simons, and a brother, Mr. H.irry [Harry] Simons, a veteran of the world war.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The March 10, 1921 report of the funeral.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 10, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-03-10 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item "Funeral of Mrs. Hart Largely Attended"
Relevant passageFUNERAL OF MRS. HART LARGELY ATTENDED The funeral services over the body of Mrs. W. E. Hart, who died in the Winchester Memorial Hospital following rn [an] operation, brought to the Baptist Church last Wednesday one of the largest crowds which ever gathered there ... Mrs Hart was an active member cf [of] the Ladies' Aid Society and Missionary Society of the church, of the W. C. T. U., the King’s Daughters and the Woman's Auxiliary of the American
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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Also indexed as: Mrs. Elizabeth Simons Hart; Mrs. W. E. Hart. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.
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