Person

Ella Hughes

The first-grade teacher at Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, named on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and in its staff notice of September, which places her in the old building on Academy Street.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Mrs. Ella Hughes as the first-grade teacher at Berryville High School, and the Courier of September 17, 1925 lists her as the first-grade teacher in the other building, the old building on Academy Street.

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What the source supports

That Ella Hughes was named the first-grade teacher at Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The July OCR prints a stray period before her surname. The July list records appointments announced for the session, not who taught during it. The September notice speaks of the principal of the high school and of two buildings without naming the school; it is read as Berryville High School because its principal and teachers match the July list. "The other building" is read as the old building on Academy Street, which the same notice puts in Miss Fenton's charge.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The Berryville High School entry in the July 9, 1925 list.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)

Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, Berryville High School

Relevant passage

Berryville High School -- Mr. D. G. Cooley, principal, Miss Frances Wolfe, assistant principal, Mrs. Louise Kerfoot and Miss Willie M. Snouffer, high school; Miss Ella Holland, 7th grade, Mrs. Mary D. Sowers, 6th, Miss Beatrice Kackley, 5th, Mrs. Wilbur Price, 4th and 5th, Miss Agnes Fenton, 4th, ... Mrs. Ella Hughes, 1st.

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

Open source

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

Reporting

Evidence role: contextualizes. The headline and opening of the same list: the School Board's appointments for the 1925-26 session.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)

Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, headline and opening

Relevant passage

FILL POSITIONS COUNTY SCHOOLS. Teachers Named for All Schools and Grades -- New Boyce Principal. Appointments of teachers for the various schols [schools] of the County for the session of 1925-26 have been announced by Dr. C. O. Dearmont, chairman of the School Board, as listed by the Division Superintendent, Mr. Leslie D. Kline. The places are to be filled as follows:

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

Open source

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

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The September 17, 1925 notice of the grade teachers in each building.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 17, 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-09-17 (publication)

Locator: Page 5, item headed Miss Fenton In Charge: the grade teachers in each building

Relevant passage

The intermediate grade teachers are: Miss Ella Holland, seventh, Mrs. Mary D. Sowers, sixth, Miss Beatrice Kackley, fifth, Mrs. Wilbur Price, fourth and fifth, all in the new building on Main street. The teachers in the other building are: Miss Agnes Fenton, fourth and assistant principal it [in] charge; Miss Helen Chrisman, of Winchester, third, Miss O. Ward, second, and Mrs. Ella Hughes, first.

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

Open source

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

Reporting

Evidence role: contextualizes. The opening of the same notice, which names the old building on Academy Street.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 17, 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-09-17 (publication)

Locator: Page 5, item headed Miss Fenton In Charge: the old building, the principal and his assistants

Relevant passage

Miss Fenton In Charge. Miss Agnes Fenton, teacher of the fourth grade in the old school building on Academy street, has been put in charge of the building. Mr D. G. Cooley, principal of the high school, is in charge at the new building, ... and his assistants in that department are the same. They are Miss Frances Wolfe, assistant principal, Mrs. Louise Kerfoot and Miss Willie Morris Snouffer.

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) · 2026-09-14. How this project checks its sources

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