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Galilean Fishermen Society

A fraternal society that the People's Journal listed as meeting on the first and third Thursday of each month in 1910 and 1912, and reported turning out in full regalia at a funeral in 1910.

What the sources support

The People's Journal's standing church directory lists the "Gallean Fishermen" (the Galilean Fishermen) as meeting on the first and third Thursday of each month, in June 1910 and again in January 1912.

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The People's Journal's standing church directory lists the "Gallean Fishermen" (the Galilean Fishermen) as meeting on the first and third Thursday of each month, in June 1910 and again in January 1912.

What the source supports

That the Galilean Fishermen kept a regular twice-monthly meeting schedule, carried in the paper's church directory, across at least a year and a half.

Uncertainty

The June 1910 entry was read on the page image, page 1: it prints "Gallean Fishermen" and says the society "meets twice a month, first and third Thursd[ay] in each month." The January 1912 entry is a transcription and was not re-read. A directory lists an intended schedule, not meetings held, and neither entry says where the society met or who belonged. The two entries come from one newspaper and are not independent of each other.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The June 1910 directory entry.

People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 June 1910, Vol. XVI No. 173

G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1910-06-01 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, "Directory" column, entry "Gallean Fishermen."

Relevant passage
GALLEAN FISHERMEN. The Gallean Fishermen meets twice a month, first and third Thursd[ay] in each month.

Checked: Original inspected. A digital reproduction was inspected; no original has been handled.

Open source

Source family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The January 1912 directory entry.

People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 January 1912, Vol. XVII No. 192

G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1912-01-01 (publication)

Locator: Page 2, standing church directory

Relevant passage
Galilean Fishermen -- first and third Thursday.

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

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Source family: peoples-journal. 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

The People's Journal of June 1, 1910, in its obituary of Mrs. Sarah E. Mills, reported that she was a member of the "Gallean Fishermen Society" (the Galilean Fishermen), which "turned out in full Regalia and performed their whole duty."

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The People's Journal of June 1, 1910, in its obituary of Mrs. Sarah E. Mills, reported that she was a member of the "Gallean Fishermen Society" (the Galilean Fishermen), which "turned out in full Regalia and performed their whole duty."

What the source supports

That the society had regalia in 1910 and took a formal part in a funeral.

Uncertainty

Read on the page image, page 2. The obituary does not say what the society's duty was. Its report of her burial at Milton Valley is a separate record. Nothing in it names Fishermen Hall.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The June 1910 funeral report.

People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 June 1910, Vol. XVI No. 173

G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1910-06-01 (publication)

Locator: Page 2, obituary "Death of Mrs. S. E. Mills", sentence on the Gallean Fishermen Society

Relevant passage
Mrs. Sarah E. Mills was a member the Gallean Fishermen Society, which turned out in full Regalia and performed their whole duty.

Checked: Original inspected. A digital reproduction was inspected; no original has been handled.

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Source family: peoples-journal. 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

The People's Journal of May 1, 1913 printed an obituary of Mrs. Malinda Burns recording that she had joined Galilean Fishermen Tabernacle No. 14 in 1896.

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The People's Journal of May 1, 1913 printed an obituary of Mrs. Malinda Burns recording that she had joined Galilean Fishermen Tabernacle No. 14 in 1896.

What the source supports

That the Galilean Fishermen had a tabernacle numbered 14 which a member was remembered as joining in 1896, fourteen years before the order appears in the paper's church directory.

Uncertainty

The wording is a transcription of the People's Journal, which condenses some entries; the newspaper OCR was not re-read for this claim. The printed page was not recorded. An obituary's account, printed seventeen years after the year it gives. That Tabernacle No. 14 is the Galilean Fishermen Society of the 1910 and 1912 directories is probable, not established, and whether it is the Gideon's Tabernacle No. 14 whose resolution the paper printed in 1910 is not established either.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The May 1913 obituary.

People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 May 1913, Vol. XVII No. 108

G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1913-05-01 (publication)

Locator: Obituary of Mrs. Malinda Burns, printed page not recorded

Relevant passage
joined Galilean Fishermen Tabernacle No. 14 in 1896

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Source family: peoples-journal. 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

The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 reported the death of Mrs. Sarah E. Mills, about 63, with a funeral at the Free Baptist Church, Rev. B. F. Thomas officiating; it said she was a member of the "Gallean Fishermen Society" (the Galilean Fishermen), which "turned out in full Regalia and performed their whole duty," and that her remains were followed by a long procession "to the Milton Valley Cemetery."

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The People's Journal of June 1, 1910 reported the death of Mrs. Sarah E. Mills, about 63, with a funeral at the Free Baptist Church, Rev. B. F. Thomas officiating; it said she was a member of the "Gallean Fishermen Society" (the Galilean Fishermen), which "turned out in full Regalia and performed their whole duty," and that her remains were followed by a long procession "to the Milton Valley Cemetery."

What the source supports

A 1910 burial at the cemetery, and the Gallean Fishermen Society's part in the funeral of a member.

Uncertainty

The obituary, read on the page image, is dated May 21, 1910 at its foot, while the Rose of Sharn resolution on the same page gives her death as May 26, 1910; the dates are not reconciled here. Nothing in it names Fishermen Hall, and the 1926 Fishermen Hall is not identified with the society beyond the name.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The obituary, read on the page image.

People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 June 1910, Vol. XVI No. 173

G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1910-06-01 (publication)

Locator: Page 2, obituary "Death of Mrs. S. E. Mills"

Relevant passage
Mrs. Sarah E. Mills, resident of this town and county died Thursday evening ... She was aged about 63 years ... The funeral was held from the Free Baptist Church Saturday after noon at 3 o'clock, Rev. B. F. Thomas officiating. Mrs. Sarah E. Mills was a member the Gallean Fishermen Society, which turned out in full Regalia and performed their whole duty. The remains followed by a long prosession of those wished to pay the last tribute of respect to the Milton Valley Cemetery. May 21, 1910.

Checked: Original inspected. A digital reproduction was inspected; no original has been handled.

Open source

Source family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The sentence on the Gallean Fishermen Society.

People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 June 1910, Vol. XVI No. 173

G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1910-06-01 (publication)

Locator: Page 2, obituary "Death of Mrs. S. E. Mills", sentence on the Gallean Fishermen Society

Relevant passage
Mrs. Sarah E. Mills was a member the Gallean Fishermen Society, which turned out in full Regalia and performed their whole duty.

Checked: Original inspected. A digital reproduction was inspected; no original has been handled.

Open source

Source family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

Reporting

Evidence role: complicates. The Rose of Sharn resolution's date of death, May 26, 1910.

People's Journal, Berryville, Va., 1 June 1910, Vol. XVI No. 173

G. L. D. Harris, editor and proprietor · 1910-06-01 (publication)

Locator: Page 2, resolution by order of Rose of Sharn Juvenile Tab. No. 61, on the death of Sarah E. Mills

Relevant passage
God in his divine wisdom has again visited Rose of Sharn Juvenils, Tab. No. 61 and takeu [taken] from our midst our beloved sister and Guardian in the person of sister Sarah E. Mills, who departed this life May 26, 1910 at her home in Berryville, Va. ... Done by order of Rose of Sharm Juvenile Tab. No. 61, PHILLIP PAGE, R. W R. EDWARD M. JONES, R. W. S.

Checked: Original inspected. A digital reproduction was inspected; no original has been handled.

Open source

Source family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5.5) · 2026-09-26. How this project checks its sources

Also indexed as: Galilean Fishermen; Gallean Fishermen; Gallean Fishermen Society.

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What the evidence says The 1909 Courier's account of forty-one founders in 1879, the company's 1910 advertisement and the 1926 board notice, read on the page images, show a Black-run cemetery company with stockholders, a monument and a yearly $1.00 charge on lot holders. Courier notices from 1897 to 1945 record burials there, including people brought home from Illinois and Detroit.

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