Harriet Washington
Berryville woman, daughter of Dr. Henry Washington and great-granddaughter of Warner Washington, who died in February 1921 aged 89, after living all her life in the Washington cottage on West Main Street.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of February 17, 1921 reports that Miss Harriet Washington, a daughter of the late Dr. Henry Washington, for years a prominent physician of Clarke County, and a great-granddaughter of Warner Washington, first cousin of George Washington, died on the Tuesday night before of the infirmities of old age. It gives her age as 89, and says she had lived all her life with her sister, Miss Virginia Washington, in the Washington cottage on West Main Street.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of February 17, 1921 reports that Miss Harriet Washington, a daughter of the late Dr. Henry Washington, for years a prominent physician of Clarke County, and a great-granddaughter of Warner Washington, first cousin of George Washington, died on the Tuesday night before of the infirmities of old age. It gives her age as 89, and says she had lived all her life with her sister, Miss Virginia Washington, in the Washington cottage on West Main Street.
What the source supports
That Harriet Washington of Berryville, daughter of Dr. Henry Washington, died in February 1921 at the age the item gives as 89.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item prints her year of birth as "1883," which cannot agree with an age of 89; neither was checked. Its account of her ancestry is the paper's own. Her sister has no record here.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The February 17, 1921 obituary.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 17, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-02-17 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Miss Harriet Washington, of Noted Family, Dies"
Relevant passageMfiw [Miss] Harriet Washington, a daughter of the late Dr. Henry Washington, for years a prominent physician of Clarke eounty and great granddanghter of Warner Washington, first cousin of George Washington, died Tuesday night at 11 o'clock from the inftrmatlveB [infirmities] of old age. 8he [She] was 89 years old, haring been born in Berryrlile [Berryville] in the brick house, now occupied by Mrs. Estelle Kerfoot, in 1883.
Checked: Original inspected. A digital reproduction was inspected; no original has been handled.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. Its account of her home.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 17, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-02-17 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Miss Harriet Washington, of Noted Family, Dies," continued
Relevant passageMiss Virginia V^as^fKg ton [Washington], with whom she had lived all-her Ufe [life] in the Washington cottage on West Main street.
Checked: Original inspected. A digital reproduction was inspected; no original has been handled.
Open sourceSource 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
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