Irene Ruth Peyton
Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Peyton, who died at their home at Boyce on April 14, 1922, aged three months and seven days, and was buried at the Old Chapel.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 prints a notice that Irene Ruth Peyton, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Peyton, died at her home at Boyce on Friday, April 14, 1922, aged three months and seven days, and was buried in the Old Chapel cemetery.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of April 27, 1922 prints a notice that Irene Ruth Peyton, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Peyton, died at her home at Boyce on Friday, April 14, 1922, aged three months and seven days, and was buried in the Old Chapel cemetery.
What the source supports
That Irene Ruth Peyton died at Boyce on April 14, 1922, aged three months.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The notice gives no cause beyond "disease." Her father is linked by proposal.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The April 27, 1922 death notice of Irene Ruth Peyton.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 27, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-27 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, death notice "Little Irene Peyton Dies at Boyce"
Relevant passageLITTLE IRENE PEYTON DIES AT BOYCE ... Died, at her home, Boyce, Friday, April 14, 1922. Irene Ruth Peyton, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon ard Peyton, aged 3 months and 7 days. ... Funeral services were conducted from the late residence by Rev John B. W*lliams, of Boyce, and ■the little body was carefulyy laid to rest in historic Old Chapel cemetery.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
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