J. Douglas Bruce
Civil engineer, educated at V. M. I. under Stonewall Jackson and for many years a citizen of the Boyce neighborhood, who died at 86 at Millwood in January 1922.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of January 19, 1922 reports from Millwood that Col. J. Douglas Bruce, for many years a citizen of the Boyce neighborhood, died early on the Tuesday morning before at the home of Mrs. Henry Jenkins, where he had lived for more than a year, aged 86. The headline calls him a civil engineer who studied at V. M. I. under Stonewall Jackson, and the item says his father, John Bruce, a native of Scotland, kept a school in Winchester before the Civil War.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of January 19, 1922 reports from Millwood that Col. J. Douglas Bruce, for many years a citizen of the Boyce neighborhood, died early on the Tuesday morning before at the home of Mrs. Henry Jenkins, where he had lived for more than a year, aged 86. The headline calls him a civil engineer who studied at V. M. I. under Stonewall Jackson, and the item says his father, John Bruce, a native of Scotland, kept a school in Winchester before the Civil War.
What the source supports
That Col. J. Douglas Bruce, a civil engineer long of the Boyce neighborhood, died at Millwood at 86, as reported on January 19, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item dates the death only as "Tuesday morning." Its account of his education is the paper's own. His parents have no records here.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The January 19, 1922 obituary of Col. J. Douglas Bruce.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 19, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-01-19 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Col. J. Douglas Bruce Dies at Millwood"
Relevant passageMillwood, Jan. 18—Col. ';J. Douglas Bruce, for many yeari [years] a citizen of the Boyce neighborhood, died at an early hour fjon Tuesday morning at the hom<j|of [home of] Mrs. Henry Jenkins here, wHtre [where] he had resided for -more than a year. ... Col. Bruce was 86 years old. His father was the late Jpjin [John] Bruce, a native of Scotland, t^tjd [and] the proprietor of a school in Winchester before the civil war.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. Its headline.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 19, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-01-19 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Col. J. Douglas Bruce Dies at Millwood," headline
Relevant passageCOL. J. DOUGLAS BRUCE J > DIES AT MILLWOOD He Wee [Was] Civil Engineer and Stad led [Studied] «t [at] V. M. I. under Stone**!) [Stonewall] Jackson
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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