Person

J. M. Litton

Deputy sheriff of Clarke County who signed a February 1922 notice of a public sale for Sheriff W. W. Smallwood.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of February 2, 1922 prints a notice of the public sale of an Overland automobile in front of the Court House at Berryville on February 4, signed J. M. Litton, Deputy Sheriff of Clarke County, for W. W. Smallwood, Sheriff.

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What the source supports

That J. M. Litton was a deputy sheriff of Clarke County in February 1922.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The notice does not say whose automobile was sold or why.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The February 2, 1922 sale notice.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 2, 1922

Clarke Courier · 1922-02-02 (publication)

Locator: Page 2, notice of public sale of an automobile

Relevant passage

PUBLIC SALE OVE R LA XD^AU TOMOBII.E [OVERLAND AUTOMOBILE] The undersigned will soil [sell] an Over, land Automobile in front of the Court House, Berryville, Va., at 2 p, m., SATl'RDAY, FEB. 4th, 1022. ... J. M. LITTON, Deputy Sheriff of Clarke County For W. W. Smallwood, Sheriff

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

Open source

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

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