Person

James W. Bennett

A farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Ella E. Pope on April 27, 1882, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.

What the sources support

Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that James W. Bennett, 22, single, a farmer born and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Ella E. Pope on April 27, 1882, in Clarke County, Virginia.

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What the source supports

That James W. Bennett, a farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Ella E. Pope in 1882.

Uncertainty

Read from this project's OCR of a scan of Duncan's printed abstract, not from the page image or from the register kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clarke County. Duncan's abbreviations are expanded using her key. Nothing about James W. Bennett beyond this entry is recorded here, and his parents and his wife get no records.

Source

Reference work

Evidence role: supports. Duncan's entry for the marriage.

Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1836-1886 (Heritage Books, 2008)

Patricia B. Duncan · 2008 (publication)

Locator: Page 61, register entry for the marriage of James W. Bennett and Ella E. Pope

Relevant passage

BENNETT, James W.; s/o Peter & Phebe BENNETT; 22y; sgl; farmer; b. & res. ClrkVA; m. 27 Apr 1882 at ClrkVA to POPE, Ella E.; d/o Michael & Lizzie POPE; 21y; sgl; b. & res. ClrkVA

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

Open source

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

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-15. How this project checks its sources

Also indexed as: BENNETT, James W.. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.

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