Jessie T. Scott
County worker and county nurse of Clarke County from August 1923, beginning with infant welfare work. The Clarke Courier printed her statement on the fight against tuberculosis in December 1923.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of August 16, 1923 reports that Mrs. Jessie T. Scott had been secured as the county worker, to begin her duties on August 15 with infant welfare work until the public schools opened, and its issue of December 6, 1923, on the sale of Red Cross seals to fight tuberculosis, prints a statement from Dr. Jessie T. Scott, county nurse.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of August 16, 1923 reports that Mrs. Jessie T. Scott had been secured as the county worker, to begin her duties on August 15 with infant welfare work until the public schools opened, and its issue of December 6, 1923, on the sale of Red Cross seals to fight tuberculosis, prints a statement from Dr. Jessie T. Scott, county nurse.
What the source supports
That Jessie T. Scott was the county worker and county nurse of Clarke County from August 1923.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The August item calls her Mrs. and the December item Dr. Reading the two as one woman rests on the matching name and the county health work.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The August 16, 1923 report on the county worker.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 16, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-08-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report on the committee directing the county worker
Relevant passage... a Committee succedlng [succeeding] the Health Committee who wilt [will] select and direct the County Worker, ... Mrs. Jessie T. Scott has been secured for work over the County and will begin her duties on the fifteenth of August Mrs Sco't will confine her attention to Infant Welfare work until the opening of ,the public schools
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The December 6, 1923 item on the fight against tuberculosis.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., December 6, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-12-06 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item on the Red Cross seal sale and the fight against tuberculosis
Relevant passageTUBERCULOSIS FIGHT In connection with the annual sale of red cross seals to help stamp out tuberculosis, Dr. Jessie T. Scott, county nurse, has the following to before the people of Clark county:
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. 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: Mrs. Jessie T. Scott; Dr. Jessie T. Scott. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.
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