John Gaunt
Clarke County man named in April 1922 as the father of Miss Virginia Gaunt, married at the Berryville Baptist Church.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke County, became the bride of Cornelius H. Webster at the Baptist Church on Easter Monday.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke County, became the bride of Cornelius H. Webster at the Baptist Church on Easter Monday.
What the source supports
That John Gaunt of Clarke County was named in 1922 as the father of Virginia Gaunt.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his daughter's wedding report. The register abstract names the bride's parents John and Adelaide Virginia Gaunt; that entry is not cited for him. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The April 20, 1922 report of the wedding of Virginia Gaunt and Cornelius H. Webster.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 20, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-20 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Virginia Gaunt a Beautiful Bride"
Relevant passageMISS VIRGINIA GAUNT A BEAUTIFUL BRIDE ... Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke county, became the bride of Mr. Cornelius H. Webster, ot [of] Cumberland, Md., at a beautiful weJding [wedding] solemnized in the Baptist Church Easter Monday at 8 o’clock p. :r,. [m.] ... The ceremony was performed by Kcv. [Rev.] Nathan Maynard
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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