John H. Enders
Berryville funeral director and chief of the Berryville Fire Company in 1925, quoted in October on the town's $55,000 reservoir plan.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of October 8, 1925 reprints from the Harrisonburg News-Record a report that Capt. John H. Enders, funeral director of Berryville and chief of the Berryville Fire Company, attending a meeting of the Shenandoah Valley Funeral Directors in Harrisonburg, said Berryville had voted a $55,000 bond issue for a reservoir on the hill overlooking the town and would be prepared for the next drought.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of October 8, 1925 reprints from the Harrisonburg News-Record a report that Capt. John H. Enders, funeral director of Berryville and chief of the Berryville Fire Company, attending a meeting of the Shenandoah Valley Funeral Directors in Harrisonburg, said Berryville had voted a $55,000 bond issue for a reservoir on the hill overlooking the town and would be prepared for the next drought.
What the source supports
That John H. Enders was a Berryville funeral director and chief of the Berryville Fire Company in 1925.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. A report from another paper, reprinted: its "yesterday" is not dated here. The quotation is Enders's own account of the town's plan. The Berryville Fire Company of this report is not linked to the released record of the John H. Enders Fire Company and Rescue Squad, because nothing read here establishes that they are one company or that it was named for him.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The reprinted News-Record report.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 8, 1925
Clarke Courier · 1925-10-08 (publication)
Locator: Page 6, item reprinted from the Harrisonburg News-Record
Relevant passageTown Will Be Reedy [Ready] ... The Next Drought. Harrisonburg News-Record. Capt. John H. Enders, Funeral Director of Berryville and chief of the Berryville Fire Company, in Harrisonburg yesterday attending pie [the] meeting of the Shenandoah Valley Funeral Directors, declared Berryrille [Berryville] will be prepared for the next drought so far as its water supply is concerned. "We voted a $55,000 bond issue for the construction of a big reservoir bn [on] the hill overlooking the town," he said
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
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