Louisa B. Ross
Clarke County native, sister of W. A. Bradford and wife of Lieut. Gordon Ross of the National Naval Reserves, who died in November 1921 at Saranac Lake, New York.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921 reports that W. A. Bradford had returned from New York after the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Louisa B. Ross, wife of Lieut. Gordon Ross of the National Naval Reserves, and that her death occurred in November at Saranac Lake, New York, a health resort where she had spent most of the past four or five years. The headline calls her a native of Clarke County.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921 reports that W. A. Bradford had returned from New York after the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Louisa B. Ross, wife of Lieut. Gordon Ross of the National Naval Reserves, and that her death occurred in November at Saranac Lake, New York, a health resort where she had spent most of the past four or five years. The headline calls her a native of Clarke County.
What the source supports
That Louisa B. Ross, a sister of W. A. Bradford and a native of Clarke County, died at Saranac Lake in November 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR garbles the day of the month and the headline. Her brother and husband have no records here.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The December 1, 1921 report.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., December 1, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-12-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report "Mrs. Louisa B. Ross Dies; Mr. Bradford's Sister"
Relevant passageMR*. [MRS.] LOUISA B. ROBS [ROSS] DIBS; [DIES;] MR. BRADFORD'S HIHTKR [SISTER] Nntive at Ctatke Oouatj [Native of Clarke County] ... Mr. W. A Bradford has returned from New York, having been called there to attend the funeral of hie tl* ter [his sister]. Mrs. Louisa B. Ross, wife of Lieut. Gordon Rosa [Ross], of th« [the] National Naval Reserves. Mrs. Ross’ death occurred on Now ember 1» at Saranac Lake. N. Y., a health resort where she had spent must [most] of her time for the past four or five years.
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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