Lucy E. Royston
Wife of Thomas A. Royston and daughter of Christopher Lee of near the old Mt. Carmel Church, mother of eleven, who died at 68 on May 3, 1922 at her daughter's home in Winchester and was buried at Green Hill.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of May 18, 1922 reports that Mrs. Lucy E. Royston, wife of Thomas A. Royston, died on May 3 at her daughter's home in Winchester after a long illness, and was buried at Green Hill Cemetery. It says she was a daughter of Christopher Lee, whose home was near the old Mt. Carmel Church a mile east of Berry's Ferry, was 68, and was the mother of eleven children.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of May 18, 1922 reports that Mrs. Lucy E. Royston, wife of Thomas A. Royston, died on May 3 at her daughter's home in Winchester after a long illness, and was buried at Green Hill Cemetery. It says she was a daughter of Christopher Lee, whose home was near the old Mt. Carmel Church a mile east of Berry's Ferry, was 68, and was the mother of eleven children.
What the source supports
That Lucy E. Royston, daughter of Christopher Lee, died on May 3, 1922, aged 68, and was buried at Green Hill.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item does not say where the Roystons lived in 1922. Her husband, father and children have no records here.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The May 18, 1922 obituary.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., May 18, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-05-18 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary "Mrs. Lucy Royston Dies; Long Ill"
Relevant passageMrs Lucy E. Royston, wife of Mr. Thomas A. Royston, passed to her eternal sleep on May 3rd, while at the home of her daughter in Winchester. ... She was buried at Green Hill Cemetery near Berryville ... Mrs. Royston was the daughter of Christopher Lee whosfe [whose] home was near the old Mt. Carmel Church, one mile east of Ber I rys Ferry. She was 68 years of age. ... She was the j mother of 11 children
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
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