Maggie Higgins Smith
Nurse to the Gilpin children of "Scaleby" and later personal maid to Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin, in the family's service for over thirty-one years, who died of heart failure on January 19, 1923.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of January 25, 1923 reports the sudden death from heart failure on Friday, January 19, of Maggie Higgins Smith, who for over thirty-one years had served the Gilpin family, first as nurse to the three children, Donald N. Gilpin, Kenneth N. Gilpin and Mrs. L. M. Allen, and afterward as personal maid to Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin. It says a service was held by the Rev. B. D. Chambers before her body was sent for burial in her mother's lot in Baltimore.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of January 25, 1923 reports the sudden death from heart failure on Friday, January 19, of Maggie Higgins Smith, who for over thirty-one years had served the Gilpin family, first as nurse to the three children, Donald N. Gilpin, Kenneth N. Gilpin and Mrs. L. M. Allen, and afterward as personal maid to Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin. It says a service was held by the Rev. B. D. Chambers before her body was sent for burial in her mother's lot in Baltimore.
What the source supports
That Maggie Higgins Smith, for over thirty-one years in the service of the Gilpin family, died on January 19, 1923.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item is written from the family's side and gives no age or birthplace. The Gilpins named have no records here.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The January 25, 1923 item.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 25, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-01-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item "Death of the Faithful Friend and Helper of Mrs. H. B. Gilpin"
Relevant passageAll of the friends of the Gilpin family and a great many others will be distressed to learn of the sudden death from heart failure on Friday. January 19th of Maggie Higgins Smith, who for over thirty-one years had so faithfully served in that family. Having been nurse to the three children, Mr. Donald N. Gilpin, of Baltimore; Mr. Kenneth N. Gilpin and Mrs. L. M. Allen, of Clarke county. She afterwards became personal maid to Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. Its account of the service and burial.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 25, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-01-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item "Death of the Faithful Friend and Helper of Mrs. H. B. Gilpin," continued
Relevant passageShe was an earnest church worker ..nd a real Christian ... On Saturday afternoon with all of the family and many of her friends present, an impressive service was held by the Rev. B. D. Chambers prior to the shipment of her body for .e:ment [interment] in her mother’s lot in Baltimore.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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