Person

Matilda Herbert

A teacher at the Boyce colored school for the 1925-26 session, named with Alma Layton on the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Matilda Herbert, with Alma Layton, as a teacher at the Boyce colored school.

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The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Matilda Herbert, with Alma Layton, as a teacher at the Boyce colored school.

What the source supports

That Matilda Herbert was named a teacher at the Boyce colored school for the 1925-26 session.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The list records appointments announced for the session, not who taught during it. The list gives the school only as Boyce Colored; no record for the school is linked.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The entries for the colored schools in the July 9, 1925 list.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)

Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools

Relevant passage

Stone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

Reporting

Evidence role: contextualizes. The headline and opening of the same list: the School Board's appointments for the 1925-26 session.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)

Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, headline and opening

Relevant passage

FILL POSITIONS COUNTY SCHOOLS. Teachers Named for All Schools and Grades -- New Boyce Principal. Appointments of teachers for the various schols [schools] of the County for the session of 1925-26 have been announced by Dr. C. O. Dearmont, chairman of the School Board, as listed by the Division Superintendent, Mr. Leslie D. Kline. The places are to be filled as follows:

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

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