Mrs. D. H. Jones
Wife of Mayor D. H. Jones of Berryville for nearly 49 years and a leader of the Berryville Baptist Church, born in Clarke County, who died at 72 after a stroke in October 1921.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of October 27, 1921 reports that Mrs. Mary Herlin Jones, wife of Mayor D. H. Jones and one of the leading members of the Berryville Baptist Church, died the Saturday night before after a stroke of paralysis. It says she was 72, born in Clarke County, a daughter of the late Lewis Herlin, and that she and the mayor would have marked their 49th wedding anniversary the next March.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of October 27, 1921 reports that Mrs. Mary Herlin Jones, wife of Mayor D. H. Jones and one of the leading members of the Berryville Baptist Church, died the Saturday night before after a stroke of paralysis. It says she was 72, born in Clarke County, a daughter of the late Lewis Herlin, and that she and the mayor would have marked their 49th wedding anniversary the next March.
What the source supports
That the wife of Mayor D. H. Jones of Berryville died at 72, as reported on October 27, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. Her maiden name and her father's surname print "Herlin" here; obituaries of February 1922 print what may be the same family name "Berlin." So the record is named for her husband, as the item also names her, and the printed maiden name is kept as an alias. The item dates the death only as "last Saturday night." She is not linked to the mayor or any other Jones.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The October 27, 1921 obituary.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 27, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-10-27 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Jones, Wife of Mayor, Passes Away"
Relevant passageMr*. [Mrs.] Mary Herlin Jones, wife of Mayor D. H. Jone* [Jones] and ore [one] of the leaderB ®nd [and] most devout members of the Berryville anptlst [Baptist] ‘Church, died last Saturday night, following a ■Ifoke [stroke] of paralysis a few hours before. ... Mrs. Jones was 72 years of age. She wag [was] born in Clarke county and wag [was] a daughter of the late Lewis Herlin, one of the leading farmers of his day in Clarke county. Had site [she] lived until next March she and Mayor Jones would have celebrated the 49ih [49th] anniversary of their marriage.
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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