Mrs. Henry Jenkins
Millwood woman at whose home Col. J. Douglas Bruce lived for more than a year before his death in January 1922.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of January 19, 1922 reports from Millwood that Col. J. Douglas Bruce died at the home of Mrs. Henry Jenkins, where he had lived for more than a year.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of January 19, 1922 reports from Millwood that Col. J. Douglas Bruce died at the home of Mrs. Henry Jenkins, where he had lived for more than a year.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Henry Jenkins of Millwood kept the home where J. Douglas Bruce lived and died in 1921-1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from this item, which gives her only by her husband's name and does not say how Col. Bruce came to live with her.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The January 19, 1922 obituary of Col. J. Douglas Bruce.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 19, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-01-19 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Col. J. Douglas Bruce Dies at Millwood"
Relevant passageMillwood, Jan. 18—Col. ';J. Douglas Bruce, for many yeari [years] a citizen of the Boyce neighborhood, died at an early hour fjon Tuesday morning at the hom<j|of [home of] Mrs. Henry Jenkins here, wHtre [where] he had resided for -more than a year. ... Col. Bruce was 86 years old. His father was the late Jpjin [John] Bruce, a native of Scotland, t^tjd [and] the proprietor of a school in Winchester before the civil war.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
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