Person

Mrs. Isaac Bowman

Berryville woman, second wife of Isaac Bowman and sister of Mayor D. H. Jones, who died after a stroke of paralysis in February 1921.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of February 10, 1921 reports that the wife of Isaac Bowman, for years one of the leading business men of Berryville, died on a Monday morning after a stroke of paralysis suffered the Saturday before. It says she was his second wife and a daughter of the late Thomas Jones and Mary Janet Huyett Jones of Clarke County, and names her survivors: her husband, a son, Berkley Bowman, her brothers Mayor D. H. Jones and M. W. Jones, a sister, Mrs. Hattie Britton, and two stepdaughters. Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian Church, with burial in Green Hill Cemetery.

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The Clarke Courier of February 10, 1921 reports that the wife of Isaac Bowman, for years one of the leading business men of Berryville, died on a Monday morning after a stroke of paralysis suffered the Saturday before. It says she was his second wife and a daughter of the late Thomas Jones and Mary Janet Huyett Jones of Clarke County, and names her survivors: her husband, a son, Berkley Bowman, her brothers Mayor D. H. Jones and M. W. Jones, a sister, Mrs. Hattie Britton, and two stepdaughters. Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian Church, with burial in Green Hill Cemetery.

What the source supports

That Mrs. Isaac Bowman of Berryville, a daughter of Thomas Jones, died in February 1921 and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR garbles her given name and her age. The relatives the item names have no records here.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The February 10, 1921 obituary.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 10, 1921

Clarke Courier · 1921-02-10 (publication)

Locator: Page 4, obituary "Mrs. Isaac Bowman Dies From Paralysis"

Relevant passage
MRS. ISAAC BOWMAN - ' :v - . DIRS [DIES] FROM PARALYSIS ... fiUa Jones Bowman, wife of Mr. Isaac Bowman, had died that morning following a stroke of paralysis which sha [she] suffarad [suffered] Saturday ... Mrs. Bowman was the second wife of Mr. Isaac Bowman, for years one of the leading business men of Ber-, ryvllle. She waa the daughter of the I late Thomas Jones and Mary Janet Huyett Jones, of Olarke [Clarke] county.

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Open source

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

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. Its list of survivors and burial.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 10, 1921

Clarke Courier · 1921-02-10 (publication)

Locator: Page 4, obituary "Mrs. Isaac Bowman Dies From Paralysis," survivors

Relevant passage
Mrs. Bowman is survived by her husband, one son, Mr. Berkley Bowman, two brothers, Mayor D. H. Jones and Mr. M. W. Jones, a sister, .Mrs. Hattie Britton,' and two step daughters. Mrs. Frank Huyett, of .Charlottesville and Miss Nellie Bowman, of Berryville. | Funeral services were held from I the Presbyterian ChurCh Wednesday afternoon and interment made In Oreen [Green] Hill Cemetery.

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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