Mrs. Jos. N. Payne
Former Clarke County woman, daughter of J. H. Rinker and sister of Mrs. John M. Fishpaw, who once lived on the Winchester pike west of Berryville and died at Martinsburg in March 1922, aged 54.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of March 23, 1922 reports word of the death at Martinsburg the Tuesday night before of Mrs. Jos. N. Payne, sister of Mrs. John M. Fishpaw and a former resident of Clarke County, who with her husband once lived on the Winchester pike west of Berryville. It says she was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rinker, long residents of Clarke County, and was 54 years old.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of March 23, 1922 reports word of the death at Martinsburg the Tuesday night before of Mrs. Jos. N. Payne, sister of Mrs. John M. Fishpaw and a former resident of Clarke County, who with her husband once lived on the Winchester pike west of Berryville. It says she was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rinker, long residents of Clarke County, and was 54 years old.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Jos. N. Payne, formerly of Clarke County, died at Martinsburg at 54, as reported on March 23, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item gives her only by her husband's name. It dates the death only as "Tuesday night." Her relatives have no records here.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The March 23, 1922 obituary.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 23, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-03-23 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, obituary "Mrs. J. M. Fishpaw's Sister Passes Away"
Relevant passageWord was received in Clarke yesterday ol [of] the death at Mar* tinshurg [Martinsburg] Tuesday night 6t [of] Mrs.) Jos. N. Payne, sister oI [of] Mrs. John M. Fishpaw and a former, resident of Qarke [Clarke] county. "She1 and her husband lived at one time on. the Winchester pike west of Berryville. Mrs. Payne was a daughter of' the late Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rink* er, for many years prominent res • idents of Clarke county. ... She was 54 years old.
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