Mrs. L. M. Allen
Clarke County woman named in January 1923 among the three children Maggie Higgins Smith had nursed in the Gilpin family, and that October as moving to Winchester with Dr. L. M. Allen.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of January 25, 1923, on the death of Maggie Higgins Smith, who served the Gilpin family for over thirty-one years, says she was nurse to the three children, Donald N. Gilpin of Baltimore, Kenneth N. Gilpin and Mrs. L. M. Allen of Clarke County, and afterwards personal maid to Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin. Its issue of October 4, 1923 reports that Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Allen of Clarke County would move to Winchester at the end of October, where Dr. Allen would take up his practice again.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of January 25, 1923, on the death of Maggie Higgins Smith, who served the Gilpin family for over thirty-one years, says she was nurse to the three children, Donald N. Gilpin of Baltimore, Kenneth N. Gilpin and Mrs. L. M. Allen of Clarke County, and afterwards personal maid to Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin. Its issue of October 4, 1923 reports that Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Allen of Clarke County would move to Winchester at the end of October, where Dr. Allen would take up his practice again.
What the source supports
That Mrs. L. M. Allen of Clarke County was named in 1923 among the children of the Gilpin household, and was to move to Winchester that fall.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is given only by her husband's initials. Reading the two items as the same woman rests on the name in Clarke County. No kinship record is made.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The January 25, 1923 notice of the death of Maggie Higgins Smith.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 25, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-01-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, notice of the death of Maggie Higgins Smith
Relevant passageHaving been nurse to the three children, Mr. Donald N. Gilpin, of Baltimore; Mr. Kenneth N. Gilpin and Mrs. L. M. Allen, of Clarke county. She afterwards became per sonal maid to Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The October 4, 1923 item.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 4, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-10-04 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, item "Dr. Allen, Famous Surgeon, Resumes Practice in Winchester"
Relevant passageDr. *Qd Mrs. L. M. Allen of Clarke county will more to Winchester the last of October. Dr. Allen will take up the practice of bis profession In that city.
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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