Person

Mrs. Mason Osborne

Berryville woman remembered in a 1947 Courier column, with her husband, as a masquerader in the town's annual Hallowe'en parade up Main Street, always recognizable by some mannerism.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of October 30, 1947 prints a household column by Martha W. Levi recalling that not many years before, the whole town turned out for the annual Hallowe'en parade up Main Street, and that in spite of their costumes Mr. and Mrs. Mason Osborne could always be recognized by some mannerism.

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What the source supports

That Mrs. Mason Osborne was remembered in 1947 as a masquerader in Berryville's Hallowe'en parade.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The column is a recollection and gives no year for the parades. Her own given name is not printed. No record joins her to Mason Osborne.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The October 30, 1947 column by Martha W. Levi.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 30, 1947

Clarke Courier · 1947-10-30 (publication)

Locator: Page 16, household column by Martha W. Levi, on the Hallowe'en parade

Relevant passage

the whole town turned out to watch the annual Hallowe’en parade pass up Main Street ... we could always spot Mr. and Mrs. Mason Osborne, although they were so well gotten up.

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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