Mrs. Samuel McCormick
Berryville woman named in June 1921 as a sister of Maude Lewis Whiting, widow of Fenton P. Whiting, and of William Travers Lewis.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of June 9, 1921, in the obituary of Fenton P. Whiting, says his wife, Maude Lewis, was a sister of Commonwealth's Attorney William Travers Lewis, of R. J. Lewis and C. C. Lewis, and of Mrs. Samuel McCormick, of Berryville.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of June 9, 1921, in the obituary of Fenton P. Whiting, says his wife, Maude Lewis, was a sister of Commonwealth's Attorney William Travers Lewis, of R. J. Lewis and C. C. Lewis, and of Mrs. Samuel McCormick, of Berryville.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Samuel McCormick of Berryville was named in 1921 as a sister of Maude Lewis Whiting.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from this obituary, which gives her only by her husband's name. The kinship is recorded as a proposal from this notice. She is not linked to Rose Elzey McCormick or any other McCormick.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The June 9, 1921 obituary of Fenton P. Whiting.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 9, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-06-09 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Fenton P. Whiting Dies After Long Illness," family
Relevant passageHe was a native of Clarke and married in 1891 Miss Maude i Lewis, a sister of Commonwealth’s Attorney William Travers Lewie [Lewis], a and Messrs. R. J, Lewis and C. C. Lewis, and Mrs. Samuel McCormick, of Berryville. His widow came here with his body. Mr. Whiting was born Dec, 19, 1853, and was the son of Francis Henry Whiting and Rebecca Whiiiqg [Whiting]
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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