Mrs. Turner Ashby
White Post woman living next door to the Gardner building, whose house and outbuildings the Boyce fire engine saved when it burned in May 1922.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of May 11, 1922, reporting the fire that destroyed the Gardner building at White Post, says the Boyce fire engine saved the house and outbuildings of Mrs. Turner Ashby, who lived next door.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of May 11, 1922, reporting the fire that destroyed the Gardner building at White Post, says the Boyce fire engine saved the house and outbuildings of Mrs. Turner Ashby, who lived next door.
What the source supports
That the White Post house of Mrs. Turner Ashby was saved from the 1922 Gardner building fire.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from this report, which gives her only by her husband's name.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The May 11, 1922 report of the Gardner building fire at White Post.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., May 11, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-05-11 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report of the Gardner building fire, continued
Relevant passageThe Boyce Fire Engine was called and raced to White Post. It saved the house and outbuild ings of Mrs. Turner Ashby, who lived next door
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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