Person

Mrs. Walter Bell

Woman named in August 1923 among the eighteen children of John W. Boyd of Rocks Ferry, Jefferson County, with a group given as of Clarke County.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of August 2, 1923 reprints from the Spirit of Jefferson the death of John W. Boyd at his home at Rocks Ferry, Jefferson County, on July 20, and names Mrs. Walter Bell among his children, in a group of three followed by "of Clarke county, Va."

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What the source supports

That Mrs. Walter Bell was named in 1923 as a daughter of John W. Boyd of Rocks Ferry.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her father's obituary, which gives her only by her husband's name. The place "of Clarke county" follows the last of three names and is read as covering hers. Her father has no record here, so no kinship record is made.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The August 2, 1923 reprint.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 2, 1923

Clarke Courier · 1923-08-02 (publication)

Locator: Page 3, obituary "John W. Boyd Dies at Rocks Ferry, W. Va.," from the Spirit of Jefferson

Relevant passage

Mr. John W. Boyd died at his home at Rocks Ferry, in the southern end of Jefferson county, Friday, July 20 ... apd [and] Agnes Boyd, of this county, and Mr. Addison Boyd and Mrs. Walter Bell, and Mrs. William Licklider, of Clarke county, Va., and Mrs. William Marcus, of Loudoun county

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-16. How this project checks its sources

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