Person

Nettie Owens

Chaplain of Treadwell Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, when the chapter was instituted late in 1923.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of December 6, 1923, reporting that Treadwell Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, had been duly instituted, lists Miss Nettie Owens as the chapter's chaplain.

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✓ Supported by a sourceAn account exists

The Clarke Courier of December 6, 1923, reporting that Treadwell Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, had been duly instituted, lists Miss Nettie Owens as the chapter's chaplain.

What the source supports

That Nettie Owens was chaplain of Treadwell Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, when it was instituted in 1923.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR prints "chaplin". The item does not say where she lived. The chapter is not linked to any organization in the corpus.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The December 6, 1923 report of the chapter's instituting.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., December 6, 1923

Clarke Courier · 1923-12-06 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, report of the instituting of Treadwell Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star

Relevant passage

Treadwell Chaptct [Chapter], Order of Ea«ern [Eastern] Star, was duly Instituted on the •vcnlng [evening] of Saturday, November 21, ... The officers of the local chapter as announced recently have been changed to some extent. They are now: ... Miss Nettie Owens, chaplin [chaplain].

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) · 2026-09-15. How this project checks its sources

Also indexed as: Miss Nettie Owens. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.

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