Person

Nina R. Long

Wife of James F. Long, tenant of the Ralph Grigsby farm, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Marcus, who died at 26 in the Winchester Hospital after childbirth in August 1922.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of August 31, 1922 reports that Mrs. Nina R. Long, wife of James F. Long, who tenanted the Ralph Grigsby farm, died in the Winchester Hospital the Thursday before of hemorrhages after a child was born. It says she was 26, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Marcus, left a husband, her parents and two children, and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.

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The Clarke Courier of August 31, 1922 reports that Mrs. Nina R. Long, wife of James F. Long, who tenanted the Ralph Grigsby farm, died in the Winchester Hospital the Thursday before of hemorrhages after a child was born. It says she was 26, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Marcus, left a husband, her parents and two children, and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.

What the source supports

That Nina R. Long died at 26 in the Winchester Hospital, as reported on August 31, 1922.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item dates the death only as "last Thursday." Her husband, parents and children have no records here.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The August 31, 1922 obituary.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 31, 1922

Clarke Courier · 1922-08-31 (publication)

Locator: Page 4, obituary "Young Mother Dies in Winchester Hospital"

Relevant passage
Mrs. Nina R. Long, wife of Mr. James F. Long, who tenants the Ralph Grigsby farm, died in the Winchester Hospital last Thursday from hemorrhages, after a child had been born. She was 26 years old and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Marcus. She leaves a husband, a father atid [and] mother and two children ... i.iterment [interment] was made in Green Hill Cemetery.

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

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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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