Person

Silas F. Baughman

A merchant living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Laura V. Parshall on February 25, 1886, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.

What the sources support

Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Silas F. Baughman, 38, widowed, a merchant born in York County, Pennsylvania, and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Laura V. Parshall on February 25, 1886, at the bride's residence.

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What the source supports

That Silas F. Baughman, a merchant living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Laura V. Parshall in 1886.

Uncertainty

Read from this project's OCR of a scan of Duncan's printed abstract, not from the page image or from the register kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clarke County. Duncan's abbreviations are expanded using her key. Nothing about Silas F. Baughman beyond this entry is recorded here, and his parents and his wife get no records.

Source

Reference work

Evidence role: supports. Duncan's entry for the marriage.

Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1836-1886 (Heritage Books, 2008)

Patricia B. Duncan · 2008 (publication)

Locator: Page 59, register entry for the marriage of Silas F. Baughman and Laura V. Parshall

Relevant passage

BAUGHMAN, Silas F.; s/o Harry & Eliz’th BAUGHMAN; 38y; wid; merchant; b. York Co. Penn; res. ClrkVA; m. 25 Feb 1886 at bride's residence to PARSHALL, Laura V.; d/o Vincent & E. A. PARSHALL; 38y; sgl; b. Fayette Co. Penn; res. ClrkVA

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

Open source

Source family: duncan-clarke-marriages. 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: BAUGHMAN, Silas F.. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.

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