T. Eddy Brown
Berryville grocer who sold his store and house on Church Street to D. D. Brown for $6,000 in May 1921 and sold off his groceries at cost.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of May 19, 1921 reports that T. Eddy Brown sold his combination store and house on Church Street to D. D. Brown for $6,000, and its issue of June 2, 1921 reports that D. D. Brown was refitting the T. Eddy Brown building for his grocery and butcher shop and that T. Eddy Brown was selling his groceries out at cost.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of May 19, 1921 reports that T. Eddy Brown sold his combination store and house on Church Street to D. D. Brown for $6,000, and its issue of June 2, 1921 reports that D. D. Brown was refitting the T. Eddy Brown building for his grocery and butcher shop and that T. Eddy Brown was selling his groceries out at cost.
What the source supports
That T. Eddy Brown kept a store on Church Street in Berryville, which he sold to D. D. Brown in 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The May item prints the name "Urown." The items do not say whether the two Browns were related, and none is recorded.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The May 19, 1921 local item.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., May 19, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-05-19 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, local news items
Relevant passageMr. T. Eddy Urown [Brown] has sold his j combination store and house on ■ Church street to Mr. D. D. Brown j for $6,000. Mr. Brown will move his butcher shop to the building and will also open up a grocery.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The June 2, 1921 local item.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 2, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-06-02 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, local news items
Relevant passageMr 1). D [D. D.] Brown, who recently purchased the T. Eddy Brown building on Church street, will place a glass front in the building fot [for] his grocery store and butcher shop ... Mr. T. Eddy Brown is now selling his groceries Cut [out] at cost.
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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