Person

T. W. Whitaker

Berryville man named in April 1923 as the father of Roy Whitaker, in a report on a Civil War pistol that a Mr. Spealman hoped to recover in Clarke.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of April 12, 1923, in a report on a Mr. Spealman's search for a pistol taken from his family in the Civil War, quotes what Mr. Spealman told Roy Whitaker, son of T. W. Whitaker of Berryville.

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What the source supports

That T. W. Whitaker of Berryville was named in 1923 as the father of Roy Whitaker.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only as named in this report, which gives only his initials. His son has no record here, so no kinship record is made.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The April 12, 1923 report.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 12, 1923

Clarke Courier · 1923-04-12 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, report on Mr. Spealman's pistol

Relevant passage

Mr. Spealman told Mr. Roy Whjtaker [Whitaker], son of Mr. T. W. Whitaker of Berryville.

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

Open source

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

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