Person

Thomas N. Johnson

Clarke County man named in December 1923 as the father of Mrs. Rosa Lee Bayliss, who died at 35 after an operation.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of December 6, 1923 reports that Mrs. Rosa Lee Bayliss, 35, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Johnson of Clarke County, died at the Winchester Memorial Hospital after an operation for appendicitis.

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What the source supports

That Thomas N. Johnson of Clarke County was named in 1923 as the father of Rosa Lee Bayliss.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his daughter's obituary. His daughter has no record here, so no kinship record is made.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The December 6, 1923 obituary of Mrs. Rosa Lee Bayliss.

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

Clarke Courier · 1923-12-06 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, obituary "Young Mother Dies From Complication"

Relevant passage

Mrs. Rosa Lee Bayliss, 35 years j old, wife of Edgar Bayliss, of Berryville, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j Thomas N. Johnson, of Clarke coun-| ty died at 12:3o o’clock on Sunday j morning in Winchester Memorial i Hospital, where she recently underwent an operation for appendicitis.

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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