Verne R. Mason
Physician, lately resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, who married Miss Lucy Meredith Ginn at Christ Church, Millwood, on August 17, 1921, the couple going to Los Angeles.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports from Millwood that Miss Lucy Meredith Ginn became the bride of Dr. Verne R. Mason, until recently a resident physician of Johns Hopkins Hospital, at noon on the Wednesday before in Christ Church, and that the couple would live in Los Angeles. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Verne Rheen Mason, 32, physician, of Los Angeles, on August 17, 1921; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the name, date and residence.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of August 25, 1921 reports from Millwood that Miss Lucy Meredith Ginn became the bride of Dr. Verne R. Mason, until recently a resident physician of Johns Hopkins Hospital, at noon on the Wednesday before in Christ Church, and that the couple would live in Los Angeles. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Verne Rheen Mason, 32, physician, of Los Angeles, on August 17, 1921; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the name, date and residence.
What the source supports
That Dr. Verne R. Mason married Lucy Meredith Ginn at Millwood, as reported on August 25, 1921.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The register entry's text for the bride and place is garbled in the OCR and appears run together with another entry, so only the groom's part is quoted. The register entry is cited, not merged.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The August 25, 1921 report of the wedding of Lucy Meredith Ginn and Verne R. Mason.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 25, 1921
Clarke Courier · 1921-08-25 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Ginn the Bride of Dr. V. R. Mason"
Relevant passageMillwood. Va., August 22—A wedding tinged with war romance took place at noon last Wednesday in Christ Protestant Episcopal Church here, when Miss Lucy Meredith Ginn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph n Ginn, formerly of Clarke county, but now of Chester, Pa., became the bride of Dr. Verne R Mason, until recently a resident physician of Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore
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: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Verne Rheen Mason, August 17, 1921, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.
Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)
Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)
Locator: Page 104, register entry for the marriage of Verne Rheen Mason
Relevant passageMASON. Verne Rheen s/o O H L & Dora Reno MASON 32y sql. physician b Batavia Iowa res Los Angeles Calif m 17 Aug 1921
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: duncan-clarke-marriages. 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
Also indexed as: Dr. Verne R. Mason; Verne Rheen Mason. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.
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