Viola Orndoff
Clarke County woman named in November 1923 among the three sisters of Downey Boyd, who died at fifteen.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923, in the obituary of Downey Boyd, names Mrs. Viola Orndoff of Clarke County among his three sisters.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923, in the obituary of Downey Boyd, names Mrs. Viola Orndoff of Clarke County among his three sisters.
What the source supports
That Viola Orndoff of Clarke County was named in 1923 as a sister of Downey Boyd.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her brother's obituary. Her brother has no record here, so no kinship record is made.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The November 22, 1923 obituary of Downey Boyd.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 22, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-11-22 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary of Downey Boyd
Relevant passagetowney [Downey] Boyd, fifteen youp [year] old MW [son] of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Boyd, of thla [this] county, died In Memorial hospital last Friday morning, November Id, at live a. m. He was taken 111 [ill] on Wednesday and was rushed to Winchester for an operation for appendicitis. ... Surviving the young man are his parents who reside near the Shenandoah river In this county, one broth, er, Mr. Henry Boyd, of Clarke county, and three sisters, Mrs. Mabel Tomblln, of Jefferson county, W. Va., Mrs. Viola Orndoff, of Clarke county, and Miss Violet Boyd, who reside with her parents.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. 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: Mrs. Viola Orndoff. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.
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