Virginia Gaunt
Clarke County woman, daughter of John Gaunt, who married Cornelius H. Webster of Cumberland, Maryland, at the Berryville Baptist Church on Easter Monday, April 17, 1922.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke County, became the bride of Cornelius H. Webster of Cumberland, Maryland, at the Baptist Church on Easter Monday, with Rev. Nathan Maynard officiating, and that her brother Wilbur Gaunt gave her away. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Adelaide Virginia Gaunt, 25, daughter of John and Adelaide Virginia Gaunt, to Cornelius H. Webster at Berryville on April 17, 1922; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke County, became the bride of Cornelius H. Webster of Cumberland, Maryland, at the Baptist Church on Easter Monday, with Rev. Nathan Maynard officiating, and that her brother Wilbur Gaunt gave her away. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Adelaide Virginia Gaunt, 25, daughter of John and Adelaide Virginia Gaunt, to Cornelius H. Webster at Berryville on April 17, 1922; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.
What the source supports
That Virginia Gaunt, daughter of John Gaunt, married Cornelius H. Webster at Berryville on April 17, 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier gives her name as "Virginia Gaunt"; the register abstract gives "Adelaide Virginia." Both readings are kept. The register entry is cited, not merged. Her brother Wilbur Gaunt has no record here.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The April 20, 1922 report of the wedding of Virginia Gaunt and Cornelius H. Webster.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 20, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-20 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Virginia Gaunt a Beautiful Bride"
Relevant passageMISS VIRGINIA GAUNT A BEAUTIFUL BRIDE ... Miss Virginia Gaunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaunt of Clarke county, became the bride of Mr. Cornelius H. Webster, ot [of] Cumberland, Md., at a beautiful weJding [wedding] solemnized in the Baptist Church Easter Monday at 8 o’clock p. :r,. [m.] ... The ceremony was performed by Kcv. [Rev.] Nathan Maynard
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. Its account of the wedding party.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 20, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-20 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report "Miss Virginia Gaunt a Beautiful Bride," continued
Relevant passageher brother, Mr. Wilbur Gaunt, who gave 1 er [her] away. ... Mr. Webster* a young 1 • riness [business] man, js io th [is in the] 'vholesale [wholesale] confectionery business
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 Cornelius H. Webster and Adelaide Virginia Gaunt, April 17, 1922, 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 170, register entry for the marriage of Cornelius H. Webster and Adelaide Virginia Gaunt
Relevant passageWEBSTER. Cornelius H : s'o George 1A 3 Annie C. WEBSTER; 25y; sgl; salesman; b Cumber'and Md: res. 126 Bedford St., Cumberland Md; m 17 Apr 1922 at Benyx e to GAUNT, Adelaide Virginia; d/o John & Adelaide Virginia GAUNT 25y. sgl b. & res. ClrkVA;
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: Miss Virginia Gaunt; Adelaide Virginia Gaunt. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.
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