Person

W. W. Smallwood

Sheriff of Clarke County in 1925, named in a Circuit Court chancery notice in January and signing a sheriff's sale notice in October.

What the sources support

A chancery notice from the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Clarke County, printed in the Clarke Courier of January 8, 1925 in a suit to construe the will of Daniel Carter, names among the parties W. W. Smallwood, Sheriff, and Committee Administrator of Harriet Carter, deceased.

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✓ Supported by a sourceAn account exists

What the source supports

That W. W. Smallwood was sheriff of Clarke County in January 1925.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is named as a party in his offices, and nothing about the suit's outcome is recorded here. The notice ran again in the issue of January 29, 1925, with its date misprinted as 1923; that printing is not quoted. The other parties are not recorded.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The chancery notice naming the sheriff among the parties.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 8, 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-01-08 (publication)

Locator: Page 5, notice from the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court in a chancery suit over a will

Relevant passage

CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF CLARKE COUNTY ... W. W. Smallwood, Sheriff, and Committee Administrator of Harriet Carter, deceased. IN CHANCERY. The object of this suit is to have the Court construe the will of Daniel Carter, and ascertain the parties entitled to the shares in the distribution of his estate, and to settle the account of the Executor. ... Teste; EUGENE GLOVER. Clerk

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

Open source

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

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-15. How this project checks its sources

The Clarke Courier of October 15, 1925 prints a notice headed "Sheriff's Sale," signed W. W. Smallwood, Sheriff of Clarke County, offering a Ford automobile at public auction at the Boyce Garage on October 17, 1925, under an order issued by S. D. Estep, Justice of the Peace, Clarke County.

✓ Supported by a source

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✓ Supported by a sourceAn account exists

What the source supports

That W. W. Smallwood was sheriff, and S. D. Estep a justice of the peace, of Clarke County in October 1925.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The same notice ran in the issue of October 8, 1925, which is not quoted. Whether the sale took place is not reported here, and the person the order was issued against is not recorded.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The sheriff's sale notice.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 15, 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-10-15 (publication)

Locator: Page 6, notice headed Sheriff's Sale

Relevant passage

SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of an order issued by S. D. Estep, Justice of the Peace, Clarke County, ... directing the sale of a certain Ford automobile for a balance due the Boyce Garage ... I offer at Public Auction at the Boyce Garage in Boyce Clarke County, Va. to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1925 ... W. W. SMALLWOOD, Sheriff of Clarke County Va.

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

Open source

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

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-15. How this project checks its sources

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