Walker Grubbs
Driver whose car knocked down Miss Fannie Kennerly outside Meade Memorial Church at White Post in April 1922, after another car's lights blinded him.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that as people left Meade Memorial Church at White Post on a Sunday night, Walker Grubbs started his car and was blinded by the lights of another car, and his car knocked down and ran over Miss Fannie Kennerly, who had stepped in front of it.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of April 20, 1922 reports that as people left Meade Memorial Church at White Post on a Sunday night, Walker Grubbs started his car and was blinded by the lights of another car, and his car knocked down and ran over Miss Fannie Kennerly, who had stepped in front of it.
What the source supports
That Walker Grubbs was the driver in the 1922 accident at Meade Memorial Church.
Uncertainty
The page image was read twice, the second time independently, and both readings agree. The page prints "Kennerly" for the woman he struck; an earlier OCR text had read "Kennedy." The report attributes the accident to the blinding lights; it reports no charge. It gives no residence for him.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The April 20, 1922 report of the automobile accident at White Post.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 20, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-20 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report "Blinded at Auto Lights, Autoist Ran Over Woman"
Relevant passageMIm Fannie Kennerly, «f White Poet, Hae Narrow Escape ... White Post, April 17—Miss Fannie Kennedy, a prominent woman of Oarke, had a miracu lous escape Sunday night when kn automobile, driven by Mr. 'Walker Grubbs, knocked her' down and ran over her. Her 'shoulder was badly injured
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 accident.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 20, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-04-20 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, report of the White Post automobile accident, continued
Relevant passageMr. Grubbs. Miss Kennedy and others left Meade Memorial Qjurch, and the flatter got *nto his car to drive away. As he started his auto, ; the blinding lights of another (car were turned on, blinding M^. I Grubbs so completely that he ! could not see ahead of him.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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