Person

Wayeman Gaunt

Seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gaunt, who died on April 6, 1922 at a Washington hospital after four operations for mastoiditis.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of April 13, 1922 prints a contributed notice that Wayeman Gaunt, seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gaunt, died April 6, 1922, at the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in Washington after four operations for mastoiditis.

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What the source supports

That Wayeman Gaunt, 17, died in Washington on April 6, 1922.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The body garbles his given name ("W'a\ cman," "Wtycman"); "Wayeman" is the headline's reading. The medical account is the contributor's. The cited passage does not say where the family lived. His parents have no records here.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The April 13, 1922 notice.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 13, 1922

Clarke Courier · 1922-04-13 (publication)

Locator: Page 4, obituary "Wayeman Gaunt Dies After Brave Fight"

Relevant passage

WAYEMAN GAUNT DIES j AFTER BRAVE FTOHTI [FIGHT] Seventeen Year OM [Old] Son of Mr. and Mrs. C W. Gaunt Sac* cumbs [Succumbs] at Washington After Four Operations for Mastoditia [Mastoiditis] ... W'a\ cman [Wayeman] Gaunt died Apr.l [April] 6th, 1922, in Washington, D. C.< in the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Thnri [Throat] H-syital [Hospital].

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

Open source

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

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