Person

William F. Dutterer

Clarke County man named in December 1921 as a brother of Jacob H. Dutterer, a Jefferson County farmer and fruit grower who died suddenly.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of December 1, 1921, reprinting from the Charles Town Spirit the obituary of Jacob H. Dutterer, a farmer and fruit grower of Jefferson County, West Virginia, names among his surviving brothers William F. Dutterer of Clarke County, and its headline calls the dead man a brother of Wm. Dutterer of Clarke.

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What the source supports

That William F. Dutterer of Clarke County was named in 1921 as a brother of Jacob H. Dutterer.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR splits his given name ("Wil Ham"). His brother has no record here, so no kinship record is made.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The December 1, 1921 obituary of Jacob H. Dutterer.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., December 1, 1921

Clarke Courier · 1921-12-01 (publication)

Locator: Page 4, obituary "Jacob H. Dutterer Passes Away Suddenly"

Relevant passage

JACOB H. DUTTERER PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY Prominent Farmer of Jefferson and Brother of 'Mr. Wm, Dutterer of Clarke County a Victim of Heart Trouble. ... He also leaves four brothers and one half sister, «s follows: Messrs. Wil Ham F. Dutterer, of Clarke county, Va., and John, Jerome and Mrs. John ,Myers, of Carroll county, Md.

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) · 2026-09-16. How this project checks its sources

Also indexed as: Wm. Dutterer. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.

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