Person

William F. Powers

Miller and farmer of Ashby Station near White Post, born at Kline's Mills near Middletown in 1850, who died at his home on February 14, 1922.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of February 23, 1922 reports from White Post that William F. Powers, a well-known miller of Clarke County, died of valvular heart trouble at his home at Ashby Station on February 14, 1922, and that he was born March 17, 1850, at Kline's Mills near Middletown.

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What the source supports

That William F. Powers, a Clarke County miller, died at Ashby Station on February 14, 1922.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR garbles the words before "well known miller," read in the register as "prominent farmer"; they are not relied on here. His wife and children have no records here.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The February 23, 1922 obituary.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 23, 1922

Clarke Courier · 1922-02-23 (publication)

Locator: Page 4, obituary of William F. Powers

Relevant passage

.White Post, Feb. 200-—William F. Powers, promltettt fftrOMt and well known miller of CIbrke [Clarke] rountv [county], passed away at his home at Ashby Station on Tuesday, February 14, 1922, at 2 o'clock p. tn„ death being doe [due] to valvular heart trouble. ... Mr. Powers was born March 17, 1850 at Kline’s Mills nedr [near] Middletown

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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