Person

Winter Bushong Sowers

Berryville Garage mechanic, son of the orchardist Clayton K. Sowers, who married Miss Mary Denny at her mother's home on Main Street on June 7, 1922.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of June 8, 1922 reports that Miss Mary Denny, daughter of Mrs. Marietta Denny and the late James Richard Denny, and Winter Bushong Sowers, son of Clayton K. Sowers, an orchardist, were quietly married the morning before at Mrs. Denny's home on Main Street, and that the groom was an automobile mechanic at the Berryville Garage. Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register has an entry for the marriage of Winter Bushong Sowers, 29, mechanic, of Berryville, to Mary Foster Denny at Berryville on June 7, 1922; that it records this marriage is a proposal resting on the names, date and officiant.

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What the source supports

That Winter Bushong Sowers, a Berryville Garage mechanic, married Mary Denny on June 7, 1922.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The Courier names the bride "Mary Denny"; the register abstract gives "Mary Foster." The register entry is cited, not merged. The bride has no record here, so no marriage relationship is recorded.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The June 8, 1922 wedding report.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 8, 1922

Clarke Courier · 1922-06-08 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, report "Winter Sowers and Miss Denny Marry"

Relevant passage

WINTER SOWERS AND MISS DENNY MARRY ... Miss Mary Denny, daughter oi [of] Mrs. Marietta Denny and the late James Richard Denny, and Mr Winter Bushong Sowers, son of Mr. Clayton K. Sowers, one of tire [the] best informed orchardists of the valley, were quietly married yesterday morning at the home of Mrs. Denny on Main street

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

Open source

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

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. Its account of the groom.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., June 8, 1922

Clarke Courier · 1922-06-08 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, report "Winter Sowers and Miss Denny Marry," the groom

Relevant passage

is an automobile machani jiean [mechanician] employed by the Be.ryville [Berryville] Garage and is regarded as one of the best in this section.

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

Open source

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

Reference work

Evidence role: contextualizes. Duncan's register entry for the marriage of Winter Bushong Sowers and Mary Foster Denny, June 7, 1922, cited as a second record; the match is a proposal.

Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1887-1925 (Heritage Books, 2009)

Patricia B. Duncan · 2009 (publication)

Locator: Page 150, register entry for the marriage of Winter Bushong Sowers and Mary Foster Denny

Relevant passage

SOWERS. Winter Bushong s/o Clayton K. & Laura K SOWERS: 29y; sgl: mechanic: b. ClrkVA: res Berryville: m. 7 Jun 1922 at Berryville to DENNY. Mary Foster d o Jas Richard & Marietta DENNY; 21y, sgl. b. Gerardstown W Va. res. Berryville:

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

Open source

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

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