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Plat 4, Blue Ridge Mountain Estates, Wakefield District.
Charles D. Frazier et al to William F. Frazier et ux, 1 acre, Wakefield District. Deed of gift.
Charles D. Frazier et al to Charles D. P'razier et ux, 1 acre, Wakefield District.
Virginia Baptist Home, Inc. to Woodrow Coughlin, 1.44 acres. Piedmont District.
Helen W. Greeley to Louise McKay Wade, Lot 1-F Sky-Verge Estates, Wakefield District.
Maurice F. Biddle et ux to Hazel Eda Biddle, 18.9 acres, Piedmont District.
Elwood J. Welch et ux to Philip B. Nolter et al, 23.544 acres, Wakefield District.
Lile D. Sisk to John E. Cleary et ux, 10.89 acres. Piedmont District.
Lillie O’Bannon Barber to H. B. Wood Jr. 17 acres, Stonewall District.
Soc. Security Notes
Nationally, about 45 percent of the people applying for social security retirement benefits have a birth or baptismal certificate to prove their age.
Here in the Winchester area, Mrs. Hazel F. Crumpton, social security district manager said, the percentage is lower than the national average. In many areas of the country, she said, the keeping of birth records was not systematic or well organized at the time today’s retirees were born.
While the best proof of your age, Mrs. Crumpton noted, is a birth or baptismal record recorded before your 5th birthday, other records can be used if neither of those documents is available.
She said she had seen some very unusual documents that have been used in establishing the age of a beneficiary. One of the more unusual ones was a picture of a headstone over the grave of a claimant’s deceased wife, on which the claimant’s name and date of birth had been carved. The only thing missing, she added, was the date, of death.
Most people need not go to that extreme to establish their age, Mrs. Crumpton said. There
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