Cemeteries of Clarke County records

Name: Cemeteries of Clarke County records
Creator: Our Clarke
Published: 2026-10-16
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Every grave, burial and named marker in Don and Mary Royston’s Cemeteries of Clarke County, Virginia (2005), from 77 burial places outside Green Hill, one row per record as the book prints it.

In

3,534 graves, burials and named markers in 77 burial places in Clarke County, Virginia, outside Green Hill Cemetery, as Don and Mary Royston's Cemeteries of Clarke County, Virginia (2005) prints them: church cemeteries, family graveyards and church register lists. Every record in the book is included, 78 stones with a birth date and no death date among them.

Not in

51 single values the scan garbled are left blank and named in withheld_fields. Green Hill Cemetery is a separate dataset. The book's introduction, church histories, maps, surname index and page images are not included.

Effective date

October 16, 2026

Download

CSV 830 KB
SHA-256 b405eb84a8f3b8bbc79e92ce6d7a79b798a254faa48e5d4fb5c0a353f2e92495
XLSX (spreadsheet) 384 KB
SHA-256 80cac1da34dd0f98c2720b663fffdac7d848bd8d932012cc6731d74e090bdf1f

Version

1.0.0

Published

October 16, 2026

License

CC BY 4.0. Credit the compilers, Don and Mary Royston, and the book page whenever these records are reused, in addition to the Our Clarke citation.

Cite as

Our Clarke. "Cemeteries of Clarke County records." Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-10-16. Compiled by Don and Mary Royston (2005). https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-cemeteries-royston. License: CC BY 4.0.

Documentation

README.md · schema.md · datapackage.json · manifest.json

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Cemeteries of Clarke County

README

Rendered from README.md, the file this directory serves.

Cemeteries of Clarke County records

Every grave, burial and named marker in Don and Mary Royston’s Cemeteries of Clarke County, Virginia (2005), from 77 burial places outside Green Hill, one row per record as the book prints it.

Dataset ID: clarke-cemeteries-royston
Tier: 1 (Genealogy)
Version: 1.0.0
Publication date: 2026-10-16
Records: 3,534
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Source of truth: https://ourclarke.com/cemeteries/

Coverage

In: 3,534 graves, burials and named markers in 77 burial places in Clarke County, Virginia, outside Green Hill Cemetery, as Don and Mary Royston's Cemeteries of Clarke County, Virginia (2005) prints them: church cemeteries, family graveyards and church register lists. Every record in the book is included, 78 stones with a birth date and no death date among them.
Not in: 51 single values the scan garbled are left blank and named in withheld_fields. Green Hill Cemetery is a separate dataset. The book's introduction, church histories, maps, surname index and page images are not included.
Effective date: 2026-10-16

Source

Cemeteries of Clarke County, Virginia. Compiled by Don and Mary Royston (2005). https://ourclarke.com/cemeteries/

Source file SHA-256: 7669308f3e55d2c5aa6def32ad5041c4d0a3b929c9dc5cfa4e360bc93fd54ccc

Attribution: Credit the compilers, Don and Mary Royston, and the book page whenever these records are reused, in addition to the Our Clarke citation.

Files

File	Format	Size	Rows	SHA-256
clarke-cemeteries-royston-2026-10-16.csv	CSV	849,679 bytes	3,534	`b405eb84a8f3b8bbc79e92ce6d7a79b798a254faa48e5d4fb5c0a353f2e92495`
clarke-cemeteries-royston-2026-10-16.xlsx	XLSX	393,517 bytes	3,534	`80cac1da34dd0f98c2720b663fffdac7d848bd8d932012cc6731d74e090bdf1f`

Column definitions are in schema.md. Machine-readable metadata is in datapackage.json. Every file in this directory, with its size and SHA-256, is listed in manifest.json.

Held fields

monument description: The book prints a monument's description once for every name on it; the page and this file give it once, at the burial place, not on every row.
OCR text, scan paths and page images: The release covers the facts of each record as printed, not the book's pages.

Row filters

Every row passed the download boundary's two filters before it was written: rows about a person who may be living are excluded, and rows whose state is unresolved (verify, lead, ambiguous and similar) are excluded. This publication excluded 0 rows as possibly living and 0 as unresolved at that boundary.

Reading the data

Names, dates and notes are printed as the book prints them and the scan read them. Nothing is corrected.

A blank death date, or the book's "no date", is not a statement that the person is living.

Two records sharing a name are not thereby the same person. same_name_and_death_date links only where the name and the death date both agree.

The page /cemeteries/ is the source of truth. A correction made there reaches this file at the next publication.

How to cite

Versions

Each publication is dated in its filenames. Earlier publications are kept unchanged at https://ourclarke.com/data/snapshots/.

Column schema

Rendered from schema.md, the file this directory serves.

Schema: Cemeteries of Clarke County records

Dataset clarke-cemeteries-royston, version 1.0.0, published 2026-10-16. One row per record; the CSV and the "Records" sheet of the XLSX carry the same columns in the same order.

Column	Type	Description
`record_id`	string	Stable Our Clarke identifier for the record, the anchor of its card on /cemeteries/. Does not change between versions.
`burial_place`	string	The burial place heading as the book prints it.
`burial_place_id`	string	Stable Our Clarke identifier for the burial place.
`book_part`	string	The part of the book the record is in: Crampton inscriptions (from the Clarke County Historical Association's Proceedings), Royston surveys 2004, or Church register lists.
`subsection`	string	The subsection heading the record sits under, as printed, where the book has one.
`record_kind`	string	grave, burial (from a register or list), marker (a stone with no name read), mention, lot owner, monument or plaque.
`name`	string	The name as printed. Empty when the book prints none or the scan garbled it (see withheld_fields).
`birth_date`	string	Birth date text exactly as printed.
`death_date`	string	Death date text exactly as printed. "no date" is the book's own wording for a stone cut before a death; it says nothing about whether the person has since died.
`burial_date`	string	Burial date text exactly as printed, mostly from church registers.
`year`	integer	Year read from death_date, or from burial_date when there is no death date. Empty when neither could be read. Never corrected.
`age`	string	Age as printed.
`lot`	string	Lot or row as printed.
`notes`	string	The book's notes for a table row, verbatim. Relationship abbreviations (w/, s/, d/) are the book's; no relationship is derived from them.
`entry`	string	The whole entry as printed, for records the book prints as a line or paragraph rather than a table row.
`burial_place_as_printed`	string	A burial place the record itself names, as printed (register lists name one per burial).
`status`	string	Status as printed in a register list.
`plaque`	string	The plaque or memorial the name is on, as printed.
`inscription`	string	Inscription lines as printed, separated by " / ".
`sources_cited`	string	The sources the book cites for the record, separated by semicolons.
`military_note`	string	yes when the record's notes name a war, a unit, a rank or a branch. A reading of the notes, not a service record.
`withheld_fields`	string	Space-separated fields not given because the scan garbled them. Look them up on the book page.
`book_page`	integer	Page of Royston (2005) the record is printed on.
`record_url`	url	The record's card on /cemeteries/.
`same_name_and_death_date`	string	Space-separated links to a death-register entry, Green Hill Cemetery record or veterans roll row with the same name and a death date agreeing to the day or month. A link is a match on the record, not a proof of identity.

An empty cell means the value is not recorded in the source, or could not be read from it. It never means zero.

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