# 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (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](clarke-cemeteries-royston-2026-10-16.csv) | CSV | 849,679 bytes | 3,534 | `b405eb84a8f3b8bbc79e92ce6d7a79b798a254faa48e5d4fb5c0a353f2e92495` |
| [clarke-cemeteries-royston-2026-10-16.xlsx](clarke-cemeteries-royston-2026-10-16.xlsx) | XLSX | 393,517 bytes | 3,534 | `80cac1da34dd0f98c2720b663fffdac7d848bd8d932012cc6731d74e090bdf1f` |

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

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.

## Versions

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