Green Hill Cemetery records

Name: Green Hill Cemetery records
Creator: Our Clarke
Published: 2026-09-17
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Burials and tombstones at Green Hill Cemetery in Berryville, as compiled by Donald R. and Mary L. Royston to May 6, 2021.

In

8,799 released records of burials, tombstones and commemorative stones at Green Hill Cemetery, Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia, from the Royston compilation of tombstones, caretaker's journals and the Clarke County Historical Association's list of unmarked graves.

Not in

158 records of people who may be living (no death or burial recorded and a birth year of 1916 or later). No relationships, coordinates or corrections are added to what the compilation prints. Burials after the compilation's cutoff are not in it.

Effective date

May 6, 2021

Download

CSV 1.9 MB
SHA-256 5ed070e4aa222e4779bf5bc74c7eb1d15dd8fd9279b67ae55e95948508e7deef
XLSX (spreadsheet) 1.3 MB
SHA-256 18cce12c099e219488dbe8b41c9d6c98c8fc121ef61ce357adac9e2e41c4a69b

Version

1.0.0

Published

September 17, 2026

License

CC BY 4.0. Credit the compilers, Donald R. and Mary L. Royston, whenever these records are reused, in addition to the Our Clarke citation.

Cite as

Our Clarke. "Green Hill Cemetery records." Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-09-17. Compiled by Donald R. and Mary L. Royston, as of May 6, 2021. https://ourclarke.com/data/#green-hill-cemetery. License: CC BY 4.0.

Documentation

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

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README

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

Green Hill Cemetery records

Burials and tombstones at Green Hill Cemetery in Berryville, as compiled by Donald R. and Mary L. Royston to May 6, 2021.

Dataset ID: green-hill-cemetery
Tier: 1 (Genealogy)
Version: 1.0.0
Publication date: 2026-09-17
Records: 8,799
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Source of truth: https://ourclarke.com/archive/cemeteries/green-hill/

Coverage

In: 8,799 released records of burials, tombstones and commemorative stones at Green Hill Cemetery, Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia, from the Royston compilation of tombstones, caretaker's journals and the Clarke County Historical Association's list of unmarked graves.
Not in: 158 records of people who may be living (no death or burial recorded and a birth year of 1916 or later). No relationships, coordinates or corrections are added to what the compilation prints. Burials after the compilation's cutoff are not in it.
Effective date: 2021-05-06

Source

Green Hill Cemetery Tombstones and Burials, Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. Compiled by Donald R. and Mary L. Royston, as of May 6, 2021. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G-mLYg-ASwNNPYVgclCAnpiMcu3Cffes/view

Source file SHA-256: cd13ce0b6fe1c668673da7fb96542fd4214caa761342e3b40961a8a8a14ccf6c

Attribution: Credit the compilers, Donald R. and Mary L. Royston, whenever these records are reused, in addition to the Our Clarke citation.

Files

File	Format	Size	Rows	SHA-256
green-hill-cemetery-2026-09-17.csv	CSV	1,992,364 bytes	8,799	`5ed070e4aa222e4779bf5bc74c7eb1d15dd8fd9279b67ae55e95948508e7deef`
green-hill-cemetery-2026-09-17.xlsx	XLSX	1,328,681 bytes	8,799	`18cce12c099e219488dbe8b41c9d6c98c8fc121ef61ce357adac9e2e41c4a69b`

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

source_row: The row position inside a page of the extraction. It is a working coordinate, not a fact about the burial, and it would change if the page were re-read.
month and day of each date: Only the printed date text and the year read from it are published. The month and day are in the printed text; publishing a machine reading of them as separate values would present it as a second, cleaner fact.

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

Dates are printed as the compilers wrote them. A year is given only where the printed date could be read; the *_date_state columns say which dates were partial, unreadable or unparsed, and the flags column names contradictions (a death before a birth, for example) without correcting them.

A blank death date is not a death. death_recorded is "no" when the compilation records none.

Two records sharing a surname or a lot are not thereby related. The only relationship text is the compilers' own note, reproduced verbatim.

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: Green Hill Cemetery records

Dataset green-hill-cemetery, version 1.0.0, published 2026-09-17. 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. Does not change between versions.
`last_name`	string	Last name as printed in the compilation.
`first_name`	string	First name as printed in the compilation.
`birth_date`	string	Birth date text exactly as printed, including the compilers' typos and question marks.
`birth_year`	integer	Year read from birth_date. Empty when the date could not be read. Never corrected.
`death_date`	string	Death date text exactly as printed.
`death_year`	integer	Year read from death_date. Empty when the date could not be read. Never corrected.
`burial_date`	string	Burial date text exactly as printed, from the caretaker's journals where recorded.
`area_lot`	string	Area and lot as printed, for example S201.
`section`	string	The area letter, the first character of area_lot.
`record_kind`	string	marker (read from a tombstone), burial_no_marker (a burial recorded without a readable stone) or commemorative (a stone that does not by itself establish a burial).
`death_recorded`	string	yes or no. "no" means the compilation records no death; it is not evidence of one.
`source_note`	string	The compilers' note, verbatim. Relationship abbreviations (w/, s/, d/) are theirs; no relationship is derived from them.
`source_page`	integer	Page of the 184-page compilation the record is printed on.
`flags`	string	Space-separated conditions noticed in the source, printed as found: death_year_before_birth_year, burial_year_before_death_year, death_after_source_cutoff, date_not_parsed, date_marked_uncertain_in_source, no_area_lot_recorded.
`record_url`	url	The record on the Our Clarke directory page.
`birth_date_state`	string	recorded, partial (year read, rest not), unreadable, unparsed or not_recorded. Only a recorded or partial date has a year.
`death_date_state`	string	State of death_date, with the same values as birth_date_state.
`burial_date_state`	string	State of burial_date, with the same values as birth_date_state.

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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