# 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (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](green-hill-cemetery-2026-09-17.csv) | CSV | 1,992,364 bytes | 8,799 | `5ed070e4aa222e4779bf5bc74c7eb1d15dd8fd9279b67ae55e95948508e7deef` |
| [green-hill-cemetery-2026-09-17.xlsx](green-hill-cemetery-2026-09-17.xlsx) | XLSX | 1,328,681 bytes | 8,799 | `18cce12c099e219488dbe8b41c9d6c98c8fc121ef61ce357adac9e2e41c4a69b` |

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

- 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

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.

## Versions

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