Veterans of Clarke County

The roll runs from the colonial wars and the Revolution, through the Civil War, Confederate or Union, to World War I, World War II and later wars. Veterans are listed living and dead; a name is taken off when the veteran or the family asks. A veteran who may be living is shown without a birth year and without a Find a Grave search. No service numbers or addresses are shown. This is not a complete roll of Clarke County veterans. A row links to a page where this site has one (35). Each row also links to a Find a Grave search for the name and, where the source gives them, the years of birth and death: a search, not a match. A memorial found there has not been checked by this site.

What each source is

• Gold 1914 (737): A roll or membership list in Gold, History of Clarke County (1914). A list names a man; it is not his service record.
• Green Hill register (485): A note in the Green Hill Cemetery burial register (the compilation published on this site). The note is the compiler’s wording.
• Virginia Heroes (26): A result card in the Virginia War Memorial’s Virginia Heroes database, which lists people who died in service.
• VMI Memorial (4): A sketch in the VMI Memorial (1875) of a Clarke County man who died in the Confederate service.
• This site’s records (27): A statement already released on this site, such as a Clarke Courier item.
• Old Chapel 1906 (14): The cemetery record in Old Chapel, Clarke County, Virginia (1906): a burial at Old Chapel, Millwood, with the compiler’s short biographical note.
• 1946 federal casualty list (27): The 1946 federal lists of World War II dead for Virginia (National Archives): the War Department’s Honor List of Dead and Missing, which lists Army and Army Air Forces dead by county, and the Navy’s State Summary of War Casualties, which lists Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard dead with their next of kin. It names a man, his rank and how he died.
• 1898 regimental roster (8): A roster of the 2nd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, raised for the Spanish-American War in 1898, as transcribed on the Spanish American War Centennial Website: a man’s company, rank and home post office.
• WWI service questionnaire (97): A Military Service Record questionnaire returned to the Virginia War History Commission after the First World War, held and indexed by the Library of Virginia: a veteran indexed under Clarke County, with the birth date and place he gave.
• 2000 Revolutionary War gravesite survey (10): The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission’s interim report on Revolutionary War veteran gravesites in Virginia (2000), compiled from DAR, SAR and local records including the Clarke County Historical Association’s: a veteran reported buried in Clarke County, with the cemetery and his service.
• Confederate pension application (65): A Confederate veteran’s application to the Commonwealth of Virginia, filed from Clarke County and indexed by the Library of Virginia: a pension application under the acts of 1888, 1900 or 1902, or an application to the Auditor of Public Accounts for an artificial limb (1882-1887). Pensions were paid only for Confederate service.
• Virginia Military Dead index (132): The Library of Virginia’s Virginia Military Dead index (compiled to 2014 from about 1,120 sources): a Virginian who died in a war, listed under Clarke County, with unit, cause and place of death where known.
• Confederate Soldiers’ Home record (8): An admission to the Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers’ Home in Richmond (Library of Virginia index): a veteran whose residence at admission was Clarke County, with his unit and, often, his death.
• Henley obituary index (1): Bernard J. Henley’s index of marriage and obituary notices in Virginia newspapers, 1736-1982 (Library of Virginia): a death notice that names a man’s service and places him in what is now Clarke County.
• Confederate company roster (416): The Commonwealth’s Confederate rosters, compiled from muster rolls by the Secretary of Virginia Military Records from 1904 (Library of Virginia index): a man listed in Company D, 6th Virginia Cavalry (the Clarke Cavalry), or Company C (Nelson Rifles) or Company I (Clarke Rifles), 2nd Virginia Infantry, companies raised in Clarke County.
• 1851 War of 1812 militia pay rolls (1): Pay Rolls of Militia Entitled to Land Bounty under the Act of Congress of Sept. 28, 1850 (Richmond, 1851): a War of 1812 militiaman of Frederick County, of which Clarke was then part, whose residence on the Clarke side is shown by another record.
• VA death file (49): The Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS death file (read on Ancestry): a veteran’s birth and death dates and his service dates, matched to his Clarke enlistment record by name, middle initial, birth year and the year he enlisted.
• Royston cemetery survey (216): Don and Mary Royston, Cemeteries of Clarke County, Virginia (2005): a grave in a Clarke County cemetery, with the military note the compilers copied from the stone or marker, or from the older lists they used (Crampton, the Dickinson list). A grave shows where a man was buried and that he had died; the note is the compilers’ transcription.
• Historical Association Proceedings (104): An article in the Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association (from 1941): a statement about a man’s service and his home or grave in Clarke, as the article’s author gave it.
• Revolutionary pension file (10): A Revolutionary War pension or bounty-land file (National Archives), as transcribed by the Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements project (revwarapps.org): the soldier’s or his widow’s sworn account of his service, where he lived and, often, when he was born or died.
• 1883 pension roll (4): The federal List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883 (printed for the Senate, 1883), volume 5: each pensioner living in Clarke County, with the post office, the cause of the pension (a wound, a disease, or survivor or widow of the War of 1812) and the monthly rate.
• Virginia War History Commission (83): The Virginia War History Commission’s county history of Clarke in the World War (Virginia Communities in War Time, 1927): the men in service from the Methodist Church at Berryville and from Cunningham Chapel Parish, the Clarke men it lists from Virginians of Distinguished Service, and the men who died in service; and its Source Vols. II and III (1924-1925), the calendar of the Clarke County branch’s Clarke Courier clippings and the “War Incidents: Military” in Virginia War Letters, Diaries and Editorials, one line per item.
• Northern Virginia Daily (7): An obituary in the Northern Virginia Daily (Strasburg), which carried Clarke County deaths: it names a man, his service and his Clarke home or birthplace.
• Veteran of the Year (10): The Berryville-Clarke County Veteran of the Year, an honor the county and town give each Veterans Day (from 2015): the recipient as the county's notice or a newspaper article names him, with his service where the article gives it.
• Headstone application (31): A government headstone application for a veteran buried in Clarke County (U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861-1985, National Archives Record Group 92): the cemetery, the death date and, for most, the branch, unit and dates of service. The war is read from those dates when the application names none.
• WWII Army enlistment record (297): The National Archives’ World War II Army Enlistment Records (Record Group 64, Access to Archival Databases): an enlistee who gave Clarke County, Virginia, as his county of residence, with his birth year. An enlistment record shows service began; it does not record the rest of it.
• 1890 Veterans Schedule (11): The 1890 federal special schedule of surviving Union soldiers, sailors and marines, and widows (National Archives microfilm M123): a man enumerated in Clarke County in June 1890 with the service he reported.
• American Legion Post 41 history (69): The centennial history of Lloyd Williams Post 41 of the American Legion, Berryville, published by the post on The American Legion's centennial site (centennial.legion.org): a member the post names, with the service the entry gives, such as its 2005 list of World War II members and its 2015 list of members who served during the Korean War era. Membership of the Berryville post is a lead to Clarke, not proof of where a man lived.
• Clarke Cavalry survivors roster (4): The roster of the Association of the Survivors of the Clarke Cavalry, Berryville, as transcribed by Turner Ashby Camp 1567, Sons of Confederate Veterans: an undated list of the association's members. It names a man; it is not his service record.
• 1840 census of pensioners (1): The 1840 federal census’s column of pensioners for Revolutionary or military services, as returned for Clarke County and printed in A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services (Washington, 1841): the pensioner’s name and age and the head of the family he lived with. It does not say where or when he served.
• Clarke Courier (696): An item in the Clarke Courier: a wartime list (the county’s roll of honor, or a Local Board list of men called for service), an obituary or memorial, or a veterans’ organization notice. It names a man and what the paper said of his service; it is not his service record.