ALBEMARLE:  CEMETERY RECORDS –  “SUNNY SIDE” CEMETERY

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

NOTICE:  I have no relationship or further information in regards to this 
family.  

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Sunny Side:
                  1937 Oct. 18
                  Research made by R. E. Hannum

Cemetery Location:  .5 mile northeast of Keswick, Virginia on Route #22, 
                    immediately on north side of road.
                    Albemarle County



This was once known as the Clark’s Tract, where once stood a noted old tavern, 
called Clarksville.  The tavern itself was first conducted by Miss Betty Clark, 
the sister of “Kid Clark of the Pines”, who is said to have been quite a 
stirring old lady, who ran the business much to her own liking.  Dr. Micajah 
Clark was evidently married twice, for if we visit the old Clark burying ground 
in the “Pines”, near which the site of Kid Clark’s one stood, we will find there 
a single marble slab bearing the following inscription:


Caroline Virginia Clark
Infant daughter of
Dr. Micajah Clark
and
Caroline Virginia Clark
Born Nov. 21, 1831
Died Sept. 15, 1832


This Caroline  Virginia must have been the first wife of Dr. Clark and 
presumably soon died.  He secondly married Margaret Sampson.  Col. Watson 
continued the old tavern during the forties, and did quite a large business with 
the stage lines, later dying at his home, Poplar Forest, near Milton.