CHESTERFIELD COUNTY:  CEMETERY RECORDS – CLARKE GRAVEYARD

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, Clarke graveyard: 1936 Apr. 27/ Research made 
by Craig Romaine.

Cemetery Location:  2 miles from Campbell’s Bridge on Hickory Road
                    Chesterfield County



To
The memories of
WILLIAM CLARKE,
who was Born Jan’y 28th 1768; and who
Died Sept. 12th, 1846
AND
MARTHA CLARKE,
Who was born Dec. 28th, 1761, and who
Died Aug. 14th 1809

This stone is erected as a tribute of affection by a grateful Grandson

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IN MEMORY OF
JOHN MYRICK
Late a merchant of Petersburg
Who departed this life
Jan’y 9th 1832
In the 45th year of his age

“He was an Israelite indeed,
in whom there was no guile”

“White living, he bountifully dispensed
Charities to every worth object
and when dying, he devised by his
last will a magnificent legacy to the
Missionary Society of the Methodist
Church, for the promotion of Christi-
anity in heathen nations.  For said he 
“When I am gone I want my money to 
be useful” Arrigere amres”

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
An Angel’s arm can’t snatch him from
the grave.  Legions of Angels can’t
confine him there”

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THIS STONE
is erected by Edmund S. Ray
in memory of his sister
LOUISA ANN
Daughter of James & Dianna Mary Ray
who departed this life
February 16th 1826
in the 30th year of her age

“Here lies the casket of a gem-
The soul remembered by grace divine,
Christi claim’d it for his diadem
In heavens unclouded day to shine
Nor shall her body doom’d to dust
Be last, for precious to the Lord
Is she whom he accounted just,
And it shall live at Jesus’ word”

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In Memory of
ANN MAKIA MYRICK
Consort of
JOHN MYRICK
Who departed this life
March 17th 1832
In the 23rd year of her age

“At an early age she embraced christianity
and after enduring a tedious affliction
with christian patience, she died in hope
of a blesses immortality,
Omnia sunt hominum tonui pendentia filo”
YET
“Let sickness blast, let death devour,
If heaven must recompense our pains,
Perish the grass and fade the flower
If firm the word of GOD remains”

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IN MEMORY
of Mrs. Jane Myrick
who departed this Life
in the faith and hope of the Gospel
7th October 1827
Aged 27 Years 11 Months and 4 days
Leaving a disconsolate Husband
and Infant Son
and many relations and friends
to mourn their inseparable loss

“Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord
from henceforth, yea saith the Spirit for the rest
from their labor and their works follow them”

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IN
Memory of
William Howell Myrick
Son of
John and Jane Myrick
who departed this life
8th July 1825
Aged 6 Months
and 2 days

“Suffer little children to come
unto me and forbid them not
for of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven”

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SACRED
To the Memory of
ELIZA ANN CLARKE,
consort of James Clarke,
Who departed this life,
Sept, 20th 1851
Aged
26 years

“Too fair for earth, like you bright star
Thou shineth in Heaven now
A gem in the glorious Coronet
That decks the Saviour’s brow”

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SACRED
To the memory of
ELIZABETH ANN,
Daughter of
James and Eliza Ann
Clarke,
Who departed this life,
August 1st 1851
Aged 1 year & 2 months

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TO
the memory of
SARAH ANN DRUMMOND
Daughter of
Spencer & Hannah  A. Drummond
Born at Norfolk
on 3rd of April 1821,
and departed this life
at Petersburg
the 28th of September 1825
Aged 4 yrs 5 mo & 25 days

“Adieu sweet, released from care and pain
Thy spotless spirit seeks the skies again
Thy Fathers bosom shall thy refuge be,
In realms of light through all Eternity”