DINWIDDIE COUNTY:  CEMETERY RECORDS – THOMAS E. 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, The Thomas E. Clarke family graveyard: 1937 
Mar. 18/ Research made by Dorothy Grant [i.e. Gray] Pilout.

Cemetery Location:  About 3 miles from Sutherland, Virginia
                    Dinwiddie County


Thomas E. Clarke was the first owner of the land upon which the Clarke family 
graveyard is located.  He bought this land from Thomas Hardgrove in 1839, and it 
was willed to Fayette Dandridge Clarke, by his father, Thomas E. Clarke.  The 
three children of Fayette and Laura Clarke inherited the place upon the death of 
Fayette Clarke.  It was will jointly by Miss Nancy Clarke and  Thomas Clarke to 
a cousin, Miss Sallie Good Morton, who is the present owner.

This graveyard is located about two hundred yards east of “Laurel Brook” the old 
Clarke home, and is in the garden and enclosed by a plain wire fence.  It is 
covered with shrubs, a mimose tree, several bridle wreath bushes, two lovely 
boxwood bushes and one althea tree are in this lot, and it covers about an 
eighth of an acre of ground.  The graves have no tombstones, but are marked with 
small rocks at both head and foot.



Thomas E. Clarke, born  August 5, 1793, died December 25, 1870

Ann Jackson Clarke, wife of Thomas E. Clarke, born Sept. 19, 1797 and died July 
12, 1858

Fayette Dandridge Clarke, a son of the two mentioned above, he was born June 
11th, 1819 and died August 9, 1882

Laura Ballou Clarke, wife of Fayette D. Clarke, died Feb. 14, 1914

Ann J. Boisseau, wife of Joseph G. Boisseau and a daughter of Thomas E. and Ann 
Jackson Clarke, was born June 18, 1828 and died July 12, 1858

Joseph G. Boisseau born Feb. 27, 1817 and died May 9, 1879

Josephine, a daughter of Joseph G. and Ann J. Clarke Boisseau, was born August 
30, 1853 and died April 15, 1854

Etta Ann Boisseau, a daughter of Joseph G. and Ann J.C. Boisseau, was born Sept. 
17, 1851 and died Oct. 18, 1859

Thomas Clarke Boisseau, a son of Joseph G. and Ann J.C. Boisseau, was born June 
17, 1855 and died April 30, 1860

Miss Nanny J. Clarke, a daughter of Fayette D. and Laura Ballou Clarke, was born 
March 14, 1861 and died Jan. 29, 1923

Thomas Easley Clarke, a son of F.D. and I.B. Clarke, was born Oct. 2, 1859 and 
died May 22, 1922

Berkeley Clarke, a son of F.D. and I.B. Clarke, was born Sept. 28th 1862 and 
died June 20, 1920