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History
Amherst Parish serves Amherst County, Virginia. St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Clifford (formed 1747) belonged to this parish until 1778 when Lexington Parish was established.[1]
Founded
- 1761[2]
Resources
Cemeteries
A survey of the graves at St. Mark's Church was published in 1985: FHL Book 975.5496 V3b (pages 53-55).[3]
More than 50 tombstones from Saint Mark's Church Cemetery are also described at Find A Grave.
Parish Records
Colonial parish registers have been lost.
Websites
- St Marks Episcopal Church, Est. 1747, The Episcopal Church
References
- ↑ "St. Mark, Clifford | History of St Mark, Clifford," The Episcopal Church.
- ↑ Freddie Spradlin, "Parishes of Virginia," VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; Hening's Statutes at Large; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., The Hornbook of Virginia History (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).
- ↑ Mary Frances Boxley, Gravestone Inscriptions in Amherst County, Virginia (Amherst, Va., 1985).
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