Ruth D. Hunt
Family Historian • Genealogist • Talk Show Host
The Clark and Lewis Family Burial Grounds
My Cherokee Ancestors of Color are Buried Here.
The oral history is, they were buried beneath a Large Oak Tree in Mahaniam Indian Village.
It took 20 years of research to find them ...
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This Land was once a Cherokee Village called "Passawatamie" (This is the Place)
Native Americans gathered here to Celebrate and have Olypmic games.
It was located in Mahanaim, Virginia. Now it is called the Mahanaim United Methodist Church Cemetery, located in Clinchberg, VA. The church was established in 1803. During the Civil War, the Confederate Soldiers took over the cemetery and set-up their burial and campgrounds.
Mahaniam United Methodist Church Cemetery, Established 1803 in Mahaniam, Virginia (Now Clinchberg, VA)​
My Great Great Grandparents and their daughter are Buried Here
Richard "Dick" Lewis
Feb. 17, 1834 - Nov. 26,1909
Father/​Slaveholder William F. Clark
Mother - Hanna Lewis
Full Blood Cherokee
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Lewis
July 21, 1836 - Nov. 28, 1917
Her parents were David and Elsie Seldon
Pocahontas Lewis-Butler
B. July 6, 1870
Great Aunt
Wyndham Lewis Clark
June 28, 1876 - August 9, 1949
Great Grandfather
Emma Michell-Clark
August 1884 - December 9, 1912
Great Grandmother
Edgar Lewis Clark
July 15, 1907 - March 5, 1985
Grandfather
" The measure of a woman's character is not what she gets from her ancestors, but what she leaves her descendants."