Clover Family Research Compendium
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Miscellaneous
Virgina
Clover Information
Morgan County, Virginia County Records held at Morgantown, West Virginia, Colsen Building
Box 9a, file no. 4
Philip A. Clover was arrested for selling a fur hat at retail for a valuable consideration, said hat being manufactured outside of Virginia without first procuring a license. He was tried on 25 March 1831. The jury found the defendant not guilty. [Note: I think this is the son of Philip Clover and Ann Smith.]
Box 4a, file no. 4
Smith Clover and Wm. Wagner were arrested for disturbing the peace. [This is probably Denis Smith Clover.]
Box 7A, file E Commonwealth vs. Philip Clover
box 10A, file E Snively and Harmison vs. Phillip Clover
Box 6A File b-- Appeal paper and bond for a debt case. Philip Clover vs. Robert Gustin (clerk) Denis Clover, Jess Reynolds, 4 June 1830, damages $100 for broken covenant
Box 1a file D-- 1821. The second and third page of this are so faint, I can't read the copies but they do say that this was found not to be a true bill.
Virginia Miscellaneous:
I have been trying for some time to find two Clover references which appear in the Biographical Dictionary of Early Virgina, 1607-1660. I discovered this while searching for another of my families. I never pick up a book or any other source without looking for Clovers. I have finally located both of them.
Edmund Clover Charles City County, Virginia 1657
Beverley Fleet, Abstractor, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Volume X, Charles City County Court Orders 1655-1658, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1961), 67.
Page 86: Abstract. Power of Atty, 20 Sept 1655. “Wm Hallam of Burnham in the com of Essix Salter”, England to “my well beloved cozen Thomas Hallam of the same towne and com” to receive accounts due from Daniell Llewellin of Shirley Hundred or elsewhere in Virginia.
Signed William Hallam, recorded 13 April 1667. Witnessed by Edmund Clover and Hugh (x) Sherborn. [There is more signed by this Hallam and it all appears to have been signed in Burnham, in Essex, England.]
Thomas Clover Surry County, Virginia 1643
Unfortunately, after spending way too much time on this record, I finally got a copy of the original only to discover that it is a Thos. Colver. There is no Clover there. I think it is important to print it here because any Clover researcher is going to interested in a Clover record which is as early as these. No one else needs to waste time on it.
Since the earliest records of Philip Clover of Berkeley County appear in the Frederick County, Virginia deed records in 1764, searches for early information about this family need to include Frederick County, Virginia as well as Berkeley County, Jefferson County and Morgan County. These last three counties became part of West Virginia during the Civil War. Nevertheless, there is information about them in many of the standard Virginia periodicals.
Swem’s Historical Index: The standard published sources for Virginia research are: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; The William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine; Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine; Virginia Historical Register and Literary Advertiser; Lower Norfolk County Virginia Antiquary; Hening's Statutes-at-large; Calendar of Virginia State Papers; and other manuscripts preserved in the Capitol at Richmond, 1652-1869. All of the above items are indexed in Swem’s Historical Index. Swem’s includes an every name index, a index to articles by subject and by locality. The catch is that Swem’s index was published in 1934-6. Therefore, only issues of these periodicals published before 1929-1930 are included. There are four entries for the surname Clover in Swem’s.
Alexander Clover, Virginia Magazine of History, Volume 11: 316 (1904). “Virginia Gleanings in England.” Will of John Unett of London dated 14 July 1622 refers to a house in Blackfriars leased from an Alexander Clover, of London, deceased.
S. T. and Greayer Clover, Virginia Magazine of History, Volume 26: 340 (1918) “Virginians who have died in the War for Freedom.” Greayer Clover, aged 21, Lieutenant, killed in aviation accident in France September 1918. He was the son of S. T. Clover of Richmond. (Sept 6) [This is probably Samuel Travers Clover.]
Greayer Clover, Virginia Magazine of History, Volume 27: 72 (1919) “War Notes” Information about various people killed in the same accident in which Greayer Clover was killed.
S. T. Clover, Virginia Magazine of History, Volume 38: viii. The later entry is a list of members of the Virginia Historical Society published in April 1930. [S. T. Clover would be Samuel Travers Clover.]
West Virginia This list excludes Morgan County courthouse records.
Sims Index to Land Grants of West Virginia, by Edgar Barr Sims, (Charleston, West Virginia: Sims, 1952). The surnames of Clover, Ambrose, Fernow, Fear--, Creamer and variants of these names were checked. The only entry under these surnames is:
George Creamer 22 ½ acres, Warm Springs Run, 1804. Reference Book 1: 331.
This would have been George Creamer, Junior, who stayed in Berkeley County when his parents, George Creamer and Barbara Clover, moved to Ohio just before this date. The preface of the book states that Sims included all land grants given by Lord Fairfax, all grants of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the state of West Virginia. He used the term grant, but before the revolution, the term used was patent.
Virginia/West Virginia Queries, Issues 1-9, Betty Butcher Topp, (Spokane, Washington: B. B. Topp, 1987-) No Clovers in index.
Chronicles of Old Berkeley, by Mable Henshaw Gardiner and Ann Henshaw Gardiner (Durham, N.C.: Seeman Press, 1938) No Clovers.
Assorted West Virginia Cemeteries Copied from the Original Tombstones, Helen S. Stinson, (Dallas: H. S. Stinson, 1980). No Clovers.
Graveyard History of Morgan County, West Virginia, (Berkeley Springs, West Virginia: Morgan County Historical and Genealogical Society, 1980). There are many Ambrose entries and some descendants of Philip Clover, Junior, in this book. There are no records for a Clover. Philip Clover sr and jr, Henry Ambrose, their spouses, are not there. I wonder if they were buried on their land. In 1991, I walked the Ambrose Chapel cemetery with a photocopy from the book in my hand and found dozens of omissions and errors. There were also a large number of sandstone tombstones which were blank. They were mostly in what looked to be the older part of the cemetery.
Berkeley County Deed Indexes from Martinsburg Courthouse in Martinsburg, West Virginia. This courthouse does not allow access to early deeds. At one point, I believed that Don Wood had access to the courthouse, so I paid him for information about early Clover deeds. However, he sent abstracts, saying that he did not have access either. Several of these important Berkeley County Deeds have been abstracted and are on this website. I have copies of the deeds from microfilm.
Berkeley County, West Virginia Deeds and Wills Abstracts, Deed Books 1-5 (1772-1781), Will Books 1-3 (1772-1805), Larry G. Shuck, (Apollo, Pennsylvania: Clossen Press, 1999). I acquired this book because I wanted to see an every name index. No important finds were in the book.
Berkeley County Cemetery Records:
From lookup in Berkeley County Cemetery Book:
Page 91: Mt. Zion Baptist Cemetery, Arden District.
Lethie Clover, died 15 December 1897, aged 4 years, 6 months, 24 days
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Curran L Clove? died 10 July 1882
Virginia Cemetery Records
Old Concord Presbyterian Cemetery, Appomattox County, Virginia Also Campbell Co, VA
Clover, Elizabeth A., born August 31, 1846, died January 10, 1906
http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/cgi-bin/alumni.cgi?surname=clover&fname=robert
Alumni Listing for Robert Clover
Year: 1928
School/Group: Fredericksburg High School
Located: City of Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg Co, VA
From Texas Society, Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century, Ancestor Lineages, page 33. Thanks to Emily Nix for sending this to me. I have no idea who this is. However, my experience in Virginia leads me to suspect it might be a Glover or Cleaver.
John Burton, born 1632, England, died 1689/1690 Longfield, Henrico County, Virginia. married before 1652, wife died before 1690, Virginia. He had a land grant, 1665/1666 for transporting people to Virginia.
Children: John, born ca. 1656, married Mary ?; Robert born 1680, died 1724, married Mary ?Nowell; Benjamin living 1687; William married first Mary Risby, married second Mary Parke, married third Elizabeth Harwood; Mary married first John Davis, married second Wm Clover , Rachel m. Wm Hatcher, Anne m. Wm. Holden. from no. 21188 Billie Jane Chandler Snyder.
John Clover of Virginia
I do not know what this is based on. Further research has shown this group to be Glovers. Please scratch them off your list. I have it here so that if you run into this information, you won't waste your time on it. This was submitted by :
Beatrice Thomas Gross, beat41339@yahoo.com
http://www.gencircles.com/users/beag/4/data/35120
John Clover was born 18 September 1747 in Virginia, married 23 February 1769, in Virginia, Celia Vardeman, born 18 July 1752, in Virginia. Children: Martha Patsy Clover, born 18 November 1771, in Frederick County,Virginia. Martha Patsy Clover married 27 April 1767 in Hagerstown, Maryland, General Samuel Drake South.
John was son of Samuel Clover, born 1720, Virginia, died 1803 in Buckingham County, Virginia. Samuel married 22 September 1746, in Albemarle County, Virginia, Judith Benning, born 7 September 1731, Virginia.
Samuel Clover III was the son of Samuel Clover II, born 1690, Virginia, and Elizabeth Jones. Samuel Clover II was the son of Samuel Clover I, died 1746 in Albemarle County, Virginia, and Sarah Blair.
Marge Clover AKA Clever, Clewer Indentured servant 1653
Ruth Sparacio and Sam Sparacio, Order Book Abstracts of Northumberland County, Virginia 1652-1657 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 1994), 16, quoting Northumberland County, Virginia Orders 1652-1665, 23.
Mary Clover (or Clever)
Nell Marion Nugent, Abstracts of Land Patent and Grants, 1623-1666, Volume 1, (Richmond, Virginia; Dietz Printing Co, 1934), 250. This has been reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Co.
Mary entered Virginia in 1653 according to the patent. At that time, you could receive land for bringing in people. She is one of a list of such people in 1653. The land given was in Gloucestor County. I have not seen this myself so do not know what the last name is. However, Nugent is known for accurate transcription and if she could not tell the difference between Clover and Clever, it is probably not possible to tell. This is pretty common in early handwriting.
North American Wills Registered in London, 1611 to 1857, page 83
Ripley, Francis of Shadwell, Middlesex who died in Virginia on the Francis and Edward. Will 10 December 1694. Wit: Mary Clover, John Cosin and Samuel Willis AWW 17 Sept 1697 to relict Elizabeth Eipley, the named exec. Mary Cole of Shadwell, widow, renouncing. (Guildhall Ms 9171/48/455)
Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1974). This is actually an extraction of the early Augusta County, Virginia records. Since Frederick County was formed from Augusta and Orange Counties in 1738, and Frederick County was the parent county of Berkeley County, this is something we have to be interested in. This is three volumes. Only volume 3 page 152, has a Clover entry. This is a set of estate records.
19 May 1778: David White's (of Tyger's Valley) estate appraised, sold, and settled--Vendue, to viz: Catherine White, Aron Richeson, George Burdon, Michael Austner, 1 gun bought by Catherine White and taken away by force and violence by Wm. White; cash paid Wm. Clover; cash received of the public for pay of the intestate as a spy.
There are no other Clovers in the three volumes but there are mentions of Cleavers. There is a Nathanial Cleaver, and a Benjamin Cleaver. In Volume 1, page 204, in the court records, there is a 19 January 1779 entry where Wm. Cleaver, Daniel Westfall, Francis Wire, and John Warrick were to locate a road from Jonas Friend's to Darby Connolly's (deceased) plantation, in Tyger's Valley.
Since both of these William Cl-- references are in Tyger's Valley, it seems very likely that they are for the same person. Tyger's Valley ended up in Randolph County, West Virginia which is not close to any other known Clovers. Randolph was formed in 1787 from Harrison County which was formed in 1784 from Monongalia County. Consequently, our question should be "Are there Cleavers or Clovers in the tax records of these counties?"
Because the 1790 Census of Virginia was destroyed, the Census Bureau published a book consisting of 1782 tax lists as a census substitute. Since Randolph and Harrison Counties were not in existence in 1782, the only tax list of interest to us in this case would be Monongalia County. Unfortunately, this book has no Cleavers in any county. This could happen for various reasons but it certainly does not help our investigation.
Fothergill published a book of the Tax Records of Virginia, 1782 to 1787. This has an entry for Philip Clover of Berkeley County with two cows on page 26. This is for the 1782 tax list. There are no Cleavers in the book. The book includes various tax lists for various years. The book was intended to supplement the book of Virginia tax lists published by the census bureau because the 1790 census was lost. For the years that we are interested in, the Fothergill book does not include the proper counties. There are no lists for Monongalia, Randolph, or Harrison Counties. There is a list for Augusta County for 1782, but by that time, Tyger's Valley would have been in Monongalia County.
I have the two CDs on Virginia Records from Family Treemaker, Vital Records, no. 1, and Colonial Virginia Source Records on my desk. There are Cleavers in these records, but not in the right counties. However, for the most part that could be because the CDs don't include the right counties in the right years.
If anyone can add any information to this, I would be most grateful. The reason that I am working so hard on this is that we have repeatedly tried to trace Jacob Clover's trail across the country to Illinois. It had been suggested that this William Clover/Cleaver could be connected to him. Unfortunately, that does not now seem likely. I have also thought that they might be connected to Philip Clover in Frederick County.
Today, Tygarts Valley is a branch of the Monongahela River, with its head in Randolph County, West Virginia, running generally northward through Barbour County and Taylor County to its mouth at Fairmont in Marion County. Marion County neighbors Monongahela County. All of these counties were in Augusta County, Virginia in 1778. I am not absolutely sure where these people were. But I can not absolutely dismiss them because they were much closer to Frederick County and to Springhill Township in Fayette County than I had originally thought. We just need much more information.
This Query was originally published in the Clover Family Exchange, Volume 8 issue 1, Fall 1998, page 6. I am still looking for more information.
Query: William
Yost and Elizabeth Clover
William Yost married
Elizabeth Clover
ca. 1766 Pennsylvania? (His will was dated 5 January 1824, Morgan
County, Virginia and proven 31 October 1825. Named were wife:
Elizabeth; sons: John, Peter, and William; daughters: Mary, Catherine,
and Elizabeth. Mathias Ambrose and Peter Michael were named Executors.
Bondsmen were Adam Hinkle, Sarah Miller and James H. Brewer.) The
family appears to have moved from Pennsylvania to Morgan County,
Virginia in the early 1770's. His son, John Yost, was born ca. 1769,
Pennsylvania. Does anyone know any more about her
origins?
Is there any connection to Philip Clover, her Virginia
neighbor?
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Melvin Lee Steadman, Falls Church by Fence and Fireside,
(Falls Church, Virginia: Falls Church Public Library, 1964), 287.
“Samuel Shreve (1785-1862), son of Col. Samuel and Myra (Trout)
Shreve, married Mary Ann Clover of Falls Church [Virginia], no doubt a
sister of Williston Clover.” Steadman gives no source for this
information. Col. Samuel Shreve was a Revolutionary War Hero from New
Jersey and has been extensively researched.
Since this man was from New Jersey, I worried that
this was a “mislaid” relative of John Peter Clover.
However, Emily Nix solved the problem. She found a Genealogy and History of the Shreve Family
from 1641,
by Luther Prentice Allen. On page 415, the information was given that
Samuel Shreve, born 1785, married (1) Priscilla Payne and married (2)
Mary Ann CULVER. Samuel died in Falls Church, Virginia in
1862. His father was in the Revolutionary War.
There are so many loose ends hanging around Clover
research that it is a delight to be able to get rid of this one. Thanks
to Emily Nix for her perseverance.
Lester J. Cappon and Stella F. Duff published a massive Virginia Gazette Index, 1736-1780. (FHC microfiche 6051225.) This is an important resource because it included the war years and military notices covering a vast area outside of Virginia. It has notices from Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, etc. This index has a William Clover in it. His name was supposed to have been on page 3, column 2, of the 9 May 1777, Virginia Gazette, published by Dixon and Hunter. Unfortunately, this is a William Glover. That is good news for Clover researchers because he was wanted for desertion from the 3rd Regiment of North Carolina Continental Troops. This is on Newspaper Microfilm reel 11, from the Library of Virginia.The Virginia Gazette was published in Richmond during the 1700s and is indexed on line. There is a William Clover indexed in an article from 9 May 1777 in a list of deserters from the 3rd Regiment from North Carolina, on page 3, column 2. A careful look at the actual newspaper clipping shows that this is really a William Glover.
There is also on online index to these early newspapers.
Beverly Fleet, "Charles City County Court Orders, 1655-1658," Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Volume III, (reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company in three volumes.) page 178
Page 86 of court orders: Abstract of power of attorney by Wm Hallen signed in Essex, England giving power to his cousin Thomas Hallen. Edmund Clover was a witness to this.
R. Michael Miller, Artisans and Merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, Volume 1, page 71. There is a Clover on this page according to some on line indexes. I looked at the book and this is a collection of Cleavers, most ca. 1811 in Alexandria. Again, a typical OCR error.
John David Davis, Frederick County, Virginia Minutes of Court Records, 1743-1745. No Clovers or anything near it.
Gertie M. Clover
Published in the Star-Telegram on 1/17/2009
Today's Star-Telegram obituary notices
1927 - 2009
Gertie Clover, 81 passed away peacefully after a long illness to be with her heavenly Father on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009.
Memorial service: 2 p.m. Sunday at Grandview Church of Christ.
Memorials: American Celiac Disease Alliance, 2504 Duxbury Place, Alexandria, Va. 22308.
Gertie Eling Clover was born March 8, 1927, in Stuttgart, Germany. She was a Sunday school teacher and longtime member of Kennedale and Grandview Church of Christ. She was very active in her community and will be remembered for her wonderful cooking.
We will miss you, Mom and Mammaw.
Survivors: Husband, Robert Clover; sons, Bob, Larry and David Clover (Sheena); grandchildren, Michael Clover (Marcella), Cersten Keeton (Trent), Colton Clover and Katie Clover; great-grandchildren, Victoria, Joshua and Isabella Clover; and a host of other family and friends.
Campbell County, Virginia
DIXON FAMILY CEMETERYCampbell Co, VAThe Dixon Family Cemetery is located near Rustburg (the county seat),Campbell County, Va. From Rustburg, take 501 N to State Route 615, thenturn on State Route 606, Turn right on 656 and then turn right on PlumbBranch Road, the cemetery is a short distance down the road on the left,inside a cow pasture. The cemetery is fenced in, however, due to a badstorm, several trees are down inside and have done a lot of damage. Thecemetery is unkept. There are many graves marked only with rocks. It is nolonger in use. Submitted by:Barbara Keys
Annie B. Clover Booth b. February 28, 1833 d. February 5, 1906wife of D.R. Booth
http://files.usgwarchives.org/va/campbell/cemeteries/dixon.txt
Obituaries, Berkeley County, Virginia (West Virginia) and Other News, (Martinsburg, West Virginia: Berkeley County Historical Society, 2001). This was published in two volumes, 1791 to 1855, and 1856 to 1879. There was only one entry of interest in the two volumes. Volume 2: 65 has: Shepherdstown Register, 21 December 1867. At her residence near Darkesville, [Berkeley County, West Virginia], on the 45th instant, Mrs. Elizabeth Ambrose in the 60th year of her age. [This is probably the wife of Lewis Ambrose.]
Virginia in the Revolution and War of 1812 Military Records CD 121
This CD is indexed on Genealogy.com and according to the index there are Clover entries on the CD. However, this is an indexing error.
Only listing I could find in this database:
Cleaver, Private Stephen Book : Virginia Militia of the War of 1812, Vol. I
Page # : 225
Cleaver, William Book : Register of Virginians in the Revolution
Page # : 157
Social Security Death Index for Virginia
| BURTT CLOVER | 1876, Mar 4 | 1970, Jun | Charlottesville, VA |
| JEAN CLOVER | 1888, Mar 19 | 1978, Dec | Charlottesville, VA |
| ANNE CLOVER | 1899, Aug 13 | 1987, Jun | Richmond, VA |
| HURL CLOVER | 1919, Nov 2 | 1990, Nov 6 | Dumfries, VA |
| DEBORAH CLOVER | 1955, Jan 16 | 2002, Nov 18 | Falls Church, VA |
Social Securitey Death Index for West Virginia
| JOSEPH CLOVER | 1877, Aug 3 | 1972, Dec | Charleston, WV |
Fairfax VA Newspaper index:
Fairfax News 11/13/1874 03 Clover Williston Court suit continued
Herndon Observer 10/08/1942 01 Clover W.H. Mrs. Hosts home nursing training
Fairfax Herald 08/18/1950 06 Clover Phyllis Mrs. Visited aunt in Burke
ROBERT LAWRENCE CLOVER (Age 76)
Of Spring Lake, NC, passed away peacefully on May 14, 2011. Originally of Alexandria, VA, Mr. Clover is survived by a large loving family: Cecelia M. (Sherri L. Eady) of Alexandria, VA, Patricia E. (Michael Rogers) of Spring Lake, NC, MaryAlta Clover-Goff of Woodbridge, VA, Henri L. Clover (Wanda Nobles-Clover) of Alexandria, VA, Phyllis A. Clover-Cushman (James Cushman) of Alexandria, VA, Judith A. Clover-Flick (Christopher Flick) of Woodbridge, VA, as well as, his sister Lyn Wise of Ohio, brother Frank Clover of Indiana and sister-in-law, Mary Ellen Patania of Arizona, 16 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Before moving to NC, Robert was a member and usher at St. Louis Catholic Church. He was a loving husband and father. He worked as many as three jobs at a time but always made time for his family to vacation or go camping. Friends will be received at Demaine Funeral Home, 520 S. Washington St., Alexandria, VA, 22314, May 20, 2011 from 6pm to 8pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday May 21, 2011 at 1pm at St. Louis Catholic Church in Alexandria, VA. Burial will follow at Fairfax Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Robert's name to: MDS-Foundation, 4573 S. Broad St., Suite 150, Yardville, NJ 08620.
Published in The Washington Post on May 18, 2011
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=robert-l-clover&pid=151114003&fhid=4948
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