Clark Family Cemetery

FOUNDED: 1830s

AFFILIATION(S): N/A

HISTORY:

In the 1790s, soon after Vermont became a state, a Black family originally enslaved in Connecticut, migrated to northern Vermont. Shubael and Violet Clark chose a rural hill in Hinesburgh with good loamy soil to farm, which the family did for three generations. They were successful, becoming members of the Baptist Church, attending local schools, and voting in town elections. The farm was sold off in pieces after the Civil War, as soldiers from this family returned home from the war. They no longer wished to farm the hill country and moved down into the Champlain Valley to continue farming. One soldier, Loudon Langley, stayed in South Carolina and became a founding father of Radical Reconstruction. He is buried in the National Cemetery in Beaufort, SC but his ancestors are in the Clark Cemetery. We have found no other Black cemetery in VT.

BCN Contact Information:

Elise A. Guyette

eguy949@gmail.com