Catherine A. Clarke

Catherine A. Clarke (October 12, 1820 - January 19, 1903), was the wife of a mayor of Charlottesville during the Civil War and a druggist G. M. McIntire. Clarke, a member of the prominent Albemarle family that held land under grants received in colonial times and produced George Rogers Clark and William Clark.

Catherine A. Clarke (also spelled Clark) was a granddaughter to John and Ann Rogers Clark. Both families were Virginia landholders, and after their marriage they moved to a 400 acre farm left to Clark by his father, Jonathan. This land was located on the Rivanna River, two miles east of Charlottesville and two and one-half miles northwest of Shadwell, where Thomas Jefferson was born. Their first son, Jonathan, was born in 1750, and their second son, George Rogers, in 1752. It's clear there was wealth in the family from Catherine's side of the family if she can be directly connected to one of the sons of John and Ann Rogers Clark. They had three other sons besides George Rogers and William. They were Jonathan, John, and Richard.

Catherine and her husband, George Malcolm McIntire, lived with their three boys and four daughters in a house at 815 e. High, location of the famous “Tarleton Oak”. Their youngest son, Paul Goodloe McIntire, born in 1860, was to become acknowledged as one of the great benefactors of the City of Charlottesville, the County of Albemarle and also the University of Virginia. .

Paul Goodloe McIntire's gifts to Charlottesville, included a city block, purchased on May 28, 1917, to create a formal landscaped city Park and Monument (formerly known as Lee Park and the Robert E. Lee statue) in memory or his parents and two bronze statues, The George Rogers Clark Monument and the Statue of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacajawea to commemorate the historic exploits of two of Catherine's uncles, George Rogers (often hailed as the "Conqueror of the Old Northwest") and William (one of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.)

Catherine A. Clarke was buried in Maplewood Cemetery when she died in 1903. Her grave is located next to that of her husband, G. M. McIntire, inside the family plot.