I LOVE HISTORY! Exploring old cemeteries, ancient & abandoned homes and structures, all of this has been a hobby of mine since I was a kid. I grew up spending summers in Maine, and often went into the woods near my grandparents' home, stumbling over gravestones from as early as the 16-1700s. Sometimes they were surrounded by iron gates, and other times just sticking up in the middle of the woods all by themselves. It made me think about the history behind the person under those stones, and what their life was like back in those early times. As these old places crumble and sink into the earth, I'd like to do whatever I can to help these long-gone people be remembered. Once upon a time, they were somebody's mom, dad, wife, husband - not to mention someone's child. If you have family buried in the Northern Virginia area, I'd love to go find them for you! Hit me up!
My name is Jason. Let's Explore History together! (Contact: ExploreHistory100@gmail.com)
William H Brown was my great great grandfather his son William N Brown wrote a journal and the first part of the journal he talks a lot about this house thank you so much for making this video I appreciate it a lot.
You are very welcome! Were you able to “see” things in your mind from his writings now that you’ve seen the physical house? I’m glad we were able to get this one on camera when we did. I’m fairly certain that the house is now gone. Thank you for watching, and please share it anywhere you like! ~Jason
It is such a peaceful and beautiful setting, especially on a warm spring or fall day. I definitely encourage you to go see it for yourself. Thank you so much for watching, and your comment! ~Jason
My mother recently shared this video with me, and I must say, it brings me immense joy. I have always had a desire to delve deeper into my family's history. My grandfather is Raymond Charles Peters. ❤ thank you for researching and sharing this information.
Hello Ebony! Thank you so much for coming by and sharing this with me! Your family’s history is rich, and James Peters was involved in some big moments in American history (both good and bad). I salute him as a fellow veteran, but also have great respect for the man and all the adversity he had to overcome in his life. Please share this video far and wide, and also take a look through my channel for anything else that may interest you. I’ve visited a lot of places since I started doing videos in 2019. Thank you for watching! ~Jason
Thank you for stopping by and watching! I had a lot of fun researching the story - and it led it many directions. Please feel free to peruse my video library and see if anything else jumps out at you! ~Jason
I was SO excited to see the final culmination of all Jason Graves hard work exploring and sharing the life of Civil War Veteran James Peters and his family. 💙 Jason has family ties to Maine and we just happened to stumble across one another online. I absolutely love and admire what he does. I was honored when he allowed me to assist in researching on this project. Now seeing the finished project, I was in tears because I felt like he was talking about people I knew! Thank you for the honorable mention in your amazing video, Jason! You did an amazing job honoring the lives of the Peters family. 💙 Please feel free to share this video to anyone who loves American history or just family biographical sketches! Also subscribe to Jason's RU-vid channel... Exploring History Together. 💙
We make a good research team, Carrie - thank you so much for your input and hard work on the Peters Family. I have a feeling we're going to work together again very soon! ~Jason
Are you still local to the area? I remember being in that cemetery a few years ago… that was a HOT day. I’m currently working on the story of a local (Prince William County) civil war soldier, and connecting him with his wife and 9 children. This should be hitting the channel sometime this coming week. ~Jason
Thank you so much! Yes, it absolutely was a beautiful place, and so well cared for. It was a blessing that I could actually speak that day. I was getting over a cold - and you can definitely hear it. But it was a gorgeous day and I wanted to get out of the house and DO something. I hope you’ll stick around as a viewer… I’m currently working on what I hope will be my best work so far. It should be released very soon. ~Jason
I wish you'd waved me down! I love talking to viewers of the channel! On June 22, I took a few friends up who wanted to see Gettysburg - so it wasn't a "work trip"... (I wasn't doing any video.) This one was all about fun, adventure, and enjoying the scenery. Also got to try Mr. G's ice cream for the first time... I WILL DEFINITELY BE BACK FOR MORE! ;-) ~Jason
That is entirely possible. Name spellings regularly change throughout history... in that very cemetery you've got "Howry" and "Howery" buried side by side.
@@ExploringHistoryTogether Never been there but it is my family. My family searches the web to try and find anything, but the only one we know is Henry Plyler.
@@LuckyBuckYT Do you have a birth and/or death year for Henry? If I can locate him in Find A Grave, I might be able to track down the gravestone when I’m there on Saturday.
my name is mike LeFEVRE, this is upsetting that someone took down the stone and iron fence around the plot, and it is pronounced lahfeever. We are not German, we were French hugonots from stasborg France. Our family was completely wiped out during the inquisition, and paradise, pa was granted to our family by William penn
I apologize for mispronouncing your name... I knew a family years ago who pronounced it the way I did in the video, so it was correct to the best of my knowledge. I also cannot read any language other than English, and the name "Heinrich" being on one of the graves kind of gave me the feeling that there was German heritage here. Again, I'm sorry for the mistake. I do my best to shine light on these old cemeteries without sharing a direct location on camera (to discourage vandalism), and I also try to show respect for the ancestors who rest there. I hope that at least I accomplished that last part for your family. We just happened to drive by your family's site without foreknowledge that it was there - so I did not have any information on hand when I actually recorded the video. I found those photos after the fact and added them in. ~Jason
@@ExploringHistoryTogether I live in dallas pa. There is a cemetery down the road called “ceastown cemetery” It is in lehman, pa. It has civil war guys in there
So strange that there was just that one little sign that said “Lincoln Family Cemetery.” There was no other signage at all, and I was really unsure at first about walking through the neighbor’s yard to get to the site.
I just watched a video about this cabin. It's a reproduction of a confederate shelter. There were a bunch of shelters the soldiers put up. They cut down the timber but used lumber from surrounding buildings. I don't have the site, but it's on you tube.
I appreciate this message! Yes I learned quite a bit after the fact that it was a reproduction for some of the anniversary celebrations going on at the battlefield. If you watch my 10th Alabama Cemetery video, Jeff the tour guide explains those cabins on a different battle site.
Beautiful old Ghost Town, I love looking at old buildings seeing what inside and the craftsmanship that was put into them back when people had pride in what they built, thank you for this awesome find.
Thank you, Nancy, for watching! And how ironic that you happened to comment on this particular video today. I was planning to return there today but the rain kept me home. Union Level was, for the most part, razed to the ground about a week ago and I was going to video document whatever is left. Very sad to see it go but I understand from a local friend there that the place was falling in on itself, and had become very dangerous.
Thanks for the vid. On my way right now to see the Garthright House for the first time. I am a descendant of Miles Garthright. It’s supposed to be very haunted.
I would have LOVED to get video inside the house... but it was locked up tight, and there was no indication that it's ever open for visitors. If you could talk to the right people and get me a tour inside, I'd be grateful!
Ok left a coupla hours ago. It’s federal historic property and now functions as housing for park rangers. Ran into one while there--he said the second floor burned down in 1972 so the whole thing was remodeled then. He didn’t offer to let me in (looked like he was ready to crash). He said there was nothing original to see inside except the fireplace. The rest was remodeled right down to cheap beige carpeting. He reports no hauntings .
@ScandanavianMillenial You're very welcome! It was a fun visit, but as you could see, I very nearly gave up on finding anything. The thorns and brush were SO thick it was crazy. Felt like I was being attacked from all sides by live vines! Thankfully the camera brought to my vision what my eyes failed to see... the multi-sided gravestone. Glad you enjoyed the visit!
lincoln is the reason we're in this mess today with biden. bad president. Today, if that war between the states happened, the north would be charged with war crimes against humanity.
Both armies committed their fair shares of atrocities against each other. I didn’t post this video to start any political fights with anyone… just showing the history, that’s all.
The truth is, Tom Lincoln couldn't have any children because at a young age he had a disease that made him sterile. Abraham Lincoln's real father was Abraham Enloe of North Carolina. Nancy Hanks (who changed her name from Hankenberger) was the Enloe maid. Abraham Enloe got Nancy pregnant which made his wife angry and she had Nancy kicked out of the house. Abraham Enloe paid tom Lincoln to Mary the pregnant Nancy hankenberger/hanks. Abraham Lincoln was conceived in North Carolina and born in Kentucky. This video is actually showing a myth.
not much information given, had a hard time seeing who was who in relation to President Lincoln. Almost like you were in a hurry to get done instead of giving a good background on the site. keep trying.
This was an odd site… not like most other places I’ve been to. I did not see a gate where I could get inside the cemetery (and hence closer to the stones to read). I only learned after I returned home (2 hours away) that the gate is hidden. That’s why I simply zoomed in on the directory sign - figured it provided pretty much anything I could have spoken. Sorry about the “lack” on this one.
Thank you, @dynamitedavedotcom! Another new skill learned with editing on this one... putting the photo over top of the video to show the cemetery map detail. A tiny thing for someone else, but a mountain climbed for me!
Oh my. In the back ground and a few others are my ancestors. Seymour. Watson and Fish you spoke of some. Webster you didn’t show any. Well except at the end on the founders monument. Up higher from John Webster is another Richard Seymour. Thank you so much or this exploration of the burying grounds. Tears of joy over came myself. Now I know that if I plan a trip (from Oklahoma) that I in fact will see their names. Thank you. ❤
@glendac6334 You made my day with this comment! Last year when I was planning a trip up to Maine to scatter my mom's ashes, I told my wife I really wanted to make a detour to video in this specific graveyard. Thankfully she obliged me on this one. This is a truly amazing cemetery, and contains SO MUCH history. Today it's nowhere near as large as it once was, but if I'd had the time, I still could have spent 2-3 days in here just perusing the stones. Thank you for watching, and feel free to look through my many other videos to see if something appeals to you! ~Jason
In my heart, I do believe there are at least a few here that pre-date the 1700s. The extremely rural placement of this cemetery, out here among the ancient farms, just screams OLD to me. The earliest marked stone is dated 1739, but in more than one place online I read that burials were happening here at least 20-30+ years earlier than that. 1600's dates wouldn't surprise me. Thanks for watching!
I just happened upon another video of your cemetery tours while trying to locate an ancestor in the area. Then I saw this one. Beautiful drone work of the area and I appreciate your sensitivity and respect for the places and people there. I have numerous ancestors in the Chestnut Level New Cemetery from the 1800s. I was there at dusk in September. I'd been planting bulbs at the graves of ancestors at the Drumore Friends Cemetery. Twilight at Chestnut Level was magical!
Chestnut Level was indeed a beautiful location, and it’s obvious that someone is taking care of it. It IS odd to me though that the “new” cemetery has a 1960 date when in fact there are so many burials that predate that by many, many years. I am planning to return to PA in the spring/summer of 2024 as there is so much history to be found there. Thank you so much for watching, and your comment too. I hope you find my other videos as pleasing to watch. Look for Tschantz Graveyard in my list - you’ll love it! ~Jason
On occasion, I do run across other languages… mostly Hebrew. But if you watch my Tschantz Graveyard video, you will certainly see some old German there. Thank you so much for watching, and feel free to share the video links!
Just a theory about Ada: perhaps her family farmed very near this spot at first, and she was the first in the family to pass away. Then, if they moved 3 or so miles away, and the next person in the family died during winter, they might have needed to buried him/her close to their new home. And the rest followed. It’s kind of surprising that they didn’t move her to the other cemetery, but perhaps other family members are buried near her, so they left her with them. It’s fun to try to develop a narrative for people whose stories we don’t know.
A very plausible theory for sure... To be honest, I didn't dig very far into her story when I was researching this cemetery... but I may spend a little time trying to piece it together in the next couple months - while it's still too cold and wintry to go adventuring very far from home. Thank you for watching! ~Jason
