Oh, that's just heartbreaking! I'm glad you got to keep some pieces, knowing those are original to the place. It would have been nice if you could have taken a few starts from that wisteria and plant it where you live now. I once had a house that was over 100 years old and the previous owner (who was there 50 years) planted wisteria next to the porch. But that may have been planted by one of your ancestors too.
I have found out where some of my ancestors were buried - some in North Carolina and some in Arkansas. But there are some that I can't find anything about. Now I wonder if their headstones were taken. Some counties make lists of the headstones in cemeteries, and I know in the 1800s there were lists of where Revolutionary War soldiers were buried.
Maybe the developers did it. You might be able to get some protection from the local historical society, or they might be able to tell you who can if they can't.
and why didn't you take tools that would help you do a proper job of uncovering them? I get trying to get them on findagrave but pictures should be of cleaner clearer headstones. I do know ancestry owns findagrave and they keep track of how many are uploaded by individuals, however count should not be more important than properly uncovering them
This 3000 grave pioneer cemetery was desecrated by the Masonic Ventura California City Council in the 1960s (San Buenaventura, one of the original Spanish Missions town). Even though the bodies are still there, the City has turned the cemetery into a 7 acre dog park, with the dogs defecating everyday on the pioneers' graves. Please share and comment. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6zmzuB9WdXg.htmlsi=2dnqIJWTjFpMffI4
Anybody interested in the Spanish American war, there is an organization called the sons of Spanish American war veterans. There are two forms of membership, hereditary membership, for those who had family members served during the time of the Spanish American war in Philippine insurrection. And then there is associate membership for those who do not have family ties, but who are interested in the history.
God Bless you for the care that you and whoever is with you took with the cemetery. 🙏. What tales you can pass down to your family and then they can pass it on and so forth. Thanks for this info. 😀
I agree with you. We are moving forward and we are letting our history go to ruins. Many people today look at an old building and say eww it’s outdated. They would rather live in an ugly and usually not as strong house than an old strong and beautiful house. I’d like to be able to save some historic places if I can.
It’s a shame you couldn’t get the house. If you had been able to you would have continued the decades of your family history there. It’s unfortunate that most care more about money than history. I’d like to one day save an abandoned house. I’d probably move it away so a developer can use the land and I can have an old house.
How sad that it is gone now. It is clear from your video that it was once a very beautiful home! It had so much natural light! Wow! Thank you for sharing this with us!
I am sorry the house was destroyed. It is hard to see a landmark of your family ancestors abandoned, vandalized, and demolished. Thankfully, you made a video to remember the house. The lovely bones and the beautiful light from the windows in each room show how your ancestors designed it to be to be a bright and gracious home.
If the cemetery is on the same piece of property which I’m assuming it is, I would be very concerned with what the plan is for that when the property is developed!!
Some SOB let his dog off the lease and it shits on the graves in my local cemetery . so being a good citizen I clean up the Poo. and returned it to sender, placing it on the front seat of his car !
Cemetaries are so beautiful & peaceful. Thankyou for cleaning it up so it looks beautiful again! So beautiful! ❤️ keep us posted please on how it goes...
Such a grand amazing house it must have been in its time. Such a shame what time and vandalism does to something something so beautiful. It's ashame you didn't get the step-up stone too. I'm sure that will be lost with time also.
Dig up the flowers and plant 🪴 them where ever you live if you end up moving dig them up again and transplant them again etc. Each time you movie that way you will always have something from the old house.
I hope there's a special place in hell for the creatures who would show such disrespect for the dead. If they do it "for fun", they deserve that place!
