God that just blows my mind imagine living during those times had to take a wagon and cities were barely a thing really scary how it seem it was long ago but in reality is so recent
My great great aunt passed away last year at the age of 110. She was born before the Titanic sank, both World Wars, the great Depression, and was born before JFK. She started working at the age of 8, never learned to read, and ran away from home after my Great-Great Grandfather didnt approve of her husband. She had her memory and all to the end and had many stories about watching the world go from tiny towns into Metropolis' and mankind going into space. Never underestimate someone by their age and take interest in your elders.
I’m so blessed my grandmother lived to 99 years of age. She was born in 1912 and passed away 2011. She spoke of her memories of the 1918 epidemic and WWII.
Hopefully you got some camera footage of her like these people here. Im sure she had a wealth of knowledge to pass on to the new generations of humans.
DUDE! That gave me the chills. The politically "yellow" is what I've always aligned with most: minimal government intervention, and a free market. That's real freedom. Sadly, the politically green and yellow are forever destined to succumb to the authoritarian red and blue, respectively.
Even 100 years isnt long in the grand scheme of things.. the universe is 13,800,000,000 years old.. the earth is 4,600,000,000 years old.. humans have been around only for roughly 200,000 years, if that.. a single human life is 100 years (or there abouts) if that human is lucky. Of course short.
@Nicholas Jevon we will not enjoy the moments if we lived forever. That's why we should remind ourselves daily to enjoy as one morning will be our last. Amen!
The old man at 6.37 and after,born in 1826,spoke about his father and grandfather,his grandfather was probably born before the Declaration of Independence(1776) and he saw him,he was 11 years old when the great Russian poet,Alexander Pushkin was killed(1837),amazing.
I'm purely speculating, but I'll offer a theory. There are many, many more people alive over 80 today than there were in the 1920s. It's likely that those that were able to get out and about were the mentally and physically fittest of the fit. Today, with modern medicine, people who would be too feeble or sick to live or travel can live more normal lives, even if they seem less clear sometimes.
Because back then, the elderly who couldn’t get out and about died sooner. Remember, the average lifespan at this point in time was in the 50s, so everyone in this video is quite exceptional.
@@TheNightWatcher1385 58.8 years. But that was because there wasnt vaccines yet for things like t.b. and a lot of people still relied on prayer to break fevers and nonsense like that. Also infant deaths and women dying in child birth happened often. Germ theory wasnt entirely accepted as fact, so disease spread like wildfire. But if you made it through these things, odds are you lived just as long as people do today.
@@TheNightWatcher1385 you have to think.. less people died in freak accidents like automobile wrecks or being ran over, dying in a skydiving accident, etc. Every time period has its share of problems.
The 94 year old man at 2:24 was born perhaps in 1835. To put that in perspective, James Madison, one of the founding fathers, died in 1836. Some of the older people who are 100+ might have even been alive when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were frail old men.
@@boostedls24 Actually when I checked it now I noticed I made a mistake when I mentioned Jefferson and Madison. Someone born 100 years before this film would've been born in 1829, not 1826. I manged to get those two years mixed up somehow
Sitting here, watching this, thinking about how these people had absolutely no idea that in nearly 100 years there’d be videos of them that’d would be stored on the internet for people to watch on their phones, a concept they’d have no way of even comprehending.
Really puts into perspective hoe young the US is as a country. People born at the time this was filmed are younger now than some of the subjects were then, and these people remembered such events as the Trail of Tears and the decline of the Whig Party. These people witnessed the railroad being a new transportation technology and the airplane being a new transportation technology.
most of us couldn’t imagine what it was like 200 years ago, although some of us have already lived a quarter of that time (50yrs) the US isn’t even 250 yrs old yet😅
My grandma Norma rose was born March 29,1929. She lived a hard but wonderful life and passed away sadly in 2014 of lung cancer never touched a cig in her life.
Did some research. This was made in 1929 and: - Lydia died two years later in 1931 at 102 - Daniel died 11 years later in 1940 at 89 - Galusha died two years later in 1931 at 93 (he was actually 92 in this video) - Rebecca died less than a year after this at 95 - John died three years later in 1932 at 102 - John died 11 years later in 1940 at 70 (he must've only been 59 in this video)
Who was that humorous gentleman with the most fashionable facial hair and top hat? Also who were those ex-confederate guerrillas that fought at Wilson’s Creek?
7:29 Considering the Whig Party was effectively extinct by the time of the Civil War, it's crazy to think of someone old enough to vote for them living into the time of sound with film.
And just to think that these people are nearly 200 years old. They were born around the same time that one of the oldest photographs in the world was taken, and they had grandparents that had lived during the Revolutionary War, and parents that might have been born at the very end of the 18th century. Talk about insane.
My grandfather was born in 1879. And my grandmother in 1880. She looked like Mary Ingles from little house on the prairie in a picture from the mid-1890s. In the picture is her family, with her grandmother dressed in black and holding a bible in her lap. I am now 61 years old, but it's kinda strange knowing you met people born in this century. My dad once asked his father about the good old days, he replied, the only good thing about the good old days is that there gone. Enough said.
The crazy thing about this RU-vid video is that my grandparents would have been between the ages of 5 and 15 when this was recorded. I can't believe I'm now 40 and the last grandparent of mine died 15 years ago. It's nuts how fast life passes by.
Wow that man talking about being in war. He talked about the battle of Wilson’s Creek in Springfield, Mo. I live there. Crazy. Also, these people don’t even look as old as they say they are. It really makes you wonder about what we put in our bodies nowadays.
Back then if you’re gonna make it to 90 you’d have to be in top shape or you’d be dead. Due to medicine etc we can live longer but most people can’t function and back in the day would be dead
I was in the healthcare field before my osteoarthritis caused me to have to quit working. I just turned 35, and already we've lived through a lot. I took care of so many elderly people that had the most amazing stories to tell me about their lives and the past. I LOVE history, and I'd be given the real, and raw, details that you aren't told about in the history books. One woman I took care of had dementia. She hardly ever spoke.. One day, we were watching Pearl Harbor and all of a sudden she started talking about where she was, what was happening, etc. Turns out, she was there that day and took care of people who were hurt. I'd had another woman who told me so many stories. Once they're gone, those stories are gone. The real stories, not the convoluted crap that schools try to censor and teach you.
Amazing how healthy and sharp their minds are. They move around and look like people in their 60's today. The food they ate was all organic and life was much less stressful
It’s mostly survivorship bias. Not the only cause, but it’s a key player They had far inferior medical care. Pretty much all cancer survivors. Young kids with pneumonia. Infections in general, especially for diseases we now vaccinate for. All those people back then just died. So in the modern day, you have a higher percentage of disabled/weaker immune system people who tend to deteriorate sooner. We’re also better at keeping people alive in old-age, almost scarily so. Also the US is generally a safer place now than it was then. When those guys were growing up, their bread likely had chalk added! All kinds of preservatives and medicine additives are illegal now. Modern food and drug companies have to keep a paper trail the size of Timbuktu. Another huge part is the amount of . Nursing homes cut your life expectancy unless the elder is already at hospice stage. Being able to stay active within your family and community is integral to your motivation to live in general, which actually heavily impacts life expectancy. I agree the junk food isn’t helping, but it’s really not the pesticides or wax in nonorganic food having that massive impact
Great video. But please give credit to the original poster of this footage (Guy Jones) who edited, remastered and polished this footage so we as viewers could watch it with ease. It’s not easy to do so giving credit where it’s due would be greatly appreciated.
Good Evening, please give me the link and I will share it in the description. I do not mean to steal credit, I use my channel to store archive footage from various sources for my own use (I don't monetize my channel), I am not trying to take away from anyone. I don't even remember where this was from. If they wish me to take it down or make it private I will happily do that as well. My intention is not to offend. As you can tell my channel is a hodgepodge of various historical footages (mostly from public archives). I am honestly surprised that I even have a video with 8k views lol..... I mostly use my account to store videos that either interest me, I need to refer to for projects, or in some cases that I just enjoy.
Jonathan Trego This video and several others were unjustly taken down by the University of South Carolina, that’s why it’s no longer on his channel. It’s wonderful that this footage is still available.
@@user-cr2bt3zp1f yes...they sure we're last year I left them a rant on their youtube channel about it. What kind of dumbass university does such a thing? Well south Carolina that's who.
That’s the fascinating thing, you can still hear their vintage Received Pronunciation/Mid-Atlantic accent most Americans would of had at the time. Mid-Atlantic was much more turn of the century but in some parts near the coast like in Newfoundland, parts of MA, ME you can hear the original original Anglo-Celtic accent of the late 1700s/early 1800s. Kind of a shame schools stopped teaching it, sounds much more elegant than modern American English vernacular and elocution.
@@balloon1104 you must of missed the 2nd half where I put that the mid-Atlantic was more turn of the century, obviously younger than what these people are clearly speaking is an older accent than that. Read better and it will spare you the dissertation.
At 7:35 I never thought I’d hear the voice of a Whig Party member!!!!! This is outrageous!! 7:59 “I dont worry about the future” Wise words that I will now live by.
I thought having lived thru no Mobile phones or computers into smart phones and computers all in your hand was a generational gap to marvel. But looking back modern innovations have been a thing of many generations before me.
My great grandma was born in 1925 and died last year at 97. She had a few stories about her life from back then written down. Like going to school in a horse and buggy and girls only being allowed to wear dresses and skirts. These people look and sound like they would be interesting to talk with. Probably had lots of cool stories to tell.
I love watching these videos, it's so odd thinking about the passage of time, these people weren't alive all too long ago but things are so different, yet they really are just like people today.
@@hypn0298 You're right. Especially at that point in the war (1861) in Missouri you used whatever weapon you could. Some of the militia units even used pikes!
Their Stress was very different lots of hard work if they were common or farmer people (but not complicated like today)but no modern medicine, or processed junk
@@doyouknoworjustbelieve6694 This is due to a number of factors. The biggest one being that there were way less elderly back then, so the ones who did live to old age were more genetically gifted. Older mics also seem to make voices sound higher pitched. Even so, most of the elderly people I’ve met are still very lucid and talk very well
That is really interesting to look at i think the guy whos was 103 is the older person i ever will see and hear books doesnt count :D he born at 1826 what the fuck 7 more years and hes be 200years from this world :D
@@cliffsofmoher4220 Unlikely as they'd have to be at least 130 years old. But they definitely would've known people born in the 1700s as they were growing up. Andrew Jackson was president when the oldest guy in this video was 3 years old until he was 11 (from 1829 to 1837), and Jackson was born in 1767. James Buchanan, who was born in 1791, left the presidency in 1861 when the guy in the video was 35 years old.
If I'd been born 100 years prior, under the same strain I went through at age 10, I would have successfully ended my life and been unable to live long enough to show "lack of mental clarity" as an adult. People love to blame social media for everything
You realise the quality of life was poor back then. These old people that could survive these conditions were the fittest of the fit. These days more people live to this age and most of them didnt have to surive harsh conditions, war, poverty and limited medical technology. Thats why the old people now, who wouldve died early if they lived back then, are still living but look older amd weaker.
To think that some of these people probably had parents who participated in the civil war or at least was a child during the civil war was crazy. The Civil War felt like such a long time ago but in hindsight its actually a lot closer to our time period than we think
Some of them were in the U.S. Civil War. There will still Civil War veterans alive into the 1950s. It’s closer than many of us younger people realize. During WWI-WWII era Civil War veterans were like the WWI and WWII veterans of the early 2000s-2010s (I think around 2011 is when the last verified WWI veteran passed), though they were very rare even before that for many years. Now we are getting to a point where WWII veterans are becoming rare.
1:34 Trying to figure out who those two men were. The first one served under Colonel Walter S. O'Kane (then a captain as he said) with O'Kane's Battalion Missouri State Guard.
I absolutely love this. I'm so nostalgic for a time I've never lived in, in fact, it seems so far removed it's almost a guarantee we will never see it's like again. I'm 24 and wish everyday i had lived among these wonderful people in that wonderful simple time.
@@thatgirlshae6913 cool chalk up an entire generation of people who fought for the freedom you have to say what you want to just "racists" that's alot easier than acknowledging that without these people none of us would be here. White or black.
@@samambler3809 you know how black people were treated back then. Most whites did not treat blacks like human beings. So sure. I’m a “racist” for not wanting to live at a time where I would be beat or lynched just because of the color of my skin😒
@@thatgirlshae6913 the Rebecca in this video is a white supremacists and slave owner I think these are bunch of racist old people 🤮 only white people want to live in that era lol
Call me crazy, but when Lydia started dancing, I started tearing up. Not sure if because I miss my Grandparent's or just simply seeing something like this and makes me worry that when our generation makes it to our elderly years, that we won't be acting like this; can't really explain it well.
@@hugodaniel8975 no bcuz elderly ppl these days are all going senial (i may have spelled that wrong). Elderly ppl these days are no where near as healthy as what ppl were 70 to 100 years ago and that's a proven fact. Bcuz of all these processed harsh foods nothing is actually that healthy anymore so our bodies arent up kept like how these elderly peoples bodies were back then. We will not be happier at all.
@@hugodaniel8975 and by the time we're elderly its going to be new technologies that we dont know how to use hardly just like the elderly people these days..
@@hugodaniel8975 wrong. Some of the happiest people on earth don’t even have electricity. Social media etc quite often makes people unhappier. These people lived in simpler calmer times. They definitely were happier.
@@croonyerzoonyer Seriously. Im only 24 and literally want to cry when I go somewhere and see EVERYONE on a phone. Not actually conversing and bonding.. not living. Just stuck in the ether. It makes me want to cry sometimes.
4:25 | This amazing woman was born in 1829. That means James Madison, one of the founding fathers, lived for 7 years while she was alive. Queen Victoria, Louis Pasteur, Louis Vuitton, Phineas Gage, and Florence Nightingale were only about 5-10 years older than her. She was in her 20s when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, so she fully understood its significance and probably remembered the headlines. She was nearly 10 years older than Adolf Hitler's father, and her great grandparents could've lived in the 1600s. And here she is dancing with a man.
@@lllllllllllllll534 No. I only mentioned it because I was emphasising how miraculous it is that this woman, who has witnessed SO much history, is videoed dancing, like any normal woman.
To people in 1929, the Civil War would have ended 64 years ago. Right now, the Vietnam war ended 46 years ago. Weird to think how if you reverse of the digits of either one, they're exactly the same as the other. Also interesting is that 46 years before the Vietnam War ended was 1929.
@@firemonkey1015 If you are “owning” another human being, and not setting them free, then by definition, you are treating them like dirt. You can’t treat someone “nice” if you’re holding them in captivity. If someone kidnapped your child, are you going to care that they fed them, gave them a bed, a room, and nice clothes? No! That man kidnapped your child and deserves to go to prison. It’s crazy how you can look at a lady who formerly owned slaves and call her “respectful” and “kind”. That woman is evil, and is probably burning in hell as we speak.
@@BranMan10 You’re ridiculous. Everyone, every race and continent owned slaves at the time. Is every generation prior to a little over 200 years ago, in hell?
@@BranMan10 That was completely normal at the time. Every continent “owned” people. Didn’t matter what race or where you came from, everyone did it. You’re arguing that everyone past a little over 200 years ago, was evil.
