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They obviously loved their little boy, they certainly spent a literal fortune on his headstone. The fact that you came along to fix it 120 (!!) years later would make them very happy. I know I'm very somber and touched watching this unfold. What a remarkable thing to do.
What an amazing thing to do, As a Jewish person, one of the most selfless things is to do something for someone who can never repay it. This is wonderful. Thank you
As someone that had a very young son die, this filled my heart with joy. As a parent you never want people to forget what a great little person you had. You are a very nice man. Thank you.
Man. I have the utmost RESPECT for you and what you stand for. It's easy to just let these gravestones crumble and waste. The respect you show for those who have passed is something truly inspiring and warms my heart. Restores a bit of my faith in humanity that there are people out there still willing to do something that does not benefit them just for the right reasons. You are a pure man and there are not many of those left. Cheers to you brother.
Wade - I read a comment that suggested your RU-vid name should say “Restorer” as opposed to Cleaner. I have to say I agree. I can’t help think that all these monuments of babies and children that you repair, become your “Angel Squad” as you continue this kind, selfless and important work. Blessings to you. 😇🙏🏻
I used to walk through grave yards because it’s very peaceful, one day my husband and I saw a baby’s grave that had a posted note on it. We read it and it broke my heart. It said, we love you Ashly! She was very little. I’m 70 now and have never forgot. I still walk through grave yards but now I walk alone. My husband passed away 30 odd years ago! I feel very sad when I see broken headstones. Thank you so very much for the work you do to restore them. God bless you always. I’ll never have a headstone, I plan to be cremated and my ashes placed ne’er my Mama and grandson in our privet family cemetery. Again, thank you ♥️
I always learn something from your videos, thank you. I especially appreciate your explanations and the before, during and after reveals. Amazing. I wish I was able to do this restoration for my family.
I have seen you doing this wonderful work before and my daughter just text me this video, so I had to find you on social media and I DID 😊 now I can see you all the time. Keep going young man 🤗
I love these clips, my wife thought I was crazy cleaning these markers but when I should her these, she saw me in a different light. Thanks for these . If you want to come to Orlando I have a crew who would be interested
Keep in mind that not all gravestones should be cleaned. Depending on the stone's material, you can do more damage than good. Please be careful and make sure you are trained by a professional before attempting to clean a headstone.
The church I belong to has a small cemetery with graves from the 1800s. Our Boy Scout troop has repair many of the headstones and do much of the upkeep. Thank you for your caring and work.
Watching your work makes me smile. I'm a hospice nurse who can't work due to an injury. If I had the know how I would absolutely be doing something like you are.
I so appreciate what you’re doing. Life is very short even for those who live 100+. Most of us today will live well until we’re 54 50 and then see decline with a death between 65-85. A few seem to live a happy, wonderful life finding joy in every single day. My wife is that way and so are her parents (88, 87). I’ve been unhealthy and in pain since 42. I hope I don’t live to 90. Constant pain really wears a person out. But I think it’s more tied to the mind.. or soul. I’ve been an old soul from my youth. My teachers and church leaders were WW1-WW2 vets and my grandparents were born in 1880’s and 1890’s. I was raised on the family ranch and took in the mind set of the much older generation. Many graves you repair seem light years in the past to my grandkid. But for me, it was really only one generation past.
Crazy to think it's quite likely that no one has been to visit this grave in a century. I've loved these old graves since I was a kid and did stone rubbings often as a teen, I still find them beautiful and my husband and I love to find the hidden little graveyards in the middle of nowhere when we're traveling and walk through them reading the stones. Like this one though, I often wonder if it'll be another hundred before anyone looks at it again, if ever.
When you close the crack by putting epoxy or mortar into it, that also prevents water from just running into the center of the base and causing further problems.
Bless you for what you're doing. So sad that the poor little guy didn't have a chance to live & grow & become. Hopefully there are relatives somewhere that will visit him...
I really do appreciate and love what you do for these families loved ones that have passed. I know that baby passed away well over 100 years ago but if it had been my child and I knew that you had done this for my child it would move me in touch me profoundly. The dead deserve our respect, just as much as the living. If not more. Keep doing what you're doing. You're an inspiration and I really want to continue what you do up here in Michigan
There are beautiful cemeterys all over the world 🌎! Beautiful places to visit. the history and art work is incredible and breathtaking. Some are well manicured & others in some cases in disarray! But i am always honored to be a passerby until my time comes
I’ve been watching your videos for quite some time now, and I just want to say you are truly a fantastic person for fixing graves.. you truly are Saint for doing that!
I love doing this. ❤ D/2 cleaning is good. I can’t do a as many as I would love to because I only can afford small amounts of the cleaner at a time. Thanks for sharing & Thanks for all your hard work.
About how long did this project take you? If it had required cleaning AND repair, would you have cleaned prior to putting the top part back onto the base?
Oh how I wish there was an organization out of San Diego who are my eldest brother died as an infant. He was a born and died before I was born. Found his name and Family Bible one day. Mom did not want to talk about it. Didn't know how painful it was. Went on my own to find his burial site found he had a plain flat marker that was flaking damaged by perhaps lawn mowers total disrepair After mom passed talk to Dad about replacing it he didn't want to deal with it. When Dad passed talk to my brother about sharing cost. He told me that he didn't want to waste his inheritance money. Now I am disabled in a rehab hospital over a year desperately love to see that marker replaced is there a organization that can help?
I'm a professional genealogist and archivest and run into these issues all the time. Children who died very quickly the families were not prepared for a burial and put them were ever a plot was available. My great-grandfather had two families and everyone is buried all over North America.
subbed- I have too many, and only time to watch a few, but you did a great job, only thing I would have done different is drill a few holes in the base and added dowels and then used about 10 tubes of epoxy !
I was going to ask him the same question. I also live in MN. I would like to help him and learn how to do this, and if there's a certification I could get for this. At least once every month I dig out and clean off gravestones.
At first I was horrified that you were disturbing the grave sites of people you did not know. As I watched the video that shifted to admiration as I watched you honor a child’s memory for a family long gone.
I think what you do is wonderful. Love your vids. I would like to get into this work. What would be the best way to begin, in your opinion? God bless that baby boy, and you for caring so much.🙏✝️❤️
We have several 6’ by 1.5’ by 8” thick stones in the family that need leveling. Do you have a video that shows various ways to lift (I like your tripod/coffin hoist!) and level wide in-ground stones? Or maybe another channel?
Where do you find the cemeteries and headstones that you are allowed to go in and do the work you do? Here where I live in Florida this is against the law.
That is a sad State of Affairs. I believe you must get permission from the grave/plot owner, which can be very hard to do. “Grave/ Plot: A specific, identifiable, site within a cemetery designated to serve as the final resting place for casketed of cremated remains.” RL
There's another RU-vid channel run by a traditional gravestone carver and restorer. He's got some videos giving tips on cleaning them. I'm blanking on the name of the channel, but if you search for how to clean gravestones (or headstones, or grave markers) it should come up. You could also try searching for gravestone carver. There aren't too many of those.
I just randomly found your channel after your page popped up on my FYP (I followed you). Saw you had a YT channel so thought I'd check you out. Isn't grounds maintenance of cemeteries the responsibility of the funeral home or whoever owns the cemetery?? Is someone paying you?? Or are you just doing this for free??
A 52 yo woman and 59 yo man having a child - the child likely had birth defects. Poor woman. I wonder how many other children she had and how long she lived...
I think they died at those ages. Not too many people that age move away to another town, especially not back then. They're not buried by their baby, so they must have moved away, and were probably young then.
I love you videos and what you do. But on this video, I was just wondering why you didn’t use epoxy as you mounted the last stone. Alisia, the video didn’t show you use epoxy to help hold it in place.
