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Great walk today Dan! Thank you so much and if and when it’s restored, please do a walk through once again. Thank you for honoring these people by the respect you show them!❤
Francis is male, Frances is female. Keep in mind that up until the late 60’s, women used their husband’s name on whatever she needed to sign, like letters. It would be: Mrs. John Smith. There was also abbreviations for men’s names that are not used anymore: Jn=John, Mk=Mark, Jms=James. Rbt =Robert. Lee=male, Leigh=female. In case you run into some old newspapers or graves. And I don’t know, maybe I’m really old but kids don’t know 2nd for second or 1st for first, or 3rd for third. I feel like a relic. Our area is heavy German immigrants. Names were Americanized. My great grandfather was born Francis and died as Frank.
As a kid we lived across the street from the local cemetery. I went over there once, just looking at the old grave markers. At the entrance to the older part of the cemetery there was a line of graves from the same family. It was the mother and a number of children, from a baby up to kids elementary school age. They all died within a few days of each other in the summer of 1879. The father was buried on the end of the line, he having passed several years later. Wondering what might have caused their deaths, I went to the local library and found a book published in 1921, the history of the county. Took some looking but finally found a brief mention of a typhoid epidemic in the county at the time the family was wiped out. I assume that was the cause of their deaths. Life wasn't easy back then.
When disease outbreaks started the people fell like grain before the scythe. My GG grandparents lost 3 little daughters in 6 days to diphtheria, not a disease usually mentioned in historical accounts. When you're homesteading in Dakota Territory your options are limited for health care, IF a doctor was within a day's ride from your homestead. I'm not sure how diphtheria was diagnosed but it was in 1890 so I think diagnosis was easier in 1890 than in 1870 when they arrived on the prairie. They lost another daughter a few years before the triple death but no idea of the cause. If you weren't getting sick, dying from childbirth, raided by Sioux Indians then your horses would kick you. Can't imagine a horsekick breaking the thigh/hip of farmer homesteader. A kick to the head will drop you like a hot rock and you won't get back up. Dying from horse kicks was a Top 3 cause of death from the 1870s to 1900 local newspapers.
A similar deadly event happened to the family of my 4 x great-grandfather. He and his son emigrated to America from Germany in the mid-1700’s. The following year the rest of his sons followed, and they all found places to settle nearby. Staying behind in Germany was his wife and their daughters, who were to immigrate the following year or so. Tragically, a terrible illness swept through them, and they all died. I wish that I knew what the illness was that killed so many people. Typhoid could certainly have done it, but I just don’t know. 😞
A small cemetery in Chappell Hill, Texas (northwest of Houston) caught my eye many years ago because so many people died in the summer of 1867. There are graves of many civil war soldiers, and I thought it was so sad they survived the war only to die of disease a few short years after they got home. I found out later it was a yellow fever epidemic. We really have forgotten just how hard our ancestors had it, as if those years were just one long craft show or something. What a shame to take those lives and their struggles for granted.
My great grandmother lost 3 children in two weeks. Dypyheria. My grandfather and his brother were in a military school at the time. He said that saved them being away, but his poor mother. Her husband had been murdered and then 10 years later, three children dead. So sad.
@@IrishAnnie That's awful! And I imagine all she could do was carry on as best she could. Hard to believe, but my older brother nearly died of the measles in the late 1950's. It wasn't all that long ago that kids were still dying of childhood diseases that don't even cross our minds these days.
@@RepublicTX Absolutely! My great grandmother parceled some kids out to family, and those left at home, she made a living selling eggs to the train that came through. She sewed (by hand of course)as well. She got a Singer pedal sewing machine in the 1920’s and thought it was the greatest thing ever invented. It’s in my family room and sews a beautiful stitch.
There was no hardship except that they were living in the wrong lands, and you are, right now. There's many many reasons for your unsuccessful society that go unseen by settlers, because they don't live in reality. Your society is also suffering many many tragedies and mysterious problems because again, you're in the wrong lands. There was ALWAYS going to be a reckoning for you guys, because we the indigenous, have been rooted to the land since time immemorial. We don't want you here; you all need to go home.
That stone stairway is called a stile, intended to keep human access to field-dwelling animals. They're common in Ireland, where stone walls are built in regional styles. People still study this art.
My dad could build the stone wall and stile so easily. He tried to teach my brothers. It truly is an art. My dad could dismantle the wall and allow sheep thru then re build it within minutes. I pray not a lost art in the future.
They are also common in Wales there is a field i can see from my bedroom window where I used to play as a child and there were actually two in separate fields still there still animals in the fields
For sure. They did have other children that survived but to lose 2 sons and a husband at the same time must’ve been hard. And then lose another young son shortly after.
We have a mom and children up north Michigan in a very small church yard where my own father lies buried; that lost 7 children ..all in 1850s. Every baby lived less than a month. So very sad. No father buried anywhere near them and no idea if she had living children that grew into adults
Carry Me Home To Die - was a poem by C Carlton, set to music by Isaac Baker Woodbury. 3rd verse is I long to see my mother again, And hear her sweetly say, “Come weary dove, here is thy home, Then fold thy wings and stay.” T’would ease my pain to hear her voice, When death had darkened my eye, O, carry me home O, carry me home O, carry me home to die
It's amazing to see a cemetery like this with such history, but when you delve into the dates and names of the deceased a totally different feeling and realization comes to light.
This isn't a question but I want to say how much I appreciate what you all are doing, it matters so much. My paternal gr grandfather married A. Copeland in Tenn. after his first wife my 2nd gr. Grandmother passed not long after the death of their third child. Thank you all for what you're doing.
Families died of diseases and complications we can treat today. Imagine stomach flu and respiratory viruses, which led to dehydration and pneumonia and bronchitis. In Feb 1901, my great grandfather and his 2 sisters nursed his brother and all of them got pneumonia and died. Thanks to Robert and Mr. Dan for the informative cemetery visit.
That's very true and I believe some diseas were also seasonal. My 2x great grandfather lost 4 children to diptheris in 2 weeks one winter. The 3 youngest childten he had with his first wife ( they had 6) and his 1st child with his second wife. She had recently delivered their second child. She and the newborn survived. I can't even begin to understand how they recovered from so much loss. I hope they had strong faith in the Lord.
The most common causes of death in the 1800s, 30s,40s, 50s, was consumption or tuberculosis, diphtheria, and typhus. My grandmother death certificate (1945) states she died from consumption. I still remember walking by a Tuberculosis Sanitarium on my way to school in the 1950s.
A developer removed the graves of a family almost 20 years ago. The graves dated to the early 1800s. The children were all under 10 years old and died within 2 weeks of each other. I assume they died of some kind of infection.
@@IrishAnnie To the churchyard of the Episcopal church that was built in the 1700s. The developer was a real....well...you can fill in that word. The neighborhood association brought it to court. And the day of the appeals hearing, the developer began moving the graves. It's a shame too because the marker was a table top one and it was enclosed by a fence.
I have always liked old cemeteries. At one, back in in 1867, the mother, father, and 3 kids all died within days of each other. My guess was smallpox or something. (back then could have been anything...but it spread through the family).
So sad that the descent of the families don’t keep up where they are laid to rest. It’s a beautiful cemetery in the woods. The cemeteries in the woods y’all have visited are incredible!
Robert and Dan my cemetery explorers. What a sad memorial in honor of those long gone. Fallen headstones, grave markers, rocks piled in tribute to souls no longer here. All this brings tears to my eyes and sad goodbyes. Words engraved in stone to tell us how much we miss them and now they are gone. Robert my handsome cemetery explorer. Take care and stay safe. Love ya 🍺🍺🙏👍🌈🕊🌞🇺🇸🌹😇❤️
That type of stepped wall is very common throughout the UK and Ireland though I have never encountered a graveyard with one. Very interesting, I look forward to hear from the Perry-Copeland descendant.
In the cemetery where my parents and grandparents are buried, is a whole family, parents and 5 children, all buried at the same time, in the1930's, all lined up together, in a straight roll from a tornado. The children ranged in age from 1 to 8.
Amazing old cemetery! Maybe the descendant who told you about this cemetery will share with us what took so many of the family at such young ages and also their father. How very sad for the mother/widow who was left behind. Our ancestors were so very strong to have lived back in those days when so many diseases and infections took many of their loved ones. It's good to see you and Dan out in another old cemetery, reading these people's names and talking about the families!
Another fantastic gem of a cemetery. The only other place I’ve seen a step over a cemetery wall was in Tintagel Cornwall. Look forward to seeing it cleaned up and restored ❤
What a beautiful poem they placed on that 1st gravestone...glad you found it online too.. no way anyone would pay for all those words nowadays sadly ..like everything else , the practice of funeral and burial hurts the livings wallets no matter how much we grieve ...its high enough for just a plain grave marker for most families
I carry thin white paper and a charcoal pencil and rub old gravestones to make reading easier. This place is really amazing. Thanks for what you do. I will be looking forward to hearing more on this family.
awesome find! Hope the family member knows cause of death on these people. A friend was telling me when she was little, she's in her 80's now...she lived in the hills of Kentucky and her and siblings would walk in the woods all the time. They found a small cemetery. Makes ya wonder if it's still here, if anyone even knows about it.
The solemnity expressed is appreciated. Sad, this family was wiped out so young. I agree that the headstones need cleaning. Thank you for sharing. Most excellent!
I would LOVE to clean them. I’ve cleaned one way worse and discovered the name on Find a Grave was incorrect. I was able to research a murder victim after I cleaned the stone and knew his true name.
In Old Tabernacle Cemetery in New Brockton, Alabama there are graves of six members of the McKinney family that drowned while crossing a river on December 23, 1877.
What a beautiful cemetery and so so sweet to hear their poems and memorials to those they love. I love this history and pray that this will come up again with more historic details.
I believe the step-up-and-down entrance to the cemetery is actually used to keep grazing animals from getting into graveyard. It has a very practical purpose.
Excellent connect the families in this one! And very sad epitaphs, from a song. It may have been the Cholera outbreak in 1837, Typhus outbreak was 1841. I should guess spread through migration from other places. It will be interesting to hear from the descendant, and amazing if this cemetery can be cleaned and the rock wall restored. I have only ever seen one other place with a set of steps to climb a cemetery wall and it is in Southeastern Kentucky at a very isolated location. A doctor from the early 1800s is buried there. Enjoyed! 👍👍
My family comes from Eastern, South Eastern Kentucky and also, Western Virginia... West Virginia, as well. Lawrence Co. and Pike Co. Ky and Scott Co. Virginia.
The steps are very interesting. I have never seen steps up and over a cemetery wall. In the far northern counties of NJ there are a lot of stone buildings, and most cemetery walls are of stone. But they all have gates, in my experience. Speaking of holly trees, the largest ones I've ever seen were in the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA. They were as large as my shoulders are broad. Amazing. Also those yucca plants in your cemetery are the tallest I've ever seen. They are in most old cemeteries here in NJ, but I've never seen them grow up a stem above the ground.
Hi! Great video. Y'all also did a video on the old Beulah cemetery/graveyard (sorry) and it contained a Burwell Perry. There were several Burwells in the family. The family buried here is apparently related. Around this time, many in the family moved on to help found the Republic of Texas. Not related, but very interesting.
Wow this is one incredible ole cemetery. I'm crazy bout stone cottages/ houses.. anything do with old stonework. To me, it's so beautiful. The scenery there is very amazing, green moss growing, and the thin old headstones are my favorite too.They way more prettier than kind of today. I know England, France and Italy..has lots of thin headstones too in their ole cemeteries/ graveyards. This was a awesome video and enjoyed the history and dates read..hey again from South Carolina...
Using info from familysearch: I think William Bluford Copeland Sr. was the grave you visited. Anna Barrett married his son, William Bluford Copeland Jr. (1796-1864). There is no grave recorded for him. The Copelands must have been quite wealthy. Jr. brother, Alexander, owned 53 slaves, and also died during the Civil War.
I've see headstones like that near me and Im on the other side of the Atlantic. Truly a case of the old world way of doing things being carried over into the new world.
I recently saw NFL player Emmitt Smith on a "Who Do You Think You Are" video. They found the cemetery of his family's slave owner in Monroe County, Alabama. He was told his ancestors would have been buried in an adjacent area that was extremely overgrown. They just assumed they wouldn't be able to find them so they didn't look. I thought someone with your knowledge could possibly find them.
Wonder if you are or might consider photographing these head stones and entering them on Find A Grave or some other site so that the information on them is not lost? Such wonderful work
In England you would see what they call fence stiles, that enable you to get over the fence without using a gate. Looks like the same thing, at least to me.
I saw another RU-vidr that visits old cemetaries in TN use shaving cream on the old stones to be able to read them easier. She said it doesn't harm the stones at all. Just thought I'd pass the info on. Thanks for the history!
I appreciate it - but most headstone preservationists do not recommend using shaving cream due to the chemicals in it can be harmful to certain types of old stone.
Thanks guys for sharing this with us.. it was sooo very interesting.. Both of you guys have been sharing great information for us who are into family history etc.✊🔍🧐
My great great grandparents and great great great grandparents are buried in a cemetery like this with the stone walls and stairs going over in Greene Co Georgia. The cemetery is called Wheeler Cemetery and is located near the historic village of Scull Shoals which is now a ghost town.
I spoke of this cemetary as well on this site, didn't say the family name! Found it one day on a ride of dirt roads in greene co! Can't remember which road it's either Boswell rd or Nichols rd! Have lived in greene all my life and love old cemetarys! Remember a tree or big limb had fallen on the wall a damaged it at the wheeler cemetary!
@@scott1395 Wow!! it’s on Nichols Rd. I wish I could find old records of where the houses were during the scull shoals days. I have a lot of ancestors from that area!
@@Redricewilson I know some of the local wheelers and probably know you! I grew up in greensboro, I have an electrical buisness there! My dad was born in 1925 and just turned 98! He has given me a history lesson my whole life riding all the roads of greene co! So I've become a big history buff of local history! I'm not as good as EH Armor was but I've studied alot!
I came across this video by accident...glad i did. This was very interesting. I hope you do return especially if the family clean up the cemetery. ❤️❤️❤️
What an interesting Cemetery . I hope the remaining relatives are able to fix it up. That rock wall is a masterpiece with the step etc. Keep Safe ❤Keep Well❤
I found four graves in a local cemetery. A young boy and girl an parents I'm their 30s. Al four died the same day in the 1960s. I did research and found that they died in a boating accident on the nearby Potomac River. Later I spoke to members of their family who I knew and they shared the details with me. One commented that it was a sad day for their family.
Robert 2 and Mrs can have a new project cleaning these stones. Need a brush scrapper and better light. Thank you as always for your compassionate videos
