As a historian, I find this very sad. This is the only record that people have to find their long lost ancestors. These places need to be preserved for people who came after. Yes, now people opt for cremation, but please be sure to have your death recorded for people who come after you so they can look you up. It is crucial for people to be able to know where they come from, what their stories are and what their lives were like. I’m so thankful there are databases such as Ancestry. It gives a much needed reference for information. Great video as always!❤
@realcecewilson
Жыл бұрын
As a historian, how do you and other historians account for the lost records of who is buried here? It wasn’t that long ago. Just wondering.
@Melissa-jl7bw
Жыл бұрын
@@realcecewilsonIt’s the responsibility of the cemetery managers to keep records of who all is buried in a cemetery.
@there_is_nothing_here
Жыл бұрын
I've only been into genealogy the last 10 years or so. My first thought was ancestry when I first saw this video. I think the best thing anybody could do right now is to document what headstones are left as best they can for findagrave as well as the other various genealogical databases.
@jonirosesandflowers4650
4 күн бұрын
These grave yards have long been abandoned. With no recent burials, there's no money for upkeep. Peoples families die off. There's really no one to look after the area
@fratercontenduntocculta8161
Жыл бұрын
I think it's poetic to see trees growing from the graves. It's like the occupant was reborn as a tree.
@sandysue202
Жыл бұрын
And once, those folks were just like we are now. It's sad how easily we seem to be able to forget our past relatives.
@donnaboisen6003
Жыл бұрын
I’m curious if you tend the graves of your relatives that are 100-200 years old? Families die out and no one is left. It’s a fact. Yes, it’s sad. All that’s left in the cemetery is their bones. Our soul or energy has moved on to a better place.
@RundOnline
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's a good thing the government takes care of our graveyards where I'm from because I'm not going to "maintain" a grave that's over 100 years old of some person I have no connection with except bloodline. They're dead, gone, it's over etc. Most graves are exhumed after the 30 year lease is up anyway. Nothing left but some fragments of a femur etc.
@johnbattle7518
Жыл бұрын
@@donnaboisen6003Not the point, we NY state as well as the local government can set aside funds to keep and maintain these burial sites. We got money for illegal aliens we have money to respect our own final resting places.
@profewiase
9 ай бұрын
I don't think there are relatives who knows anything about these graves anymore and even if there are, they're just few who don't care about that because it's been over 100 years
@MichelleJune67
Жыл бұрын
I saw a video on this a few years ago.. so disturbing how bones are left exposed and no one cares..human decency has gone out the window.. so sad!
@SkunkApe407
Жыл бұрын
You do realize that this is what has always happened to human remains, right? How else do you explain literally every archaeological find? People die and wind up forgotten. It's called reality.
@MichelleJune67
Жыл бұрын
@@SkunkApe407 I understand natural decay happen but these tombs were 100% broken into. That is what is shameful.
@SkunkApe407
Жыл бұрын
@@MichelleJune67 the Great Pyramids of Giza and nearly every tomb in the Valley of the Kings was raided by grave robbers. Why would the graves of common folk be any different? Do the dead really need those trinkets any more than the living do? Is it better that a beggar starve, so that a corpse may molder in peace? I find it shameful that people revere the dead more than they care for the living.
@Kasi01
Жыл бұрын
@@SkunkApe407Soy take, the looters will piss on your grave.
@UNCLE-DRONY
Жыл бұрын
Nothing is Taboo anymore
@theoriginalmodz
Жыл бұрын
A lot of times in these old graveyard those mausoleum looking things are actually the old town morgue in the winter months before refrigeration. They would have to wait until the bodies thaws to prep them for burial.
@michaelciccone2194
Жыл бұрын
Here in STATEN ISLAND NY same thing ! There have been people who have volunteered to rescue these abandoned cemeteries. You do fantastic work, I wish I could accompany you. Excellent erudite videos!
@thomasglynn2282
7 ай бұрын
The same in queens right off of Liberty Ave near the college campus and off the lefferts bound A train
@rogerdogger6969
Жыл бұрын
I've never really understood why people have a difficult time with cemeteries it's not like the people are going to come up out of the ground and come after you if they could get out of the box they still have to dig up 6 ft of dirt and if they're able to do all that they're going to get you wherever you are.
@monsterglo
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely correct ❤
@seren4740
Жыл бұрын
People are faced with the reality of their own future death in cemeteries.
@js4653
Жыл бұрын
@@seren4740 So true. In fact, on many old headstones from that era contain an epitaph “As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you must be …”. That always gave me chills! I'm sure this cemetery contains this epitaph several times, but time and acid rain has left the stones unreadable.
@NotSoCrazyNinja
4 ай бұрын
People don't like to think about death and their mortality.
@brandikirk6293
Ай бұрын
Zombies invasion
@rogerdogger6969
Жыл бұрын
When I was in junior high school there was a cemetery that was right next to our school that we frequently would go over and have lunch in until I started working in the cafeteria. The oldest part of the cemetery was right up against our fence which was easy to walk around and then the fence that was separating the funeral home itself from the little Trail which is now a paved trail was probably only half as old as a cemetery which was easily a hundred years old at the time and that was 50 years ago
@emke9326
Жыл бұрын
But why on earth would someone build condos next to a cemetery? You wake up in the morning sitting on your balcony staring at tombstones. So creepy.
@samanthab1923
Жыл бұрын
We grew up in a neighborhood of 25 houses built around an old Gimbel estate. There were two old cemeteries dating back to the 1800’s. One was right in a friends backyard. They didn’t seem to mind. It was set far enough back from their patio. At least no one could ever build behind them. 👻
@JohnShinn1960
Жыл бұрын
I'd be sayin "morning all" every morning, no lie! 🤠👍
@samanthab1923
Жыл бұрын
@@JohnShinn1960 😆👋
@larrylebowski8386
Жыл бұрын
I love exploring old cemeteries. Once at an old farm in North Carolina there was a small cluster of old trees with maybe 15 or 20 graves of confederate soldiers. All had been dug up and according to the people at the farm, it was a soybean farm, the belt buckles, caps etc stolen. There were pieces of wooden coffins and bones all around. One gravestone read something like “Pvt Jones, 103rd Tennessee Volunteers killed at Antietam”. I was really tempted to take it but finally listened to my brain and thought really bad karma for the rest of your life. This was before cell phones so I didn’t get any photos.
@diannelavoie5385
Жыл бұрын
How awful that those graves were desecrated. People's greed and lack of decency is unbelievable.
@crazychase98
2 ай бұрын
@diannelavoie5385 sounds like the people at the farm where the ones digging an looting it lol
@gokathygo
Жыл бұрын
Lamont would love that place
@MobileInstinct
Жыл бұрын
I sent him some pictures of it yesterday
@gokathygo
Жыл бұрын
@@MobileInstinct you guys do great videos together
@samanthab1923
Жыл бұрын
@@MobileInstinctYou’re a good friend 😊
@trudiannross7676
Жыл бұрын
@@gokathygo they sure do. Wish both of them could do more vids together. Both Chris and lamont are absolutely the best at what they do!! 🥰🥰
@gokathygo
Жыл бұрын
@@trudiannross7676 I’m sure they’ll do more videos together, because the ones they did were so good.
@truthteller8459
Жыл бұрын
i saw in another video about cemeteries where if you take a flashlight, even in daylight, and shine it at a angle close to the grave stone the shadow from the light makes its easier to read writing on tombstones FYI.
@lindabarton3282
3 ай бұрын
All my family are in the same cemetery. This cemetery backs up to a fence where houses are and people live. I don't think I could have one in my backyard! I plan on being cremated to be with my husband.
@ravendixon1099
Жыл бұрын
People don't respect the living or the dead. So sad. I wonder what these people buried here would think about today's world
@ocsrc
Жыл бұрын
It is amazing how often cemeteries are moved. I was at a meeting about the train tracks in my city and the plans to make it a quiet zone. I saw a photo of the crossing from the 1900s and there was a cemetery where now a 3 family house sits. I kept looking at the photo and I was like, where is that cemetery ??!!! They said they moved it in the early 1900s and built a couple houses where the cemetery was. Except no one had any information on where the remains went. I really think they just took the stones and left the bodies and built on top of it. I really do The church was actually right across the street and still is there today and has been the town library since the fifties maybe further back than that So that church and the other church on the other side of the street and the cemetery for both of those that took up a city block were sold to the city and I spent a good amount of time trying to find where they moved the graves and I talked with the Catholic church and they had no records of that cemetery and no records of anybody that was buried there despite it being the primary cemetery for the city from when it started There was another cemetery in the city across the river and I know for a fact that they built a house right on top of where the cemetery used to be and when they were digging in the basement they hit the gravestones and the bodies It just is mindblowing that the people are forgotten and no one cares about the remains just the property because it becomes valuable In the New York metro area the cemeteries are completely full and it is a big business paying families to have their relatives remains dug up and cremated in order to get that burial plot to sell for a new burial.
@Unknownlll123
6 ай бұрын
It's heartbreaking really because all people want to do is build houses and play grounds I think some of these people don't think of the history and what they are doing, they don't really care, it's all about money. And it's heartless. 😟.
@bobbiesox6289
Жыл бұрын
This is so sad, but this is exactly why I’m going to be cremated and my ashes scattered. ❤
@monsterglo
Жыл бұрын
I am also , no funeral or any service, I have told my friends and family if you want to give me something give it to me while I am alive, so we can share the enjoyment 😊 ❤
@diannelavoie5385
Жыл бұрын
I had a house that abutted a city cemetery. It was a newer one put in as residents expanded outward, in New Bedford, to be exact. Pine Grove Cemetery. Never felt creeped out by it, nor did my two boys. It was a place of peacefulness, full of birdsong and busy squirrels. I do like looking at old cemeteries. They're full of history.
@andybovee827
Жыл бұрын
Thats a very interesting fact about William Few. I live just outside of Augusta Georgia, where his body is now buried. There are roads and other things with his name on them around here.
@GraveVisitations
Жыл бұрын
This is the inscription on the one you couldn't read with the bust of George on it.( In Memoriam George W. ray D.D. Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of (?) of the State of New York and W.M. of Excelsior Lodge No. 195 who died at sea April 15th 1866 aged 40 Years)
@nonenone4219
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. Nicely done.
@felixs3477
Жыл бұрын
Does the City of Beacon or the community at large have nothing left over for their past citizens? What do the neighbours think, living in those townhouses? Looks more like human vandalism, than animals running away with bones… 😡 So sad. Respect the dead. RIP (Time for a good clean up.)
@HeavilyCensoredKitty
Жыл бұрын
Ever hear of the Poltergeist curse as in what happened to many of the people involved with that movie? I would be scared shitless to mess around with someones remains I bet many who have vandalized or stolen bones have had less than pleasant lives almost like good luck just keeps fleeing from them.
@HeavilyCensoredKitty
Жыл бұрын
They used real skeletons on the movie it’s why I brought it up.
@wendysuemesny3757
11 ай бұрын
I would love it! This is awesome. All the old ones need tending. So many go to rubbish.
@marciaspiegel5280
11 ай бұрын
Good quiet neighbors. No complaints.
@kurtschlarb9762
11 ай бұрын
We used to walk past a stand of trees on the way to our shooting spot. Pretty thick undergrowth. Never checked it out. Once, by coincidence, I flew over this spot at about 6,000 ft. Noticed that tree stand was perfectly circular. Went back and found a family cemetery with the circular stacked limestone wall gone, except for some of the foundation. Only two tombstones were upright. We uprighted the others that we saw and secured them. Only a few were decipherable. This family occupied the area from late 18th to very early 20th century as far as we could tell. We reported it to the the University. The lady said thanks and hung up.
@dezertraider
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU CHRIS,SAFE TRAVELS
@australiantruckspotting8883
Жыл бұрын
It would be pretty cool having that next door. It’s it up to the church or the town to maintain these old cemeteries?
@margiejane1
11 ай бұрын
We have a super old cemetery where I live. It has been vandalized for so many years that most of the head stones have been lost. It is one of if not the oldest cemetery in that county. There are no records to use to try and restore it.
@moonytheloony6516
Жыл бұрын
I can never understand why cemeteries old or not so old, creep people out. All they are is fields of bones and ashes with stones to give them an identity. A journey's end for all its inhabitants. It's some of the living that creeps me out...
@Unknownlll123
6 ай бұрын
It's true, I always say it's not the dead that hurt you it's the living, but I do think cemeteries and Hallowed great should be treat with a lot more dignity and respect instead of people poking around and looking at them with cameras. 😟.
@NotSoCrazyNinja
4 ай бұрын
There was a time when cemeteries and graveyards were a place to visit and have picnics and hang out with the living. They were not seen so much as "sad" places, but humans have always had a thing against death because we don't want to think about meeting our end and being tossed into the ground to be forgotten.
@debraernst3628
Ай бұрын
Creamation is my family’s go to. My husband’s ashes are in a beautiful clock and when I pass I will be put in with him. This way it can be passed down to future generations. Or if the kids want to they can spread our ashes somewhere. I never have wanted to be buried and forgotten.
@takingthebackroadhome
5 ай бұрын
I'm surprised the township hasn't come and done some maintenance to such a historic old cemetery.
@goldieslacks
Жыл бұрын
Like my grandma always said it's not the dead you have to worry about it's the living.
@libertarian4323
Жыл бұрын
3:58 George W. Ray d. 16 April 1866, age 40 Apparently he was a Grand Master of the Free and Accepted Masons (based on what little I could read, and the Masonic symbol on the upper portion of the headstone).
@california5877
Жыл бұрын
Sad n lonely RIP 🙏. Thank you for sharing ur youtube
@cornpop7176
Жыл бұрын
That would be so crazy having an old cemetery in your backyard. If ghosts are real this is how you get a haunting
@struttux5156
Жыл бұрын
Why are there zombie noises in the background at the start? 😱😱
@RobertNES816
11 ай бұрын
This is just one example of an abandoned cemetery. But I bet there's probably hundreds or thousands that have been built over with time. Probably very common place to make room for new construction.
@phoenixharvesters1373
Жыл бұрын
That pile of sticks was done by Sasquatch. They either pile sticks up or they pile stones. I've seen it before and cemeteries and I've seen it along the highways the next to a crucifix where somebody died in the car accident.
@bobconnor1210
Жыл бұрын
Heartbreaking to think that the bereaved once stood right there , often in tears, to see their loved ones buried. I have always felt that it was perfectly ok to have nature claim a cemetery. I saw many in 16 years of surveying. Some are beautiful, even overgrown. However, seeing crypts torn open and stones stolen outrages me. Some people are ghouls.
@apocyldoomer
Жыл бұрын
Man, imagine that creepy joint at night! Gadzooks. The cemetery that my Father is buried at looked a mess last time I was there, which was many years ago, I need to go back there, it’s in a not too nice part of the city, a hood. I ain’t scared, haha. Nice work!
@sheilan6235
11 ай бұрын
I saw that someone suggested doing rubbings of the old headstones DO NOT DO THAT! That causes even more wear on the old stones! Instead, use a bright flashlight and shine it across the headstone, the light can make the inscriptions more readable and will not cause any more damage to the stone than is already there.
@rickstanley4570
Жыл бұрын
😢so sad
@robynfoss9449
11 ай бұрын
They need to put that cemetery on the historical site register, that would protect it and also funding could be found to clean it up and restore it
@karievjenth6111
Жыл бұрын
I saw a video of a guy that put shaving cream on the tombstones so he could read them, he stated it did not harm the stones. The inscriptions were white and easy to read... He washed it off.
@ahah1785
11 ай бұрын
I'd love to live near a old cemetary, how cool is that. Hehe...
@lorainefrancesv
7 ай бұрын
Who was responsible for maintaining or preserving cemeteries? I always assumed the upkeep was tax funded.
@Exoamylase
Жыл бұрын
Someone call the Millennial Stone Cleaner
@redpillow7221
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate how the guy making this video has some class and doesn't go digging through the mausoleum.
@GrnArrow092
11 ай бұрын
While I find old cemeteries like this interesting, it's a bit sad knowing that these are the markers of those people that time has forgotten. Only the headstones show who these people were. It makes me wonder if the people that are buried here have any descendants and it makes me wonder if any of their descendants are still alive. I'm sure the bodies of those buried here are long gone as the human body completely breaks down after more than a century after death. It's no surprise to me that those crypts are empty nearly 200 years after the people buried in them died.
@lorrie8176
Жыл бұрын
Must have been some cheap property to buy for them to build on in hopes of pockets to grow big and fat. 😼
@there_is_nothing_here
Жыл бұрын
That's really sad. I truly think creation is the way for me. Because no matter what, this is the end result. And eventual abandoned graveyard.
@johnwinden8511
Жыл бұрын
Building right up to the edge of the site with no barrier of any kind. How disrespectful and sad.
@robhutchins2721
Жыл бұрын
William Few was one of four delegates from Georgia at the constitutional convention. Two of the delegates, William Houstoun and William Pierce went home early and did not sign the constitution only William Few and Abraham Baldwin remained until the end. Because Georgia was the 13th colony, they voted last due to this, Abraham Baldwin cast the tying vote when they were deciding on how the states would be represented in Congress. Equal representation, the small state plan or New Jersey Plan, or by population the large state plan or Virginia Plan. Abraham Baldwin’s vote created a tie and a committee was formed in which Roger Sherman suggested we have a bicameral legislature consisting of a Senate (upper house) with equal representation and a House of Representatives (lower house) with representation based on population. This is known as the Great Compromise or the Connecticut Compromise as Roger Sherman was from Connecticut.
@misskitty2133
4 ай бұрын
All those coffin flies! Omg give me the itchy
@invisi-bullexploration2374
Жыл бұрын
Looks eerily similar to the Symmes cemetery in Fairfield, Ohio.
@BrendaCampos-bz8qc
Жыл бұрын
Maybe get in touch with local Historical Society and see if they would get people to clean this place up. This so sad to see this place fall apart
@mattw4547
Жыл бұрын
Shout out NA! Just for today! Stay alive friends, call your sponsor!
@jetsons101
Жыл бұрын
What a total lack of respect, the city/county/state should be held accountable for letting a cemetery fall into such a sad state. The people in the cemetery may be lone gone but they are still people. Every headstone has a life and a story behind it.
@errickflesch5565
Жыл бұрын
I go once a year to local graveyards.........just to look at 100 plus year old graves to read the inscriptions on the tombstone about who's buried and just kind of wonder about their lives. Sad to see when it's a child or a civil war or WW1 soldier.
@brennieW-s4o
Ай бұрын
Human decency is almost unheard of😢
@dougscott8161
Жыл бұрын
Ugh, New York, again, at least this seems to predate the "Perpetual Care" era, if that is even still being enforced. You may know more about that situation now than I do.Thanks again for this enlightenment. God Bless and stay safe.
@matthew2478
6 ай бұрын
What a peaceful place, all that we are and all that we build is nothing but dust in the wind.
@Sea-cucumber1151
Жыл бұрын
It could be worse I don’t remember what country but you buy your spot for 50 years I believe. They had limited space. After that they open your casket, scoop up what’s left and put it in a bag. Put underneath the new person who is “renting”. I would believe it’s the live humans that desecrated their graves. Sometimes people bury ear love ones with expensive jewelry. Not me the jewelry is for the living, not the dead.
@billl1127
Жыл бұрын
My guess is those new condos are on top of old graves.
@pgh-h4f
Ай бұрын
William Few (1748-1828) , the person who had their remains moved in 1973 (not 1976) to Georgia, was a FOUNDING FATHER, and a Georgia Senator. Imagine a person with their signature on the constitution, had their gave abandoned for (at least) several decades.
@LanceHall
11 ай бұрын
Are any of these on Find-A-Grave??
@danielkoher1944
11 ай бұрын
Carol Ann go to the light! 0:28
@texastourist1161
Жыл бұрын
Great project for a local Boy Scout and Girl Scout troop to take on as a cleanup and perhaps even get the church members up there if there is still a congregation…🌝
@davidcross701
Жыл бұрын
So shameful for the City or the County to have this cemetery be desecrated so badly. Evil.
@philknerr4587
Жыл бұрын
Lots of history right there in neglect 😢
@DebbyShoemaker
Жыл бұрын
Super creepy cool.
@SurvivingTheApocalypse
Жыл бұрын
2:37 pretty sure there was a thigh bone to the right in the vault.
@janetrapoza3877
Жыл бұрын
They are the quietest neighbors anybody could ask for..
@dplomin1954
Жыл бұрын
Nice video! Sad, though.
@nuttybar9
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the building was built on any of the graves.
@dianemac3768
Жыл бұрын
This is sooo sad....................
@roseturner3726
10 ай бұрын
This is just so sad!!! 😢 Why can't the city or county take care of the cemetery??? Or maybe the people of the church???
@victorponce7238
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to film this. It was very touching. So sad also. It makes one wonder??? What will happen to me in the future? How will my remains be treated? 🕔🤔🤔🕔
@Greenpoloboy3
10 ай бұрын
The soft spots maybe where coffins lay but have collapsed or rotted
@battlejack1863
11 ай бұрын
It now has no trespassing signs with an orange mess gate blocking the entrance to it
@michaelciccone2194
Жыл бұрын
I miss the old colonial cemeteries in North Central CT. Old colonial cemeteries.
@PapaPzoom
Ай бұрын
An Egyptian Proverb....."To speak the name of the dead is to bring them back to life"
@tonyahaley6900
Жыл бұрын
Wow, I wish you would have read/focused on individual graves.
@davidurban6813
Жыл бұрын
Living that close to a cemetary wouldn't scare me..
@Coffee240
Жыл бұрын
Very good video.
@BobVolunteer-ix7dq
7 күн бұрын
Many do not about the past or the history of our ancestors. All forgotten in the dust bin of eternity
@Poeboi
Жыл бұрын
Did the condo people never watch Poltergeist??? But how beautiful and sad in a way!!!!
@wms72
Жыл бұрын
If there are exposed bones, please do the decent thing and notify the health department.
@joet_swbo101
11 ай бұрын
So the beacon ny in duchess county? Is this off of. 9D?
@user-gs6fq1jq8y
11 ай бұрын
There is no such thing as an abandon cemetery.. These graves have to be moved..And respect for the dead..
@Albert87nl
Жыл бұрын
as a dutch facinating to see.. also wierd to read dutch ther ein the US
@ameliarhodes5000
Жыл бұрын
There's one very much like this next to the Confederate Cemetery in Fayetteville, AR.
@mrdave777
Жыл бұрын
Where? In Fayetteville? Thx
@USA_GUARDS
11 ай бұрын
The thieves were not satisfied with stealing the living, they went on to steal the dead. They left and left the world to them. Have you seen that humans are the most dangerous creatures in the world?😊😊😊
@Darkfairy1979
11 ай бұрын
You need to carry a flashlight to read the ones that aren't legible
@ratdaddy7774
10 ай бұрын
They may have been forgotten here on earth, but God knows every one of them,may they all rest in the Arms of the LORD
@jenb7756
Жыл бұрын
I just want to be able to decompose and become one with the soil
@AnthonyCain-ik4yi
2 ай бұрын
Huge amount of vandalism on display with these clips - taken advantage of. Some limited wildlife at work probably. Authorities should take immediate steps to put a permanent stop to this ongoing desecration.
@manofaction1807
Жыл бұрын
take a can of shaving cream with you, and wipe it on the headstones to read them.
@bugs5644
Жыл бұрын
man, the town cant do anything about this cemetery?
@Beez_7272
9 ай бұрын
When that cemetery ope Ned it want any trees there yet they grew there
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