@EUROTRASHSPAMMER I have a love for cemeteries...couldnt tell you why though. If you would please take some pics i'll give you my email address so you can show them to me. There is one located in Louisville, Ky called "Eastern Cemetery" with somewhat a morbid past to it...it's an interesting cemetery to read about and visit.
@addernoir01 the town was built as a river port and when the railroad was built in about 1850, it bypassed the town, then the county seat was moved from there to scottsboro which was on the railing
The town was destroyed during the War Between the States but the railraod had already hurt this river town so the town just died out . . the cemetery is all that is left.
wow that was a neat video. do you know if the bodies are still there or were they relocated? i must come down sometime i am very interrested in historical places. always have been. all i need is a guide.
me too i love historical placesive actually been to a really old cemetary once ive always wanted to go to a ghost town check out these ghost towns Centrallia pennsylvania, helena texas,bodie california,cassilis australia
@905ruthless905 For the exception of a few teeth, bodies and coffins not buried in a water-tight vault would be complety gone after about 80 years. The only thing left would be certain metal objects made of brass or bornze like casket handles, or precious metals like the gold in teeth, etc.. In most cases, that is. Man, this is a depressing one. Just think... to be totally forgotten. Totally. Forgotten by man but not by God! And that is all that really matters.
Wow what an interesting place! Sad it's gone to ruin though, is this all that's left of the town? no buildings etc? some great research projects here for those interested in that, shame we cant read the sign at the end of the vid, would that elaborate iron work around the grave / s with the tree growing up and through show that this was an important person, perhaps rich in them days?
Thai is all that is left of the once prosperous river town. It came to its end because the railroad ran about 5 miles north of the town and the river traffic went to the railroad. The old town was also destroyed during the Civil War. Yes, I would say that the grave with the iron railings was that of a wealthy person of the time.
seems daft but just by looking at the grave yard you can tell it must have been one hell of a place the style of the graves are very eurpean and fenced for each family much too posh for the slaves to be put there it realy is a buiteful place so calm i bet you could have slept there and had a realy good nights kip haha thanks for posting i realy liked it
shame realy as i said before you can tell that it must have been a prity welthy place with the fancy head stones and the fenced family bits any way thanks for posting and talking bye
beautiful......which is kind of odd to say about a cemetery video but the music and the images just like...give you a tour through history, which i love about this video :) 5 stars
I too used to do that, back home, but you can't anymore...it's not that you can't go into the cemetarys...it's just that for the "living" it's not safe, FROM the LIVING. I must admit, here in the South, with the spanish moss dripping off the water oaks...it's a very, peaceful place...IN THE DAYTIME>..superchicken here, I'd scare myself...my imagination is very vivid..thanks for posting this great video
Love this footage of the cemetery. Please tell me about the background music. I am always hunting for new cemeteries to sculk around in. I have been to every last cemetery there is in Louisiana but the Bellafonte is quite unique. You had a shot of huge tree roots bulging out from the fence. When that person wass buried there over a hundred years ago- one can tell there was no tree there at the time the person was buried.Another great video Messabout
This one of the oldest cemeteries in our county. It was the cemetery of a thriving river town before the railroad and war turned it into a ghost town.
Sorry I have no information on the music, it was just among some generic unlabeled music I had, but it does fit.
Yes, several of the trees grew up through the grave. It was a tradition around here for a while to put an acorn into the pocket of the deceased before burial, could be where they came from since the burials were not deep long ago.
the backyard cemetery? have you ever been there at night? i have it was Jefferson Davis's birthday, the grand reopening after katrina. we went to the grave yard it was the scariest thing to ever happen to me. and something even fucking scarier!! his home.
graves so old that everyone who ever knew them are in graves as well, but actions during life carry over forever, because things of today are a result of what was, good and bad, never give up on your dreams!
Yes there is just something about old cemeteries. They never thought of perpetual care. As you know the departed's family once kept the cemeteries up.
Thanks for another thoughtful video. I'm a devout atheist, yet I got a spiritual message from your video. In the end, we own nothing on this earth. All our works will be reclaimed as they become part of nature's own renewal.
Quite a lot, I'd say, to get from one short video witn no words.
hi richard, i don't know how i missed this one. wonderful film here. i too love to go to old resting places and walk about; something in the peace one usually finds at such places.
as a child i would walk the woods alone in upstate ny and just come upon old headstones out of the blue. maybe an old foundation skirting the area. just loved it, left many a wild flower for the departed. thank you.
Thanks Michael, you have, for a long time, been a very complimentary friend. Connection with others from diverse places and backgrounds is my favorite part of YouTube.
That was somehow depressing and fascinating equally, almost forgotten, but people like you let the spirits ride to heaven because they know their not forgotten, they feel their time was over in mortal sense, and go on their way to a new life, because they know their not forgotten,
very nice compilation of the video in the rain and the southern singing in the background!
Hi Messabout1 this is very interesting vid. Are some of the graves before the civil war? They look really old of course the rain and wind wear out the tombstones in that area of the US.5 stars very interesting.
Good job mate, I am fascinated by the early American History. much the same as the history of my own country, which is still new in the scheme of things. Like others I would look forward to some more videos on the history of your area.
Thanks Pumper. yes several have requested the same and I started working on that in my head today. I'll try to intermingle some history videos with my other interest.
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Interesting and moody video, Richard. I think cemeteries are interesting places to visit and to ponder the lives of those whose bodies are in repose. Sometimes you see several family members whose death occurred at or near the same time and it makes you wonder what happened to them. Was it illness or accident that claimed them? Sometimes there are clues to their lives in the inscriptions. It's interesting to wonder and to honor, just for a few moments, the lives they lived.
I don't there are enough good things to say...exceedingly moving and poetic. You are doing some great work here, very evocative of a time long forgotten by some. I wish I could do something like this, half as well.
You captured and emphasized such wonderful atmosphere in this video. Not only visually but the sound of the rain, the music, set against the stark natural silence. A moving experience, Richard.
Thanks Brent, I spent part of my Sunday morning there and the video is almost exactly as I filmed it with little editing. It was a quite place, no bird or animal sound even, just the drizzle of the cold rain.
Some people feel some fear in such an atmosphere but I find it almost comforting.
Yes, it is sad Tess. but there was a ceremony in that cemetery a few weeks back and some actors played the parts of some of those buried there. So they are not all forgotten but some still remembered
What a beautiful video. It's always so sad to see abandoned cemeteries where people's last imprint in history, the name on the gravestone, has faded away. I too like visiting graveyards and read people's names, who they were married to and how long they lived. I think I've been to at least one graveyard in every country I've visited.
There is a bit of interesting information about a man who is buried in that old cemetery. If you saw the American movie "Cold Mountain" there is a scene in that movie of a church congregation singing. they are singing in a Southern style called "shaped note" or fasola" singing. The song they are singing in the movie comes from a hymnal that was written by a man who is buried in the old cemetery I was at.
I attended a ceremony at this cemetery a few weeks back, an actor portrayed the man who wrote the hymnal and related the story. He even had an original copy with him to display.
Very moving video, Richard. A union was preserved at horrific cost. We've visited battlefields like Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness. It's hard to equate the peace and serenity at those locations with the actual events that took place there.
Our local great battlefields are Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain. When we stand on those battlefields, in no way can be imagine the carnage that went on there. Our nation was changed forever by those events.
A half million Americans died, trying to kill each other. The economic devastation that resulted has never been fully calculated.
Great images. Makes me pause and think how many folks in that area even know of their ancestors' grave sites. When I was a young boy my dad took me up a ridge once while squirrel hunting and showed me where my great great grandfather was buried. It was a cemetery not unlike those in your video. Tennessee is covered with countless cemeteries like these filled with people who lived in difficult times and fewer luxuries yet they laid the foundations for the towns we live in today.
All true. I did not find my ancestors graves until the last few years. There are many unmarked graves still that can never be identified. Perpetual care is only a recent invention. I've noticed that the bigger colonial towns did a better job with the cemeteries, but the frontier had other things to worry about like arrows and starvation.
Were there any grave sites flooded when TVA damned up the TN river there? There are a few up here on Ky Lake but I think some were moved to higher ground before they completed the dam.
I love looking at old Cemeteries. There are many old cemeteries like this back home in New Hampshire. My ex and I would love to go for drives and stop when we came across one and walk through it. Take pictures, etc. Nice video.
Wow...what a fascinating and delightfully eerie place. This footage is really wonderful. It would make a GREAT black and white film. Awesome job with this.
I commune with the souls in old graveyards often. If one listens real close, they have a lot to say. while there I see happy young people with hearts full of hope along with struggling old folks who lost all hope.
Whole families lay in a single plot and heart felt feelings etch the crumbling old stones.
You should make some more documentaries on the civil war in your area. Maybe visiting actual locations and showing us fans more insight of the deep south.
This area is very rich in WBTS (War Between the States)history. Union General Sherman spent some pre-war years at the ghost town I just filmed as a federal surveyor. His knowledge of the area served him well when he returned here as a general during the war.
May I ask who is the artist singing the back ground music?
lazydayhohum 6 months ago
@lazydayhohum Sorry, unknown
messabout1 6 months ago
Sorta sad really.
1NX9 11 months ago
A simple and yet creative vid...you have my respect.
ghostryder0079 1 year ago
@ghostryder0079
There's one abandoned cemetery just like this about a half mile down the road from me here in Richmond.
The most recent headstone I've seen is from the twenties, but most are from the late 18th century.
EUROTRASHSPAMMER 1 year ago
@EUROTRASHSPAMMER I have a love for cemeteries...couldnt tell you why though. If you would please take some pics i'll give you my email address so you can show them to me. There is one located in Louisville, Ky called "Eastern Cemetery" with somewhat a morbid past to it...it's an interesting cemetery to read about and visit.
ghostryder0079 1 year ago
@addernoir01 the town was built as a river port and when the railroad was built in about 1850, it bypassed the town, then the county seat was moved from there to scottsboro which was on the railing
messabout1 1 year ago
Beautiful
Opium331 1 year ago
theres one in thier that says the man died in the 1940's.......that means this town ended way after the war between the states
Tavarith 2 years ago
@Tavarith
No, that only means they were still burying people there after the town was long gone
messabout1 2 years ago
A town can be abandoned while people continue to use a cemetery. Don't assume you are so smart.
deaeregydd 2 years ago
facsinating place tho....wonder where the buildings are
Tavarith 2 years ago
@Tavarith
The town was destroyed during the War Between the States but the railraod had already hurt this river town so the town just died out . . the cemetery is all that is left.
messabout1 2 years ago
wow that was a neat video. do you know if the bodies are still there or were they relocated? i must come down sometime i am very interrested in historical places. always have been. all i need is a guide.
:)
905ruthless905 2 years ago
The cemetery is still complete, just deteriorated
messabout1 2 years ago
me too i love historical placesive actually been to a really old cemetary once ive always wanted to go to a ghost town check out these ghost towns Centrallia pennsylvania, helena texas,bodie california,cassilis australia
Tavarith 2 years ago
@905ruthless905 For the exception of a few teeth, bodies and coffins not buried in a water-tight vault would be complety gone after about 80 years. The only thing left would be certain metal objects made of brass or bornze like casket handles, or precious metals like the gold in teeth, etc.. In most cases, that is. Man, this is a depressing one. Just think... to be totally forgotten. Totally. Forgotten by man but not by God! And that is all that really matters.
Ishhkabibble 1 year ago
You have done a excellent job in this video. The music really is a excellent choice for this video. It set the mood to the scenery of the video
Regards: Guy
guylem 2 years ago
Thanks Guy,
The cemetery has a feel much like I presented in the video. Thanks for watching.
messabout1 2 years ago
Wow what an interesting place! Sad it's gone to ruin though, is this all that's left of the town? no buildings etc? some great research projects here for those interested in that, shame we cant read the sign at the end of the vid, would that elaborate iron work around the grave / s with the tree growing up and through show that this was an important person, perhaps rich in them days?
reasoning777 2 years ago
Thai is all that is left of the once prosperous river town. It came to its end because the railroad ran about 5 miles north of the town and the river traffic went to the railroad. The old town was also destroyed during the Civil War. Yes, I would say that the grave with the iron railings was that of a wealthy person of the time.
messabout1 2 years ago
Too bad the place has been trashed by vandals
gibbletz 2 years ago
The old cemetery was neglect, grown up and abandoned for many years but yes, TOO BAD
messabout1 2 years ago
I bet that those people there are haunting people in south scary shit
WELOVETOFTING 2 years ago
We do have some interesting ghost roaming around here
messabout1 2 years ago
This is in
Bellefonte Cemetery
Bellefonte
Jackson County
Alabama, USA
lucky8gal 2 years ago
You are exactly right on the outskirts of the big town of Hollywood
messabout1 2 years ago
a cemeterey that was forgotten. it seems the people who new these people have died
malecatwomen4u69 2 years ago
Very interesting video! The music you placed with it is very apropo! Thanks for sharing a piece of the old south with us (smiles)!
frontier33 2 years ago
Thanks, this area is very rich in Civil War history
messabout1 2 years ago
wow thats crazy. awesome video tho
laura20022004 2 years ago
Thanks for watching and commenting
messabout1 2 years ago
seems daft but just by looking at the grave yard you can tell it must have been one hell of a place the style of the graves are very eurpean and fenced for each family much too posh for the slaves to be put there it realy is a buiteful place so calm i bet you could have slept there and had a realy good nights kip haha thanks for posting i realy liked it
dean11081988 2 years ago 2
This town, where the cemetery is located was settled by American pioneers, many were of European descent
messabout1 2 years ago
yeh i thought so is it close to you and is any of the town left or did it all go in the war
dean11081988 2 years ago 2
The town slowly died after the war and when river traffic was replaced by the railroad. All that remains is the old cemetery
messabout1 2 years ago
shame realy as i said before you can tell that it must have been a prity welthy place with the fancy head stones and the fenced family bits any way thanks for posting and talking bye
dean11081988 2 years ago 4
well the other person was right it is beautiful we have an old cemetery here where I live and I do the samething when I want solitude myself
marymc1970 2 years ago
It was especially peaceful on the rainy morning that I made this video
messabout1 2 years ago
thanks
Orkunis 2 years ago
Is there a tombstone from a guy named Maffert?
Orkunis 2 years ago
I do not recall one but I'll look the next time I visit
messabout1 2 years ago
beautiful......which is kind of odd to say about a cemetery video but the music and the images just like...give you a tour through history, which i love about this video :) 5 stars
flargmuffin92 3 years ago
I visit this old cemetery when i need solitude . . it is beautiful, you are right
messabout1 3 years ago
I too used to do that, back home, but you can't anymore...it's not that you can't go into the cemetarys...it's just that for the "living" it's not safe, FROM the LIVING. I must admit, here in the South, with the spanish moss dripping off the water oaks...it's a very, peaceful place...IN THE DAYTIME>..superchicken here, I'd scare myself...my imagination is very vivid..thanks for posting this great video
yankeegurl62 2 years ago
Thanks,
I fear not the dead, but the living must be considered
messabout1 2 years ago
wow that date is on my birthday.....
LiZb3tH1996 3 years ago
strange
messabout1 3 years ago
strange
trippendale742 3 years ago
strange
yotachan23 3 years ago
strange
trippendale742 3 years ago
Love this footage of the cemetery. Please tell me about the background music. I am always hunting for new cemeteries to sculk around in. I have been to every last cemetery there is in Louisiana but the Bellafonte is quite unique. You had a shot of huge tree roots bulging out from the fence. When that person wass buried there over a hundred years ago- one can tell there was no tree there at the time the person was buried.Another great video Messabout
creolelady182 3 years ago 5
This one of the oldest cemeteries in our county. It was the cemetery of a thriving river town before the railroad and war turned it into a ghost town.
Sorry I have no information on the music, it was just among some generic unlabeled music I had, but it does fit.
Yes, several of the trees grew up through the grave. It was a tradition around here for a while to put an acorn into the pocket of the deceased before burial, could be where they came from since the burials were not deep long ago.
messabout1 3 years ago
The song is He is a Wonder in My Soul. Old school gospel. Very beautiful song.
XacTR 2 years ago
Excellent footage. It reminds me of scripture. There is no remembrance of men of old,
and even those who are yet to come
will not be remembered by those who follow. -Ecclesiastes 1:11 NIV
cuonyt 3 years ago 4
Thanks,
Another is "Ashes to ashes and dust to dust"
messabout1 3 years ago
Thanks. yes the cedar is a symbol of eternal life since it is evergreen and stays green through the worst winters
messabout1 3 years ago
Truely Amazing!
topaz38 3 years ago 2
has anybody ever been to Jefferson Davis's home?
the backyard cemetery? have you ever been there at night? i have it was Jefferson Davis's birthday, the grand reopening after katrina. we went to the grave yard it was the scariest thing to ever happen to me. and something even fucking scarier!! his home.
i seen some things.
never to go back there at night again.
Mississippi1313 3 years ago
You should spend the night there alone to see what you can experience.
invista360 3 years ago
Good idea, but no thanks
messabout1 3 years ago
which place is this i want to visit this place
danradcliffe46 3 years ago
This is Bellefonte Cemetery near Scottsboro, Alabama
messabout1 3 years ago
einfach toll!!
Wie ein schönes Video
like a time machine. i would like to be there right know in live of course, in death... doesnt matters
GothGob 3 years ago
omg that cemetary must of been from the 1800s
laura20022004 4 years ago
The early 1800's Laura. It was located at a Jackson County, Alabama river town on the Tennessee, River within site of Cherokee native territory.
messabout1 4 years ago
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ilove1994 2 years ago
Its older then the 1800s because there is a date on a persons stone that reads 1352 if you saw that or not? .
ilove1994 2 years ago
It may have been 1852There were few whites here prior to 1800
messabout1 2 years ago
youre probably right about that but still 1352 it could be right? and this place is probably older then the 1800s? .
ilove1994 2 years ago
i could not be 1352. What year did Columbus discover America? 1492 is the answer. You misread the marker.
CrimsonLover001 2 years ago 4
humm yeah maybe i did i will have to re watch this lol .
ilove1994 2 years ago
graves so old that everyone who ever knew them are in graves as well, but actions during life carry over forever, because things of today are a result of what was, good and bad, never give up on your dreams!
JoeWhittington 4 years ago 4
Good thoughts all, Joe
messabout1 4 years ago
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
suchanunrulymind 4 years ago
Thanks
messabout1 4 years ago
Happy New Year Richard. Peace.~Marilyn
Moonchimes 4 years ago
WOOT! im from scottsboro! i love it her, but it gets boring. LOL!
erklott1 4 years ago
Boring is as boring does. Hello neighbor
messabout1 4 years ago
I really like this one, My wife accuses me of having to stop at every old cemetery we pass along the back roads.
Dan
good musical choice
dmccoig 4 years ago
Thanks Dan,
Yes there is just something about old cemeteries. They never thought of perpetual care. As you know the departed's family once kept the cemeteries up.
messabout1 4 years ago
Thanks for another thoughtful video. I'm a devout atheist, yet I got a spiritual message from your video. In the end, we own nothing on this earth. All our works will be reclaimed as they become part of nature's own renewal.
Quite a lot, I'd say, to get from one short video witn no words.
Thanks again.
geigywii 4 years ago
hi richard, i don't know how i missed this one. wonderful film here. i too love to go to old resting places and walk about; something in the peace one usually finds at such places.
as a child i would walk the woods alone in upstate ny and just come upon old headstones out of the blue. maybe an old foundation skirting the area. just loved it, left many a wild flower for the departed. thank you.
absinthedrunk 4 years ago
Glad you found the video Sally. It has only been online about a week.
The long departed would be comforted that someone still visits after so many years.
messabout1 4 years ago
I love cemeteries. This is just wonderful. Thank you.
myorch 4 years ago
"Wonderful" is a very nice comment, thanks
messabout1 4 years ago
..among the best I've seen from you, messabout.
You've got an outstanding perception of people and surroundings that makes you a great tuber.
moreno43 4 years ago
Thanks Michael, you have, for a long time, been a very complimentary friend. Connection with others from diverse places and backgrounds is my favorite part of YouTube.
messabout1 4 years ago
To me, all I do is try to let others see things I see and share the feeling I have about those things.
messabout1 4 years ago
That was somehow depressing and fascinating equally, almost forgotten, but people like you let the spirits ride to heaven because they know their not forgotten, they feel their time was over in mortal sense, and go on their way to a new life, because they know their not forgotten,
very nice compilation of the video in the rain and the southern singing in the background!
Davaron2012 4 years ago
Thanks Davaron, none of us want to be forgotten.
Glad you enjoyed my efforts.
messabout1 4 years ago
Hi Messabout1 this is very interesting vid. Are some of the graves before the civil war? They look really old of course the rain and wind wear out the tombstones in that area of the US.5 stars very interesting.
kannon9 4 years ago
I really love this video, I have it posted on my web site. Thanks for sharing !!
fang1961 4 years ago
Thanks John and that's great about posting it to your website. I enjoy others enjoying my videos.
messabout1 4 years ago
Proud to have it there ! Thanx !
fang1961 4 years ago
Thanks Sharky. Maybe I should entitle it, "History of the World, part III"
messabout1 4 years ago
Good job mate, I am fascinated by the early American History. much the same as the history of my own country, which is still new in the scheme of things. Like others I would look forward to some more videos on the history of your area.
pumper8032 4 years ago
Thanks Pumper. yes several have requested the same and I started working on that in my head today. I'll try to intermingle some history videos with my other interest.
messabout1 4 years ago
I just love this video. Sometimes it`s best said to say nothing at all.5 and a Fav to you Richard!
willythewave 4 years ago
Thanks Willy. yes, sometimes words can't express what needs to be said.
messabout1 4 years ago
Where is this at Richard?
KPPatty 4 years ago
This is the old Bellefonte cemetery which is between Hollywood Crossroads and the river. very near the nuclear plant
messabout1 4 years ago
Messy,
I am trailing a little behind you in the top rated honor for today. I always leave you nice comments and 5 stars. Help me out a little bit, please...
MGABBYB 4 years ago
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messabout1 4 years ago
Interesting and moody video, Richard. I think cemeteries are interesting places to visit and to ponder the lives of those whose bodies are in repose. Sometimes you see several family members whose death occurred at or near the same time and it makes you wonder what happened to them. Was it illness or accident that claimed them? Sometimes there are clues to their lives in the inscriptions. It's interesting to wonder and to honor, just for a few moments, the lives they lived.
susangm 4 years ago
I have those same thoughts when I visit Susan. Sometimes I go to our local library and try to answer questions such as those. Thanks for watching.
messabout1 4 years ago
I don't there are enough good things to say...exceedingly moving and poetic. You are doing some great work here, very evocative of a time long forgotten by some. I wish I could do something like this, half as well.
Faust668 4 years ago
That is a great compliment coming from you Jerry. Thank you for watching and appraising my video efforts.
messabout1 4 years ago
i think id be too scared to go to a cemetary
robe111 4 years ago
If it was in a movie it is definitely the kind of place where a bony hand reaches up and grabs you by the leg
messabout1 4 years ago
You captured and emphasized such wonderful atmosphere in this video. Not only visually but the sound of the rain, the music, set against the stark natural silence. A moving experience, Richard.
Sandguy99 4 years ago
Thanks Brent, I spent part of my Sunday morning there and the video is almost exactly as I filmed it with little editing. It was a quite place, no bird or animal sound even, just the drizzle of the cold rain.
Some people feel some fear in such an atmosphere but I find it almost comforting.
messabout1 4 years ago
Oh Bless them! I always feel so sad when I see graveyards that are old and abandoned. Long forgotten. Its so moving this video. Thanks for sharing.
Tessietots 4 years ago
Yes, it is sad Tess. but there was a ceremony in that cemetery a few weeks back and some actors played the parts of some of those buried there. So they are not all forgotten but some still remembered
messabout1 4 years ago
Im so glad to hear that :)
Tessietots 4 years ago
What a beautiful video. It's always so sad to see abandoned cemeteries where people's last imprint in history, the name on the gravestone, has faded away. I too like visiting graveyards and read people's names, who they were married to and how long they lived. I think I've been to at least one graveyard in every country I've visited.
Firefly5105 4 years ago
Thank you Sofia,
Yes sad. I think we pay some homage when we visit and read their names once more.
messabout1 4 years ago
There is a bit of interesting information about a man who is buried in that old cemetery. If you saw the American movie "Cold Mountain" there is a scene in that movie of a church congregation singing. they are singing in a Southern style called "shaped note" or fasola" singing. The song they are singing in the movie comes from a hymnal that was written by a man who is buried in the old cemetery I was at.
messabout1 4 years ago
Yes I saw that movie. That's interesting. How did you find that out?
Firefly5105 4 years ago
Sorry, that post is supposed to be under your comment on my post.
Firefly5105 4 years ago
I attended a ceremony at this cemetery a few weeks back, an actor portrayed the man who wrote the hymnal and related the story. He even had an original copy with him to display.
messabout1 4 years ago
Very moving video, Richard. A union was preserved at horrific cost. We've visited battlefields like Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness. It's hard to equate the peace and serenity at those locations with the actual events that took place there.
2oobwatcher 4 years ago
Our local great battlefields are Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain. When we stand on those battlefields, in no way can be imagine the carnage that went on there. Our nation was changed forever by those events.
A half million Americans died, trying to kill each other. The economic devastation that resulted has never been fully calculated.
messabout1 4 years ago
a very sad part of our history my friend...but it gives us future direction,,,,grt video
mummuy 4 years ago
Those who ignore or forget the past are destined to repeat those mistakes in the future.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
messabout1 4 years ago
Great images. Makes me pause and think how many folks in that area even know of their ancestors' grave sites. When I was a young boy my dad took me up a ridge once while squirrel hunting and showed me where my great great grandfather was buried. It was a cemetery not unlike those in your video. Tennessee is covered with countless cemeteries like these filled with people who lived in difficult times and fewer luxuries yet they laid the foundations for the towns we live in today.
triton338 4 years ago
All true. I did not find my ancestors graves until the last few years. There are many unmarked graves still that can never be identified. Perpetual care is only a recent invention. I've noticed that the bigger colonial towns did a better job with the cemeteries, but the frontier had other things to worry about like arrows and starvation.
messabout1 4 years ago
Were there any grave sites flooded when TVA damned up the TN river there? There are a few up here on Ky Lake but I think some were moved to higher ground before they completed the dam.
triton338 4 years ago
Most of the marked graves were moved but many unmarked ones were not, especially native burial grounds
messabout1 4 years ago
I love looking at old Cemeteries. There are many old cemeteries like this back home in New Hampshire. My ex and I would love to go for drives and stop when we came across one and walk through it. Take pictures, etc. Nice video.
Frequency100 4 years ago
Thanks Russ. The old places have a charm of their own and I don't believe the residents mind the visits at all.
messabout1 4 years ago
Amazing how some portions of the country are still changed by the Civil War... I should do some vids some time on the battlefields near me.
Gemm73 4 years ago
Yes you should Gemm. It is a wonder our country survived that one.
messabout1 4 years ago
Yes Paul, There are folks resting there who were born before our country was a country.
messabout1 4 years ago
Wow...what a fascinating and delightfully eerie place. This footage is really wonderful. It would make a GREAT black and white film. Awesome job with this.
Ravensinger 4 years ago
Thanks for watching and commenting.
I commune with the souls in old graveyards often. If one listens real close, they have a lot to say. while there I see happy young people with hearts full of hope along with struggling old folks who lost all hope.
Whole families lay in a single plot and heart felt feelings etch the crumbling old stones.
messabout1 4 years ago
You should make some more documentaries on the civil war in your area. Maybe visiting actual locations and showing us fans more insight of the deep south.
Great Job Friend!
jdolce101 4 years ago
This area is very rich in WBTS (War Between the States)history. Union General Sherman spent some pre-war years at the ghost town I just filmed as a federal surveyor. His knowledge of the area served him well when he returned here as a general during the war.
Yes he is the one who went on to burn Atlanta.
messabout1 4 years ago
any chance of hearing more from you about the war between the states, and how it affected your area, in the near future? :-)
iGi1957 4 years ago
I've had several requests for that and at one time was working on a video to that affect. thanks for reminding me that I should still do that.
messabout1 4 years ago
I would enjoy hearing more about it too.
woosteria 4 years ago
I'll have to see what I can come up with
messabout1 4 years ago
Well made! Great atmosphere. Thanks for sharing.
iGi1957 4 years ago
The old saying "quite as a graveyard" applies to this place. I was the only living soul around. The atmosphere was thick with isolation and peace.
messabout1 4 years ago
It's pretty sad to see these cemeteries in such a state of disrepair.
Bigjohnnywad 4 years ago
This old cemetery was abandoned and overgrown for many years and is just now starting to be restored
messabout1 4 years ago
You know it should have never got to that point of disrepair..I am glad to hear the restoration is starting.
Bigjohnnywad 4 years ago
I agree Jim. To me, respect for the dead is as important as respect for the still living.
messabout1 4 years ago
I totally agree Richard..
Bigjohnnywad 4 years ago