I grew up in West Sacramento just over the river. I have driven by that cemetery hundred times and never realized that many famous folks are buried there. Wow.
enjoyed this one. I've lived in Sacto. all my life, and never visited the cemetary. I've been to a few cemetarys. A lot of history I didn't know about. Like the bodies under the road. Thanks for the tour and history lesson.
Love your music at the end of a program. So fitting for the time period. Love grave yard history too. That's where most of us end up. It's a work of art too, and many are more famous and better known now.
History has always been a favorite subject and I'm fascinated by cemeteries. I've been researching my family's history and have spent many an hour walking through different ones. This is my kind of video.
Fabulous, Jeff! I am Sacramento born and raised and have driven past the city cemetery hundreds of times, always thinking to myself "I want to go explore it one day". I'm 58 and I still haven't set foot inside it. In fairness to me, I did live in Nashville for 20 years, but returned to Sacramento 2.5 years ago. At one point, I can see red brick buidlngs in the background, which are the "projects", low income housing where we lived for a short time in the early '60s. Thanks for your excellent work! I have subscribed to your channel.
Thank you very much! I could have spent all week in that cemetery featuring interesting people but I touched on the major hitters. Maybe I should go back for part 2! Your compliments were greatly appreciated!
I check out historic cemeteries pretty much everywhere I go, and I would say this one is the single most historic/interesting cemetery I have seen. For many years it was horribly dilapidated. Overrun with weeds and subject to vandalism and even grave robbing. Many years ago I supervised a crew of inmate workers who were tasked with bringing the cemetery back to respectable condition. It was very common when beating back the weeds to find human bones lying around. There was no remotely practical way to identify them, so we would just periodically rebury them in holes dug around the perimeter. It is truly scandalous that such a historic site was neglected and allowed to decay to the condition that it did, but it was the same old thing: money. Sacramento did not really start truly embracing its history until the early 1980s when "Old Sacramento" was restored. The restoration of the cemetery came after that. Oh, and I can tell everyone, even those who believe in this sort of thing, that the stories of the place being "haunted" are nonsense. I was in there for countless hours, and the only weird or frightening experiences I had involved some of the street people who lived in the area.
Leaving a penny at the grave means simply that you visited. A nickel indicates that you and the deceased trained at boot camp together, while a dime means you served with him in some capacity. By leaving a quarter at the grave, you are telling the family that you were with the soldier when he was killed.
Interesting information! Thanks! Since posting this video in April I learned what you said in the first sentence. Sarah had asked me the same question in our visit to the Virginia City cemetery video and I told her that it is an expression of remembrance. Hey thanks for watching!
@@jbenziggy Chief Big Elk is buried in a cemetery close by my house and I have seen coins placed at his grave, I always wondered what that meant. That was very informative!
I was born and raised in Sacto. So as school children we were living in history having to do with the gold rush, the great migrations, agriculture and shipping. I've walked that cemetery many times. I volunteered as for the rose society. This cemetery is a repository for rescued antique roses collected from gold rush, towns and buildings. The custom in those days, was to plant a rose bush for your loved one. Thank you! A wonderful video and good to see it's being cared for.
Wow Jeff, just the introduction alone blew me away with what was to come in this video! Thanks for the quality you deliver all the stories of these historical figures...
I agree that cemeteries are a wealth of historic information! Please don’t let someone’s (incorrect) opinion discourage you. I was raised in Victorville and the California past is so interesting. I love your videos and ask that you keep up the great job! Thank you from Wyoming
Jeff, this is the Best History Hunters I'veseenthus far...it was packed full of incredible information ...ive been to Sacramento endless times traveling from San Diego to Oregon going to my Family Reunion & I've Never visited this...it is a Definite Must on my way to my Reunion Next Year. Thank you for Sharing this...you have given me many places that I want to stop & see that I've missed just driving by & Never looking up the History that I would have missed had you Not showed these Priceless Places of History...Thank you so Much.
P.S. Cemeteries are Awesome places Full of History. I Live visiting Cemeteries...I dont think its Morbid at All. In fact in a few months I'm traveling back east to Look up Old Graves of my Ancestors. I can't wait.
I have always loved cemeteries, even when I was very young. My dad and I and my brother would go walking through the cemeteries. All in the Sierras are any towns where we would be on vacation and that continued for the rest of my life because there’s so much history there And you get to meet people through emotions by reading the epitaph they have them I lived in Oakhurst with my daughter for four years and we visited that cemetery in Oakhurst and the one in Mariposa many times and I always learn something new and we could actually see the cemetery in Oakhurst Church from our house my daughter actually lived in Oakhurst for about 10 years and before that they lived in three Rivers so we’ve done a lot of exploring and going to cemeteries throughout that area. Bodie is one of my favorite ones Aurora acouple times. With Virginia cemetery a few times and now I live in Tennessee and there is a cemetery on almost every corner where there’s a church it’s overwhelming to go to a cemetery anyways I love your channel and everything you’ve done that I’ve watched I’ve really liked and thank you
I love exploring cemeteries especially ones with such rich history. I live in Northern California so I appreciate your explorations in the area. Your videos are very well done. Thank you.
My husband & I just finished, watching this video, and thanks to you're video's, Jeff, we get to see, that history, has not been forgotten , I found this video, quite interesting, (even though, it is one of you''re earlier, ones ), I now, know, where, my next road trip, will be, I cannot wait to visit, and see, all this previous, history for myself. Thanks Jeff
I've been traveling through cemeteries since I was a kid......in high school, my older sister, a guy in the neighborhood and I would spend all weekend exploring cemeteries....going deep into the woods where long ago communities had been abandoned....we would explore the very old and the new.....I'm 75 now and still exploring....cemeteries hold so much history....I have never found it depressing. It's more like bring that person back for just a while and learning about their life,,,,,,,,thank you for your journeys and all your research.
I thoroughly enjoyed seeing this video. Jeff you are amazing and very educated in the facts of these famous people. Three of my relatives are buried there with their headstones being of hard wood. Being a native of Sacramento I have visited there and very impressed by the cemetery is well taken care of. The Sacramento Solons Baseball team had their playing field right across the street yesteryears ago. I do remember that. (Bonnie)
I was member of the old "adopt-a-plot" program, at Sacramento's Historic City Cemetery, several years ago. I was taking care of the Mack, the Curtis, and the Greene, family plots for a time. Alice Louisa Curtis has a very interesting story, which I found in the cemeteries archives, back when they allowed you access to them. Lol. Others have since wrote about Alice, after I added her name to Findgrave back in 2007. Lots of stories in these old cemeteries, if those who walk thru them, will take a moment to look into them.
Ryan Gillum I appreciate your kind words given the fact that I got a negative comment this morning. It really encourages me to go on with this. I would appreciate it if you could share some videos of mine on social media if you feel led to do so because I need to gain more subscribers which is a difficult task these days.
@@jbenziggy definitely, don't let 1 negative comment detour you. You have some of the best history videos on UA-cam. I have been binge watching episodes for the last month. Are you on Facebook?
I really enjoy your videos. My late husband was always interested in history and old cemeteries, and would have loved talking to you about your many adventures. There is supposed to be another Donner Party survivor buried in the Elk Grove cemetery--Ruth Donner, I think. Happy Trails!
So Interesting & informative. My friend & I love visiting cemeteries because they’re beautiful and in reality everyone buried there is a part of history. Thanx for your video!
Very interesting video! I especially like the ones with old cemeteries. It always intrigues me t see the different, old headstones that are a work of art. Much different than military graveyards that are rather boring.
I very much agree with you about headstones being great art! I would love to watch someone carve stone like they did back 160 years ago! Talk about artisans!
Great show Jeff, being from California I enjoyed this one. Been there. Lots of history in that place. Now living in Delaware I still do the same check out all the cemeteries and doing a lot of family research with my wife side going back to the 1600s here on Delmarva. I’m a new subscriber so I’m trying to catch up on your shows you got quite a few of them. Keep it up thanks take care be safe
Back in the 80s when I worked in the city's parks and recreation department if you were not a good employee and got one write up from the supervisor they would send you to the city cemetery and you would be pulling weeds, mowing the graves, tending the rose bushes cleaning the tombstones. It may sound like a good thing but you couldn't fuck off while working and it was all by the book it was hard work compared to working in a regular park where you had a little freedom, this was told to me by coworkers that got sent there, they said it kinda interesting to work there and it is definitely haunted even in the day time they could feel a presence near them especially by the crypts
What a great episode. Back pain has lead me to find your channel and I am hooked! I love all your knowledge of our beautiful state of California. The mention of the Crocker Family incited me to comment because I live in Templeton, CA. which, as you probably know, was named after Charles Crocker's son-and I live ON Crocker street! So cool. I am a California history nut too and appreciate your videos.
Welcome aboard! Sorry to hear about your back pain though. The Crockers have a huge role in California history and I hope to do more in the future! Thanks for watching and liking our videos. This weekend we'll release another one I think you will enjoy!
Great video Jeff. I was excited to see you were able to use your drone for some shots. Also, great job on editing your videos, they’re a real joy to watch…You should come up to Captain Jack’s Stronghold in the Lava Beds National Park and make a video on the Modoc War. It’s a very surreal experience walking on the battleground where so many suffered, yet it truly is such a beautiful area. Can’t wait for the next one, please keep up the good work.
Casey Coppi thank you, my friend! I appreciate your very generous comments! We’ll try to get up there. I wish this was my “real job” but I can’t pay the bills this way just yet. LOL
I really enjoy these videos! You are right that cemeteries can be a fascinating treasure for historical understanding! Oh and the money on a gravestone is a way to show reapect and leave a sign that the grave was visited.
Thanks, Clifton! I appreciate the feedback. I spent probably 3-4 hours there in March and I could not possibly hit everything I wanted to. It was truly amazing! Thanks for watching the whole thing!
Grave yards are not morbid, they can be very attractive and if I was buried in one, I would want lots of people visiting all the time. Spirits there would like the company very much.
Jeff. As I’ve mentioned before I also like cemetaries. I was fortunate enough to recently visit Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane’s graves in Deadwood South Dakota. They did however charge a small entrance fee, but it was worth it. Very soon I’m going to go to Dallas Texans, from Iowa, where I live, and visit the graves of Bonnie and Clyde.
Love your videos! Just came across them and have been binge watching them, oh, and the money on the grave is a form of paying respect, different coins can mean different things.
For the military it denotes that the donor may have served with the deceased. Different denominations marks at what level they served with them. 1 cent...also military , 5 cent ..trained with them...10 cent....went to battle with them and quarter means you were there when they died. I think that's how it works. Thanks for the tour.
I’m so grateful I found your station Thank you for the great videos I live in Rohnert Park California Just north of me is a city called Santa Rosa There’s a beautiful old cemetery there You should do a video about it
I lived in sac from 88 till 2015 - take the tour of the original old sac that is beneath the one standing now . Sac used to be a great place to live . Sad is that is gone down the tubes . There was always something to do . Jaz Festival to crawdads on the River
History Hunters all of ca has gone down the hill . When you see , homeless working shifts and others having a party it’s pathetic. . In sac just look by the RR tracks behind the hagan Oaks on Alburn Road
@@alt3523 Oh I know. We went up 99 through Sacramento on Sunday and it was bad the whole way. Large encampments under the bridges everywhere. Other states aren't like this. Leadership is destroying California.
History Hunters - when I 1st moved their , I fell in love with it. Rice fields everywhere and plenty of places to go pheasant hunting . It was truly a summer place with lots to do . To many meth heads .go by loves and fishes down town at 1am . It’s a beehive . You get fearful you might nail one . Stay safe - keep up the good work .
@@jbenziggy Yes. We have been taxed beyond what is reasonable in this state thanks to the recent blue takeover. It’s now the once-great state of California. Thank you for keeping tradition and history of better times alive by your videos.
Thanks for the episode History Hunters! My father and I are looking into the graves of the California governors and really love your channel. Besides Old City Cemetery in Sacramento and Stockton Rural Cemetery, would there be future episodes on other California governor graves?
Hi Jeff ! 15 years ago I found on abandoned cemetery in the forest of grass valley region, with old 1800 century marble gravestones, with angels, sculptures and a lot of Masonic symbols on it . Do you ever been there ?
I know that I added a comment to this page, earlier, I do not know, what happened, however, now, I cannot, see any comments on this page. (However, if you are reading the comment, please forgive me, of my irate.) I commented earlier, that my husband and I just finished whatching this video, and I now know, where my next road trip, will be, I cannot wait to visit, this cementary, with all of this, forgotten history. Thanks Jeff
Quite interesting to see all those granite markers. 20:18 Keseberg would have been the Americanized spelling of the German Käseberg (pronounced "KAY-zeh-baerk"), which literally means "Cheese Mountain". Such a needless tragedy, the Donner Party disaster. Hard to imagine what they had to endure, and so relatively close to civilization.
I thought Redding, California was originally named Fort Reading. Reading as in Reading, Pennsylvania. And was later changed to Redding. Excellent video.
You should check out Lake View cemetery in Cleveland, if you like old cemeteries w/unique headstones and TONS of history. President Garfield, John D Rockefeller, Raymond Chapman (the only baseball player to die in a game), Mark Hanna - tons of industials actually, Elliot Ness, Garrett Morgan (inventor of gas mask plus many other items); Adela Prentiss Hughes (founder of world reknowned Cleveland Orchestra), Jeptha Wade (founder of Western Union), Memorial to the 176 victims of the worst school fire in US history), plus much more history.
Going to visit this area soo, I found out there is a name of a road Called Kerslake Ave and Hinds Ave that run next to each other. So Kerslake is a name that comes from Devon in the UK and Hinds comes from the Yorkshire area in the UK. what Is strange for me is My Father was a Kerslake and my mothers maiden name is Hinds and the roads run into each other. Just thought how odd is that!! All the best
My Great Great Grandfather's elder brother is buried somewhere there in the Old City Cemetery in Sacramento. He was buried in Jan. 1850 of "Dysentery" which likely really was Cholera, and his exact gravesite has been lost - yes there had been a grave number but the map changed over the years plus there were streets paved over several graves. Nobody knows exactly where his grave really now is. I doubt there was anything other than a wooden marker at burial. His brothers came with him for the Gold Rush from Connecticut. There also was a major flood right after he died.
there's a HUGE grave marker to some guy named Barnabus collins up near where alot of governors are buried. Any idea who that is? Only reference i can find is to the character on dark shadows
1:15 it was established in 1849 after the Gold Rush which was also right after the American on Mexican War or the Mexican-American War as they like to call it
THIS PLACE IS AWESOME MORGAN EARP IS BURIED THERE...ALEX HAMILTON SON IS ALSO THERE...OMG FAR FROM MORBID, IN FACT, IT'S SO RELAXING THERE YOUR HOOKED THE FIRST TIME YOU GO...THAT WOULD BE SUTTER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ABOUT THREE OR FOUR MILES NORTH EAST OF WHERE YOU ARE....IT'S ALSO LISTED IN THE HAUNTED HISTORY OF SACRAMENTO
@@jbenziggy OKAY THANK YOU I JUST GOOGLED WHERE HE WAS BURIED AND IT SAID COLTON CALIFORNIA AGAIN THANKS THOUGHT I WAS GOING NUT'S BECAUSE I KNOW IT WAS HIM YOUR AWESOME JEFF YOUR GIRL TOO SHE LOVES ANIMALS I LOVE THAT
Your videos are very interesting and they have gotten better and better. You must do a lot of research prior to visiting the location of each video and it shows in the quality of your work.
Cemeteries are a great
way to study history...
They sure are. Thank you so much, Gary!
I grew up in West Sacramento just over the river. I have driven by that cemetery hundred times and never realized that many famous folks are buried there. Wow.
My great great grandfather & family are buried there, beautiful place
Wonderful series. Very educational history. Great job!
Thank you!!!
I ADORE our old Pioneer Cemeteries.. I really need to check this one out! COOL! 💥👌
And we only scratched the surface of interesting folks buried there! Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@jbenziggy 40-60 acres you said?! Wow! That would take all day!!
I love your videos! Thank you for all the hard work!
I work at the cemetery, and always seem to find something new and interesting. Nice video.
enjoyed this one. I've lived in Sacto. all my life, and never visited the cemetary. I've been to a few cemetarys. A lot of history I didn't know about. Like the bodies under the road. Thanks for the tour and history lesson.
Thank you Jeff and Sarah for bringing us along your quest of history.
Wonderfull video as always 👋🌈
Such a joy following you 💐
Thanks again, Claudette! We bring you joy so that makes us happy!
Charles Crocker, one of the "Big Four" of the Central Pacific RR is buried at Mtn. View Cemetery, Oakland. So is Henry Kaiser.
Great show and history there looks like another 2 shows that can be done.
I’m sure I will be back to do more!
Love your music at the end of a program. So fitting for the time period. Love grave yard history too. That's where most of us end up. It's a work of art too, and many are more famous and better known now.
Scientific research channels have proof of haunted old homes and cemetery activity. It's all very real.
History has always been a favorite subject and I'm fascinated by cemeteries. I've been researching my family's history and have spent many an hour walking through different ones. This is my kind of video.
MrHeadbanger366 thanks! Glad you appreciate it as much as I do! Please subscribe to my channel! Thanks and hope you had a good Thanksgiving!
Have you checked out the Mountain View cemetery in Sonoma? It’s so cool
@@DreaIsAMom92 No, I live in Pennsylvania.
Fabulous, Jeff! I am Sacramento born and raised and have driven past the city cemetery hundreds of times, always thinking to myself "I want to go explore it one day". I'm 58 and I still haven't set foot inside it. In fairness to me, I did live in Nashville for 20 years, but returned to Sacramento 2.5 years ago. At one point, I can see red brick buidlngs in the background, which are the "projects", low income housing where we lived for a short time in the early '60s. Thanks for your excellent work! I have subscribed to your channel.
Thank you very much! I could have spent all week in that cemetery featuring interesting people but I touched on the major hitters. Maybe I should go back for part 2! Your compliments were greatly appreciated!
I check out historic cemeteries pretty much everywhere I go, and I would say this one is the single most historic/interesting cemetery I have seen.
For many years it was horribly dilapidated. Overrun with weeds and subject to vandalism and even grave robbing. Many years ago I supervised a crew of inmate workers who were tasked with bringing the cemetery back to respectable condition. It was very common when beating back the weeds to find human bones lying around. There was no remotely practical way to identify them, so we would just periodically rebury them in holes dug around the perimeter. It is truly scandalous that such a historic site was neglected and allowed to decay to the condition that it did, but it was the same old thing: money. Sacramento did not really start truly embracing its history until the early 1980s when "Old Sacramento" was restored. The restoration of the cemetery came after that.
Oh, and I can tell everyone, even those who believe in this sort of thing, that the stories of the place being "haunted" are nonsense. I was in there for countless hours, and the only weird or frightening experiences I had involved some of the street people who lived in the area.
Go to the east coast, mount Auburn in Boston is the most amazing cemetery in the world
Great episode! I’ve been thru this cemetery, it is a sight to see. Thanks for all walking us thru it!
Our pleasure! Thanks! I plan to do more in that cemetery!
@@jbenziggy right on, can’t wait to see it!
Great job, I’ve been here 35 years and never explored the cemetery, I love the history, thanks Jeff
Thanks! It really is a fascinating place. I plan to go back this year to cover more stories!
Leaving a penny at the grave means simply that you visited. A nickel indicates that you and the deceased trained at boot camp together, while a dime means you served with him in some capacity. By leaving a quarter at the grave, you are telling the family that you were with the soldier when he was killed.
Interesting information! Thanks! Since posting this video in April I learned what you said in the first sentence. Sarah had asked me the same question in our visit to the Virginia City cemetery video and I told her that it is an expression of remembrance. Hey thanks for watching!
@@starquantI think so. I think it was like that back then
@@starquant Does any one pay homage to women today?? It's still a patriarchal society today.
@@jbenziggy Chief Big Elk is buried in a cemetery close by my house and I have seen coins placed at his grave, I always wondered what that meant. That was very informative!
Ya beat me to it :)
I was born and raised in Sacto. So as school children we were living in history having to do with the gold rush, the great migrations, agriculture and shipping. I've walked that cemetery many times. I volunteered as for the rose society. This cemetery is a repository for rescued antique roses collected from gold rush, towns and buildings. The custom in those days, was to plant a rose bush for your loved one. Thank you! A wonderful video and good to see it's being cared for.
Wow Jeff, just the introduction alone blew me away with what was to come in this video! Thanks for the quality you deliver all the stories of these historical figures...
My pleasure!
I love history and live near Sacramento. Great episode! Thank you! I am going there soon!
I agree that cemeteries are a wealth of historic information! Please don’t let someone’s (incorrect) opinion discourage you. I was raised in Victorville and the California past is so interesting. I love your videos and ask that you keep up the great job!
Thank you from Wyoming
Thanks for your encouragement! We appreciate your support Vicki!
I live in Sacramento for 5 years and never made it over to this cemetery thank you for this video
Great channel!
Jeff, this is the Best History Hunters I'veseenthus far...it was packed full of incredible information ...ive been to Sacramento endless times traveling from San Diego to Oregon going to my Family Reunion & I've Never visited this...it is a Definite Must on my way to my Reunion Next Year. Thank you for Sharing this...you have given me many places that I want to stop & see that I've missed just driving by & Never looking up the History that I would have missed had you Not showed these Priceless Places of History...Thank you so Much.
P.S. Cemeteries are Awesome places Full of History. I Live visiting Cemeteries...I dont think its Morbid at All. In fact in a few months I'm traveling back east to Look up Old Graves of my Ancestors. I can't wait.
I have always loved cemeteries, even when I was very young. My dad and I and my brother would go walking through the cemeteries. All in the Sierras are any towns where we would be on vacation and that continued for the rest of my life because there’s so much history there And you get to meet people through emotions by reading the epitaph they have them I lived in Oakhurst with my daughter for four years and we visited that cemetery in Oakhurst and the one in Mariposa many times and I always learn something new and we could actually see the cemetery in Oakhurst Church from our house my daughter actually lived in Oakhurst for about 10 years and before that they lived in three Rivers so we’ve done a lot of exploring and going to cemeteries throughout that area. Bodie is one of my favorite ones Aurora acouple times. With Virginia cemetery a few times and now I live in Tennessee and there is a cemetery on almost every corner where there’s a church it’s overwhelming to go to a cemetery anyways I love your channel and everything you’ve done that I’ve watched I’ve really liked and thank you
I love exploring cemeteries especially ones with such rich history. I live in Northern California so I appreciate your explorations in the area. Your videos are very well done. Thank you.
Thank you sir! Glad you like them!
Love you & Sarah. You guys do a amazing job Thank you
Thank you so much, Karen!
Love your channel
Thanks Theresa!
My husband & I just finished, watching this video, and thanks to you're video's, Jeff, we get to see, that history, has not been forgotten , I found this video, quite interesting, (even though, it is one of you''re earlier, ones ), I now, know, where, my next road trip, will be, I cannot wait to visit, and see, all this previous, history for myself. Thanks Jeff
Jeff, once again thank you for this very informative video! I really appreciate your travels! Tom in Ceres
I've been traveling through cemeteries since I was a kid......in high school, my older sister, a guy in the neighborhood and I would spend all weekend exploring cemeteries....going deep into the woods where long ago communities had been abandoned....we would explore the very old and the new.....I'm 75 now and still exploring....cemeteries hold so much history....I have never found it depressing. It's more like bring that person back for just a while and learning about their life,,,,,,,,thank you for your journeys and all your research.
I thoroughly enjoyed seeing this video. Jeff you are amazing and very educated in the facts of these famous people. Three of my relatives are buried there with their headstones being of hard wood. Being a native of Sacramento I have visited there and very impressed by the cemetery is well taken care of. The Sacramento Solons Baseball team had their playing field right across the street yesteryears ago. I do remember that. (Bonnie)
You guys are amazing how you come up with all this knowledge could have to Jeff and Sarah. Your number one fan. Lou Martell
Very interesting
I think so too!
I was member of the old "adopt-a-plot" program, at Sacramento's Historic City Cemetery, several years ago. I was taking care of the Mack, the Curtis, and the Greene, family plots for a time. Alice Louisa Curtis has a very interesting story, which I found in the cemeteries archives, back when they allowed you access to them. Lol. Others have since wrote about Alice, after I added her name to Findgrave back in 2007. Lots of stories in these old cemeteries, if those who walk thru them, will take a moment to look into them.
Very informative and interesting video.
So much more enjoyable than 98% of the dribble on UA-cam. Keep up the good work.
Cemetery’s are so fascinating so much history. Thank you.
Really enjoy watching all your videos. Very thorough on your history. Some of the best videos on UA-cam!!
Ryan Gillum I appreciate your kind words given the fact that I got a negative comment this morning. It really encourages me to go on with this. I would appreciate it if you could share some videos of mine on social media if you feel led to do so because I need to gain more subscribers which is a difficult task these days.
@@jbenziggy definitely, don't let 1 negative comment detour you. You have some of the best history videos on UA-cam. I have been binge watching episodes for the last month. Are you on Facebook?
Ryan Gillum I am personally but don’t have one for the UA-cam channel. Do you think it would help?
@@jbenziggy definitely!
Ryan Gillum I’ll look starting one. Thanks. If you don’t mind me asking how did you find my work?
I really enjoy your videos. My late husband was always interested in history and old cemeteries, and would have loved talking to you about your many adventures. There is supposed to be another Donner Party survivor buried in the Elk Grove cemetery--Ruth Donner, I think. Happy Trails!
lovely roses which add to the enjoyment of reading. THANK YOU
So Interesting & informative. My friend & I love visiting cemeteries because they’re beautiful and in reality everyone buried there is a part of history. Thanx for your video!
THERESA SAMANIEGO thank you! You and I see it the same way! Those people are our history!
Very interesting video! I especially like the ones with old cemeteries. It always intrigues me t see the different, old headstones that are a work of art. Much different than military graveyards that are rather boring.
I very much agree with you about headstones being great art! I would love to watch someone carve stone like they did back 160 years ago! Talk about artisans!
Great show Jeff, being from California I enjoyed this one. Been there. Lots of history in that place. Now living in Delaware I still do the same check out all the cemeteries and doing a lot of family research with my wife side going back to the 1600s here on Delmarva. I’m a new subscriber so I’m trying to catch up on your shows you got quite a few of them. Keep it up thanks take care be safe
Great episode, I’m a little late catching up with your earlier posts and enjoying your channel Jeff , from NJ
Thanks! Not this one was so old and I’ve perfected my technique since this one came out many years shipping!
Fantastic job 👍👌, your a very good teacher and interesting always.
Thank you very much Philip! 😃 We appreciate you telling us!
Back in the 80s when I worked in the city's parks and recreation department if you were not a good employee and got one write up from the supervisor they would send you to the city cemetery and you would be pulling weeds, mowing the graves, tending the rose bushes cleaning the tombstones. It may sound like a good thing but you couldn't fuck off while working and it was all by the book it was hard work compared to working in a regular park where you had a little freedom, this was told to me by coworkers that got sent there, they said it kinda interesting to work there and it is definitely haunted even in the day time they could feel a presence near them especially by the crypts
I guess it is kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good website to stream newly released series online?
What a great episode. Back pain has lead me to find your channel and I am hooked! I love all your knowledge of our beautiful state of California. The mention of the Crocker Family incited me to comment because I live in Templeton, CA. which, as you probably know, was named after Charles Crocker's son-and I live ON Crocker street! So cool. I am a California history nut too and appreciate your videos.
Welcome aboard! Sorry to hear about your back pain though. The Crockers have a huge role in California history and I hope to do more in the future! Thanks for watching and liking our videos. This weekend we'll release another one I think you will enjoy!
Thank you for all you do. God bless you.
Thank you and God bless you too!
I read online that Alexander Hamilton’s son is buried near Sacramento, thank you for confirming it’s true!
Great video Jeff. I was excited to see you were able to use your drone for some shots. Also, great job on editing your videos, they’re a real joy to watch…You should come up to Captain Jack’s Stronghold in the Lava Beds National Park and make a video on the Modoc War. It’s a very surreal experience walking on the battleground where so many suffered, yet it truly is such a beautiful area. Can’t wait for the next one, please keep up the good work.
Casey Coppi thank you, my friend! I appreciate your very generous comments! We’ll try to get up there. I wish this was my “real job” but I can’t pay the bills this way just yet. LOL
I really enjoy these videos! You are right that cemeteries can be a fascinating treasure for historical understanding!
Oh and the money on a gravestone is a way to show reapect and leave a sign that the grave was visited.
Thanks, Clifton! I appreciate the feedback. I spent probably 3-4 hours there in March and I could not possibly hit everything I wanted to. It was truly amazing! Thanks for watching the whole thing!
@@jbenziggy thanks for the great content!
Grave yards are not morbid, they can be very attractive and if I was buried in one, I would want lots of people visiting all the time. Spirits there would like the company very much.
Excellent story telling. Thank You!
TS 2:54. I grew up in Sacramento, I always like checking out the grave stones there.
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Jeff. As I’ve mentioned before I also like cemetaries. I was fortunate enough to recently visit Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane’s graves in Deadwood South Dakota. They did however charge a small entrance fee, but it was worth it. Very soon I’m going to go to Dallas Texans, from Iowa, where I live, and visit the graves of Bonnie and Clyde.
i enjoy very much how u in detail explain what we are viewing please keep it up very interesting and enjoyable
Thank you, Michael! I appreciate the great feedback!
great video, I will check out the cemetery
Love your videos! Just came across them and have been binge watching them, oh, and the money on the grave is a form of paying respect, different coins can mean different things.
For the military it denotes that the donor may have served with the deceased. Different denominations marks at what level they served with them. 1 cent...also military , 5 cent ..trained with them...10 cent....went to battle with them and quarter means you were there when they died. I think that's how it works. Thanks for the tour.
Wow!....that is a beautiful cemetery...nice show.
Thanks for watching
Thanks Jeff very interesting and informative,
Glad you enjoyed it! Are you from Sacramento or California?
@@jbenziggy i am formally from the UK but now living in Nova Scotia, keep up the good work guys, enjoying all of your good work.
@@malcolm4200 Well thanks again! I love "meeting" people from around the globe like yourself! We appreciate your support!
Great video👀😎👍
Carl Wandrei thank you for the great feedback!
Interesting. Thank you. Did you know that someone from the Lewis and Clark expedition is buried in the little cemetery in the town of Franklin, CA?
Yes and we plan to focus on him someday!
@@jbenziggy Thank you for the reply.
Great video.really enjoyed it
Thank you!
I’m so grateful I found your station
Thank you for the great videos
I live in Rohnert Park California
Just north of me is a city called Santa Rosa
There’s a beautiful old cemetery there
You should do a video about it
Welcome aboard! Yes we already visited that cemetery in Santa Rosa. Here is the link to it: ua-cam.com/video/AH0EnyUwy5s/v-deo.html
@@jbenziggy thank you
I lived in sac from 88 till 2015 - take the tour of the original old sac that is beneath the one standing now . Sac used to be a great place to live . Sad is that is gone down the tubes . There was always something to do . Jaz Festival to crawdads on the River
Hasn't the whole Central Valley kind of gone down the tubes? I call it the Valley of the Poor.
History Hunters all of ca has gone down the hill . When you see , homeless working shifts and others having a party it’s pathetic. . In sac just look by the RR tracks behind the hagan Oaks on Alburn Road
@@alt3523 Oh I know. We went up 99 through Sacramento on Sunday and it was bad the whole way. Large encampments under the bridges everywhere. Other states aren't like this. Leadership is destroying California.
History Hunters - when I 1st moved their , I fell in love with it. Rice fields everywhere and plenty of places to go pheasant hunting . It was truly a summer place with lots to do . To many meth heads .go by loves and fishes down town at 1am . It’s a beehive . You get fearful you might nail one . Stay safe - keep up the good work .
@@jbenziggy Yes. We have been taxed beyond what is reasonable in this state thanks to the recent blue takeover. It’s now the once-great state of California. Thank you for keeping tradition and history of better times alive by your videos.
Thanks for the episode History Hunters! My father and I are looking into the graves of the California governors and really love your channel. Besides Old City Cemetery in Sacramento and Stockton Rural Cemetery, would there be future episodes on other California governor graves?
Yes it’s possible. There are governors buried in Oakland including George Pardee. Just haven’t got over there yet.
Great video Jeff !!!!👍
Thanks 👍 This was one of my earlier videos and I've hopefully improved since in technique and style!
I use to live right by it in those brick apartments always thought it was so peaceful
Hi Jeff ! 15 years ago I found on
abandoned cemetery in the forest of grass valley region, with old 1800 century marble gravestones, with angels, sculptures and a lot of Masonic symbols on it . Do you ever been there ?
No we’ve never been to Grass Valley but have it in our list!
Look how young and slim you were! You even sound different...cool!
You are so right
I know that I added a comment to this page, earlier, I do not know, what happened, however, now, I cannot, see any comments on this page. (However, if you are reading the comment, please forgive me, of my irate.) I commented earlier, that my husband and I just finished whatching this video, and I now know, where my next road trip, will be, I cannot wait to visit, this cementary, with all of this, forgotten history. Thanks Jeff
Lt. George Crook was stationed at Ft. Redding. He partook in the Modoc Indian Wars.
Quite interesting to see all those granite markers. 20:18 Keseberg would have been the Americanized spelling of the German Käseberg (pronounced "KAY-zeh-baerk"), which literally means "Cheese Mountain". Such a needless tragedy, the Donner Party disaster. Hard to imagine what they had to endure, and so relatively close to civilization.
I thought Redding, California was originally named Fort Reading. Reading as in Reading, Pennsylvania. And was later changed to Redding.
Excellent video.
Never know that about that cemetery just that it’s a old one and so just driving past it could be going over some creepy grow up in north Sacramento
bonaventure cemetary in savannah ga if you want to see ornate
You should check out Lake View cemetery in Cleveland, if you like old cemeteries w/unique headstones and TONS of history.
President Garfield, John D Rockefeller, Raymond Chapman (the only baseball player to die in a game), Mark Hanna - tons of industials actually, Elliot Ness, Garrett Morgan (inventor of gas mask plus many other items); Adela Prentiss Hughes (founder of world reknowned Cleveland Orchestra), Jeptha Wade (founder of Western Union), Memorial to the 176 victims of the worst school fire in US history), plus much more history.
Going to visit this area soo, I found out there is a name of a road Called Kerslake Ave and Hinds Ave that run next to each other. So Kerslake is a name that comes from Devon in the UK and Hinds comes from the Yorkshire area in the UK. what Is strange for me is My Father was a Kerslake and my mothers maiden name is Hinds and the roads run into each other. Just thought how odd is that!! All the best
My Great Great Grandfather's elder brother is buried somewhere there in the Old City Cemetery in Sacramento. He was buried in Jan. 1850 of "Dysentery" which likely really was Cholera, and his exact gravesite has been lost - yes there had been a grave number but the map changed over the years plus there were streets paved over several graves. Nobody knows exactly where his grave really now is. I doubt there was anything other than a wooden marker at burial. His brothers came with him for the Gold Rush from Connecticut. There also was a major flood right after he died.
As per Google, people leave coins on grave stones a a sign of respect and they last longer than flowers & to show they are still rememdered
there's a HUGE grave marker to some guy named Barnabus collins up near where alot of governors are buried. Any idea who that is? Only reference i can find is to the character on dark shadows
A State Assemblyman from Butte County. He was a government official so that's why he is in the state section.
all the history I’m like a sponge lolz 🤤rip to all those interred
Cholera certainly was the final illness for a lot of pioneers.
Yeah, what a way to go. It makes one appreciate our modern standards for cleanliness.
Cool video!
Mellow Out & About thanks for the nice comment! I appreciate it! Jeff
Exume Newton Booth's body Jeff. Come one. We want to see his remains.
1:15 it was established in 1849 after the Gold Rush which was also right after the American on Mexican War or the Mexican-American War as they like to call it
Man, oh man...the more I watch this the more I could keep on going but I'm not
Where 's is Walter Knott tombstone at?is it possible at Knott's Berry farm!
Maybe
No Walter Knott is buried nearby at the Loma Vista Cemetery in Fullerton.
I used to live here and I never knew about Mark Hopkins home and Grave.
So many historical folks buried there relating to early California!
been to Sacramento never knew it was so rich in history 🤫😮😶
Character actor Neville Brand, Tora Tora Tora (1970) The Tin Star (1957) Stalag 17 (1953) Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) has his remains interred there...
WOW! I did not read that anywhere! Maybe I'll check it out again! Thanks for the tip!
@Sue Taft East Lawn in Sacramento, but not this cemetery on Broadway.
JOHN SUTTER CAME TO THE WILLAMETTE MISSION NEAR SALEM OREGON, BEFORE GOING TO CALIFORNIA TO CHECK OREGON OUT
I’m back up and running with you
I have heard that leaving money is a way to pay your respect.
THIS PLACE IS AWESOME MORGAN EARP IS BURIED THERE...ALEX HAMILTON SON IS ALSO THERE...OMG FAR FROM MORBID, IN FACT, IT'S SO RELAXING THERE YOUR HOOKED THE FIRST TIME YOU GO...THAT WOULD BE SUTTER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ABOUT THREE OR FOUR MILES NORTH EAST OF WHERE YOU ARE....IT'S ALSO LISTED IN THE HAUNTED HISTORY OF SACRAMENTO
Hi Leland. That Morgan Earp is the nephew of Wyatt, not the brother.
@@jbenziggy OKAY THANK YOU I JUST GOOGLED WHERE HE WAS BURIED AND IT SAID COLTON CALIFORNIA AGAIN THANKS THOUGHT I WAS GOING NUT'S BECAUSE I KNOW IT WAS HIM YOUR AWESOME JEFF YOUR GIRL TOO SHE LOVES ANIMALS I LOVE THAT
I wonder if Governor Both was related to John Wilkes Booth?
Your videos are very interesting and they have gotten better and better. You must do a lot of research prior to visiting the location of each video and it shows in the quality of your work.
Thank you! We try to learn better techniques as we go along. Research is a big part of it! Glad you like them!
CEMETARIES AND THEIR TOMBSTONES ARE ALL THATS LEFT OF REAL HISTORY AND A TANGIBLE THREAD TO THE PAST!!!! THEY BRING HISTORY ALIVE IN A WAY!!!!!