My grandmother worked in the Silverton Miners hospital. She was a nurse there during the Spanish Flu 1918-1920. Her grandmother was married to a miner who died in a mine cave in at the North Star mine in 1901 . Thomas Hodge was his name. Mr Hodge was a Cornish tin miner who came to Colorado. Lots of miners left tin mines in Cornwall to mine in Colorado
At Christmas in Ouray, in the old days, an Italian miner would dress up as Santa, on Christmas Eve he would ride a wooden horse drawn sleigh. He would stop at each child's house where he would leave a gift of fruit, nuts and candy in a bag that he hung on the front doorknob, my friend born there over a hundred years ago, told me about him.
5th generation Coloradan. They would actually close access to Silverton down in the winter back in those days. Even in the last 30 years, it has been unaccessable for months at a time in winter. A lot of my relatives were miners, and I have some crazy stories. I am a direct dependent of the Marlow brothers from Texas, and they homesteaded north of there by Ouray. When I was a kid, we would spend the summers going to abandoned mines and towns all over the western slope. I'm glad you made it to Colorado. Come back in the fall it's even more beautiful.
Closures on highway 550 north of Silverton to Ouray and south of Silverton to Durango are part of life and usually don't last more than a few days. I've never heard of both ways being closed unless it was a result of a huge snow storm but even then it's cleaned up quickly. It's rare that Silverton gets cut off in both directions and your comment is quite misleading. I grew up there from age 10 to 25.. Every year all year round.. Lived it
@@terriec808When I lived in Silverton in the mid 70s there was a snow cat driver from Ouray that was hit by an avalanche. His body was not found until the spring, and I heard the snow cat looked like a tinker toy 💔
This is an amazing cemetery! My husband and I were married in Silverton and visit regularly. The San Juan Historical Society is responsible for the updated headstones and engravings. There is also a book named “Faces of the Flu” that outlines all the victims of the Spanish Flu and gives the burial location in Hillside Cemetery. Amazing history!
Silverton cemetary was so historic , and wonderful to see that folks were thoughtful enough to place headstones and note the lives of those who pioneered there. Thanks Ron!
Hi Ron... I am from Irish decent. This cemetery you are showing in Silverton, Colorado, and the story of the young lad who died from getting sucked into the pulley system reminds me of the copper mines some of our relatives worked in. They were miners in the copper mines of Ishpeming, Michigan, and Butte, Montana. My great great grandfather Michael Mulcahy was killed in one of the mines in Ishpeming, MI. His sons, my uncles, left mining for that reason, and went into working in different facets of the railroad in Escanaba. We still have not found out how our grandfather was killed and we do not know where his grave is located. We are still trying to find the information. In another part of our family, one of my many uncles was killed in a mining accident in Butte. He was riding in a cage lift or type of elevator with another miner. When the lift stops at the level you choose to exit on, the lift and gate are supposed to be secured before the cage continues to move upward in the shaft. The two miners stopped at one of the levels for the other miner to exit. The other miner exited and forgot to secure the lift, and my uncle's leg was caught on the way down about 20+ feet in a shaft of hundreds of feet, and he also hit his head. He died 6 days later at the age of 29 years old. We also lost another in Butte, but that is going to take a trip to the Archives there. Your program of Silverton, CO was very telling of the situations these pioneers faced. Many are so sad, but the history, so interesting. Thank you for sharing your travels and the history. 🌷🌷
Thank you, Ron! I’m a Colorado Native, (grew up outside of Gunnison elev. approx. 8,000 ft), and actually rode on the Narrow Gauge train when I was growing up. Thanks for giving good scenic views of one of many of Colorado’s beautiful older mining towns!
I've met a couple of people from the Gunnison area who have not read or even heard of Peter Jenkins, "A Walk Across America," In the second book, "The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2" (Louisiana to Oregon) he spends a year in the Gunnison area, one of the most memorial parts of his journey.
Massively appreciative! Thank you to the people who marked these graves, paid for and labeled all these monuments, and persevered the history for us. And thank you, Ron, for hiking thru thin air for us!! ❤❤❤ 👏 👏
Great exercise Ron and I’m subscribed so I got notification 🔔 may the LORD bless you and your family and that you continue for many many more. Thanks for the tour…..keep working and driving those amazing road trips.
An English telephone box in the middle of nowhere, that's great. We don't have telephone box's in England anymore , not working one's anyway. Lovely to see.
@@helenmcdonnell2585 That was a blue police telephone box , l don't actually remember seeing one of them in real life . I love seeing telephone box's in random places.
@@twinkletoes8099 There is one red telephone box in the village near me , but it only takes card's. Shame to see most of them go . All the newer call box's have been taken away .
Very. nice job Ron. I live 120 miles away and have spent many hours multiple times scouring through there. I never get tired of it. The town does a really good job keeping it up. There are a lot of markers with the 1918 date on them. Silverton was decimated from the 1918 flu. I think 1/3 of the town was lost. When you get back to Colorado another awesome cemetery is in Central City. It is on an overgrown hillside that is not taken care of. It takes hours of scouring through the trees. Don't rush it. Unfortunately Central City has become a gambling town and has lost the historic flair in most places. The cemetery is on the outskirts of town. I camped on the hill above the cemetery several years ago and kept hearing noise and music coming from the cemetery at night before I figured out it was teenagers partying below the cemetery.
Yes, Cornwall is in the UK. Those folks would be called Cornish. For Mr. Robert Evans, he’s Welsh. ER COF AM means “in memory of”, he was from Llanrwst, Wales. BU FARW means “died” May 25, 1898. YN “in” 34 NLWDD DED “years”, 34 years old when he died.
I had a family friend who was born in nearby Ouray, early 1923. His uncle was an undertaker in Silverton, probably 1890's-'20's. My friend, his dad was born in Telluride in the 1890's. By age 13, he had to go to work to support his mother, because his goldminer father would get paid on Friday, and gamble his paycheck away over the weekend there in Telluride. My friend's father did not pursue mining, he ended up in Ouray, partnered in a grocery store on Main street. My friend's father 'unalived' himself unfortunately, in that little grocery store, shortly after Pearl Harbor. My family friend would still burst into tears as an elderly man, whenever he would recount the memory of his father's tragic, completely unexpected sudden death. He did say that the local fraternal organization gave his father the most dignified service and burial, free of charge. His mother then sold their home and they moved as far away from Ouray and Colorado, in order to find a new life after their personal tragedy. They are all now buried in this beautiful cemetery right before Ouray, on a hillside and it is just stunning gorgeous of a setting.
When I was young, my family spent 6 weeks every summer in those mountains. I know that grave yard well. I'm old and disabled now. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking me back there. All my family of origin are dead now... covid 19 took the last of them. I, in turn, took my children there several times when they were young. I've forwarded this to them. I've been a subscriber of yours for a long time. This is manna for my old soul! ❤
I am from Durango, which is south of Silverton, and a friend and I spent a few hours in this cemetery sometime in June, 2023. We saw all of the "Soiled doves" graves that we could find. They are all together. Thank you for the very well done tour of that beautiful and most interesting place.
The aerial perspective always makes me think how people are people everywhere...no matter where we go, whatever people eat, or where they live. Everyone has challenges...great or small...whether we are still living or those that have departed and paved the way for us...anywhere on the planet. It is so cool you bring those who have gone before us and their trials and stories. Thank you for that....and the beautiful views!
I am from and live in Cornwall in the UK, the Cornish mined for Tin and copper, many Cornish miners emigrated to USA. There is a saying that wherever you find a mine you will find a Cornish miner. They are called Cousin Jacks, they brought with them Pasties (the food) songs and singing, many were Methodist/Wesleyans. As the mines declined in Cornwall they went to Australia Africa, Mexico and anywhere else there are mines. You could well find welsh miners from Wales in the UK as well. Trembath is a Cornish name. We have the Camborne school of mines in Cornwall who train mining engineers from all over the world.
Women had so little choice to actually make a buck back then. If their husband or parents died they were often destitute or starving. What were their choices? One school teacher in town. Couldn't borrow money. Hard to own a business. And you'd better know how to use a gun.
I found this on find a grave: I am not the original poster she is credited at the end of this post along with her resource information: There were eight snowslide deaths in the Silverton area in February and March 1878. Frank and John Green, Jonathan Tomas and James Jewell were deaths five, six, seven and eight. James S. Marshall, James L. Briggs, Peter Mulford and Herman Schober were killed in February. Bill Williams and Tel Graham, who lived in a cabin near the Ajax Shaft on Sultan Mountain, awoke on the morning of March 8, 1878, to find the nearby cabin at the Ajax Shaft was no longer there. The four men who occupied that cabin were also gone. At some time during the night an avalanche had wiped all from the face of the earth. Frank and John Green, along with James Jewell and Jonathan Thomas, had suddenly entered eternity. Help was summoned from town, and fifty men rushed to the mountainside disaster and started digging desperately in the snow, ice, broken timber and debris. They found the cabin was smashed to pieces and the four men who had been sleeping inside it were terribly mangled and crushed. Their remains were dragged to town on hand sleds, and the next day, Saturday, March 9, 1878, a solemn funeral service was held over the remains of the four unfortunate men. On sleds they were pulled up Boulder Mountain to Hillside Cemetery for burial, with all the men in town following." BOOK SOURCE: The Story of Hillside Cemetery, Vol 1, A-L, Revised 1996, pages G-35 & G-36, by Freda Carley Peterson Contributor: Sherri Shepherd (48007665) • shepherds72@msn.com
wow, great find Cynthia. "They found the cabin was smashed to pieces and the four men who had been sleeping inside it were terribly mangled and crushed." Unreal, the cabin did not protect them at all!! I never would have thought.
Great video! I spent several vacations there as a kid, my dad had a couple cousins who worked in the mine there and we went up to visit. Beautiful place. I never went to the cemetery (I wasn't as fascinated with them back then) and I now want to go back. Sadly, my wheelchair doesn't do cross country much so I get to live vicariously through your videos. Have a good trip.
Beautiful fly in with Little Jimmy and the music was terrific. Such a beautiful setting. Just amazing views and scenery. What a restful place for everyone to be buried. The roses for each of those ladies was so kind and thoughtful. Besides the people who had stones done for their graves, maybe nobody else other than you and them have shown these ladies respect and kindness. Those may be the only rose they received on their grave since they died. 21:31 The two Watson kids/cousins,...born 10 days apart, died 10 days apart. In the order in which they were born. Sad for both families. 24:03 Thank you for zooming up on this old mine structure. I noticed it in the distance and was curious what it looked like up close. It is beautiful. 34:27 I love all the panoramic views of the snowcap mountains and the valley below. I like your attire. Reminds me of what my Dad wore often. Warm and cozy and good wind breaker. The drive on Million Dollar Highway took me back to a family vacation where we drove along it. So beautiful. Thank you for taking us along and showing all the prettiest scenery. Dad took us on lots of family vacations to places surrounded by beautiful snowcapped mountains in the US. Today is Father's Day, and Father's Day this year fell on the anniversary of Daddy's passing, 16 June 2015. So, it is an extra tough day for our family. I cried as you drove on the Million Dollar Highway, but it was all happy tears of beautiful and happy memories. Thank you Ron, you are always the best of all that is online anywhere on UA-cam. Happy Father's Day to you. God bless you and keep you safe in your travels. 💙
You didn't disappoint Ron, great homage to the State of Colorado. Loved your coverage of this historic cemetery. I grew up close to the great Rocky Mountains, but have lived east in the arid plains for the past 40 or so years. I appreciate you bringing those mountains closer to me through this video, and relating some of the wonderful unknown stories that make up Colorado's history. Thank You
Ron so good to see you again. I love the old graveyards , the gravestones the iron rails are just amazing. So sad😢 that so many children and babies died. I thing you know Sue and GV in Ireland. I will never get there but I have seen Ireland through them and the cemeteries they find are just amazing every video. I really loved❤ this one . Thanx😊
This is a part of our history that a lot will not touch on. Due to the s word ofr because they were ladies of the night so to speak. Thank You Ron for sharing this history. And some of those graves date back to 1700's and 1600's again Thank you
My grandparents, aunt and uncle and cousins lived in Colorado Springs so visited a lot and got to tour some of the other places and of course walk around on Pikes Peak. Loved it there. Very interesting cemetery, a lot of work was done to research and mark those graves so their stories could be told
Hi Ron... The cemetery is incredible on the hillside and the views of the mountains are so beautiful and breathtaking...RIP to all .....thanks for vlogging this story..take care........ Deborah 🇨🇦
Ron, thank you for taking us to another beautiful cemetery. I feel so horrible that there are that many unidentified graves. Hopefully they're all resting in peace. Stay safe and welcome back!
Hello, I'm a native of Colorado. It's refreshing for someone interested enough to make a doc. from my home state. I haven't been to Silverton, Colorado in years. Thank you. ❤❤❤
I love all your episodes but this is by far my favorite. Thank you. I'll probably never get a chance to go there in this lifetime, so I lived vicariously through you. Thanks Ron.
Wow Ron fantastic video. Alot of cornish people went to America to work the mines. My uncle was welsh he mined in penselvania. Cornwall is an old tin mining county. Love from the UK 🇬🇧
Great episode. I grew up in northwest NM and spent a lot of time in southwest Colorado over the last 54 years, I'm 71 now. Unfortunately there's a lot more people now in the region. Telluride sucks now because of the influx of wealthy people. Like Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It's totally changed.
Hi Ron! What an amazing place! The cemetery is awesome and the mountains in the background are breathtaking. I also like all the White Birch trees. I could stay there for hours checking it all out. I'm glad those ladies are remembered and recorded. Modern times don't treat them as disgraced or soiled. It was a job they had to do, and maybe some were forced into it. Not a lot of opportunities for women back then. Thank you for this, it's been a treat. Be safe out there on your travels.
Thank You Thank You Ron for coming to Colorado from a Denver girl! Ive been wishing for it! My favorite old cemetery in the mountains is up above Central City. You take the main street thru town where it turns into a dirt road uphill. The graveyards r divided by groups i.e. catholic cemetery, odd fellos lodge etc. I used to work @ the opera house during the summer up there. Heard lots of history - like they couldnt dig the frozen ground in winter so hotels, like the old Brown Palace in denver, had a freezer to keep the bodies of deceased travelers, until spring. Lots of Cornish miners up there & a noticeable amount of babies & young people. It wasnt just disease & accidents that killed them, it was also the col cold winters. I used to love to go up there & just sit esp in Sept & Oct. when the trees turn to gold. Ive seen hawks eagles and horses run thru there. But now - sigh - ive got arthritis in the knees. I just loved this one Ron. Please come back. theres tons of interesting stuff here. ❤ like the old deserted towns
thanks, glad you liked the visit. and thanks for the suggestion to go to Central City, I will try to visit there next spring 2025, passing thru Co every spring on way to WI. Stay tuned for this coming Sunday night - we go to Silver Plume...and up up up into the mountains there.
I looked on the map on find a grave - is it this one?www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2268645/catholic-cemetery it is hard to find replies here, so pls email me at: facesforgottentoday@gmail.com thanks Bree!
Redruth Cornwall is in the south of England, it's beautiful place, their main income was fishing or Tin mining. Also the red telephone box is from England. This was so interesting to watch Ron, god bless all those unfortunate buried there..
Absolutely loved this video. My husband, Leo, get excited about the videos. Time for him to get the snacks and watch our favorite person. Welcome back my brother.
Do you ever just do a story time with the back story life and history of people? Kinda like you did with the guy who was crushed? But just a series of stories? Just curious i love your channel
Finally got to check this out Ron. The opening and closing scenery and music hooked me rught in.What a cool looking western town Silverton is and the cemetery was fascinating!! I was thinking alot about how you explained how remote the location is. Many people had to stay there regardless of how things went. Felt bad for the young women buried in that row, many died young, drinking, drugs illness, even suicide 💔. But the location is breathtaking!! Great adventure Ron thank you!
Really dig what you're doing, you asked about a future episode so..Have you ever been to Skagway Alaska? There's a cemetery just outside of town from the men that helped build the White Pass Railway to the Yukon. Many men lost their lives trying to get to the gold fields that there was a Railway built to get them there. Also used by the military in WW11 absolutely fantastic history.
@FacesoftheForgotten Unbelievably beautiful, Hopefully you'll be inspired by just reading the history of the town and the White Pass Railway. If you go make sure to head up to the border on the train, it's a engineering marvel.
In Cornwall (South West of England UK) was Tin Mine country right from early times so those men in the cemetery might have been Tin miners going to the "New Country " for better prospects and life . I really admire them because how far they travelled to be in that town when travelling over there was so hard x I love your channel and watch every episode 😊 Love and best wishes from Warwickshire, England, UK x ( I live in what's called the Midlands ).
Such a beautiful area. I would love to walk all over that cemetery looking at all the graves. This cemetery is so interesting. Ron, I'm so glad you shared this cemetery with us. Keep yourself safe out there.🙂💟
I'm a bit late here but made it at last Ron, what a beautiful place right there, the views are fantastic. That red box was an english telephone booth, you don't see too many of them now over here in the UK. Thank you for taking us on your journey...I just love your road trips, absolutely fascinating and such stunning scenery.
Great overhead shots you got of the area Ron! Beautiful job. ❤️👏🏻👏🏻The cemetery is beautiful too! Very interesting people & stories from Silverton, Co! 😮❤️🙏🏻 The Karen Boucher grave (on find a grave) states that she died of cancer & her ex-husband killed their 2 children & himself. Very sad story. 😔🙏🏻🕊️💐
Thank you. I enjoyed that. I guess the last time I was in Silverton must have been 30 years ago. It makes me so happy to see that it has not filled up with an anthill of condos and such like so much of Colorado has.
I am from Iowa but LOVE LOVE COLORADO someday will be laid to rest there. think you Ron you do a great job. you be safe and again think you love colorado.
Great visit❤LOVED IT. English phone box. 😊. The weather would have suited the Norwegians, and similar peoples MAIMIE might have been a MADAM!!! 60 years old .?? Tin miners over from Cornwall?.Cornwall is known for tin mines.
I really enjoy seeing these tucked away almost forgotten cemeterys in some case. This cemetery is beautiful, small town America. Seeing the fancy cemetery, Graves of Presidents, important events that lead to Deaths etc is very nice. But these types of cemeterys are important also. THANK YOU SIR, JOB WELL DONE.
Hi Ron, Great video. I love the mountains. As you know we have no mountains in Minnesota or Wisconsin. Just those rolling hills of Wisconsin where I grew up. I can’t figure out what you said about the wooden coffins where they just decay into the earth. But you said something about rubber boots. I didn’t catch that. Thank you so much.
Great vid! I've always been fascinated with those women. I collect books when I travel about the soiled doves. They helped settle the West for sure. Another interesting town and cemetery is Creede, Colorado. We were there 20 years ago.
One of my favorite adventures that you've shared with us! I'm so interested in Mamie Murphy. I'm a Murphy so she immediately got my attention. Thanks for taking us on these journeys!
Thanxx Ron I love that place haven't been in eons I was born in Colorado Springs lived in Greeley for years made a trip up there I knew where you were before you said it lol and the rocky mountains gave it away that is where I loved reading all those headstones ❤😊
My grandmother worked in the Silverton Miners hospital. She was a nurse there during the Spanish Flu 1918-1920. Her grandmother was married to a miner who died in a mine cave in at the North Star mine in 1901 . Thomas Hodge was his name. Mr Hodge was a Cornish tin miner who came to Colorado. Lots of miners left tin mines in Cornwall to mine in Colorado
At Christmas in Ouray, in the old days, an Italian miner would dress up as Santa, on Christmas Eve he would ride a wooden horse drawn sleigh. He would stop at each child's house where he would leave a gift of fruit, nuts and candy in a bag that he hung on the front doorknob, my friend born there over a hundred years ago, told me about him.
our elders have the most amazing testimonies.Thank you for sharing
That's amazing. When I go to places like this I imagine what they were like at Christmas. Thanks
5th generation Coloradan. They would actually close access to Silverton down in the winter back in those days. Even in the last 30 years, it has been unaccessable for months at a time in winter. A lot of my relatives were miners, and I have some crazy stories. I am a direct dependent of the Marlow brothers from Texas, and they homesteaded north of there by Ouray. When I was a kid, we would spend the summers going to abandoned mines and towns all over the western slope. I'm glad you made it to Colorado. Come back in the fall it's even more beautiful.
Interesting!! With all the gates I saw on the highway it looks like they still close it from time to time, I guess you have to
Closures on highway 550 north of Silverton to Ouray and south of Silverton to Durango are part of life and usually don't last more than a few days. I've never heard of both ways being closed unless it was a result of a huge snow storm but even then it's cleaned up quickly. It's rare that Silverton gets cut off in both directions and your comment is quite misleading. I grew up there from age 10 to 25.. Every year all year round.. Lived it
@@FacesoftheForgotten they close the gates to do avalanche maintenence
@@terriec808When I lived in Silverton in the mid 70s there was a snow cat driver from Ouray that was hit by an avalanche. His body was not found until the spring, and I heard the snow cat looked like a tinker toy 💔
@@madaketmom I was in Silverton then.. I was ten I think. Would I have known you?
This is an amazing cemetery! My husband and I were married in Silverton and visit regularly. The San Juan Historical Society is responsible for the updated headstones and engravings. There is also a book named “Faces of the Flu” that outlines all the victims of the Spanish Flu and gives the burial location in Hillside Cemetery. Amazing history!
Silverton cemetary was so historic , and wonderful to see that folks were thoughtful enough to place headstones and note the lives of those who pioneered there. Thanks Ron!
Hi Ron... I am from Irish decent. This cemetery you are showing in Silverton, Colorado, and the story of the young lad who died from getting sucked into the pulley system reminds me of the copper mines some of our relatives worked in. They were miners in the copper mines of Ishpeming, Michigan, and Butte, Montana. My great great grandfather Michael Mulcahy was killed in one of the mines in Ishpeming, MI. His sons, my uncles, left mining for that reason, and went into working in different facets of the railroad in Escanaba. We still have not found out how our grandfather was killed and we do not know where his grave is located. We are still trying to find the information. In another part of our family, one of my many uncles was killed in a mining accident in Butte. He was riding in a cage lift or type of elevator with another miner. When the lift stops at the level you choose to exit on, the lift and gate are supposed to be secured before the cage continues to move upward in the shaft. The two miners stopped at one of the levels for the other miner to exit. The other miner exited and forgot to secure the lift, and my uncle's leg was caught on the way down about 20+ feet in a shaft of hundreds of feet, and he also hit his head. He died 6 days later at the age of 29 years old. We also lost another in Butte, but that is going to take a trip to the Archives there. Your program of Silverton, CO was very telling of the situations these pioneers faced. Many are so sad, but the history, so interesting. Thank you for sharing your travels and the history. 🌷🌷
Thank you for sharing your story. 🌹
My mother's side of the family (Finnish heritage) had loggers and miners in Ishpeming, Mich and Republic, Mich.
Small world.
Thank you, Ron!
I’m a Colorado Native, (grew up outside of Gunnison elev. approx. 8,000 ft), and actually rode on the Narrow Gauge train when I was growing up.
Thanks for giving good scenic views of one of many of Colorado’s beautiful older mining towns!
Right on. And look out for next week, I take you up to Silver Plume - Way way way up in the mountain, big adventure
I've met a couple of people from the Gunnison area who have not read or even heard of Peter Jenkins, "A Walk Across America," In the second book, "The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2" (Louisiana to Oregon) he spends a year in the Gunnison area, one of the most memorial parts of his journey.
@@karentrimmer: great books! Read and loved both of them!
Massively appreciative! Thank you to the people who marked these graves, paid for and labeled all these monuments, and persevered the history for us. And thank you, Ron, for hiking thru thin air for us!! ❤❤❤ 👏 👏
I think it's so lovely the way the soiled doves were not forgotten and some of the older headstones have been updated.
Hey Ron, Cornwall England was famous for its miners. Many Cornish miners emigrated to the U.S. durring the gold rush to mine gold.
Came here to say this
Hey Ron, that cemetery is absolutely beautiful...And the scenery is breath taking...Im so jealous....I'm so glad your slowly coming back....
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Thanks Ron. Look forward to all you share.
I live in creede,it is so beautiful here,I'll never leave😊
Great exercise Ron and I’m subscribed so I got notification 🔔 may the LORD bless you and your family and that you continue for many many more. Thanks for the tour…..keep working and driving those amazing road trips.
Sad and short lives these ladies lived. Thanks for making sure they aren't forgotten 💔
To speak their names into the wind is to recognize their souls.❤️
An English telephone box in the middle of nowhere, that's great. We don't have telephone box's in England anymore , not working one's anyway. Lovely to see.
I think that's our Tardis Doctor?
@@helenmcdonnell2585 That was a blue police telephone box , l don't actually remember seeing one of them in real life . I love seeing telephone box's in random places.
@joanmatchett8100 yes I know it was blue 💙 Dr Who 💙
yes plenty of them still in and around London, the blue boxes are rare to see now though, they were for the police to use and not for public use.
@@twinkletoes8099 There is one red telephone box in the village near me , but it only takes card's. Shame to see most of them go . All the newer call box's have been taken away .
Very. nice job Ron. I live 120 miles away and have spent many hours multiple times scouring through there. I never get tired of it. The town does a really good job keeping it up. There are a lot of markers with the 1918 date on them. Silverton was decimated from the 1918 flu. I think 1/3 of the town was lost. When you get back to Colorado another awesome cemetery is in Central City. It is on an overgrown hillside that is not taken care of. It takes hours of scouring through the trees. Don't rush it. Unfortunately Central City has become a gambling town and has lost the historic flair in most places. The cemetery is on the outskirts of town. I camped on the hill above the cemetery several years ago and kept hearing noise and music coming from the cemetery at night before I figured out it was teenagers partying below the cemetery.
great note, thanks! interesting.
Yes, Cornwall is in the UK. Those folks would be called Cornish. For Mr. Robert Evans, he’s Welsh. ER COF AM means “in memory of”, he was from Llanrwst, Wales. BU FARW means “died” May 25, 1898. YN “in” 34 NLWDD DED “years”, 34 years old when he died.
Thank you for this valuable information!
Thanks for your comment! It explained a lot.
I had a family friend who was born in nearby Ouray, early 1923. His uncle was an undertaker in Silverton, probably 1890's-'20's. My friend, his dad was born in Telluride in the 1890's. By age 13, he had to go to work to support his mother, because his goldminer father would get paid on Friday, and gamble his paycheck away over the weekend there in Telluride. My friend's father did not pursue mining, he ended up in Ouray, partnered in a grocery store on Main street. My friend's father 'unalived' himself unfortunately, in that little grocery store, shortly after Pearl Harbor. My family friend would still burst into tears as an elderly man, whenever he would recount the memory of his father's tragic, completely unexpected sudden death. He did say that the local fraternal organization gave his father the most dignified service and burial, free of charge. His mother then sold their home and they moved as far away from Ouray and Colorado, in order to find a new life after their personal tragedy. They are all now buried in this beautiful cemetery right before Ouray, on a hillside and it is just stunning gorgeous of a setting.
When I was young, my family spent 6 weeks every summer in those mountains. I know that grave yard well. I'm old and disabled now. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking me back there. All my family of origin are dead now... covid 19 took the last of them. I, in turn, took my children there several times when they were young. I've forwarded this to them. I've been a subscriber of yours for a long time. This is manna for my old soul! ❤
so awesome that you forwarded this to them...great memories for you there...thanks for being a longtime sub here Kelly!!
I am from Durango, which is south of Silverton, and a friend and I spent a few hours in this cemetery sometime in June, 2023. We saw all of the "Soiled doves" graves that we could find. They are all together.
Thank you for the very well done tour of that beautiful and most interesting place.
The aerial perspective always makes me think how people are people everywhere...no matter where we go, whatever people eat, or where they live. Everyone has challenges...great or small...whether we are still living or those that have departed and paved the way for us...anywhere on the planet.
It is so cool you bring those who have gone before us and their trials and stories. Thank you for that....and the beautiful views!
I am from and live in Cornwall in the UK, the Cornish mined for Tin and copper, many Cornish miners emigrated to USA. There is a saying that wherever you find a mine you will find a Cornish miner. They are called Cousin Jacks, they brought with them Pasties (the food) songs and singing, many were Methodist/Wesleyans. As the mines declined in Cornwall they went to Australia Africa, Mexico and anywhere else there are mines. You could well find welsh miners from Wales in the UK as well. Trembath is a Cornish name. We have the Camborne school of mines in Cornwall who train mining engineers from all over the world.
Our “backyard” of 45 yrs. every time simply stunning! Thank you for sharing Silverton. 😊
u r lucky!!
Poor ladies, had no choice but to sell their bodies, they hated it so much that they drank themselves to death. So so sad. 😢😢😢😢
Some were brought in for the purpose of entertainment of the miners. To get them to let loose of their gold.
Women had so little choice to actually make a buck back then. If their husband or parents died they were often destitute or starving. What were their choices? One school teacher in town. Couldn't borrow money. Hard to own a business. And you'd better know how to use a gun.
Some committed suicide. One marker we saw said she drank strychnine.
I found this on find a grave: I am not the original poster she is credited at the end of this post along with her resource information: There were eight snowslide deaths in the Silverton area in February and March 1878. Frank and John Green, Jonathan Tomas and James Jewell were deaths five, six, seven and eight. James S. Marshall, James L. Briggs, Peter Mulford and Herman Schober were killed in February.
Bill Williams and Tel Graham, who lived in a cabin near the Ajax Shaft on Sultan Mountain, awoke on the morning of March 8, 1878, to find the nearby cabin at the Ajax Shaft was no longer there. The four men who occupied that cabin were also gone. At some time during the night an avalanche had wiped all from the face of the earth. Frank and John Green, along with James Jewell and Jonathan Thomas, had suddenly entered eternity.
Help was summoned from town, and fifty men rushed to the mountainside disaster and started digging desperately in the snow, ice, broken timber and debris. They found the cabin was smashed to pieces and the four men who had been sleeping inside it were terribly mangled and crushed.
Their remains were dragged to town on hand sleds, and the next day, Saturday, March 9, 1878, a solemn funeral service was held over the remains of the four unfortunate men. On sleds they were pulled up Boulder Mountain to Hillside Cemetery for burial, with all the men in town following."
BOOK SOURCE: The Story of Hillside Cemetery, Vol 1, A-L, Revised 1996, pages G-35 & G-36, by Freda Carley Peterson
Contributor: Sherri Shepherd (48007665) • shepherds72@msn.com
wow, great find Cynthia.
"They found the cabin was smashed to pieces and the four men who had been sleeping inside it were terribly mangled and crushed."
Unreal, the cabin did not protect them at all!!
I never would have thought.
Soiled doves 🕊 🕊 🕊 free birds.
Great drone video, Ron 👍
i luv that theres a british phonebox randomly
Love this one. I love how they take care of the past loved ones and redid grave markers. Respect
I can not think of a more beautiful eternal resting place. Thank you Ron
Ron, the camera quality & clarity is absolutely STUNNING!!! Great choice of camera for sharing your awesome travels with your audience. 😉👍😁🙏🏻
Good video. Corwall Englands Cornish miners were vastly experienced in coal and tin mining. In the 19th century very many wound up here in the U.S.
Great video! I spent several vacations there as a kid, my dad had a couple cousins who worked in the mine there and we went up to visit. Beautiful place. I never went to the cemetery (I wasn't as fascinated with them back then) and I now want to go back. Sadly, my wheelchair doesn't do cross country much so I get to live vicariously through your videos. Have a good trip.
Beautiful fly in with Little Jimmy and the music was terrific.
Such a beautiful setting. Just amazing views and scenery. What a restful place for everyone to be buried.
The roses for each of those ladies was so kind and thoughtful. Besides the people who had stones done for their graves, maybe nobody else other than you and them have shown these ladies respect and kindness. Those may be the only rose they received on their grave since they died.
21:31 The two Watson kids/cousins,...born 10 days apart, died 10 days apart. In the order in which they were born. Sad for both families.
24:03 Thank you for zooming up on this old mine structure. I noticed it in the distance and was curious what it looked like up close. It is beautiful.
34:27 I love all the panoramic views of the snowcap mountains and the valley below.
I like your attire. Reminds me of what my Dad wore often. Warm and cozy and good wind breaker.
The drive on Million Dollar Highway took me back to a family vacation where we drove along it. So beautiful. Thank you for taking us along and showing all the prettiest scenery.
Dad took us on lots of family vacations to places surrounded by beautiful snowcapped mountains in the US.
Today is Father's Day, and Father's Day this year fell on the anniversary of Daddy's passing, 16 June 2015. So, it is an extra tough day for our family.
I cried as you drove on the Million Dollar Highway, but it was all happy tears of beautiful and happy memories. Thank you Ron, you are always the best of all that is online anywhere on UA-cam.
Happy Father's Day to you. God bless you and keep you safe in your travels. 💙
You didn't disappoint Ron, great homage to the State of Colorado. Loved your coverage of this historic cemetery. I grew up close to the great Rocky Mountains, but have lived east in the arid plains for the past 40 or so years. I appreciate you bringing those mountains closer to me through this video, and relating some of the wonderful unknown stories that make up Colorado's history. Thank You
There's something very peaceful and kind about old cemetaries. Remembering those who came before us 🌷
Ron so good to see you again. I love the old graveyards , the gravestones the iron rails are just amazing. So sad😢 that so many children and babies died. I thing you know Sue and GV in Ireland. I will never get there but I have seen Ireland through them and the cemeteries they find are just amazing every video. I really loved❤ this one . Thanx😊
This is a part of our history that a lot will not touch on. Due to the s word ofr because they were ladies of the night so to speak. Thank You Ron for sharing this history. And some of those graves date back to 1700's and 1600's again Thank you
While I wish they would have used kinder words describing the women, I'm glad we get to know more about them from the information on the headstones.😢
I would say the expression “soiled dove” is very gentle without being cruel or crude.
That telephone box is what we used to have in England, that's where the colour pillar box red comes from as we also had postboxes the same red
My grandparents, aunt and uncle and cousins lived in Colorado Springs so visited a lot and got to tour some of the other places and of course walk around on Pikes Peak. Loved it there. Very interesting cemetery, a lot of work was done to research and mark those graves so their stories could be told
Thank you Ron. Some gorgeous country here.
Thanks Ron for sharing with us these beautiful gravestones and stories❤🙏
Hi Ron... The cemetery is incredible on the hillside and the views of the mountains are so beautiful and breathtaking...RIP to all .....thanks for vlogging this story..take care........ Deborah 🇨🇦
Ron, thank you for taking us to another beautiful cemetery. I feel so horrible that there are that many unidentified graves. Hopefully they're all resting in peace. Stay safe and welcome back!
Hello, I'm a native of Colorado. It's refreshing for someone interested enough to make a doc. from my home state. I haven't been to Silverton, Colorado in years. Thank you. ❤❤❤
I love all your episodes but this is by far my favorite. Thank you. I'll probably never get a chance to go there in this lifetime, so I lived vicariously through you. Thanks Ron.
So glad you are back. Thank you for this great walk.
I was camping in Silverton on July 18 about 20 years ago and it snowed. It was so cool!
Colorado is beautiful! I could spend days walking that cemetary! Soo much to see soo much history. Thanks for bringing us along,loved this!
Wow Ron fantastic video. Alot of cornish people went to America to work the mines. My uncle was welsh he mined in penselvania. Cornwall is an old tin mining county. Love from the UK 🇬🇧
That cemetery is absolutely amazing what a place to be buried in. The view is spectacular, not that those poor souls would see it.
Great episode. I grew up in northwest NM and spent a lot of time in southwest Colorado over the last 54 years, I'm 71 now.
Unfortunately there's a lot more people now in the region. Telluride sucks now because of the influx of wealthy people. Like Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It's totally changed.
Hi Ron! What an amazing place! The cemetery is awesome and the mountains in the background are breathtaking. I also like all the White Birch trees. I could stay there for hours checking it all out. I'm glad those ladies are remembered and recorded. Modern times don't treat them as disgraced or soiled. It was a job they had to do, and maybe some were forced into it. Not a lot of opportunities for women back then. Thank you for this, it's been a treat. Be safe out there on your travels.
Thank You Thank You Ron for coming to Colorado from a Denver girl! Ive been wishing for it! My favorite old cemetery in the mountains is up above Central City. You take the main street thru town where it turns into a dirt road uphill. The graveyards r divided by groups i.e. catholic cemetery, odd fellos lodge etc. I used to work @ the opera house during the summer up there. Heard lots of history - like they couldnt dig the frozen ground in winter so hotels, like the old Brown Palace in denver, had a freezer to keep the bodies of deceased travelers, until spring. Lots of Cornish miners up there & a noticeable amount of babies & young people. It wasnt just disease & accidents that killed them, it was also the col cold winters. I used to love to go up there & just sit esp in Sept & Oct. when the trees turn to gold. Ive seen hawks eagles and horses run thru there. But now - sigh - ive got arthritis in the knees. I just loved this one Ron. Please come back. theres tons of interesting stuff here. ❤ like the old deserted towns
thanks, glad you liked the visit. and thanks for the suggestion to go to Central City, I will try to visit there next spring 2025, passing thru Co every spring on way to WI.
Stay tuned for this coming Sunday night - we go to Silver Plume...and up up up into the mountains there.
I looked on the map on find a grave - is it this one?www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2268645/catholic-cemetery
it is hard to find replies here, so pls email me at:
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thanks Bree!
@@FacesoftheForgotten Hi there Ron ! Just saw ur message - no I don't recognize this landscape. I will look to see what I can find.
Certainly, gives true meaning to the name of "Boot Hill". I love your information and story-telling on these videos.
Redruth Cornwall is in the south of England, it's beautiful place, their main income was fishing or Tin mining. Also the red telephone box is from England. This was so interesting to watch Ron, god bless all those unfortunate buried there..
Unbelievable! One of your best! Thank you!
Absolutely loved this video. My husband, Leo, get excited about the videos. Time for him to get the snacks and watch our favorite person. Welcome back my brother.
Do you ever just do a story time with the back story life and history of people? Kinda like you did with the guy who was crushed? But just a series of stories? Just curious i love your channel
I do it all.
Finally got to check this out Ron. The opening and closing scenery and music hooked me rught in.What a cool looking western town Silverton is and the cemetery was fascinating!! I was thinking alot about how you explained how remote the location is. Many people had to stay there regardless of how things went. Felt bad for the young women buried in that row, many died young, drinking, drugs illness, even suicide 💔. But the location is breathtaking!! Great adventure Ron thank you!
Really dig what you're doing, you asked about a future episode so..Have you ever been to Skagway Alaska? There's a cemetery just outside of town from the men that helped build the White Pass Railway to the Yukon. Many men lost their lives trying to get to the gold fields that there was a Railway built to get them there. Also used by the military in WW11 absolutely fantastic history.
Also an airport you can fly into right in town to accommodate you.
been to several parts of Alaska, but not yet to Skagway. love it. will hope to go someday.
@FacesoftheForgotten Unbelievably beautiful, Hopefully you'll be inspired by just reading the history of the town and the White Pass Railway. If you go make sure to head up to the border on the train, it's a engineering marvel.
In Cornwall (South West of England UK) was Tin Mine country right from early times so those men in the cemetery might have been Tin miners going to the "New Country " for better prospects and life . I really admire them because how far they travelled to be in that town when travelling over there was so hard x
I love your channel and watch every episode 😊 Love and best wishes from Warwickshire, England, UK x ( I live in what's called the Midlands ).
Astounding graveyard Experience! You gave us a real adventure. Your compassion for the women’s plight in life is endearing 💕
What an amazing graveyard! Definitely a bucket list one for me.
Such a beautiful area. I would love to walk all over that cemetery looking at all the graves. This cemetery is so interesting.
Ron, I'm so glad you shared this cemetery with us.
Keep yourself safe out there.🙂💟
I'm calling you warm dove because you put your heart into each video my friend...CJ Kentucky
Hey, that’s very nice, you inspire me.
I'm a bit late here but made it at last Ron, what a beautiful place right there, the views are fantastic. That red box was an english telephone booth, you don't see too many of them now over here in the UK. Thank you for taking us on your journey...I just love your road trips, absolutely fascinating and such stunning scenery.
🥰 Wow! I was hoping for a Part 2. That was beautiful. What a unique town and cemetery.
First welsh grave I’ve seen on your channel, with Welsh writing, John Evans From Llanrwst north Wales,
Great overhead shots you got of the area Ron! Beautiful job. ❤️👏🏻👏🏻The cemetery is beautiful too! Very interesting people & stories from Silverton, Co! 😮❤️🙏🏻 The Karen Boucher grave (on find a grave) states that she died of cancer & her ex-husband killed their 2 children & himself. Very sad story. 😔🙏🏻🕊️💐
Hey thanks for sharing that info on Karen Boucher. That is horrible. So sad.
My old stopping grounds! I miss those mountains! ❤
How on earth did they manage to dig graves in such rocky ground. Very beautiful.
They were miners!
Thank you. I enjoyed that. I guess the last time I was in Silverton must have been 30 years ago. It makes me so happy to see that it has not filled up with an anthill of condos and such like so much of Colorado has.
This was such a good episode!!! I wish all stones had the cause of death written on them!! It is such a beautiful cemetery!!! Thanks!!
HELLO..IM ALSO A NATIVE DURANGOAN&YES EAST SIDE THATS SUNNYSIDE&S.W. YES THOSE ARE TAILING PILES....THANKU FOR DOING SILVERTON
The lovely sound of rain .. isn't a blessing and the scenery is beautiful, RIP ladies Thanks for sharing Ron as always a great one ❤🙏
Nice Ron,now you're in my neck of the woods,
hey, thats cool. you live in PARADISE!!
Thank you so much, such a beautiful place. I enjoy these videos. Lots of history.
I am from Iowa but LOVE LOVE COLORADO someday will be laid to rest there. think you Ron you do a great job. you be safe and again think you love colorado.
Beautiful cemetery!! The double grave stones were twins!! So heartbreaking!!
Cornwall is in England Ron, it's a beautiful place, I have emphysema since being critical with covid-19, never knew it was known as Black lung 😮
Are there any indigenous graves still preserved that you can visit and do a story on?
Loved it! Thank you Ron , as always!
How sad for those parents to lose both twin boys so close together 😢
Great visit❤LOVED IT. English phone box. 😊. The weather would have suited the Norwegians, and similar peoples
MAIMIE might have been a MADAM!!! 60 years old .??
Tin miners over from Cornwall?.Cornwall is known for tin mines.
WOW! Truly beautiful! Those Those mountains are gorgeous! I thank you so much for sharing this!
I love Colorado, my niece lives in Lakewood and I went to the Stanley hotel with my sister and my niece. It's so beautiful there
I really enjoy seeing these tucked away almost forgotten cemeterys in some case. This cemetery is beautiful, small town America. Seeing the fancy cemetery, Graves of Presidents, important events that lead to Deaths etc is very nice. But these types of cemeterys are important also.
THANK YOU SIR, JOB WELL DONE.
I love your walks beautiful country great history.🇺🇸☮️🤠
I could stay in that cemetery for days! Thank you for sharing! Always the best walks!
Good miners in Cornwall here tin miners.The mines where getting scarce so they made this huge journey wow.
Hi Ron, Great video. I love the mountains. As you know we have no mountains in Minnesota or Wisconsin. Just those rolling hills of Wisconsin where I grew up. I can’t figure out what you said about the wooden coffins where they just decay into the earth. But you said something about rubber boots. I didn’t catch that. Thank you so much.
Love the telephone!! Think I’m going to bring one to my Mom and Dads grave🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Beautiful old cemetery. I was there in 1971 and we rode the Silverton to Durango train, what a wonderful experience.
I have been to Silverton but not to the Cemetary guess I need to go visit again this was a great story Thank you for coming to Colorado ❤❤
Great vid! I've always been fascinated with those women. I collect books when I travel about the soiled doves. They helped settle the West for sure. Another interesting town and cemetery is Creede, Colorado. We were there 20 years ago.
I live in Colorado. What a beautiful state. I love the mountains here! Silverton area! Thank you Ron for this beautiful video
What a wonderful cemetery! Very beautiful and so much history! Those folks in Silverton have done a great job with so many markers!
One of my favorite adventures that you've shared with us! I'm so interested in Mamie Murphy. I'm a Murphy so she immediately got my attention. Thanks for taking us on these journeys!
Wow Ron what a lovely place and so much history. l myself love old cemeteries and towns here in Australia. Thanks again.
Robert Evans grave i see its Welsh from North Wales UK .Thanks for Sharing Ron .
Thanxx Ron I love that place haven't been in eons I was born in Colorado Springs lived in Greeley for years made a trip up there I knew where you were before you said it lol and the rocky mountains gave it away that is where I loved reading all those headstones ❤😊