Cemetery Clean up Transformation! Gravestones Restored
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- Join me on a journey of restoration and respect as I take on the task of cleaning up a neglected cemetery. This sacred space had been overtaken by overgrown grass, unruly bushes, and was littered with debris, leaves, pine straw, and invasive vines.
In this video, I roll up my sleeves and dive into the task of bringing this cemetery back to its former glory. Watch as I trim back the overgrowth, clear away the debris, and painstakingly remove the dirt from each gravestone face.
This isn't just a clean-up job; it's a labor of love and a tribute to those who rest here. It's about restoring dignity and peace to a place that holds so much history and so many stories.
Join me in this transformation and witness the dramatic before and after. It's a testament to what a little hard work and dedication can achieve.
Remember, every place has a story to tell, and every story deserves to be respected. Let's do our part in preserving these stories for future generations.
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This might be the final resting ground of the entire family, and to know that somebody cared enough to make it beautiful once again on behalf of that family is truly heartwarming. This is one transformation that will be appreciated by many. Beautiful job from beginning to end! The flowers and flags are a special addition.KUDOS!!!
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Thank you. I can see your huge respect for those buried so humbly. Invite the local press to come visit, discover who were interred there and prompt the community to tending the cemetery regularly. This is the kind of thing churches used to do. A good project for school kids or boy scouts, or retirees. Great touch - flower plants!
What a precious thing to do. Cleaning the cemetery and planting flowers, too. Shows your great character and gives praise to your mother for raising you right. God bless you.
Thank you so much!
Be A Blessing and Blessed-That’s Secred Ground-🕊️💐🦅🙏-
This was over the top. Cleaning the headstones, flowers, soil....WOW! You deserve every subscriber. Good for you!
I am so glad you focused on the baby grave. Thanks for all the hard work you put in.
You are so welcome
Yessir especially with the Baby one - Tooo Touching 🕊️💐🙏💯
Hook Family Cemetery also named Mathias-Hook Family Cemetery
in West Columbia, Lexington, South Carolina. There would remain about 20 tombstones in this family cemetery reserved for the Hooks. There is also an avenue called Hook nearby.
I looked up D Kinsler Hook and they have him listed in another cemetery on Find A Grave. I contacted the person in charge of the FAG profile to let them know where he is.
Thank you for the kind and respectful gesture that you made for these families. God Bless you, your family and your business.
Why is it, that every single one of your videos, it rains on you. I think you are the best at trimming trees and bushes. The end result is always perfect the way you make the properties look in the end.
This video has me in tears. You are so kind.
Your so sweet. Thank you!
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It’s likely there are no living members of the families buried in the cemetery left in the area. They pass away, they move far from the area in search of employment, but mostly, they just don’t care. They never knew any of the deceased, Great Uncle Ned tended to the cemetery until he no longer could do so, there is no reverence for the deceased, and a lot of the people today believe that the land is for the living, not the dead. Thank you for honoring the people who have been laid to rest here.
I have always loved cemetery's and found them peaceful. I used to walk around in them reading the names and dates too. I was only like 12, and I remember seeing graves that were neglected and looked so sad with weeds all over. I would pull the weeds and clean them up as best I could, then this will sound terrible, but I would see graves that had lots of flowers, and I would take a few off them and put them on the sad ones. Thank you for doing this. This one really touched me! 😊❤
You were a person after my own heart. I did many things the same. Cemeteries are always a peaceful place for me and when I go and visit my parents and leave flowers for them I leave lots around for folks that I knew or that I didn’t know and no one was there to leave flowers for them. I also bought the cleaning supplies so that I could clean up stones that looked neglected.
That is awesome!
Bless you.
Thank God for people like you!
Thank you for your kindness there. Love the flowers you left too. God bless.
You are so welcome!
I don’t know which direction the graves are facing but around here I’ve been told that graves generally face east. I have no sense of direction so you may know how that works where you are. In North and South Carolina many older families had family graveyards and everyone in that cemetery was kin in one way or another. However that particular graveyard may have been for that purpose or, as you said, there might have been a church in that area. In any case, you have done a respectful and lovely job in looking after this group of graves. May you always be blessed and respected as well! Thank you!
Wow, what an awesome transformation!! Thank you so much for the respect you paid these departed ones … I was not expecting the flowers. I’m sure their families would thank you as well. ❤
Thank you
Thank you for your compassion. Looking at old graves makes me wonder about their lives.
You and me both!
You are simply awesome human being who cares for the fallen ones!!! I’m sure their family members would appreciate this !!!
Thank you
I am finding it hard to find the words that describe how watching this video made me feel. You did not just do a wonderful clean up but those added touches of the flags ,flowers and cleaning the head stones with such care are what makes this and you so special. God Bless you. Ontario Canada
The little angel is not forgotten. The flowers hit the spot for the forgotten. You are a blessing. 🙏❣
What a beautiful and thoughtful gift you have given to this family ❤ It would it be wonderful if some of their descendents saw your video. You just never know.
I hope so too!
Wow, this looks amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thank you for clearing and cleaning this cemetery 🥰
My pleasure 😊
You are a good man, Sir. You are special to clean up this grave yard!!! God Bless you!!! Work of an angel!
Thank you kindly
Thank you for caring about and respecting these people. You took the time to put flowers, soil, etc. tried to clean the headstones. it makes it look so much better. Not too many would do this. They just can’t be bothered. I’ve seen Kevin clean up two graveyards as well. So nice of him as well. Great job, God bless you and keep doing these wonderful jobs that nobody else wants to do without big $$$$$
You are very kind! Wish you could find a basket full of blueberries for your lunch! You’re doing an awesome job! Bless you!
All I can say is God bless you. Just another stone in your crown. God is good!
Thank you for caring for cemetery. D-2, soft brush, and plastic scraper, water. Make the difference. Great job
Yes, thank you
I want to thank you so much for doing everything you did for these people. Generation after generation move away then they get forgotten. Much rather see this kind of video than doing a vacant house, even if it is helping the “neighborhood “.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Your right. Thank you for watching
I am so glad that he is doing to clean up this cemetery for the people who are buried in it for sure
Oh my. How kind. Love that you made the babies bed of flowers. ❤
God loves those that have this kind of respect for the dead. Wish there were more people like you in this world
Thank you for your caring attitude. Wonderful job and God bless you. Flowers, soil, cleaning headstones, it all makes huge difference. Thank you so much for doing these wonderful jobs. You have a great heart. Subscribed and gave you a well deserved big thumbs up.
Wow, thank you
The souls of these people are happy today! Precious job you did!🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you for cleaning up the trimming debris and leaves. It made it look so much better. And thank you for going the extra mile with the flowers. There's no telling how long it's been since those graves have had flowers on them. It's a shame a lot of the younger generation don't do that any more.
Thank you!
YOU ARE A VERY KIND AND THOUGHTFUL SOUL. THE GATES OF HEAVEN WILL DEFINITELY BE OPEN FOR YOU....❤❤❤❤❤
THANK YOU FOR HONORING THE PAST LIFES OF THESE WONDERFUL PEOPLE
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You stole my heart ❤. As you were clearing the land,I said to myself that I hope he plants some flowers and you did. God bless you 🙏🏽 for what you did. Awesome transformation. Thank you 😊
What a lovely thing to do, now they are not forgotten ❤❤🇬🇧🇬🇧
I’m sure the family much appreciated it
I watched this video. I'm so glad to see you did clean the tombstones. I have used the solution for my great grandparents' stones in Indiana, and I was so pleased with the outcome. I watched a video of a gentleman who cleans the Graves of soldiers, and you are correct, cannot use harsh chemicals.
You have definitely earned an extra STAR!❤
God bless you for all you do.
Never watched a cemetery clean-up before Scott. Bless you for doing the right thing for these people that passed over a century ago. Absolutely love the baby cradle like stone too. Thanks for an incredible video. From - Illinois - hi. 👋 😊
For a first time stone cleaner, you did a pretty good job. So glad you made the effort to do the research! Many well meaning efforts have caused a lot of damage. Please use a very soft plastic putty knife, never metal. In addition to using a soft bristle brush, use a light touch when scrubbing. Also, you can scrub less and use less D2 (it looks like that is what you are using, good choice!) by applying once and scrubbing, rinse, re-apply and walk away. Over time - weeks, months - the stone will continue to clean up! Please use a guard on your weed eater to avoid abating the stones. Bless you for making the effort to show respect for this little graveyard.
That clean up was a very kind and thoughtful thing to do! ❤️🙏🏻
Thank you
Cemeteries have always been dear to me. They hold those who have gone before us...they paved the way for us. And there is so much history there.
You are a dear person for honoring these dear souls who are gone. It warmed my soul to see you add the sweet flowers and then clean the markers off. It was so loving and respectful
Well done! Hopefully a family member will see this and take over the care of their relatives! Be Safe!
Thank you for putting the time and hard work in cleaning this cemetery. God bless you and your family.
🙏🏼🌟🌹😊
Thank you so much for taking the time to clean this cemetery and honor the memories of these folks.
You brought tears to my eyes happy ones that was so loving of you to do that kind decoration on those Graves GOD IS WATCHING YOU AND BLESSING YOU IN JESUS NAME AMEN
Bless you!
I noticed when you cleaned the third time it wasn’t nearly as dirty. Lovely job you did!❤
Yes! Thank you!
What a good thing to do for the families of this cemetery! 😊The baby’s grave is so beautiful now !
D2 is also a great cleaner and will not hurt the stone. You have done a wonderful service for this cemetery.
Amazing dedication to honor them. Beautiful work. Flowers topped it off.
You made yourself a little place in heaven for doing that clean up. What a difference!
God Bless you for cleaning up the cemetery, and planting the flowers, you are a very Kind Man , and did a wonderful service to the memory of the family’s
Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication doing this transformation. God bless you tenfold for doing this for these deer departed loved ones. I know the families if they knew what you were done with say thank you thank you thank you! It makes my heart feel good to know that there are still real people that know what it’s like to do something without expecting anything else in return. Again great transformation! I definitely will keep watching
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A beautiful and kind gesture in caring for this place of rest and peace. Well done!
God Bless you. for caring. I hope there are others that are family Thank you.
You are so kind
Ich finde es toll das sie den kleinen Freidhof so schön gemacht haben und sich solche Mühe gegeben haben!Vor allem das sie sogar Blumen gepflanzt haben finde ich sehr bemerkenswert. Tolle Arbeit! Grüße aus Deutschland
Hello from Columbia South Carolina! It’s Scott cool your watching from there. My grandmother is from Austria 🇦🇹
There were several cemeteries in my hometown. My brother was like you...cleaned them up but one was hidden in a wooden area behind a gas station. That one held a horse thief according to my other brother's genealogy research 😂
One was near a place where the only doctor in our family lived. They even named a road after him. He actually treated Jesse and Frank James for gunshot wounds. Frank James is buried down the street in back of our childhood park. Write-ups in the local paper proved all of these findings. The one big cemetery was just like this one you cleaned except 3x the size. My brother just mowed it but it was great to see the big headstones with our family names chiseled in. Thanks for doing this hard work 🙌 💪 🙏 💜
That was a beautiful job you've done for these families I'm sure that they is very appreciative for your kind and wonderful job that you have done!also for taking the time to help out anyone's that's in need of help!!god bless you and your family!
Thank you for your act of kindness and respect
I just found this and you are my kind of man. I am a genealogist and have walked through many cemeteries that needed help. I shot photos of headstones and entered all the data into our library's computer for public access. One cemetery had just seven stones, and one had over 17,000.
Thank you so much for caring for these complete strangers. We need more like you.
Thank you for spending your time with your own dime. Your kindness is appreciated. BLESSINGS FROM MICHIGAN.
Hey there!! Thanks for watching . I’m enjoying these 60 degree winter days!! 😀😀
This was such a beautiful thing to do. I have to admit, I got emotional watching. Thank you for taking your time to remember these folks once again and make their resting place beautiful.
Thank you for doing this. I like seeing videos of people that care. So many family cemeteries fall in disrepair and get overgrown and disappear. Often, this happens due to families moving away or families die off, either way, they get forgotten and it is a shame. So, again, thank you.
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You did a phenomenal job! Kudos to you! Such attention to detail! Thank you for a great video!
Glad you liked it!
God bless you for cleaning up this cemetery 🙏
Thank you
Muito especial. Ótima transformação ❤
❤❤ Awesome thing you did. I have always taught my children to respect graveyards, because those people even though we didn't know them were someone's son, daughter or Mom or Dad.
This was very kind of you. The transformation is remarkable. You have a good heart. I’m hoping you’ll revisit this place and keep an eye on them. Would love to see how the flowers are getting on. Would also like to see more of these as a subscribed customer 🥰🥰🥰 please please please ……..no pressure 😊 thank you
Thank you Tonya for the suggestions and will work to make it happen. Thank you for subscribing
Bonjour de la France 🇨🇵 bravo de votre solidarité a nettoyé les tombes merci pour les défunts
Hello from Columbia, South Carolina! It’s so cool you are watching from France! I have never been that far from the USA! Plan to take a vacation to Europe on day! Thanks for watching and the kind words!! 😀😀👍👍
Great intro 😀yes the history is mind blowing in cemeteries! There’s also a sense of oneness-community with peace and love! Totally honoring! Those headstones sure cleaned-up nice! A lot of work!!💪🏼🙏 beautiful reveal !!!
Thank you
You did an absolutely amazing job ! God bless you 🙏
Thanks for the flowers, it looked so desolate without, wish there was grass. I like graveyards, I like to wander through and wonder about different people as I read their stones. Someday someone may wonder over mine.
Oh what a wonderful person you are, love the fact you planted flowers for them especially on the babies grave, it would be nice for more people to do this , even if its only 1 old grave pick 1 to care for as long as you possibly can, I’m inspired to see if this can be arranged in the grave yards by me
Live right down the street from here you did a great job Thanks from all of us!
Awesome! Thank you!
Wonderful thing you have done here,you could always get a bag of wild flower seeds and throw them around ,only need cutting back once a year after they have set their seeds.
God bless you for doing this.
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Such an amazing and respectful gesture. Great job
Thank you
You are a remarkable man. Not many would do what you have done. Your mercy and compassion are inspiring. Eternal rest grant upon them,o O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May all the faihfulmdeparted, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Thank you so much for taking your time and cleaning things up for these people and there families.
That was very kind of you to take care of this little cemetery. Thank you
My pleasure
much respect for you knowing you go out your way to do this for someone's else family much respect brother keep the good videos coming maybe more of cemetery clean up.
I am working to get more down the line
Good Souls takes care of each other 🎉❤
Thank you
I did the same as you last year and was talking with my family. 🌟
You did an absolutely great job. Thank you so much for sharing. And thank you for doing what you do God bless you 👍🇺🇸🙏🏼
Thank you
I have watched a lot of mowing videos I have to say this one truly touched my heart. Your the bomb. God Bless you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Awesome love’s a cemetery clean up 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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What you are doing there is beautiful planting flowers cleaning the grave stones because it's sad to think there might not be anyone of the family living.
Well said
Another beautiful job at the cemetery…I have watched 3 of your videos today and it rained in all 3! Weird.
Your are a wonderful giving man. God bless you.
Lovely job, thank you for caring enough to clean up the cemetery. Were there no graves in the latter half? God bless you friend. 🙏🏾🤗
Great job Scott. Thank you for caring! Your a good man 😊
I appreciate that. Thank you!😀😀
That was absolutely wonderful what you did for that cemetery, thank you ❤
What a beautiful transformation you did in this cemetery! And planting flowers as well - that was wonderful! You did a lot of work - May you be blessed, as well!
Thank you for doing this!! It's wonderful to see that there are still people who care about & respect the dead. I pray for your business & I know God will bless you for this act of generosity & kindness!!
What a wonderful gift you have given these seemingly forgotten people ❤!
You are so special! Thanks for all your hard work taking care of this cemetery. Looks amazing 🥰
Kevin Hansen does this too. Good job respecting these people.❤😢
Honourable!! Looks SO much better!! Await seeing if any family members...will maintain it now...!!
Hope so
You are a Good Man ❤️ thank you for doing this.
I appreciate that
Thanks for doing this. The flowers & marker cleaning was very special.
Many blessings to you. Thank you for your time and work into your care of others.
The 3 or4 inch square stones, about 6 or 7 inches tall, are called corner stones, to mark the family plot. Great job 👏