Hello Jeff another great job on Sonora if you want some other nice cemeteries to go check out check out the ones in Coulterville you'll find all walks of life Indian Chinese Germans Americans plus my wife is also buried there in Coulterville I lived there for 10 years and some of the happiest times in my life until I lost my wife to cancer another great place to check out would be the iron door Saloon in Groveland oldest the oldest still operating Saloon in California or maybe you already know this but thank you again for walking me through some of the country I previously walked before
Another "over the top" great video, Jeff. My husband and I continue watching your videos everyday. Sometimes we binge watch them several hours a day. We feel like we are right along there with you as we love to go cemetery hunting as well. Love your sense of humor about the two tombstones that you wonder if it was a coincidence that the two were buried side by side. I was wondering if you were going to address that. Ha! We had a chuckle about the tiny little naughty streak of our friend, Jeff. Keep up the good work....we learn so much every single day from you.
What a great comment, Scheryl! Thanks for making my morning. We are truly honored and humbled to know there is an unseen audience who feels like they know us as you join us in our adventures. It makes me want to step up our game in terms of content and quality knowing you binge watch our episodes. Sorry about my "naughty" side but when I saw that I thought to myself, "You've got to be kidding!" Can't help but wonder if the folks burying them side by side had a private joke going. LOL
Im amazed by the amount of information you have on so many of these people especially since most appear to be rather non-famous. Great to have you keeping these stories alive
Jeff, I especially enjoyed your journey around the Masonic Cemetery in Sonora. I’ll have to visit the two graves of pioneers, Mr. Dick and Major Balls. Thanks to you, they will not be forgotten! 😆😅🤣. I enjoyed your historic research of Sonora. My mom and dad spent their honeymoon in Sonora, 75 yrs. ago. I appreciate all your vintage photos. They aide in your factual commentary. I’ll bet you taught Ken Burns that technique! Lastly, the country music that you used at the end was great! Keep on that trail, Jeff and Sarah! We enjoy your travels so much! Breakfast is on me if I see you at the Velvet Grill!
Thank you for your reply, really great to see someone taking the time to answer the comments, much appreciated, hope History Hunters goes from strength to strength.
Our pleasure! We try to answer as many as we can but it's becoming a big job the more subscribers we get. But I also love communicating with good folks like yourself, Royston!
I watched this video again, very enjoyable. So many graves gone and probably forgotten, until you do your research. Those old graveyards, scenery and history (and a great host) adds so much to our lives as we learn how those before us lived and built this great country.
I do appreciate the comment, John! I think it's important to remember our history for it explains how we came into existence as people and as a country.
Thanks. I'd like to branch out to other areas but you know with the Great California Lockdown it will probably go all year long. I'm done with the house arrest thing.
Another thoroughly enjoyable "history lesson", thanks for the GREAT episode. And speaking of digging graves in the rocky ground; your grandmother told me some years ago that when she was young, she recalls the ground in her home state of Oklahoma being so rocky, they had to use dynamite to blast out the holes for the graves.
Thanks for that explosive insight! I heard that back east the ground gets so frozen in the winter that they have delayed burial until the grave could be dug. At least that's what happened with my great grandfather on my dad's side.
History Hunters yes really I don’t know why I felt I was there tagging along from one gravestone to another with you.....something about the ambiance you created with your relaxed attitude and camera work?????? The weather looked perfect and you getting under that tree to look at the writing on the broken stone. Dry humour about the dick and balls names being accidentally next to each other etc....perhaps it is all coincidental or maybe you are a genius?
Didn't realize California had so much history learned so much watching these videos jeff one of these days if things ever get back to normal I'm gonna take the family on a few weeks trip back out to California and visit some of these places it goes to show they came from all over the world to California during the gold rush. Thanks for another great video my friend. Man that was comical how those 2 names were close to each other it had to be done on porpoise lol.
I enjoyed this very much. My brother-in-law is buried in this cemetery and my sister will be buried there when she is gone. Many of these names are familiar to those of us who have lived in Tuolumne and Stanislaus Counties. I've wandered through this cemetery many times and thank you for giving me a treasure I can keep.
Thank you very much. I would love to use more photos if they were available ... and if every museum which had them would share them without charging exorbitant user fees. I'm not making a lot money just yet. LOL
Hallo Jeff,bin zufällig auf euren Kanal gestoßen und habe ihn gleich abonniert bin begeistert,ich liebe die alten Westernfilme und es ist sehr interessant die Drehorte zu sehen so einen Kanal habe ich mir immer gewünscht einfach super macht weiter so und liebe Grüße aus Thailand,bin vor 6 Jahren mit meinen Papa und meiner Frau dorthin ausgewandert
I know of a Sonora CA cemetery that's tucked away downtown, that you haven't been to yet. ! Or maybe you just didn't make a video. ! Thank you for doing what you do. ! It's so interesting. !❤❤❤
Neglected cemetery but still kind of beautiful. I didn't comment on your Bodie video but I must say enjoyable videos from my now favorite channel. Please keep going!!!!
Wow another good one, somehow I missed it back when. But I am hysterics over Mr. Dick and Mr. Balls. Can imagine the flack they took back in their day.
You have a very enjoyable and informative channel and it is evident that you put a lot of effort into your episodes. It's a lot of fun to watch and learn about all of this cool history. Great job!
Thank you very much, John! We do a lot of research but we love to shoot it and package it up into an enjoyable viewing experience! We appreciate you letting us know that you are having fun with us!
That is a beautiful cemetery, but hate to see fallen tree on grave and areas of overgrowth, Looks like some of the residents (living) homes are right up on cemetery. Don’t know if I would want to live that close. Thanks Jeff! 🇺🇸🚜👍
Yeah it would be kind of strange to look out the kitchen or living room window and see large grave markers and an unruly cemetery. I feel bad that the Lucy Crabtree marker has been knocked over by a tree. Maybe somebody in Sonora will see this and take their chainsaw and get some firewood and upright her toppled marker! Thanks for watching!
Interesting as always and very informative!! Always like the back stories like the Golden Rivet for the Golden Gate Bridge... wonder if it is still around some where! 👍👍
The two men who knew Mark Twain when he spent time on Jackass Hill were Bill and Jim Gillis. Bill is my great grandfather and Jim is his older brother.
I live in Sonora and lived here since 1990 when I was 4 and still reside here Ben Soulsby's house still stands Its at the Methodist Church in Soulsbyville and has a rock arch in front which is just up the road from the house l grew up in 1990 - 2013 l lived in Soulsbyville.
You do a really good job with these cemeteries in that you do research, you're not just reading. Well done. 👏 You know I'm catching up with your videos and travels. Lucky me! There's more 😃 That said, I don't know if the marinas and wee tiny tows all along the Cali Delta are of interest to you. Starts in Stockton, goes to the Bay. Tons of history in those marinas and some really great food. City of Locke, wee Tony town, Al the Wops has exxxxcellent food. Oh.my.gosh. Thanks for this trip to Sonora. 👋
I would like to but I have to convince Sarah since we've "been there, done that." Of course we visited before I started History Hunters! Thanks for watching!
Have you checked out liberty and Elliott cemetery in acampo? It would be great if you did a video on those two. I guess a lot of kids were buried in the liberty cemetery and some of the graves are under the freeway.
Informative and interesting as always. I live pretty much in the middle of the areas you cover and how many Gold Rush and Northern California history buff. So this is all Wonderful to me. However I am surprised you've never covered Bodie. I see you've done Aurora which is very close by and on the other side of it.
Another good video! I have several books on the boomtown days, mostly on Bodie and Aurora-- you may have guessed that. Some of the books, the “forward” is written by a Donald Segerstrom, of Sonora.
Hi! I've never commented before. I was going to tell you what "Ici Repose" meant, but someone beat me by 5 hours! We've enjoyed your shows. We've watched all of them, and just wait now for the new ones to pop up.
Well thank you, Tom! Glad you finally came out and commented! I actually googled ICI repose afterward and found out what it meant but didn't stick it in the video! Thanks for being a follower!
Great video sad to see a cemetery in such conditions. You should do a video on Aimee Semple McPherson she is buried near Walt Disney I just learned about her.
I have definitely given her consideration! I hope to get to LA this summer ... if the state would let up on this ridiculous restriction of our freedoms!
It's possible that I could in the near future but for the time being ... check out my Stockton cemetery video. I visit the grave of Louis Hickman and talk about him as the founder of Hickman.
OMG....Maurice (we believe pronounced like Maurice Chevalier) A.J. Warner is my family!!! He and his wife Christine are supposedly buried there and pictures of their tombstones are on FindAGrave. He was my 1st cousin, 2x removed. I am in contact with a cousin who was his granddaughter. I am visiting the area in early November and really hope the weeds are cut so I can try to find his burial. I hope to find someone I can call to tell me where in the cemetery he might be. Thank you for this!!!
The two people you are looking for could be buried at the cemetery up by Bald Mountain Road. Mountain Shadow Cemetery is the name of that one. There is also a cemetery at the corner of W. Jackson St. Might want to look there for those ones. They also could be buried in Jamestown or Columbia.
I know of an old small cemetary i can't find much info on. Maybe you can help me research it. Located along feather river between Oroville and Biggs ca
Its so sad that these cemetery's are no longer tended by Any Relatives.... there must be SOME about?? Another great video tho... have you been to TOMBSTONE, in Arizona i think?? that would be a Great video
More about the Segerstrom family. I have no idea if they’re related but there are still Segerstroms here in Sonora. Kate Segerstrom is a judge here in Sonora, and her son-in-law Sam Segerstrom is a sonora high tennis coach and a real estate agent
Love the videos. Noticed your last name. Small world. My daughter's best friend from Livingston shares the same name. Was wondering if you were related to her dad, Eric.
What is so sad within 50 to 100 years after we die no one will remember us. However, a few of us seem to like to visit cemeteries and do a little research. Which you are now doing, More and more people are now being cremated, soon cemeteries will be things of the past. Lord help us if down the road soylent Green comes true. :) That said, I am a Christian so to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Amen :) So we really don't die. we just go live somewhere else.
@@jbenziggy That is great. it seems like I have met you somewhere, you look like someone that I know. I was in the Marines station n So Ca. in 1977-78. but you are younger than I. also all of us have a twin somewhere in the world. :) So you do look like someone that I have run into some time or another. LOL! Thank you for responding. One day you will have so many viewers writing comments you won't have the ability or time to respond. Your programs are that good.
Great history, thanks, I have subscribed. Shame on the Masonic order that they have not kept the cemetery in better shape. If I lived in the area I would volunteer to help keep it up.
So cool to find this! I am doing a podcast about our local cemeteries, I live here in town. I have done this same excursion so many times! So neat to watch from home on such a hot day!! Let's do a project together if you ever come back!
LOL, the location of Mr. Dick and Mr. Balls couldn't had to have been on purpose. That would have been some coincidence, don't you think? Thanks for the laugh. I wasn't expecting that :-)
I've gotten more comments about that section! Ha ha! I doubt if it was deliberate since we're talking the 1850s and 1860s (they had more class back then) but as I was crouched down there and saw the two last names side by side I had to laugh. Thanks for watching, Steve! Hope all is well!
There was definition an expectation to join these fraternal organizations if you were a successful businessman. Today service clubs are sadly on the decline in America.
I think Lucy grabbed that tree she lived up to her name. I dont know if it would be politically correct, but I sure would like to a cable camera inside those little holes just to see if the coffin was visible. Might of been very ornate but then it might of been wooden. And those fences they were all hammered together no welding back then.
Mr Dick an Mr Balls burried close to each other. Very funny! Great work you do. Look forward to the next adventure.
Hello Jeff another great job on Sonora if you want some other nice cemeteries to go check out check out the ones in Coulterville you'll find all walks of life Indian Chinese Germans Americans plus my wife is also buried there in Coulterville I lived there for 10 years and some of the happiest times in my life until I lost my wife to cancer another great place to check out would be the iron door Saloon in Groveland oldest the oldest still operating Saloon in California or maybe you already know this but thank you again for walking me through some of the country I previously walked before
Another "over the top" great video, Jeff. My husband and I continue watching your videos everyday. Sometimes we binge watch them several hours a day. We feel like we are right along there with you as we love to go cemetery hunting as well. Love your sense of humor about the two tombstones that you wonder if it was a coincidence that the two were buried side by side. I was wondering if you were going to address that. Ha!
We had a chuckle about the tiny little naughty streak of our friend, Jeff. Keep up the good work....we learn so much every single day from you.
What a great comment, Scheryl! Thanks for making my morning. We are truly honored and humbled to know there is an unseen audience who feels like they know us as you join us in our adventures. It makes me want to step up our game in terms of content and quality knowing you binge watch our episodes. Sorry about my "naughty" side but when I saw that I thought to myself, "You've got to be kidding!" Can't help but wonder if the folks burying them side by side had a private joke going. LOL
Im amazed by the amount of information you have on so many of these people especially since most appear to be rather non-famous. Great to have you keeping these stories alive
Between your channel and mother load memories fb page I’m getting a great education on our local history, love it.
That is awesome! Glad you are learning a bit about the area!
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Jeff, I especially enjoyed your journey around the Masonic Cemetery in Sonora.
I’ll have to visit the two graves of pioneers, Mr. Dick and Major Balls. Thanks to you, they will not be forgotten!
😆😅🤣. I enjoyed your historic research of Sonora. My mom and dad spent their honeymoon in Sonora, 75 yrs. ago.
I appreciate all your vintage photos. They aide in your factual commentary. I’ll bet you taught Ken Burns that technique! Lastly, the country music that you used at the end was great!
Keep on that trail, Jeff and Sarah! We enjoy your travels so much! Breakfast is on me if I see you at the Velvet Grill!
This cemetery is incredible, well kept. You and Sara stay well.
Glad you are finding new places during the quarantine to explore. Too funny with the two guys, B and D.
Right?! Ha ha ha! Would you have caught that by yourself?
@@jbenziggy Might have caught it.
This cemetery has a lot of family history.It is good that you are keeping they're memories alive.Tony
I'm trying! Thanks!
Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s always interesting!
Thanks Connie. Happy to hear you like us!!!
My husband and I both lost it at Mr. Dick and Mr. Balls. We are so not mature. 😂😂
I guess I'm not too mature either. I'm glad it made you laugh. But honestly did you catch it before I said it?LOL
@@jbenziggy My husband did. I'm really surprised I didn't! Haha. For a 39-year-old I have the mind of a 12-year-old boy sometimes. LOL
You have lots of company in the "not so mature" group!!
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Not only is he Mr. Balls, but he’s Mr. Major Balls. I guess nobody messed with him.
Another great video. Thanks Jeff
Glad you enjoyed it
ok, that comment about the 2 buried next to each other cracked me up! great job as usual Jeff!
Ha ha ha! Would you have caught that on your own, too?
Same! I literally lol.
@@jbenziggy yes, great minds think alike.
Thank you for your reply, really great to see someone taking the time to answer the comments, much appreciated, hope History Hunters goes from strength to strength.
Our pleasure! We try to answer as many as we can but it's becoming a big job the more subscribers we get. But I also love communicating with good folks like yourself, Royston!
What a great story this was. With me having been a Mason since 1991, this story was very much endearing to me. Thank you so much for this episode.
Glad you enjoyed it! These old cemeteries are interesting!
Seeing as Sara is in lockdown, what a perfect time to watch " SHANE " . No excuses 😉
Good try! I'm still working from home and spend a few days a week at the office. Still haven't watched it. Take care!
I watched this video again, very enjoyable. So many graves gone and probably forgotten, until you do your research. Those old graveyards, scenery and history (and a great host) adds so much to our lives as we learn how those before us lived and built this great country.
I do appreciate the comment, John! I think it's important to remember our history for it explains how we came into existence as people and as a country.
Thanks for taking me along
You bet! Thank YOU for watching!
Thanks Jeff always interesting
Im Retired Golden gate bridge painter and always heard about the golden rivet. Didn't know it was never placed.
The big question is where is it today? I'd like to know! Thanks for watching!
@@jbenziggy The Golden Gate Bridge does have a Place they have a lot of historical things of the bridge.Cars toll booths ect.
Thanks for taking us along!
Well thanks but thank you for joining along!
Love your story and history. That was funny about mr. Dick mr. Ball! God bless you
Ha ha ha! Thanks!
I like that you do so much local history.
Thanks. I'd like to branch out to other areas but you know with the Great California Lockdown it will probably go all year long. I'm done with the house arrest thing.
Another thoroughly enjoyable "history lesson", thanks for the GREAT episode. And speaking of digging graves in the rocky ground; your grandmother told me some years ago that when she was young, she recalls the ground in her home state of Oklahoma being so rocky, they had to use dynamite to blast out the holes for the graves.
Thanks for that explosive insight! I heard that back east the ground gets so frozen in the winter that they have delayed burial until the grave could be dug. At least that's what happened with my great grandfather on my dad's side.
History buried with them. Beautiful day there. Very interesting episode so well done I felt like I was there with you....thank you✌️🌈
To say you felt like you were there with me is a great compliment! Thanks and I am glad you were able to "tag along." LOL
History Hunters yes really I don’t know why I felt I was there tagging along from one gravestone to another with you.....something about the ambiance you created with your relaxed attitude and camera work?????? The weather looked perfect and you getting under that tree to look at the writing on the broken stone. Dry humour about the dick and balls names being accidentally next to each other etc....perhaps it is all coincidental or maybe you are a genius?
Didn't realize California had so much history learned so much watching these videos jeff one of these days if things ever get back to normal I'm gonna take the family on a few weeks trip back out to California and visit some of these places it goes to show they came from all over the world to California during the gold rush.
Thanks for another great video my friend. Man that was comical how those 2 names were close to each other it had to be done on porpoise lol.
Yeah, isn't that a kick? Dick and Balls buried close to one another! Ha!
@@jbenziggy 😂
I really enjoy your History Hunters
I believe Crabtree entertained the miner by doing the Cancan Dance with her legs.
Barbara
Another great cemetery! The Otis Greenwood crypt use to really creep me out as a kid walking around the place.
Really? You actually remember that specific crypt?
Yes I've only been scared in two cemetery's this one and the pioneer cemetery in Dublin California.
I enjoyed this very much. My brother-in-law is buried in this cemetery and my sister will be buried there when she is gone. Many of these names are familiar to those of us who have lived in Tuolumne and Stanislaus Counties. I've wandered through this cemetery many times and thank you for giving me a treasure I can keep.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you Jeff, well done! I really like the old photos mixed in with your presentation.
Thank you very much. I would love to use more photos if they were available ... and if every museum which had them would share them without charging exorbitant user fees. I'm not making a lot money just yet. LOL
Thank you for taking us along stay safe and well
Thanks, you too!
Hallo Jeff,bin zufällig auf euren Kanal gestoßen und habe ihn gleich abonniert bin begeistert,ich liebe die alten Westernfilme und es ist sehr interessant die Drehorte zu sehen so einen Kanal habe ich mir immer gewünscht einfach super macht weiter so und liebe Grüße aus Thailand,bin vor 6 Jahren mit meinen Papa und meiner Frau dorthin ausgewandert
Willkommen in unserem Kanal! Ich bin froh, dass du die Show genießt! Danke fürs Abonnieren!
as always,another well informed video.great video
Glad you enjoyed it Courtney!
This was a great video, of Gold Rush era Sonora Masonic Cemetery thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much!
Love that printing press on the epitaph. How unusual. Great finds!
Thanks Jeff for another well researched pi
Thanks Jeff for another well researched video, always interesting.
Never mind a slip of the finger.
Another great video Jeff I always look forward to your videos. Love the history of my county
Glad you enjoyed it!!!
Love your history lessons. A lot of research has to be done on your part. Keep up the great work to benefit us all.
Thank you! Will do!
Looks like an excellent Eagle Scout Project opportunity.
I love the US historical era of 1800's,so full of interesting topics.I'm from Canada.
Thanks for watching! We appreciate it!
I know of a Sonora CA cemetery that's tucked away downtown, that you haven't been to yet. ! Or maybe you just didn't make a video. ! Thank you for doing what you do. ! It's so interesting. !❤❤❤
Wonderful, Thank you !
Very informative.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching! Let me know what you might like us to check out in the future!
Always enjoy your program!
Thank you so much for letting us know!
Some Masonic graves now have the inscription: "Called From Labor" on a specific date. Wonderful information on the history of the Mother Lode.
Mr. Dick buried by Mr. Balls! Hilarious! Especially with the serious look on your face! Great video!
Thanks for the history lesson on my town, I’ll be checking out more of your videos as I love local history.
Awesome! Thank you! Please subscribe if you haven't!
Neglected cemetery but still kind of beautiful. I didn't comment on your Bodie video but I must say enjoyable videos from my now favorite channel. Please keep going!!!!
Fantastic video as always .Thank you Jeff
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow another good one, somehow I missed it back when. But I am hysterics over Mr. Dick and Mr. Balls. Can imagine the flack they took back in their day.
You have a very enjoyable and informative channel and it is evident that you put a lot of effort into your episodes. It's a lot of fun to watch and learn about all of this cool history. Great job!
Thank you very much, John! We do a lot of research but we love to shoot it and package it up into an enjoyable viewing experience! We appreciate you letting us know that you are having fun with us!
Love, love history! This was a great video. I love going to old cemeteries. As always thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed!
Love your work, as always interesting, and fun.
Thank you very much!
That is a beautiful cemetery, but hate to see fallen tree on grave and areas of overgrowth, Looks like some of the residents (living) homes are right up on cemetery. Don’t know if I would want to live that close. Thanks Jeff! 🇺🇸🚜👍
Yeah it would be kind of strange to look out the kitchen or living room window and see large grave markers and an unruly cemetery. I feel bad that the Lucy Crabtree marker has been knocked over by a tree. Maybe somebody in Sonora will see this and take their chainsaw and get some firewood and upright her toppled marker! Thanks for watching!
Excellent work...
Thank you! Cheers!
Beautiful area & well done vlog
Interesting as always and very informative!! Always like the back stories like the Golden Rivet for the Golden Gate Bridge... wonder if it is still around some where! 👍👍
Interesting video> You also made us laugh out loud!
Oh … I know why! He he he
The two men who knew Mark Twain when he spent time on Jackass Hill were Bill and Jim Gillis. Bill is my great grandfather and Jim is his older brother.
Interesting.... Thanks....
You're welcome! Thanks for watching us again, John!
I live in Sonora and lived here since 1990 when I was 4 and still reside here Ben Soulsby's house still stands
Its at the Methodist Church in Soulsbyville and has a rock arch in front which is just up the road from the house l grew up in 1990 - 2013 l lived in Soulsbyville.
Antigo este cemitério muito top meu bhother
You do a really good job with these cemeteries in that you do research, you're not just reading.
Well done. 👏
You know I'm catching up with your videos and travels. Lucky me! There's more 😃
That said, I don't know if the marinas and wee tiny tows all along the Cali Delta are of interest to you. Starts in Stockton, goes to the Bay. Tons of history in those marinas and some really great food.
City of Locke, wee Tony town, Al the Wops has exxxxcellent food. Oh.my.gosh.
Thanks for this trip to Sonora.
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Thanks, Janice! You sound like you're really enjoying our series of videos!
@@jbenziggy mandatory for all kids in school...or should be. 🤔
LOVE your channel
You should do Coulterville, CA. It's really interesting. And Groveland.
They are on my list. It may take a while to get to it as there is a ton I want to get to ... just need the time! Thanks for the suggestions!
Mr. Dick next to Mr Balls! Lol good one. Love the history!!
Ha ha. Thanks, Connie, for watching. I thought I'd get kick-back for that quip but I couldn't help but notice. LOL
Great Video! Thank You
Are you guys thinking of doing a video on Bodie California ?
I would like to but I have to convince Sarah since we've "been there, done that." Of course we visited before I started History Hunters! Thanks for watching!
@@jbenziggy thankyou so much !
@@jbenziggy and love watching your videos !
Have you checked out liberty and Elliott cemetery in acampo? It would be great if you did a video on those two. I guess a lot of kids were buried in the liberty cemetery and some of the graves are under the freeway.
I was actually considering those so any information on who is buried there would be much appreciated!
www.findagrave.com/cemetery/8109/memorial-search?page=1#sr-14731701
Not sure you have ever explored Virginia City NV graveyard. Lots of history. Nice job.
I'm surprised you missed my video on the VC cemetery. ua-cam.com/video/umeGr2_Rgl8/v-deo.html
Another great one ...
We appreciate you watching and commenting Betty! You're kind!
These poor people have been long forgotten.
Informative and interesting as always. I live pretty much in the middle of the areas you cover and how many Gold Rush and Northern California history buff. So this is all Wonderful to me. However I am surprised you've never covered Bodie. I see you've done Aurora which is very close by and on the other side of it.
@16:10 is Dr. Dodge related to whoever Dodge Ridge is named after?
Another good video! I have several books on the boomtown days, mostly on Bodie and Aurora-- you may have guessed that. Some of the books, the “forward” is written by a Donald Segerstrom, of Sonora.
Interesting! If he's no longer living I bet I know where to find him! Thanks, Dave!
Hi! I've never commented before. I was going to tell you what "Ici Repose" meant, but someone beat me by 5 hours! We've enjoyed your shows. We've watched all of them, and just wait now for the new ones to pop up.
Well thank you, Tom! Glad you finally came out and commented! I actually googled ICI repose afterward and found out what it meant but didn't stick it in the video! Thanks for being a follower!
Very interesting thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Oooo I'm from Sonora! I'm a photographer and I've taken photos in that cemetery! 😄 This is interesting!
Thank you very much! Glad you liked it!
Great video sad to see a cemetery in such conditions. You should do a video on Aimee Semple McPherson she is buried near Walt Disney I just learned about her.
I have definitely given her consideration! I hope to get to LA this summer ... if the state would let up on this ridiculous restriction of our freedoms!
Hi history hunter I love your channel! Can you make of video of hickman ca I live here please I would love to know about it
It's possible that I could in the near future but for the time being ... check out my Stockton cemetery video. I visit the grave of Louis Hickman and talk about him as the founder of Hickman.
OMG....Maurice (we believe pronounced like Maurice Chevalier) A.J. Warner is my family!!! He and his wife Christine are supposedly buried there and pictures of their tombstones are on FindAGrave. He was my 1st cousin, 2x removed. I am in contact with a cousin who was his granddaughter. I am visiting the area in early November and really hope the weeds are cut so I can try to find his burial. I hope to find someone I can call to tell me where in the cemetery he might be. Thank you for this!!!
Another great video. There's also a Jewish cemetery behind the Sheriff's Office and the City Cemetery off of Jackson St near the corner of Ash St.
Thanks. Sonora has lots of cemeteries, one in East Sonora too.
I enjoyed the video!
Thank you very much!!! We strive to entertain and educate!
Thumbs up.
BTW: Jeff have you read any of the books authored by Tulare Farmer Victor Davis Hanson? Any opinion of his latest?
I love Victor Davis Hanson but I thought he was a professor?
@@jbenziggy A real eye opener: ua-cam.com/video/FEXL5USuDGI/v-deo.html
Who says cemeteries can’t be funny. Mr. Dick buried next to Mr. Balls.
Somebody had a sense of humor!
Thanks Jeff.
The two people you are looking for could be buried at the cemetery up by Bald Mountain Road. Mountain Shadow Cemetery is the name of that one. There is also a cemetery at the corner of W. Jackson St. Might want to look there for those ones. They also could be buried in Jamestown or Columbia.
I know of an old small cemetary i can't find much info on. Maybe you can help me research it. Located along feather river between Oroville and Biggs ca
Its so sad that these cemetery's are no longer tended by Any Relatives.... there must be SOME about??
Another great video tho...
have you been to TOMBSTONE, in Arizona i think?? that would be a Great video
More about the Segerstrom family. I have no idea if they’re related but there are still Segerstroms here in Sonora. Kate Segerstrom is a judge here in Sonora, and her son-in-law Sam Segerstrom is a sonora high tennis coach and a real estate agent
Love the videos. Noticed your last name. Small world. My daughter's best friend from Livingston shares the same name. Was wondering if you were related to her dad, Eric.
Ha ha! He’s my first cousin. Our dads are brothers!
Next u should go to Greeley hill it’s a very small town that has a lot of history it’s between Coulterville meriposa and Groveland
Good history
Thanks my friend!
What is so sad within 50 to 100 years after we die no one will remember us. However, a few of us seem to like to visit cemeteries and do a little research. Which you are now doing, More and more people are now being cremated, soon cemeteries will be things of the past. Lord help us if down the road soylent Green comes true. :) That said, I am a Christian so to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Amen :) So we really don't die. we just go live somewhere else.
Thank you again for another good video.
Amen, brother. I, too, am a Christian. I'm glad we have a God who cares that we live forever with Him and provided the way, the truth and the life!
@@jbenziggy That is great. it seems like I have met you somewhere, you look like someone that I know. I was in the Marines station n So Ca. in 1977-78. but you are younger than I. also all of us have a twin somewhere in the world. :) So you do look like someone that I have run into some time or another. LOL! Thank you for responding. One day you will have so many viewers writing comments you won't have the ability or time to respond. Your programs are that good.
Thanks, Jerry! I don't think I'm that good yet but we're learning. I graduated high school in 1979 so I'm not that much younger than you.
Great history, thanks, I have subscribed. Shame on the Masonic order that they have not kept the cemetery in better shape. If I lived in the area I would volunteer to help keep it up.
Thanks for the sub!
So cool to find this! I am doing a podcast about our local cemeteries, I live here in town. I have done this same excursion so many times! So neat to watch from home on such a hot day!! Let's do a project together if you ever come back!
LOL, the location of Mr. Dick and Mr. Balls couldn't had to have been on purpose. That would have been some coincidence, don't you think? Thanks for the laugh. I wasn't expecting that :-)
I've gotten more comments about that section! Ha ha! I doubt if it was deliberate since we're talking the 1850s and 1860s (they had more class back then) but as I was crouched down there and saw the two last names side by side I had to laugh. Thanks for watching, Steve! Hope all is well!
@Jeff: Please, please, please present something about Robinson's Ferry and the mysterious Melones fire and the erasure of the history of Melones.
In Gult Ca. There's a old cemetery of the town liberty that no longer exist.
Love the video I’ve noticed a lot of people have Freemason headstones were they all freemasons back then
There was definition an expectation to join these fraternal organizations if you were a successful businessman. Today service clubs are sadly on the decline in America.
I think Lucy grabbed that tree she lived up to her name.
I dont know if it would be politically correct, but I sure would like to a cable camera inside those little holes just to see if the coffin was visible. Might of been very ornate but then it might of been wooden.
And those fences they were all hammered together no welding back then.
LOL...I actually laughed out loud at the comment of Mr. Balls with the other Mr.
I've gotten more comments about that segment than any other! LOL. At least people are watching all the way to the end. Thanks for following us!
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Thank you, Elvis! See, you are alive! LOL
@@jbenziggy great videos.. TCB⚡thank you.. thank you very much