As someone who’s son is buried here thank you for such a beautiful video, and thanks for the heads up on the Iverson statue, I’ve never noticed it before but it would have scared the crap out of me too.
Don Iverson was a man with a sense of humor-I’m guessing he would have laughed heartily at your surprise. By the way that is a life size statue of him. He was a relative. Our family headstone and family graves are also here. Lots of history
I can understand the near heart attack at the Iverson mausoleum! I used to work for a flower shop as a designer with an occasional run for delivering when the boss was away. I can remember delivering to a funeral home and losing a few of my own lives. Delivery was through a back door that was also near the body prep area. As I was approaching the door (which you could see through), I could see a casket on a gurney. Imagine suddenly seeing a body sit upright!! 😱 Well, I froze. Turns out the mortician was adjusting the body inside the casket and had lifted him up to reposition him. Needless to say it was the quickest delivery I ever made!!
Saw the title and just had to watch, knowing full well you’d come across old Don! We’ve spent hours there, putting flags at all the Veteran’s grave markers before Memorial Day each year. The cemetery was turned over to the Township so they could care for it, which they do quite well. Lots of old family plots where there are still many relatives living in Elburn. Probably could have setup a guided tour if we knew you were coming 😂
Blackberry Cemetery has a cameo in the 1974 Oscar award winning movie Harry & Tonto with Art Carney. Art is traveling by bus & the bus makes a stop on Keslinger Road just short of Route 47 with the cemetery clearly visible in the background. They also filmed a scene north of town at Albert’s Corner ( Routes 47 & 38 ) which was torn down for the current Amoco ( today’s PP ) where Art Carney was filling up his car for an earlier scene.
that is not a handshake. That represents a husband and wife going hand and hand into eternity. My husband recently passed and that is exactly what I had put on our stone.
I drive past that cemetery every day on the way to work, definitely a hidden treasure. I called it man standing in his tomb, cool video keep up the great work. you will hit 10 k soon
This one had everything, like a box of mixed chocolates! Lol. You scared the willies out of me with that statue Bryan. Thanks for another amazing walkabout. Deb of Oz.
Great show! It's a lovely cemetery with lots of beautiful headstones. Especially the Iversons. You can tell that a lot of rich people are buried here by their monuments. Some of them cost more than a 2 bedroom house. Thank you very much for the tour.
Your name is Brian,wow the first young man i thought was wonderful back in grade school was a Brian. Went to a bday party and his mom was really mean because my parents didn't live in a extra nice house by the park 🏞️. Hope you have a wonderful week and take care. Prayers for my friend Cindy,in Icu with complications after a long run of dialysis. Very nice young man 😊
Just stumbled on to your channel through a youtube suggestion and subscribed because I love cemetery walks and tours. Just a note on the tree monuments; they were very popular and available through catalogs of the time, but if they don't have the WOW logo on them they're not Woodmen of the World memorials.
Just love this! I help people with genealogy and many times cemeteries are golden. Also, there is an elementary school in town named after John Stewart.
Hi, I just found you today on my youtube, so I've subscribed, what a great video, I'll be binge watching you all of today, I hope you get to 10,000 subscribers, I'm from Wales in the UK, love looking round cemeteries especially in america, thankyou for making great videos ❤
@@MiddleAgedBaldGuy Aw, how sweet and thoughtful of you to reply to my comment. I am more into my Bigfoot/Cryptid and paranormal channels, but I saw your video listed. I do sometimes watch your kind of content and will make it a point to watch and support you too. You're awesome, and I really enjoyed your video. I wonder if that statue was made for one of his office buildings and was moved to his gravesite upon his passing. That would of caught me off guard too and given me a heart attack seeing it looming in the dark at night. You take care, and I really hope that one by one, you reach your goal!!✝️😊👍
Another great video Brian. I hope you make 10K soon. You always manage to crack me up at least once per video and the Iverson statue did it. I thought you were reacting to the last name Feece! 😊
A very strange monument for Iverson , but I remember when a couple of college kids were able to receive and display computer terminal data at a computer fair one year back in the 80s or 90s. I would suspect that got a lot of attention from the NSA and other security agencies! But they never talk about it any more. Cool cemetery though!
This is so interesting, Thank You for sharing, I enjoy your videos, I too enjoy walking through cementaries, wonder about these souls what they done, what they went through, but anyway Bless these souls prayers for them all !!!
Thanks for putting in the description that this wasn't for BlackBerry phones, so I wouldn't get my hopes up😆 It is interesting seeing grave sites from over 100 years ago.
Ok, I admit that whatever the video was, i was going to watch! A cemetery channel! I hit the jackpot. I grew up in Elburn, and as kids my siblings, friends and i woul ride bikes down to Blackberry Cemetery for something to do especially in summer, sometimes taking a picnic lunch along. 1970s Elburn was neither large or exciting. We knew that cemetery so well. My childhood neighbor once maintained the cemetery, now he lies there with his wife. So many people i knew buried there, some died before their time. Blackberry Cemetery is located in Blackberry Township, on the edge of what was once called Blackberry Station, before the name was changed to Elburn. I liked the Blackberry and iPhone comments 😂 Pretty far back to the east, is the humble grave of a man named Jim McNair. Forgot his entire story, but I believe he was a former enslaved man, cannot remember what his occupation was. He was well regarded, and the children loved him. A dying girl dearly loved strawberries, Jim brought her some via train from Chicago. When Jim died, the schoolchildren collected funds for his monument, which features a horse on it. That Don Iverson masouleum is creepy! I used to wonder, wasn't it creepy to see yourself at the cemetery, full size? Thanks for the great video, you have a new subscriber.
Oh, I remember the Blackberry Inn - a restaurant out Elburn way. Can't wait to get out there again and visit. I've been passing it but haven't stopped. Have you been to the cemetery in Norway, IL? You should take a look!
You should travel over to Rochelle Illinois. It is about a hour west of Elburn following HWY 38 . Lawn ridge cemetery it has the grave of a Desert Storm F-15 Strike Eagle shot down over Basra IRAQ on the first night of the war . I don't remember if his RIO was ever recovered but he is also the namesake of the airport there in Rochelle last I knew they had a small library display of him there. His father was also a doctor in Rochelle he was flight surgeon for his squadron. His father was actually was the doctor that delivered me. But the cemetery has a marker in it for a gypsy child that was buried their and a marker with the name KRUGER on it it is a large granite marker with KRUGER in large print
Marylander here! Our state was a colony in 1634! One of the 13 original colonies! We have tons of Civil War graves! Antietam battlefield cemetery. That was the single ,bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War! Sharpsburg, Maryland September 17,1862! It had been 162 years since that battle! 🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Hi bald headed man! In all the years I have spent to to graveyards and doing genealogy work, studying as well on stones, I found out unbeknownst to many people that even though there is a possible burial for people shown on the stones it does not mean that not all is what you see. Sometimes people are not in these graves with their loved ones but elsewhere in some other state,city, town ECT because many people believe they will be with their loved ones forever and that as you know is not always in many cases. Intentions are always there but as you know many different things happen so the person (s) go another route. Keep up the great findings!
Elburn used to be home to one of the best car companies for classic gm car parts..... The Parts Place. They moved to DeKalb a few years go. I've been to both.
that's one unique cemetery yes u can gaze into that man's eyes shake hands many details into his suit all the way too his wingtip shoes bronzed I think his name is with computers .. its on US 47 just west of the Metra station
If you ever do a road trip - check out Lawernce county Arkansas, may need a county map. There are some backwoods grave yards with homemade head stones. Envision a coffee can filled with cement and marbles to write the info.
Hello, new to watching your video. You seem to be a nice fellow. I am a Sebastian Rodgers crew and had to see something minus the bad behavior of the possible future inmates 😂
I wonder if the collapsing building on the White marker relates to him being the last of his line, since it appears that only he and his wife are buried there so he had no sons to carry on the family name.
@@MiddleAgedBaldGuy Loved your cool intro!! But for newbees to graveyard tours , I don't they would know what you were talking about. You do make cool videos ---❤🤳👻
❤ Hi I'm Senga from Scotland! Found your channel.❤I hope you say a protection pray er with God.❤ Every time ❤ Before you enter a cemetery.❤And after you leave.❤You don't want to be going home with a demonic attachment. Or of someone who hasn't crossed over ❤ Take Care ❤
I've never seen an old cemetery so beautifully kept. Thetown should be proud.
People are just dying to get in there.
As someone who’s son is buried here thank you for such a beautiful video, and thanks for the heads up on the Iverson statue, I’ve never noticed it before but it would have scared the crap out of me too.
What do you want to bet Don Iverson had a REALLY good sense of humor?
Sorry for your loss
I’m so sorry for your loss 🙏🏼
Don Iverson was a man with a sense of humor-I’m guessing he would have laughed heartily at your surprise. By the way that is a life size statue of him. He was a relative. Our family headstone and family graves are also here. Lots of history
Yes, definitely life size. I'm 6 foot 1 inch and that was just as tall if not taller than me.
Watching this from Belfast Ireland 🇮🇪 😊 ❤
@@MichaelKing-k1e awesome! Welcome!
I'll bet there are some fascinating cemeteries in Belfast, Ireland too.
My great great grandparents came for Belfast!
Watching this from Illinois, USA 🤣
What.was. ther. name. 😊@@courtneypanzer3655
This is where my Mom, Dad and little brother are buried. We live in Elburn.
So sorry. It's a beautiful cemetery.
The monuments in this cemetery are absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing
I like looking at the historical stuff at these old cemeteries
Me too! You never know what you're going to find.
I always went with my father when he went walking thru cemeteries. He especially liked the ones with the pictures on them.
I can understand the near heart attack at the Iverson mausoleum! I used to work for a flower shop as a designer with an occasional run for delivering when the boss was away. I can remember delivering to a funeral home and losing a few of my own lives. Delivery was through a back door that was also near the body prep area. As I was approaching the door (which you could see through), I could see a casket on a gurney. Imagine suddenly seeing a body sit upright!! 😱 Well, I froze. Turns out the mortician was adjusting the body inside the casket and had lifted him up to reposition him. Needless to say it was the quickest delivery I ever made!!
Lol. Glad you didn’t have a ❤attack!
@@Katmcb-r5u me too! Sure increased my heart rate though!
Great presentation of an old cemetery . Beautiful work on the statue too. ❤🙏Rip everyone 💐💎
Thanks for watching!
Saw the title and just had to watch, knowing full well you’d come across old Don! We’ve spent hours there, putting flags at all the Veteran’s grave markers before Memorial Day each year. The cemetery was turned over to the Township so they could care for it, which they do quite well. Lots of old family plots where there are still many relatives living in Elburn. Probably could have setup a guided tour if we knew you were coming 😂
Loved your tour of Blackberry Cemetery. I would have run from Don Iverson and not stopped til I got home!
I subscribed because I like your honest straightforward presentation.
@@mikearreola2609 thank you! Hope you enjoy the channel!
Yep, something about cemeteries that is always interesting. I live down the road twenty miles and never knew this was in Elburn.
Good vid,
Lee
@@Lee-qp6gf thanks for watching!
So glad to see you made your 10,000+ subscribers goal. Really enjoyed this. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My parents are buried in that cemetery. Thanks for the views.
This is a very looked after old cemetery loved watching this
@@ShirarleeWeaver thanks for watching!
I love to see the older Graves. I was looking at the grass it's green. My yard is brow. Beautiful cemetery
Thanks for watching!
That old cemetery was well taken care of. Great job!!
Thank you!
Blackberry Cemetery has a cameo in the 1974 Oscar award winning movie Harry & Tonto with Art Carney. Art is traveling by bus & the bus makes a stop on Keslinger Road just short of Route 47 with the cemetery clearly visible in the background. They also filmed a scene north of town at Albert’s Corner ( Routes 47 & 38 ) which was torn down for the current Amoco ( today’s PP ) where Art Carney was filling up his car for an earlier scene.
that is not a handshake. That represents a husband and wife going hand and hand into eternity. My husband recently passed and that is exactly what I had put on our stone.
I live right down the road on 47, very interesting, lots of history. God rest their souls.
This is a very beautiful cemetery, thank you for sharing it, so many different and awesome headstones ❤
Thanks for watching!
I drive past that cemetery every day on the way to work, definitely a hidden treasure. I called it man standing in his tomb, cool video keep up the great work. you will hit 10 k soon
That is definitely a hidden treasure for sure! I'm looking forward to editing next week's video.
This one had everything, like a box of mixed chocolates! Lol. You scared the willies out of me with that statue Bryan. Thanks for another amazing walkabout. Deb of Oz.
You over looked a horsemen close to iverson
Great show! It's a lovely cemetery with lots of beautiful headstones. Especially the Iversons. You can tell that a lot of rich people are buried here by their monuments. Some of them cost more than a 2 bedroom house. Thank you very much for the tour.
Thanks for watching!
What a great video! Glad this came up in my feed. I liked and subscribed, hope you reach your goal number of subscribers!!
Thank you! Hope you enjoy the channel.
Your name is Brian,wow the first young man i thought was wonderful back in grade school was a Brian. Went to a bday party and his mom was really mean because my parents didn't live in a extra nice house by the park 🏞️. Hope you have a wonderful week and take care. Prayers for my friend Cindy,in Icu with complications after a long run of dialysis. Very nice young man 😊
Lol...I would have peed myself had I come across that at night! You got another subscription.
Looks like a real peaceful place.
Just stumbled on to your channel through a youtube suggestion and subscribed because I love cemetery walks and tours. Just a note on the tree monuments; they were very popular and available through catalogs of the time, but if they don't have the WOW logo on them they're not Woodmen of the World memorials.
Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks for watching!
When you yelled out at the Iverson mausoleum I had to laugh! But for some reason cemeteries don’t creep me out but mausoleum do I’m not sure why! 🥰
Yea?
@@TitanicTubi yep
Looks like you’re going to hit that 10k goal very soon! With October around the corner a lot of people are looking for this type of content.
@@eviemoody Yes, all the support from everyone is amazing!
Just love this! I help people with genealogy and many times cemeteries are golden. Also, there is an elementary school in town named after John Stewart.
I'm watching on September 29th. It has been 2 weeks since this was uploaded and, you are over 10 thousand subscribers. Congratulations 🎉👏👏👏
Thank you!
This is the best tour of cemetery I have ever seen good job it's fun to watch with the man made me think he was real thanks again.
Wow, thank you!
Hi, I just found you today on my youtube, so I've subscribed, what a great video, I'll be binge watching you all of today, I hope you get to 10,000 subscribers, I'm from Wales in the UK, love looking round cemeteries especially in america, thankyou for making great videos ❤
Thank you so much! One day I will get to the UK to explore some cemeteries.
You got my subscription buddy. I really hope you achieve your goal. That'd be quite an achievement. Awesome video by YOU too.
Thank you! Hope you enjoy the channel.
@@MiddleAgedBaldGuy Aw, how sweet and thoughtful of you to reply to my comment. I am more into my Bigfoot/Cryptid and paranormal channels, but I saw your video listed. I do sometimes watch your kind of content and will make it a point to watch and support you too. You're awesome, and I really enjoyed your video. I wonder if that statue was made for one of his office buildings and was moved to his gravesite upon his passing. That would of caught me off guard too and given me a heart attack seeing it looming in the dark at night. You take care, and I really hope that one by one, you reach your goal!!✝️😊👍
Another great video Brian. I hope you make 10K soon. You always manage to crack me up at least once per video and the Iverson statue did it. I thought you were reacting to the last name Feece! 😊
Thanks 👍
You did a great job on the cemetery thank you
Thank you and thanks for watching!
A very strange monument for Iverson , but I remember when a couple of college kids were able to receive and display computer terminal data at a computer fair one year back in the 80s or 90s. I would suspect that got a lot of attention from the NSA and other security agencies!
But they never talk about it any more.
Cool cemetery though!
This is so interesting, Thank You for sharing, I enjoy your videos, I too enjoy walking through cementaries, wonder about these souls what they done, what they went through, but anyway Bless these souls prayers for them all !!!
Thanks for watching!
Enjoyed this video. Will be watching more!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Brian's reaction is priceless😂😂😂
Thanks for putting in the description that this wasn't for BlackBerry phones, so I wouldn't get my hopes up😆 It is interesting seeing grave sites from over 100 years ago.
Thanks for watching!
Ok, I admit that whatever the video was, i was going to watch! A cemetery channel! I hit the jackpot. I grew up in Elburn, and as kids my siblings, friends and i woul ride bikes down to Blackberry Cemetery for something to do especially in summer, sometimes taking a picnic lunch along. 1970s Elburn was neither large or exciting. We knew that cemetery so well. My childhood neighbor once maintained the cemetery, now he lies there with his wife. So many people i knew buried there, some died before their time. Blackberry Cemetery is located in Blackberry Township, on the edge of what was once called Blackberry Station, before the name was changed to Elburn. I liked the Blackberry and iPhone comments 😂 Pretty far back to the east, is the humble grave of a man named Jim McNair. Forgot his entire story, but I believe he was a former enslaved man, cannot remember what his occupation was. He was well regarded, and the children loved him. A dying girl dearly loved strawberries, Jim brought her some via train from Chicago. When Jim died, the schoolchildren collected funds for his monument, which features a horse on it. That Don Iverson masouleum is creepy! I used to wonder, wasn't it creepy to see yourself at the cemetery, full size? Thanks for the great video, you have a new subscriber.
@@cfherrmann362 thanks for subscribing and the great stories! Hope you enjoy the channel.
Oh, I remember the Blackberry Inn - a restaurant out Elburn way. Can't wait to get out there again and visit. I've been passing it but haven't stopped. Have you been to the cemetery in Norway, IL? You should take a look!
Sadly the BlackBerry Inn was demolished for the new & improved intersection of Route 47 & Main Street….
@@chooch1995 Oh dang. I haven't been out that way in a while. I'm so sorry. Sometimes "improvements" aren't so much.
Got my laugh for the day at the Iverson mausoleum 😆
I think he almost wet himself 😂
Always looking for a new cemetery to check out. Not too far from where I live. Will have to check this out.
Love your site my friend!!
Thank you!
You should travel over to Rochelle Illinois. It is about a hour west of Elburn following HWY 38 . Lawn ridge cemetery it has the grave of a Desert Storm F-15 Strike Eagle shot down over Basra IRAQ on the first night of the war . I don't remember if his RIO was ever recovered but he is also the namesake of the airport there in Rochelle last I knew they had a small library display of him there. His father was also a doctor in Rochelle he was flight surgeon for his squadron. His father was actually was the doctor that delivered me. But the cemetery has a marker in it for a gypsy child that was buried their and a marker with the name KRUGER on it it is a large granite marker with KRUGER in large print
Interesting. I'll have to get out that way.
Check out the one in Elmhurst il near the college. A couple of my relatives are buried there.
I subscribe to your channel. I like the cemetery videos. Nice tree with the book.
@@sallybyrd631 welcome! Hope you enjoy the channel.
I subscribed to you when u first started out
You should visit the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond VA. Beautiful headstones
Watching now
Love your content! ❤️
Thank you so much 🤗
Beautiful. Please never worry about pronouncing things, no one knows everything. It’s a lovely video. Thank you.
Thank you! 😃
Now i am going to have to go check this cemetery out. I only live about a half hour from there
It's a beautiful cemetery.
You just got a new subscriber, even with the blackhawks hat 🙂 Go Bolts, Go Kraken!
Awesome! Thank you!
Good Lawd that statue scared me. I never seen anything like that before,,wow
Thanks for watching!
Some of the tree trunk stones that don't have a Woodmen Of The World badge were built by Sears, Roebuck, and Co.
Get a polarized lens filter- it with get rid of reflections when looking through glass
Never heard of a tin metal headstone, so interesting.
Marylander here! Our state was a colony in 1634! One of the 13 original colonies! We have tons of Civil War graves! Antietam battlefield cemetery. That was the single ,bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War! Sharpsburg, Maryland September 17,1862! It had been 162 years since that battle! 🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I will get out to the east coast and explore some of those old cemeteries.
Hi bald headed man! In all the years I have spent to to graveyards and doing genealogy work, studying as well on stones, I found out unbeknownst to many people that even though there is a possible burial for people shown on the stones it does not mean that not all is what you see. Sometimes people are not in these graves with their loved ones but elsewhere in some other state,city, town ECT because many people believe they will be with their loved ones forever and that as you know is not always in many cases. Intentions are always there but as you know many different things happen so the person (s) go another route. Keep up the great findings!
Excellent point. I see that often with older cemeteries.
Great video! Glad you popped up. New subscriber.
@@GroovyGranny2233 thank you and thanks for subscribing!
Elburn used to be home to one of the best car companies for classic gm car parts..... The Parts Place. They moved to DeKalb a few years go. I've been to both.
I had a 1969 GTO and have ordered parts from them years ago.
My family is in the other cemetery. Have you checked out Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. Its my favorite.
I hope you had extra shorts with you! 😂 Sorry to laugh, I would have done the same thing.
that's one unique cemetery yes u can gaze into that man's eyes shake hands many details into his suit all the way too his wingtip shoes bronzed I think his name is with computers .. its on US 47 just west of the Metra station
Ever been to the Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne Indiana?
It’s an old one.
No, I haven't been to that one yet.
I've never laughed so much when you went to Iverson museloum 😂😂😂😂
Liked and subscribed ❤ well done
@@ohmeowzer1 thank you!
Have you walked Oak Hill or West Side in Geneva Illinois? I used to oversee those many years ago
No, but I plan to get there in the near future.
Nice tour
YOU DID IT!
The Iverson mausoleum is gorgeous, very unique. I bet you are not the only one he has scared😅
Everyone lived through sooooo much historical events. However i hate seeing so many children buried in those places
If you ever do a road trip - check out Lawernce county Arkansas, may need a county map. There are some backwoods grave yards with homemade head stones. Envision a coffee can filled with cement and marbles to write the info.
Hello, new to watching your video. You seem to be a nice fellow. I am a Sebastian Rodgers crew and had to see something minus the bad behavior of the possible future inmates 😂
Just subbed. Hope you make it to 10000 soon❤
Thank you!! Hope you enjoy the channel!
I wonder if the collapsing building on the White marker relates to him being the last of his line, since it appears that only he and his wife are buried there so he had no sons to carry on the family name.
Just subscribed...very nicely done!
Thank you! Hope you enjoy the channel.
I don't know if you've ever been to New Orleans, but we have cemeteries here that have even older graves.
Hopefully one day. I heard the cemeteries are incredible.
In the U.K. we call those smaller ones crypts
Many of us Yanks do the same thing!
We will get there! 10.000 subs!
Let's go people!
Oh! Thank you for another fantastic tour!
Thanks for watching!
@@MiddleAgedBaldGuy
Loved your cool intro!!
But for newbees to graveyard tours , I don't they would know what you were talking about.
You do make cool videos ---❤🤳👻
I'd love to know the story behind the WHITE headstone.
In the crypt , is the casket above or below ground?
Usually below the ground.
I would love going thru cemeteries.
Something can be unique, but not "very unique." Unique is definite.
Watching you from Cathlamet WA state.
Thank you!
You B should get some ghost hunting equipment. You will be able to speak to some of them.
You should check out Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, MO
Yes, I plan to get to St. Louis.
I very much enjoyed your video
@@shawntierney3708 thank you!
❤ Hi I'm Senga from Scotland! Found your channel.❤I hope you say a protection pray er with God.❤ Every time ❤ Before you enter a cemetery.❤And after you leave.❤You don't want to be going home with a demonic attachment. Or of someone who hasn't crossed over ❤ Take Care ❤
I go past that cemetery all the time.
My parents in Platteville Illinois a small cemetery
About 50 miles south of ellburn on RTe 47
Close, but not. 28.8 miles to Platteville…..just a stone’s throw east of Helmar….
Helping you out, dude. I just subscribed.
Thank you!
I think I can convince my (remaining) relatives to make our family plot look ancient by tilting all the headstones every which way.
just found your channel. new subscriber for you.
Thank you!