So wonderful you found a lost family burial site. Heather and Leo you have solved someone's mystery as to where their family are buried. You guys are awesome and are very appreciated.
There is a graveyard not more than 5 miles south going towards Delbarton after Caney Branch going south on 65 that is so much worse than that. You couldn't even get into the cemetery if your driving. You have to walk.
Excellent job on finding these old cemeteries and bringing to our attention the names and past lives of some who are buried in them. We can see and hear the dedication of you two in each video. Thanks once again🤗
Thank you so much Heather and Leo for the history you both share from such a beautiful state. My husband was born there and I was born and raised in Arizona. We both hope to make a trip there someday!
Those thorns have a mind of their own and are good at what they do. When I was growing up in New England there were some old gravestones out in the woods that were said to be smallpox victims that they wouldn't put in the cemetery . Now I live in Tn and there's people buried all over the place in little family graveyards and such. Many have been lost to time I expect. Thanks!
That's a shame that these people are not more respected. If I live there I would clean the cemetery up. Thanks for letting the people be remembered through your videos. Job well done.
It’s very nice that you do this and those that have passed are remembered. I appreciate the photos too. As always good job and a good continuation of the past video.
Great video Leo and Heather, thank you very much. You have very good eyes Leo, I would never have spotted those sunken graves in all that brush. Thank you, for correcting the record about where these people are buried. Thank you very much again Leo and Heather. Have a great day, and a great week ahead. 😀
I love the videos but love when you zoom in on the gravestones so we can read it as well . Thanks for all your hard work especially on this cemetery...wish folks would spend some time taking care of it
Sad when cemeteries are lost but fortunately you found kind people to inform you of it. You guys need leather chaps, high leather boots and leather gloves for the briars. That's what we use for wild blackberries briars and bear trails in northern Michigan to pick berries. Note, mama always would say, look up in the trees for berries.
Leo and the thorns. You could write a book on that. Lol. It's great though that y'all finally found this cemetery. Heather much gratitude in your work giving an insight to these souls as to who they were and their lives.
Yeah that looks like you need a machete to cut through that!! If I didn’t live across the country I’d go in and try to clean up the cemetery.. maybe not so easy with it being in someone’s backyard!
Leo you’re such a trooper, will to go through the dangers of the massive thorny bushes just to entertain us, thank you!! Heather makes the investigation and photos so interesting. I love y’all’s hard work!
Man those old cemetery’s make me wanna. On my way! Help clean them up when I come in I actually hollered at Leo and talked to him for a sec in front of the pawn shop in Williamson about 3 weeks ago.
Hey guys! I’m so happy I found your videos thanks for doing them! My family is from WV and I’m always digging around looking for information and sometimes would stumble upon a mystery or murder and I love finding out all this stuff. I have two Sites you probably already use but I’m gonna share them anyway just incase and hopefully they can help.❤
Great video.....our Duff Cemetery , in Campton Kentucky, was declared protected & is cared for....i have photos, the oldest grave is 1799....deceased....
This was so interesting video I admire you both for not giving up. Leo since you seem more in often than not in woods & briar patches maybe you should bring a machete to chop away some of the hateful pricker bushes. Thanks for taking places I will never get to
Man i love watching yaws videos i really enjoy them and this is really m.y.t. not my old lady trying to mess with me even though i do laugh wuth her and love her when she does but thanks guys really keep em coming 😊❤
As I was reading the other comments, I agree a machete, gloves and boots might help. I don't want you gettin' all scratched up. Love what you and Heather are doing! Ty!
Was this a family cemetery? a city cemetery? a county cemetery? If either of the last two, I wonder why it isn't taken care of? It is a wonder that you found this cemetery. Beautiful area. Thank goodness my family cemetery is taken care of. Thank you Leo and Heather.
@@thehillbillyfiles It is so sad to know that historic cemeteries like you have visited in my of your videos are not taken care of in WV. You have visited some very interesting cemeteries located in some very interesting places. One of the most memorable was that of finding the grave of Mamie Thurmond. That was quite a unique video. All of you videos are great.
There 3 very small old grave yards prob within a 10 mile radius of my house. I keep telling my granddaughter that I want to stop and look at the headstones one day,you can tell by the head stones the are pretty old. This spring I promised myself I'm going to go see who the world has forgotten. P.s. I live in Buffalo WV
Very interesting video! Thank you for remembering all these souls 🙏.. I don’t think the video is shaky but they do make little handheld gimbals that steady the camera significantly! Just found your channel and subscribed!
We hace family from/in Lenore, W. Va. We've never seen or heard of that cemetery😢 Heard of the Memorial Gardens. Did you do a story/video on the "Lackey" cemetery up on Spruce Ridge, Lenore , W.Va??
This is both intriguing and tragic! These people had a life and had loved ones and it’s now as if they never were here? If family knew they had their kin here, why don’t they honor them at all? Just tragic!
As you entered this cemetery I had hoped this was where some of my family is buried, but alas, it is not to my knowledge. There are many cemeteries just like this up off The Old N&W Railroad Bed Rd. This area is prone to flooding and I have to think they buried all these people up in the hills so the floods would not take them away. My family is Clarks, Canterbury and Ledson, among many others.
Really enjoying your videos .. please dont ever change your format !!! Ive subscribed to other cemetary explorers they were great to start with but now they just scan over the stones and talk ..drives me nuts lol .. anyway kudos guys (y)
My grandfather is buried on his old property in Flat Top WV. There are several unmarked Graves of relatives there as well. We think they are children but no one knows.
Thank u this looks the old grave yard but still needs taken care of but u already know that thanks speaking there names again looks like some of them are still getting visitors .an thank the ppl that live there for letting that happen
Gosh, I wish you were my family. I would love to come visit. My Mom was born in Kevil, KY. I need to do a road trip. I did genealogy on my Mom’s family. My paternal grandfather goes back to King Henry in England.
Please leave the pictures and text up a little longer.❤Your show. My mother was from Logan. Her father was Cyril Hill his family owned a huge Dry cleaning and laundry business. Her mother was a Bishop.
We found a cemetery like this in Jefferson County West Virginia. Just abandoned, some of the graves had metal holders and cards. We were just kids back then trirf to get someone to preserve it, image it is all but gone now. The adults at the time (early 1970's) just didn't give a damn about whoever those folks were or their families or that they wold not have even had access to ther ancestors graves at the the time. Pretty sad.
Strap a GoPro on a bunny. Is there any way that it could be cleaned up to help save it. Some of the head stones aren't that old thank you Heather and Leo
Hey Sherri, the list of grown up cemeteries is pretty long, It would be a full time job to start cleaning them all. I don't really see it being maintained anytime soon. It takes team work and there's no team or anyone wanting to help
So sad,gone and forgotten.the ones that are in the thick over grown bush.im fro west virginia.but lived in Florida all my life.i have lots of family still in wva.lot of coal miners.wish I could go back and visit.
Do u ever do etchings (I think that’s what it is called when u place a piece of paper over the grave stone and rub a pencil over it ) to see if u can figure out the names ? Lol u need some Kevlar gloves for those thorns
It's called the Lenore Cemetery. They had been there a while, the newer grave one the lower end was the son of the guy who owned the adjoining land. He was building a shed that day.
I know many of the deceased that you identified in this video. For instance, Roger Dale Hatfield is the son of Roger and Rene (Bartram) Hatfield, and, as you stated, he is the great grandson of Preacher Anderson Hatfield. Roger Dale was struck and killed by a car driven by the local postmaster while riding his bicycle near Lenore in 1970. His father was born and raised in Preacher Anse's cabin on Blackberry Creek.
Leo, I showed this to an 85 year old former LHS teacher and she replied: "I used to take my English classes there. The students would pick out a grave and create a fictitious life story of the person. My husband's granddad buried his second wife and two children there. They died of the flu in 1918."
@Kristie Ferrell ... your aunts and uncles were my childhood best friends. Your grandparents lived next door to my family in Parsley Bottom in the 1960's . Your grandmother, Rene, as she said, practically "raised me."
Family cemeteries were common and some are still there and well kept on private property. Most people do not do that today but it is legal with following some rules in most states. Other cemeteries as far as I'm concerned a just a real estate scam. You get buried there for sure but 50 years down the road who the hell knows where these bodies will be. Built over top of in many cases and if people would read their contracts they don;t last for eternity. Do you know why? Because not much does.
So wonderful you found a lost family burial site. Heather and Leo you have solved someone's mystery as to where their family are buried. You guys are awesome and are very appreciated.
Thanks so much 😊
Someone should rebuild that cemetery. CLEAN the graves. PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE
There's hundreds more like it
It takes money to maintain them, if they're not owned by the city, county or a family, they rarely ever get the attention they should
@@lesheath6216 set up a go fund, some people are getting it for bogus, this is SOOOOOO HISTORY
There is a graveyard not more than 5 miles south going towards Delbarton after Caney Branch going south on 65 that is so much worse than that. You couldn't even get into the cemetery if your driving. You have to walk.
Excellent job on finding these old cemeteries and bringing to our attention the names and past lives of some who are buried in them. We can see and hear the dedication of you two in each video. Thanks once again🤗
Thank you so much Heather and Leo for the history you both share from such a beautiful state. My husband was born there and I was born and raised in Arizona. We both hope to make a trip there someday!
Those thorns have a mind of their own and are good at what they do. When I was growing up in New England there were some old gravestones out in the woods that were said to be smallpox victims that they wouldn't put in the cemetery . Now I live in Tn and there's people buried all over the place in little family graveyards and such. Many have been lost to time I expect. Thanks!
That's a shame that these people are not more respected. If I live there I would clean the cemetery up. Thanks for letting the people be remembered through your videos. Job well done.
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome! TY Both Leo and Heather for remembering the lost and forgotten
Thank you 🙏
That is just sad that these people have been forgotten 😢
You guys are awesome
It’s very nice that you do this and those that have passed are remembered. I appreciate the photos too. As always good job and a good continuation of the past video.
Local community's all over this country should get together and clean up cemeteries like this one.
There's hundreds
Thank you for finding & correcting these folks! Appreciate what you do! 🥰
That's kind of you to put those graves that you can on Find-A-Grave so people can find them and remember them. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you 🙏
Great video Leo and Heather, thank you very much. You have very good eyes Leo, I would never have spotted those sunken graves in all that brush. Thank you, for correcting the record about where these people are buried. Thank you very much again Leo and Heather. Have a great day, and a great week ahead. 😀
Our pleasure!
I really enjoyed this. So many cemeteries are overgrown, so sad.
I love the videos but love when you zoom in on the gravestones so we can read it as well . Thanks for all your hard work especially on this cemetery...wish folks would spend some time taking care of it
You two are so awesome to find these graves and old forgotten cemeteries. Thank you Heather for correcting find a grave.
Glad you enjoyed it
Next time you go to an old graveyard, take a flashlight and shine it on the side of the headstone. It makes reading the old engraving easier to read.
Sad when cemeteries are lost but fortunately you found kind people to inform you of it. You guys need leather chaps, high leather boots and leather gloves for the briars. That's what we use for wild blackberries briars and bear trails in northern Michigan to pick berries. Note, mama always would say, look up in the trees for berries.
Thanks Marlena 😊
Words cannot express my gratitude 🙏.. you are doing the work !! Thanks for the history.. the mystery! Love you folks from here in Maine!!
Much appreciated, and Thank You
Leo and the thorns. You could write a book on that. Lol. It's great though that y'all finally found this cemetery. Heather much gratitude in your work giving an insight to these souls as to who they were and their lives.
Thanks so much
Yeah that looks like you need a machete to cut through that!! If I didn’t live across the country I’d go in and try to clean up the cemetery.. maybe not so easy with it being in someone’s backyard!
Leo you’re such a trooper, will to go through the dangers of the massive thorny bushes just to entertain us, thank you!! Heather makes the investigation and photos so interesting. I love y’all’s hard work!
Man those old cemetery’s make me wanna. On my way! Help clean them up when I come in I actually hollered at Leo and talked to him for a sec in front of the pawn shop in Williamson about 3 weeks ago.
Hey guys! I’m so happy I found your videos thanks for doing them! My family is from WV and I’m always digging around looking for information and sometimes would stumble upon a mystery or murder and I love finding out all this stuff.
I have two
Sites you probably already use but I’m gonna share them anyway just incase and hopefully they can help.❤
Another great one you two! Maybe you know, some people use a flashlight on tombstones that are harder to read.
Great video.....our Duff Cemetery , in Campton Kentucky, was declared protected & is cared for....i have photos, the oldest grave is 1799....deceased....
Outstanding video. You both are a blessing to our home place. Thank you so much for everything you do for our region.
This was so interesting video I admire you both for not giving up. Leo since you seem more in often than not in woods & briar patches maybe you should bring a machete to chop away some of the hateful pricker bushes. Thanks for taking places I will never get to
Thanks 👍
On this week’s episode watch Leo traverse a beautiful, up kept cem……oh no wait he is mountain goating it again! 😂❤
It does seem to go that way a lot. lol
Man i love watching yaws videos i really enjoy them and this is really m.y.t. not my old lady trying to mess with me even though i do laugh wuth her and love her when she does but thanks guys really keep em coming 😊❤
Hi Leo and Heather from Boone County WV 👋 I like watching your history videos 👍😎
Thanks for sharing the video. Shame that these old cemeteries are let go and get over grown.
As I was reading the other comments, I agree a machete, gloves and boots might help. I don't want you gettin' all scratched up. Love what you and Heather are doing! Ty!
Leo you always find the briars. Thank you for being the brave one
Thanks Beth
Another good videos guys THANK you Frank from montana.....
Thank you for doing a follow up on the previous video on the Marshall's please continue what you all do
You guys are doing so we'll with your videos I wish I could be there helping you guys
Sad needs cleaning up but thank you for continuing this story great video
Thanks for watching
so sad to see it run down and over grown. thank you for sharing.
Thank you
Was this a family cemetery? a city cemetery? a county cemetery? If either of the last two, I wonder why it isn't taken care of? It is a wonder that you found this cemetery. Beautiful area. Thank goodness my family cemetery is taken care of. Thank you Leo and Heather.
Even city and county cemeteries here are not kept up really. Poor towns that can barely get by for the living. Its not enforced
@@thehillbillyfiles It is so sad to know that historic cemeteries like you have visited in my of your videos are not taken care of in WV. You have visited some very interesting cemeteries located in some very interesting places. One of the most memorable was that of finding the grave of Mamie Thurmond. That was quite a unique video. All of you videos are great.
There 3 very small old grave yards prob within a 10 mile radius of my house. I keep telling my granddaughter that I want to stop and look at the headstones one day,you can tell by the head stones the are pretty old. This spring I promised myself I'm going to go see who the world has forgotten. P.s. I live in Buffalo WV
Very nice video . Great job Leo and " onscreen " information .
Awesome job. Thank you.
Very interesting video! Thank you for remembering all these souls 🙏.. I don’t think the video is shaky but they do make little handheld gimbals that steady the camera significantly! Just found your channel and subscribed!
Thanks for subbing! I will get one, thanks for reminding me
Thank you for sharing with us❤️❤️
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Another fantastic video. Love from Australia. Stay safe. Xx
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome thanks lots of history
Our pleasure!
We hace family from/in Lenore, W. Va. We've never seen or heard of that cemetery😢 Heard of the Memorial Gardens. Did you do a story/video on the "Lackey" cemetery up on Spruce Ridge, Lenore , W.Va??
I hope you get to Thorpe cemetery in Gary WVa
Shared & Watching 🤘🏻
Love your videos! ❤
Thank you so much!!
This is both intriguing and tragic! These people had a life and had loved ones and it’s now as if they never were here? If family knew they had their kin here, why don’t they honor them at all? Just tragic!
As you entered this cemetery I had hoped this was where some of my family is buried, but alas, it is not to my knowledge. There are many cemeteries just like this up off The Old N&W Railroad Bed Rd. This area is prone to flooding and I have to think they buried all these people up in the hills so the floods would not take them away. My family is Clarks, Canterbury and Ledson, among many others.
Really enjoying your videos .. please dont ever change your format !!! Ive subscribed to other cemetary explorers they were great to start with but now they just scan over the stones and talk ..drives me nuts lol .. anyway kudos guys (y)
Glad you like them!
My grandfather is buried on his old property in Flat Top WV. There are several unmarked Graves of relatives there as well. We think they are children but no one knows.
Beautiful cemetery. Would imagine an almost impossible task to clear & maintain without pouring concrete 🤔
Roger Dale Hatfield was my uncle. Jimason and Mary were my great grandparents.
Roger Dale’s parents were Trivette Roger and Irene Bartram Hatfield. My grandparents.
Thanks for sharing 🙏
Thank u this looks the old grave yard but still needs taken care of but u already know that thanks speaking there names again looks like some of them are still getting visitors .an thank the ppl that live there for letting that happen
Kinda unusual to find an old hidden cemetery that also has some recent residents.
Have you ever been to Mullins Cemetery in Paynesville, WV? Curious as my Mom is buried there with many of her family members.
No we haven't been there as of yet
I agree , volunteer group to clean the cemetery ?
Leo what do you use to look up those causes of death
Hey Heather here, I do that part, I use ancestry and my heritage. It costs money but it's needed for the videos
Gosh, I wish you were my family. I would love to come visit. My Mom was born in Kevil, KY. I need to do a road trip. I did genealogy on my Mom’s family. My paternal grandfather goes back to King Henry in England.
Oh My!
Good Evening
Hello Brenda!
Please leave the pictures and text up a little longer.❤Your show. My mother was from Logan. Her father was Cyril Hill his family owned a huge Dry cleaning and laundry business. Her mother was a Bishop.
Great job thanks😅
We found a cemetery like this in Jefferson County West Virginia. Just abandoned, some of the graves had metal holders and cards. We were just kids back then trirf to get someone to preserve it, image it is all but gone now. The adults at the time (early 1970's) just didn't give a damn about whoever those folks were or their families or that they wold not have even had access to ther ancestors graves at the the time. Pretty sad.
Strap a GoPro on a bunny. Is there any way that it could be cleaned up to help save it. Some of the head stones aren't that old thank you Heather and Leo
Hey Sherri, the list of grown up cemeteries is pretty long, It would be a full time job to start cleaning them all. I don't really see it being maintained anytime soon. It takes team work and there's no team or anyone wanting to help
So sad,gone and forgotten.the ones that are in the thick over grown bush.im fro west virginia.but lived in Florida all my life.i have lots of family still in wva.lot of coal miners.wish I could go back and visit.
Do u ever do etchings (I think that’s what it is called when u place a piece of paper over the grave stone and rub a pencil over it ) to see if u can figure out the names ? Lol u need some Kevlar gloves for those thorns
No we never tried that. Maybe at some point we will, thank you
Thank you on a hill in the thorns in the woods
My great grandpa's second wife was Annie Hatfield. Lol, they would scare us kids with stories of "ole devil uncle Anse will get you".
Did the cemetery have a name? Do the owners find out when they buy the land or is it a surprise?
I guess it's just Lenore cemetery. I'm not sure about the other part lol
It's called the Lenore Cemetery. They had been there a while, the newer grave one the lower end was the son of the guy who owned the adjoining land. He was building a shed that day.
Those thorns are terrible.
" As usual, we end up in the woods " 😊
You should’ve brought a hatchet or brush trimmers.
This is sad
For some reason saw briars and cedar trees are usually in a grown up cemetery 🤷
Get out the weed Walker enjoyed this one
If it’s a rock pile the size of a body, that may be a grave.
You need to keep loopers in your car.
We have 4 family cemeteries in WV But there’s one I would love if you would find!! Let me know if your interested I will
Send you some information 😊
I know many of the deceased that you identified in this video. For instance, Roger Dale Hatfield is the son of Roger and Rene (Bartram) Hatfield, and, as you stated, he is the great grandson of Preacher Anderson Hatfield. Roger Dale was struck and killed by a car driven by the local postmaster while riding his bicycle near Lenore in 1970. His father was born and raised in Preacher Anse's cabin on Blackberry Creek.
Very interesting thank you
Leo, I showed this to an 85 year old former LHS teacher and she replied:
"I used to take my English classes there. The students would pick out a grave and create a fictitious life story of the person. My husband's granddad buried his second wife and two children there. They died of the flu in 1918."
Roger Dale was my uncle. Kay is my mother.
@Kristie Ferrell ... your aunts and uncles were my childhood best friends. Your grandparents lived next door to my family in Parsley Bottom in the 1960's . Your grandmother, Rene, as she said, practically "raised me."
Family cemeteries were common and some are still there and well kept on private property. Most people do not do that today but it is legal with following some rules in most states. Other cemeteries as far as I'm concerned a just a real estate scam. You get buried there for sure but 50 years down the road who the hell knows where these bodies will be. Built over top of in many cases and if people would read their contracts they don;t last for eternity. Do you know why? Because not much does.
Thorns rule in the cemetery.
Those thorns want blood, lol.
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Terrible it’s that bad of shape