100-Year-Old Mass Grave in Harlan Kentucky (Spanish Flu Victims)

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[@IgnitedCoyote]

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[@rayjaypaulsen]

Thanks for keeping the History Alive! I'm sure it's highly haunted. Rest in peace for everyone who lost their lives back then. R.I.P.♥️🙏✝️

[@terrybane6206]

Videos like yours help keep these people from being forgotten forever. Nice work Coyotes.

[@IgnitedCoyote]

Thanks 👍

[@gpt465]

❤My Grandma has Spanish flu. She lost her smell it never came back!Covid was deadly but Spanish flu was too. Many people suffered and died. Thanks for sharing❤❤❤❤❤

[@bluegrassdan9411]

Thank you so much for the respectful way you treated this sacred place. I'm thankful that the souls of these men women and children have a beautiful and peaceful final resting place in Harlan Kentucky. God Bless

[@leem010]

Tree marker (4:30) is in Slovak and has "pet" or nickname "Florek" for Florian or flower. and below under date says "Beautiful Daughter"

[@noblebrooks1552]

Another great story of the forgotten great video, Thanks

[@IgnitedCoyote]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jwgbmp40]

Love your vids bro. 3/4 of my family is from s.e. Ky, I visited often in the 70's/80's. Now my kids are looking to relocate to Ky. So the renewed history is really welcomed!

[@IgnitedCoyote]

Glad our videos help

[@jwgbmp40]

@IgnitedCoyote your short informative vids are great. If my kids plant roots there, we may retire there. We both love the land and the people. My youngest daughter and I went to Louisa last Sept for the music fest, to see Tyler Childers.. let me just say the crowd was the warmest most inviting group of people I have been around, ever. We love Ky!!

[@amyheltonwalker]

So very interesting!! Thanks for sharing.

[@scottthomas6202]

My grandfather's mom and brother died of the Spanish flu in 1918...it came through and took out a lot of people. He told me a lot of real world horror stories about that epidemic. Try a photo of that tombstone and do a image search and see what the results are. If it's Cyrillic, you should be able to translate it.

[@IgnitedCoyote]

That's a great idea Scott, I'll get my son and his girlfriend to check it out they're much better at stuff like that than I am

[@musclecarmitch908]

Thank's for sharing this history with us Coyote's! Bad time in history but glad its been located where it can be marked and remembered.

[@IgnitedCoyote]

Thanks Mitch!

[@utubegeneric]

If using google translate with the first word on the tombstone (szoletet) said Hungarian detected, though wasn't an exact match for szuletett meaning Born. So, that was probably a babies grave if the year said 1918 (best I could tell from the video).

[@tombaker4586]

With all that traveling like never before in history, it's only a question of time before something contagious happens again.

[@IgnitedCoyote]

True

[@johncase1353]

You all need to bring a spirit box to see if you can speak to anyone buried there. Might help find the unknown graves.

[@maggieklara5884]

Poor funeral worker's too. What they must have seen in short period of time.

[@pamkammann1176]

My Great Gran mother died in 1918 at the age of 39 and I’ve always wondered if it was from the Spanish Flu, she’s buried in Locust Grove Cemetery in Keavy .

[@IgnitedCoyote]

From what I found out about it that's the age group that it killed the most people in.

[@susanwillis9184]

I'll have to go see this.

[@markrhodes7446]

Hey Mr and Mrs coyote happy July 4th you all be safe!

[@IgnitedCoyote]

Thank you Mark, hope you have a happy and safe fourth also.

[@susanwillis9184]

Very interesting.

[@mimitucky6843]

The "old russian" is croatian or Hungarian (most hits on translation to english apps). Something like this (???=couldnt see it clearly on video): Here rests Imre Horvath Born 1918 September 1st Died 1919 June, 27 Rest in peace, baby, Until you wake up.

[@BlueFeatherMercantile]

Oh, and yes I forgot, the third and fourth words on the stone, "рабь Божи" do translate to Servant [of] God".

[@BlueFeatherMercantile]

I posted a big long comment that included the gravestone translation, but it disappeared. I guess I put too many words.

[@IgnitedCoyote]

If it's not too much trouble please try to post it again

[@BlueFeatherMercantile]

Here rests servant of God Alex Demyanov Kastekevich. Married. Born 12 January 1885. Killed in Mine No. 5 24 September 1919. Russian. Grodno Governate, Slonim District, Rozhan County, Dolka Village.

[@BlueFeatherMercantile]

Alex Kastekevich's name is on the coal miners' memorial at the Harlan courthouse. The reference to "Mine No. 5" was sort of a mystery to me for years, but Jeremy Williams at Harlan County Extension said he found some info about it.

[@BlueFeatherMercantile]

The 1920 Lynch Census lists widow Sophia Kastekevich operating a boarding house. She had three children, all under age 5 - Nicholas, John and a girl. My memory is bad, but I think her name was Anna.

[@genecanfield3681]

Great video Coyotes! Made me think what shame it is that some innocent baby is buried up there and that bum Hitler survived the flu, and lit the world back on fire twenty years later...God know, I sure don't.

[@IgnitedCoyote]

Very true!

[@bduncan9724]

It was spread by the soldiers because they were vaccinated with it while in the service

[@willieoakley2336]

Oh my this video story is so sad to my dear Kentucky friends thank y'all for your prayers did y'all find out what k2 7 is I know it is a vitamin it's what my doctor wants me to start taking it once a day so I am trying to save up the money but again thank y'all for your prayers God bless y'all do y'all know what HSN that's a TV station that is the nurse told me but I don't have cable TV

[@IgnitedCoyote]

What we found out about it, is K2 is a good vitamin and it's very affordable it's $9.98 for a 2-month supply at Walmart. God bless you Willie we're praying for you.

[@user-ln9ru9fw8r]

Those names could be Polish also

[@TomRil]

Interesting episode and your wife is going get ate up by copperheads wearing flip flops

[@IgnitedCoyote]

She left her boots in the truck, I couldn't talk her into going back and getting them.

[@susanwillis9184]

You sure know how to find cemeteries. 😂

[@IgnitedCoyote]

It's a gift LOL

[@railfanmicahturner]

Their just dying to find them 😂

[@IgnitedCoyote]

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