Forgotten old Cemetery in Gary West Virginia-interesting causes of death

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[@suzybailey-koubti8342]

Thank you, Leo, Heather and Danny! I also love the old cemetery videos. Heather does great research on the graves. God rest the souls of these precious men and at times with their wives who came from Europe and even Turkey to work in the mines in the 1910’s through 1940’s or so. Hard times. So many thousands of miles away from home. Some of the young men were only in their late teens. Hungarians, Czechs, Yugoslavians, Italians, Romanians, Welsh, etc. Some families never knew what happened to their loved ones 😢

[@msohiohoneybee1]

I'm from Mingo County Marrowbone!! I now live in Greenup Ky. The property that I live on now has a very old grave on it. I was told when I moved in that the state takes care of it. I have been here for 8 years and no one has touched it. My daughter and I are gonna try and clean it up this fall. Love this channel!!!😄

[@msohiohoneybee1]

I should have said cemetery

[@veronicathode1466]

That will be nice of you. You can also bring flowers and prayers so he doesn't hunt you.

[@PlatinumIrishrose]

You can go to look up the history of your property and find out who's grave it is! I'm so jealous! That's neat!! Have fun cleaning up around the grave just be careful to walk around and not over it. Many coffins were made out of wood without copper linings or cement enclosures. 😅 Best to do the research before mishandling a gravesite. ❤❤❤

[@jessiemerritt9147]

Very interesting hope you go back in few months. So sad when Grave yard is neglected . Lots history right there. God bless you all and your family’s . Ty for taking us along.

[@invicta_vita]

The cemetery videos are my favorite! Thank you for researching COD. Its always interesting to know what happened to them.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you

[@BryceEScott-yd4wu]

They need to bring Jail inmates let them clean these grave off.Hope it gets done

[@katelyncollins3960]

This is what we call the Gary #10 Cemetery. It was mainly for immigrants (Ukrainian, Hungarian, Russian, German). You'll also see some headstones with Latin on them. Gary was a diverse coal town. It is if I'm not mistaken, the oldest cemetery in the area. One not far up the road from this one, the Thorpe Cemetery, houses a lot of immigrants as well, and is still in use. The main road was in fact actually built over top of graves. Far as I know, they didn't move them. Also, back in 2004 when a bad flood occurred, part of the cemetery washed out into the road. The section that was washed out is the part in the video at the 17:40 mark where you make notice of there being graves but no markers (the flattened area). When the slide occurred (started just above where you were) it took headstones and some caskets with it. My aunt has a picture of the slide and there are caskets and headstones just sitting in the middle of the road amongst the rocks and mud. Forgive my description, but they were popping out of the dirt like daisies. I can't quite recall exactly what was done with the "uprooted" caskets or the headstones. Whether they were reburied or moved entirely, I'm not sure, so that is why there are quite a few graves not accounted for or marked (in the particular section). I don't believe there is a full list of those buried in this cemetery, pre-slide anyway. Also, at the 19:42 mark, that piece of PVC is marking a gas line. The cemetery used to be maintained by the city, but unfortunately it has been left to deteriorate for some time now. People just don't care anymore. History isn't important to them. It's a shame. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

The unmarked graves always make me sad. I can't imagine leaving a loved one in an unmarked grave. Very cool cemetery. I can't wait to see it in the winter. I'm so happy you didn't meet any snakes. I hate snakes.

[@PlatinumIrishrose]

Lots of the time their loved ones didn't even know they passed away or where. Just like when the Titanic sank we didn't have the knowledge of if our relatives were coming across in it or a different ship. We finally know some of them died in the 3rd class passenger area, probably locked behind gates. One relative did get on a lifeboat and he's the one that carried on my father's mothers line! God bless all who have no headstone. May they rest in peace forever.

[@Sa9560]

Enjoyed the video. Yes, please go back when easier to see all the graves ect. The gates and fencing are beautiful!!

[@rstar6496]

What an interesting cemetery! Thank you so much for taking us there.

[@kevinstrait4805]

Awesome episode. Heather, Leo and Danny. Look forward to part two sometime in the fall/winter. We have about two weeks of winter here in Florida. Love you all.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Sounds great!

[@marvinjohnson424]

I also watch sidestep adventures and I'm amazed how many hidden and lost cemeteries there are. Thanks for the adventure 👍🇺🇸

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks for watching!

[@allennezi1674]

Living in Appalachia was like living in a different world. What’s amazing is these people have respect for one another. Most of what they had they made and took care of it. They worked hard for their accomplishments. Love these videos and appreciate you and your wife for bringing us the history. I love the scenery when you film in the woods.

[@barbaraharshman9460]

Thank you Leo for taking us to this wonderful cemetery! Makes me wish I learned a little bit of Hungarian when my grandmother and aunts were still around!

[@45beetle]

Very interesting can’t wait for the colder weather so we can see more

[@tommywood343]

It is a very old cemetery. It looks like it's been a while since Anyone visiting. Thank you guys for this great video. And stay safe 👍

[@debbieritter1096]

interesting graveyard- always makes you wonder about the people there....thank you for the video

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@sherrilee230]

Some of the headstones are just beautiful.

[@marlenejohnson5461]

Very interesting cemetery, thanks for showing it to us!

[@grahamhayden8969]

My 2nd great grandfather, Gajo Hajdin is buried there! He came here from Croatia around 1905 to work in the Elbert coal mine. He passed from black lung at the age of 47. After he passed, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio for a better life. I plan to visit Gary and the cemetery soon to see his grave for the first time. He’s on findagrave- Gajo Hajdin

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Oh wow 😲

[@BryceEScott-yd4wu]

It brake my heart ❤️ to see people don't care no more

[@sandrahunter5749]

Hi Leo and Heather from Boone County WV 👋 I like watching your videos 👍😎 i like history videos

[@cathymcglasson6947]

Lovely old resting place may they all rest in eternal peace 🕊️

[@dixievargo8539]

My name is Ernie Vargo and Barbara Tozer was my grandmother. My mother is the one who replaced the stone in the late 50s or early 60s. I live in Columbus, Ohio, now and appreciate your video as I have not been able to visit my grandmother’s since I was a kid.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you. I'm glad you got to see it again. :-)

[@judypierce7028]

You always find the most interesting and unique places to visit Leo. I live in a city in Kentucky where it was decided to building the public library in the middle of the cemetery. That was the first time I had every heard of such a thing. My goodness! This is a really interesting cemetery. Thank you for this awesome video. Take care in your travels.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you 😊

[@2gpowell]

My wife is Russian, She explained to me that not all Orthodox crosses have that symbol. She said the one that do have several meanings. The one you showed at 22:42 is off set one end higher than the other to symbolize the other 2 men crucified with Jesus. The end that is higher points to the man that is said to have gone to up to heaven with Jesus.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks

[@patricatfurever4051]

I was curious and looked it up: “In 1890, there were 236 native Hungarians in West Virginia. By 1900, there were 1,062 Hungarians in the state, with about half of them split evenly between McDowell and Marion counties. Most were coal miners.”

[@Lhatfield]

They literally went over on top of graves with that highway.

[@brendaz9222]

This is a cool graveyard, looking forward to when yall return! Thanks Guys!

[@BryceEScott-yd4wu]

That is a shame no one takes care of the Graves no more

[@JGanes]

Coop Prairie Cemetery in Mansfield Arkansas has US Highway 71 going right through the middle of it. A lot of old cemeteries in the south have roads in the middle of them, but it's usually whites on one side and not the other. They usually chang the name of one of them. This old Orthodox cemetery is awesome!!! Great video!!!

[@riandraegon556]

It’s an Eastern Orthodox cross. My dad, a Ukrainian, had one.

[@sheepsfoot2]

Have you ever watched the movie Deer Hunter > the wedding scene i think that was an eastern Orthodox ?

[@suzybailey-koubti8342]

My husband is Syrian Orthodox and the cross is the same as Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox.

[@tanya334]

Great Grandfather was a High Priest in Russian Orthodox. I have a Wax Seal he used with that cross 😊

[@user-do7bj5cr3w]

This is heartbreaking. A highway built on top of graves is horrible.

[@johnwright8631]

I love your videos watching them one after another helped me get through covid thank you for sharing them

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank You! Glad you're feeling better. Heather and I know how that Is, we've both had it twice.

[@brianlykins6663]

Thanks, guys, & Danny for another great video. It would be interesting to know the story of this graveyard and folks that are there. Probably hundreds or thousands all across the country. Quick question - how did they put a road through a cemetery without moving the bodies ? In Texas, they can only move a body, if they find a relative and gets approval to put them somewhere else. Thank ya'll for all you do to bring us these great stories, Leo for field work and Heather for researching everything. Another quick, important question - do ya'll share the chiggers, or does Leo get to enjoy them by himself ???😂

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Sometimes, they move the ones with headstones only... I'm immune to poison ivy, poison oak, ticks, fleas, and chiggers. None of them mess with me. lol

[@BrightlikeLight]

Love this...i lived in Gary with my granparents❤

[@gregorychapman3122]

Nice video as always I love your videos. Stay safe and healthy on your journeys.

[@kerrydennison7947]

Up here in Michigan's upper peninsula in the copper and iron mining areas you find many of these old graveyards that contains many immigrants grave markers that came over in the 1840s 50s through the early 1900s to work in the copper mines and iron mines, there is a very large one at Rockland Michigan called Irish hollow cemetery, Greenland Michigan call the Greenland cemetery, there's one at the old Clifton mining town outside of the Cliff mine, two Old company mine towns cemeteries at eagle River, and a most unusual one is in Dickerson county Michigan, the keel ridge mine shaft collapse which is on private property and is very hard to get permission to visit, the story says there is 7 miners buried under the collapse shaft that could never be recovered😢, then the Barnes & hackel monument to the miners who died underground when they tapped into a large pool of surface water and flooded the mine, I would venture to say there is at least a hundred graveyards and Northern Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota that were nothing more than deceased Miners and their families, and sadly most of them are unknown and unmarked, known only to God😊🙏

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Very interesting

[@billiwilliams9972]

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[@BudFranks-fu9ye]

Beautiful country. Great video👍💯

[@jamielieberg7053]

Y"all have made a real great video love watching it you make history alive with you put into the vedeo with the old handwrighting thank you

[@breannaallen5926]

Nice Video. There are quite a few EVPs throughout your video however I thought the most interesting ones I hear were @2:11 a male voice can be heard saying "protect me" and then @5:24 a little girl can be heard saying, "hi, want to talk to ghosts?" I recommend that you talk to the people as if they are alive and ask them questions and wait a few seconds for them to answer. Most are lonely and appreciate that you take the time to talk. :)

[@ambers.]

Very interesting as always. 🙌

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you!

[@JBB4118]

I remember a tip from an old scoutmaster regarding Copperheads....if you smell cucumber one is close.

[@suzybailey-koubti8342]

Yes!!!

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I have smelled that

[@michaelbedinger4121]

This is the first time I have seen a highway cut through a cemetery like that. The cemetery, both halves, is very interesting. Like you said, mainly immigrants. Is this cemetery on county land, or privately owned? Thank you very much Leo and Heather, for another great video. Have a great day. 😊

[@dianayount2122]

as has been commented before, so many immigrants worked the mines in this country. They lived in communities with other's fr "back home', worshiped together and logically chose to be buried with or bury their loved ones with what or who they were most familiar with in an unfamiliar land.

[@MarkGrago]

My Grandmother spoke and read Hungarian, although born in Slovakia. I'll take a shot at the translation: "Pociva Drazaik is an old Hungarian family name, quite common in the Ohio Valley. Really no English translation. A son is buried here "Izavc" which translates into English as Isaac; "Smomen" may translate as Simon; he was the father, "otak"; in Hungarian this means "father." It's difficult to read the names. The fonts are displayed with trickery; quite old! Nice find. I wish I could better with the translation, but the names are really hard to "shape" if that makes any sense.

[@pamelaporter1828]

Thanks for your input. My father's biological father was Hungarian outta the Logan W.Va area. Some of their people are still in the same area. 😊

[@claudiadesoto2378]

Thank You for doing this cemetery, look forward to seeing more of it in coming months. Love your videos from N W Indiana

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks for watching!

[@marvinjohnson424]

Also I got bit on back of hand with a copperhead. Not too bad but definitely not fun.

[@larna8609]

I didn't realize a snake was so dangerous after they shed their skin. Thank you for the info!!

[@ianbabcock5951]

Before covid the inmates were brought out to weed-eat and it was kept up well, since then it's growing wild and for some reason alot of the headstones are leaning over more. At the top of the hill is a big old cement building and an old ventilation shaft from the mine (it's filled-in now). You can see it from where you were standing.

[@Everett-eh4nn]

There must be a mistake because a 9 year old doesn't get prostate cancer or alcoholism. Or thrombosis. Which is hardening of arteries causing heart attack. In Connecticut we have houses and Graves that date back to the late 1600's. Second oldest house in the country is next to me. 1670's

[@corinnestearns6661]

God bless them

[@cynthiastamper5696]

That's interesting the one with the cross on it that has a line. It's almost like the templare cross

[@glyn829]

Thats a really interesting place 👌 we enjoyed watching thanks 👍 regards Glyn 🇬🇧

[@davidjanson7982]

Volunteers to keep it cut

[@nicoleono3981]

The Spanish flu was 1918-1919, not 1916...5 of my grandpas siblings died from it (he and 3 others survived)

[@corinnestearns6661]

Love you and Heather

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you 😊

[@cjsgon2bed]

I just subscribed & enjoy these. One of the best things you do is your research & filling in the info during your editing. Thank you.

[@connie2558]

Sad and interesting, hope you can make it back at a safer time.

[@melindaschluter1669]

Wonderful place!

[@rayleneertle951]

My brother accidentally stepped on a unmarked grave when he was young and went through. He came running home yelling like the devil was after him. 😂😂 he boiled his feet

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I bet 😆

[@gregorygibson5455]

Hello Leo and Heather

[@duckscustomgarage9239]

Thank you for the things you do like adding graves to find a grave I have been doing a search on my family and I ran in to something I wish you could help me with I want to get in touch with you on. I think you would really like to look in to . It is about one of my Grate grate grate Uncles that served in the Civil War and was a Cap in Company B of the 22ND REGIMENT OF VIRGINIA CAVALRY, CSA and was Murdered by a man I have found the mans name that killed him and where it happened at but I cant find more from there . His father and brother were all in the Civil war His dad was in the same Regiment as Devil Ance was and thy was up near where Danny lives. Well between there and Matawan.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Can you send us an email with what you know to our [e-mail] email? It will get lost here. We'll take a look. :-)

[@duckscustomgarage9239]

I sure will and thanks@@thehillbillyfiles

[@loiscarson5526]

Just wonder if there was a church around there?

[@normahenson7070]

I may have some relatives buried there . They would be Dillons or Webbs !

[@charliepc56]

There is a Immigrant cemetery in Dante, Virginia. I think most were Hungarian. They came from Europe to work the mines of the Clinchfield Coal Corporation. They came here and helped build this country. We all are immigrants here.

[@markhoezee6292]

Unfortunately some graves are most likely under that road. Hope not

[@mcconellquick]

At the 5 minute and 24 second mark does anyone else hear a child’s voice say “Hi” or am I losing my mind?

[@mcconellquick]

I don’t believe in all that ghost stuff so ask Heather I know she does those hunting ghost things

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I can hear something yes, we do get voices often on here, call it ghost, call it left over residue, or energy, Im just not sure-Heather

[@byoungusa]

the funny cross was an orthodox cross, could be any eastern orthodox . It is funny to see the confusion of Leo over the Catholic and Orthodox symbols and names.

[@jerryphillips7442]

Lived in the house right across the road in the 80s my dad pastured the church. Just down the hill. We lived in the first house at the bottom of the hill that you turn down into what is called Gary #10 or Venus. Named for the coal mine numbers. It was grown up worse than that when we lived there. Uaed to play hide go seek at night in that old cemetary.

[@emmjensen8816]

the cement ones look as if they could be woodsman of the world grave markers

[@davidjanson7982]

Look up info at 6 courthouse. In Welch

[@stevecurtiss46]

Leo, that strange looking cross is a christian cross with links to Portugal and the Templars, it was used after the 1309 slaying and out lawing of thr Templars.

[@cathychilders5109]

Sounds like the orphan train children.

[@amandacausey9450]

Have you checked out Otter Cemetery? It reminds me of that one with the road running through it

[@thehillbillyfiles]

No where is it

[@littlebearrunin66]

I want to know did they move the graves in the middle of the cemetery to put the highway through?

[@thehillbillyfiles]

That's the question... Or did they just move headstones and pave the rest over???

[@littlebearrunin66]

@@thehillbillyfiles sounds to me like they just move the headstones and went over which I find appalling 😭

[@katelyncollins3960]

They paved over top of them.

[@littlebearrunin66]

@@katelyncollins3960 awful 😖

[@TammyMilam-yc4yn]

Looks very old

[@cynthiacarter514]

👍

[@tntwiggins1]

My Google lens app translated the stone as Hungarian

[@Everett-eh4nn]

Leo, this is off topic but what do you think of the Sasquatch in them woods down there. They've been reported. Or should I say Booger

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I never saw one, but friends have

[@markperrault5678]

Hey how about that they had the money to buy headstones they got paid pittance

[@suejustice7896]

I been to this grave yard

[@r.j.augustus8575]

Does anyone know the name of this cemetery?

[@katelyncollins3960]

Locals just call it #10 Cemetery. It doesn't officially have a name other than that.

[@bethgiesey9405]

Interesting cemetery. So disrespectful to put a road over top Graves. Hope they were haunted, whoever done that

[@tapptom]

What’s the actual name of this cemetery?

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Gary cemetery, McDowell county WV

[@rayleneertle951]

Was that a chinese grave, that you said was a funny cross?

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I don't think so

[@louisecoupland]

Or Japanese had a look online but no success Leo x

[@BrightlikeLight]

Does anybody keep the area?

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I don't know, Im a couple hours away

[@BryceEScott-yd4wu]

Looks like Japanese writing I might be miss stakeing

[@user-up5fd5db6e]

That gray those Graves are Hungarian

[@louisecoupland]

Looks Chinese the symbol Leo

[@elissalee3057]

Get u some snake chaps so u want get snake bite.

[@bobliptak5470]

Are you in Babyland

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I don't think so

[@loiscarson5526]

To the right a woman in long black dress standing by tree

[@thehillbillyfiles]

What time in video

[@patti9339]

Great video. I wish that cemetery was taken care of. I think we should always honor those that have passed before us. 🪦