My Oldest Graveyard Yet??

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[@cyndispiers8270]

I might be weird but I love cemeteries, peaceful. Lots of history. Older tombstones are fun to read. I wonder about the people who are buried there. 😀

[@crazychannel1478]

no not weird at all my moma an I always go look at cemeterys all the time since I was a little girl love from NC.

[@badmom2goody29]

Not weird. Lots of people enjoy cemeteries, and reading headstones.

[@josemendes2530]

they can live again by ressurrection. john5.28,29

[@crazychannel1478]

@@josemendes2530 yes Jose I believe that too love from NC.🙂

[@josemendes2530]

@@crazychannel1478 thanks, yes god have the power to do millions of ressurrections in our earth in the future. luke18.27

[@OcotilloTom]

Speak their name and they live again.

[@dravidianalchemist]

underrated comment

[@jasoncamore255]

According to Find a Grave, Jacob Miller, born 1663, Zurich, died 1735.

[@jacobyuan]

died 1739

[@MissKristiLee]

I'm kind of a genealogy nerd and from what I am told the later date is the date the stone was erected. Typically after burial a wooden cross was first placed as a marker as it would take a family quite some time to save the money for a headstone.

[@jchis9852]

The time it took to save enough money for the headstone is the correct explanation for the date differences. 👍🏻

[@cynthiadonahey9989]

People used bark, especially in Bird Country (Passenger pigeon and carolina parakeet), It was very thick and very hard, and kind of pagan. So it might not have been a cross to begin with. I am sure there are graves there from the 1500 and 1500s. Someone should do some sky work. .

[@sadia.679]

hi kristina sis

[@gregorylittle1461]

Great presentation! Johannes Meylin lived to be "84 Jahre, 3 Monate und 20 Tage." That's 84 YEARS,...." So he lived to a ripe old age for that time.

[@DavidSmith-oh3re]

Johannes Meylin lived 84 years,3 months and 20 days

[@braelynnpruitt6340]

That’s a good life for that time

[@walterglowacki2185]

When we lived in Myerstown ,I use to tell my sister in law come visit us and smell our dairy air !

[@SpiritBear12]

LOL, I had a real chuckle with that one!

[@septemberquest6393]

For many reasons I love to watch the cemetery tours ...it's peaceful... there's history behind every stone...a story...it's amazing to know that at one time the deceased in these plots once roamed the earth...had lives, relationships,tragedies,successes,etc...who were they?where did their souls go???there's also a semi Romantic mystery about the dead and departed ....good post ..⚰️⚰️⚰️

[@philschuler9674]

When im traveling i check out cemeteries in different towns all the time. The cemetaries on the east coast are the best and the oldest.

[@bethadams7517]

My mother's name was Anna. I miss her every single day.

[@josemendes2530]

jesus promisse a ressurrection. john5.28,29

[@carolynrog3rogers339]

I'm sorry .

[@carolzangari5879]

My mom 's dad has a family cemetary in Ephrata,Pa,on Church St.

[@jeanottens4423]

I love walking through old cemeteries. They are quiet and I love the history. Thanks for sharing!

[@lawandaclayton8888]

Beautiful countryside.

[@fewminutesfame]

This kinda stuff interests me just to think that here we are almost 300 years later hearing these names on a KZbin video! Its kind of like the equivalency of someone telling us that one day a few hundred years from now someone will be discussing our names on a foreign planet. Just interesting to think about and ponder, thanks for the share as always!

[@farmkatt38]

The older cemeteries are my absolute favorite! Thanks so much!

[@johndengler4595]

Could it be that the 1742 year was when the family finally raised the money to have a grave marker made and placed?

[@germany456]

Probably

[@charlieclark2609]

Or maybe that's the date the stone was carved

[@drjohnwills]

Yes that was the reason as told to me by my gr grandfather

[@18Bees]

I love the history of this beautiful young country. ❤️

[@wandersen173]

The tombstone for Kathryn you thought she was born in 1732 then died in 1888. She was 156 ? LOL Just giving you a little crap. I enjoy your show and your attitude a lot. Respect for the past is refreshing. Thanks

[@jchis9852]

I caught that too. She was just a wee lass of 156 years young when she left us. LOL Actually, the first date on the stone is a faded 1797 and the second date 1887, which would put her at 90 the time that she died. Living to 90 wasn't impossible back then, but it was a rarity.

[@TheDazorro]

Yes i was thinking same

[@beckyb.4592]

I love old cemeteries and all the history they contain. I’ve seen in other videos that you can use a flashlight 🔦 to help you read old tombstones, even on a sunny day it’s amazing how it helps to see dates n things. I would never use chalk or anything like that because I think it’s totally disrespectful. Of course it won’t help at all reading a different language. Lol. But you should try that sometime... just shine a flashlight on a tombstone. 👍🏼✌🏼😊🥰

[@SteamControlValve]

Use shaving cream to read old tombstone

[@salfordsal]

The idea of tombstones only came about in the 1700s. Prior to that there wasn’t really a concept of “rest in peace” and having a permanent grave in European Christianity. It was important that your body was buried in consecrated ground, and all the bits remained there, but it was expected that graves would be dug on top of previous graves. Any bones dug up in the process would be carefully reburied. In the UK where we have lots of churches that are 1000 years old or so, it is common for the graveyard to be a metre or two (3 to 6 foot) higher than the ground level of the church itself, just from the accumulation of bodies over the centuries, eventually turning to soil. Despite the age of the churches, it’s still extremely uncommon to find memorial markers that pre-date the 1700s. I thought you might find that interesting :)

[@CarrsMill]

That is interesting. I live in North County Dublin and our village church has a headstone dated 1592. The church tower is from 1282 so I didn't think the headstone was unusual until now. There's a sundial which tells "village time" which was offset from the sundial in Dublin Castle. Tom Cruise (Hollywood Actor) great great great grandfather, Patrick Russell Cruise, is buried there. The Cruise family (de Cruce) were Knights of Strongbow, Lord Leinster, since 1176.

[@philschuler9674]

I disagree with that. There are tomestones and crypt stones that go back over 1000 years...in Europe.

[@bradleyjh4939]

This is false. There's tombstones dating back to Roman period, even earlier than the 4th century, in Europe.

[@dm607]

Erm, I have a picture of an ancestors grave dated 1538 in Shropshire.

[@airbubble.]

Dont know who told you that but its a load of rubbish. There are literally hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of tombstones that date prior to the 18thC across Europe, including in the UK. The reason why its not entirely common to see more than a few at a time, in any one place, is that the majority of older stones have been removed over the years, mostly due to them being so old and breaking etc. A lot of it depends on the material they were made from. Some last longer than others.

[@nobodyspecial6958]

I just cleaned and cleared a old abandoned cemetery across from my house the oldest stone clearly marked well preserved 1684... he and his wife were the founders of the town I lived in hahaha pretty sweet

[@user-David-Alan]

Thanks for sharing. 300 years quite old. Driving up interstate 81 I can always tell when I'm in Pa. by the farm smell.

[@yager4092]

Glad I'm not alone I take vacations based on old cemeteries great video

[@carlavision6143]

Cliff, really enjoyed your video of that old beautiful cemetery! Really interesting.

[@sidkid9873]

I got a cemetery for you to go to. I lived there as a small kid, and found it while exploring. The location is called Roots Country Market, it’s only open on Tuesdays 9-8pm It’s hidden in a small patch of forest near the railroad tracks. I remember it’s very old, I’m 60 I always thought it was scary.

[@scottlambert2949]

Awesome video and great history of the cemetery 👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌

[@scribblytea3095]

I love cemeteries because they‘re so peaceful and give you the chance to reflect. I love going for a walk in complete silence while visiting my late grandma. Sadly, some people think I‘m weird and creepy for liking graveyards and cemeteries.

[@dreamtoreality9892]

When I was a child my uncle was a cemetery caretaker and he is a professional photographer who does very old and unique head stones and monuments all over the world, Look his beautiful work up Patrick Corrigan and I had an uncle and his wife that own funeral parlor So I have always been around and love cemeteries. So much history that people forgot and do not appreciate. The little one looks like Becca 1748 I believe. That looks like old Dutch like the Amish. I Was told that Amish used slate very long time ago because easy and cheaper to come by and they did there own .

[@sharondelaney5346]

Love touring graveyards...this was an especially interesting one...the peaceful setting was Lovely as well..Thanks Cliff for taking me along😊👍

[@nowhereman7398]

Cow manure smells great, compared to chicken manure

[@lindamccaughey8800]

nowhere man prefer smell of chicken poo

[@lindamccaughey8800]

That should read that I prefer smell of chicken poo but still don’t mind the other, I live in the country so used to it

[@jwcinc12]

pig manure is worse

[@carolmchargue7746]

Very interesting old cemetery. I dated a young man from Lancaster county back in the 70's when I lived in New Mexico. Beautiful countryside.

[@alexandria8255]

cow and chicken manure is way better smell than a hog farm...

[@steveoconnor7069]

I would rather smell hogs than a turkey farm! The worst smell ever.

[@crazychannel1478]

@@steveoconnor7069 yep there's one above my house ewwww love from NC

[@aweaver4011]

Thank you for taking me on a walk with you! I needed your calm, relaxing manner in a time when the world seems to be going crazy! Also, I grew up across the road and surrounded by fields. Also, a meat packing house (slaughter house) The smells weren't great, but it wasn't horrible.

[@RoxaneEllesansailes]

I give flowers for them 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

[@bigtex4058]

Love the PA countryside.

[@1006kathleen]

Totally not weird , I grew up on a farm too and that smell brings back happy memories also , but I could see how it might sound to a person who hasn't .lol

[@tyesoutherland4618]

Loved wandering with you thru this video. Really enjoyed the serene countryside. I was really amazed finding out about the Amish farms. Wouldn't it be an awesome video to be allowed access to really see and learn their lifestyle.

[@chriswhittington294]

I love old cemetaries. It is so interesting to see how the styles of the markers change in different eras. Also the names that were popular in the different eras.

[@lovelorn88nick]

I'm really curious on what their casket and even body/bones look like

[@robertgibson7419]

Probably nothing but black dirt since the environment would probably decay everything. PA is a wet state

[@Impulse_Photography]

Casket ... generally a wooden box.

[@dustydesert1674]

Lovelorn88 Nick Interestingly, clothing sometimes lasts longer than bodies. For sure the bodies in these old graves would be only some bones stained by whatever minerals are in the soil.

[@OcotilloTom]

Depending on the soil, probably a few buttons maybe nails or coffin "furniture" ie. handles, hinges etc. but more likely just stains in the soil. These folks have be down there a long time. In the 1850's Fisk came out with a iron coffin which was popular but pricey and intact corpses are still occasionally found in them. These folks were probably very practical people and just went with simple locally or homemade coffins.

[@stevenwolven9367]

When you have a chance, sneak in some night with a shovel and fill us in, pardon the pun.

[@amygentry4351]

It's a great thing you're doing dear. Some of the graves you read are not lost and forgotten. Great touring.

[@jeniw8586]

Thanks for showing this lovely old well maintained cemetery in a lovely peaceful area.

[@cynthiahamilton3232]

You are definitely a farm boy! The smell of a old farm house is certainly something we farmers never forget! You mentioned watching Time Team in another video and I had to chuckle because I watch Time Time too! Love archaeology and Britain is the place for real history. Take care and keep enjoying the woods! (I love your flower hikes also and familiar with most you share) Nothing like country!!

[@EagleJim62]

I enjoy these cemetary videos. I drive by lots of them but have never stopped to look. Im glad you do it for us.

[@JamesScott-lc8md]

The old slate headstones are in real good condition compared to the granite ones. Thx. For the tour. Have a good week

[@gayeyount7948]

Love exploring old grave yards. I live in St Augustine Florida and never get tired of wandering the old grave yards here.

[@samanthab1923]

Gaye Yount Lots of haunts in St. Augustine too. 👻

[@crazychannel1478]

Me too🙂

[@teresahill1982]

I love old cemeteries, it holds so much history.

[@betsyanderson6407]

What a neat birthday present for me - a trip to a fascinating old graveyard by my favorite KZbinr! And no one could not like you, Cliff - your videos are so informative and entertaining! :D

[@gpants3633]

Betsy Anderson Happy belated birthday. Mine was Sunday the 15th. My corona virus birthday 😆

[@annemauldin6491]

I love this! I grew up visiting my grandmother in Halifax where my dad grew up. The old family homestead was a farm in Lancaster. Using ink drawn artwork, original from the 1700's, that my mom has framed in her living room, my four siblings and I found the homestead which still exists. The new owners actually let us have a tour of the house, but not the barns. You can imagine his shock when five toe-headed early twenties southerners showed up on his doorstep.

[@Shayna11NM]

I really love watching your explores. I *especially* enjoy your cemetery explores. I've loved the serenity in them since I was a little girl. They've never been a scary place to me like some people imagine them.

[@brettmanhard7855]

This is very interesting. For me as a german i like this old cemetery gravestones. I guess these stones probably can tell a lot of history about early german roots in Pennsylvania. I preciate these kind of Videos. Greetings

[@martyjones9374]

Grandpa used manure, so understand about smell being memory. Love the old headstones. Jacob Miller & wife's were just beautiful. I like the idea of a head & foot stone. Very peaceful setting. Thanks for taking me along. :)

[@Ludofan41]

Love your adventures brotha! You rock!

[@donnicholas7552]

Cool video! I love old cemeteries!

[@janecharlton6780]

Glad this ones being well looked after , I particularly like the slate grave stones .

[@themightyborisworld]

Thank you very much for posting this video. You're awesome!

[@JoeyP322]

Very old cemetery in Grafton, VT off a road that is accessible only by foot or ATV. Revolutionary soldiers there.

[@helenchristman2950]

We always called it good country air. Great video as usual.

[@leonaheraty3760]

Thanks for sharing this wonderful history of our great nation. 🇺🇸

[@maxi6457]

...built on whose land? Where Im from, burial sites go back thousands of years...

[@victorcontreras9138]

When I visited my brother in Delaware, he showed me a picture of, supposedly the oldest marked grave in the U.S. Was dated 1722. Apparently older ones have since been discovered

[@licksnkicks1166]

I have been to Lancaster PA. One of the most prettiest places ever. There are a lot of historic cemeteries in and about the town. There all in German for the most part but they are beautiful and interesting. Thank you for your time and effort in presenting this to us. Your very respectful. CANADA

[@dougmoore5252]

I like it also. Thank you.

[@patticake7476]

It was extremely unusual for a person in the 1700's and 1800's to live into their 70's. I looked it up and the life expectancy for a man in the mid 1800's was only 41, so you can imagine what it was in the 1700's. I really enjoy your videos of these really old cemeteries. I live in Utah and our history is a lot younger, but I do have ancestors who settled in Ohio in the early 1700's.

[@Politicalfan17]

Loads of history in old cemeteries!

[@danduncan4824]

Great 👍 video Phil

[@tonystoops7802]

I grew up with that smell, I like it, reminds me of spring 😃

[@scottlambert2949]

I love those old tombstones they have a lot of history to them

[@joejones9520]

Think of the work it took to make just one grave stone back then...I guess hammer and chisel? But the lettering is so precise on all of them, I dont know how they did it.

[@MillerMeteor74]

Awesome. That's a very cool cemetery there. I enjoyed this. The oldest marked grave I ever saw here in NJ is 1720, but we do have gravestones from the 1600s, somewhere.

[@samanthab1923]

MillerMeteor74 We grew up with an old Dutch cemetery with an attached slave graveyard behind it in our neighborhood in NJ. Forget the dates but there was a house dated to 1690.

[@gregrishel4283]

Well, that answered my unasked question......love your stuff

[@francisdv]

Have always been drawn to cemeteries.

[@MsPinklady23]

Interesting video, I always find old grave yards the most interesting. Also interesting to see another Lancaster as I am in Lancaster UK currently!

[@doloresvargas6450]

Graveyards are hard to maintain nowadays,but in this case these gravestones are pretty much going to be preserved. Tony

[@jwon5614]

Manure makes for some of the best fertilizer!!! Wow the history in Pennsylvania is so cool One of the thirteen original colonies!!👂🏽😊

[@deskennett4808]

Cliff I really enjoy your videos, great scenery and commentary, I also love old cemeteries Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺👍🐨

[@thewanderingwoodsman7227]

Thanks

[@eliskagray1546]

Great video! 👍👍👍👍

[@portialancaster3442]

Tombstones weren't readily available in those days, no Walmart you know. Most of the early stones were used as ballast in ships, sold upon landing and then carved by stone masons. They were expensive and it was common for stones to be set long after the burial. Heck, when my hubby died it took 6 months from ordering his stone to having it placed in the cemetery and that was in 2016.

[@SteamControlValve]

Good video. Thanks for sharing

[@RusticVentures]

Funny fact: I can't pronounce Lancaster like everyone else. I never minded the smell of cow manure fertilizer. Nice video! Thumbs up!

[@thurstonpowell8687]

There are cemeteries up near Boston with graves dating from the early 1600's, still in excellent condition because they used slate stone instead of marble

[@carolechenowith900]

I love graveyards also. Ive always walked around in them . its so peaceful. I love to read the stones. In local ones where i grew up ive seen stones of people who i didnt know died who i knew of but werent friends. I even found my great grandfathers second wifes grave because her maiden name was also on the stone and from working on my geneology i knew her maiden name.

[@paulasmith3590]

Great video. I love old graves, the older the better.

[@aaroncarson1770]

Nice to see this history. Interesting how in the nineteenth century, the tops of the headstones had three humps on top formed by the scrollwork, but the ones from the eighteenth century favour two. 🌳⚱️🌳

[@steveschlackman4503]

The references on the internet are rather thin. Wonderful well preserved cemetery.

[@IndianJS]

Great video! 💯💯🤝

[@lilsuzq32]

This is a cool place!! (PS: I'm with you, even though I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, I still love the smell of manure on fields 💖💖💩💩💩)

[@angieschrimscher246]

Wow love these tombstones thanks for sharing

[@davidmbeckmann]

Very appropriate aroma for the visit. It's what the 18 th century smelled like.

[@sharonfleming2729]

Another brilliant video 😊

[@daveyjoweaver5183]

Another great old cemetery video and one I've been to a number of times. I do believe a gun smith named Martin Meylin is buried there. His gun shop still stands near the town of Willow Street. If I remember the gun shop was built in 1712, a small stone building. Hope you got to one I recommended not far from there with a lot of slate tombstones and people born in the 1600s. Thanks Kindly WW! DaveyJO

[@billstill1794]

Very interesting - thanks!

[@lincolnmaniac]

my family came to lancaster county from ireland around 1800 i want to go find the family graves sometime.

[@jenniferbutcher8393]

Wow! That was one giant manure spreader! Good sign of spring😊 Cool video

[@kimberlylinder1760]

Love the video thanks for sharing!

[@bekleidungu.ausrustung7068]

very nice visit!!!

[@cwalt4483]

Down on the Eastern Shore I remember old heart of yellow pine grave markers in farm cemeteries. Probably temporary but still there after over one hundred years. O yeah, nothing like country air.

[@cwb0051]

I Love Old Homes Also, Love too the squeaky floors etc...Stay Safe..

[@cookielady7662]

Loved this. I have Bauman/Bowman from PA in my ancestry. I really enjoy your cemetery explorations. TFS. ~ Betty

[@samanthab1923]

Cookie Lady Bowmans Tower is near me. Built during the revolution to watch activities along the Delaware.

[@cookielady7662]

@@samanthab1923 So interesting. I'll look into that. Thanks for the info.

[@samanthab1923]

Cookie Lady Cool 😎 hope it helps. Stay well.

[@boatsnhistory]

I’m thinking 1742 is the year the tombstones were made and replaced previous stones.

[@beckywalters2]

i love cemeterie as well quiet peacefull serene. also the hradstones are always interesting to look at

[@bruhsoundeffect2882]

to think almost everyone there has likely been forgotten.... live life to the fullest and don't worry about being remembered forever. You will only cause yourself harm in the process...

[@lindamccaughey8800]

What a beautiful graveyard, it is so peaceful. I do subscribe to another channel who do mostly graveyards (obviously not as good as yours) anyways they use a torch sideways in the stones and that frequently helps them read the names, etc. thanks for another wonderful video and for taking me along. P,ease stay safe

[@farmkatt38]

May i ask what channel you speak of? I'd love to subscribe to them also. Thank you! :)

[@lindamccaughey8800]

Sidestep adventures

[@farmkatt38]

@@lindamccaughey8800 Thank you!

[@lindamccaughey8800]

You are most welcome

[@lindamccaughey8800]

539 productions also does a lot of graveyards

[@AJOCONNELLNEWPORT]

Loved this one

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Cliff, My Grandfather had a small dairy farm and where I lived with my Parents was next to our friends farm, I really don't mind the smell at all of muck spreading and even as a child it was fine, it just reminds me of my Grandfather's farm. A very cool graveyard, so amazing that the stones are legible at all when you think of all of the seasons and the years that they have been standing there. Thanks for sharing this lovely peaceful place. x