I have found it rather hard on a light colored monument, but darker colored if you rub wheat flour in lightly at first. If still not able to read rub it in a little harder. Good luck and great video. PS I have mended broken monument as you did but laid it in new concrete for added support. Keep up with the cemetery. It is a very commendable thing to do.
As a representative of the Canfield family, I thank you for your service. Also from one maker to another a heartfelt thank you. I'm going to say this is my favorite video you've ever made.
If you are indeed a family member and were so concerned then you could have hired a monument specialist and or replace the stone; instead of accepting the metal work and adhesive monstrosity in its place. Your concern obviously doesn’t include any financial backing to the stones/grave yard maintenance.
You sure kept your promise of taking care of the graveyard, Jimmy. This was a very interesting video, you restored the tomb stones respectfully and mindful of their history. Hope you will share more of this project here on youTube!
There are a few sites with recommendations on how to read faded tombstones. One says mirrors and aiming the sunlight just right. And the other mentions using cheap very thin aluminum foil and a make up brush to run the inscription. It would be interesting to see if they work for you. Great work!
What a wonderful service you guys are preforming. Thank you for the respectful act of restoring the grave site marking the passing of family members of the past.
Great job Jimmy and Wade! This is probably one of my most favorite videos you have done Jimmy. Restoring the past and bringing honor and light to these departed souls once again. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼
Thanks Jimmy, for an interesting diversion from the house restoration, thank for being so respectful of the history and personal story behind this, the process you followed seemed the right compromise between conservation and preservation !
I’ve watched you for years and you are one of the first you tubers I subscribed to but this elevates you to a whole extra level. Thank you for all your efforts restoring these graves. My hat is off to you and your team.
The property next to mine has a small cemetery that's really old and when the property was sold the new owner was gonna bulldozer it over till I told him if he did he would pay... one way or another! Needless to say he didn't. I try to sneak over and clean it when I can. The land is for sale but I'm unable purchase but if I could I'd buy it and build a fence around it.
I've been watching your content now for several years, and the more I watch, the more I'm so impressed. I understand that producing this level of content is a grind. Keep it going. You are an inspiration...
There are so many people that would not take the time or effort to have done what you are doing because they have no tie to the place of rest. It is great to see you trying to honor those who have been layed to rest there.
Wow, what an extremely respectful thing you've done for remains that happened to be on a piece of property you bought. I commend you for something that hadn't even occurred to me until now is something that people might have an option to be respectful or disrespectful about. The idea of owning property hasn't seemed like a realistic opportunity to me and so I've never considered the kind of things that would come along with it, like gravestones etc. I like the way you've gone about it
I don’t think it would be disrespectful to leave it as it is. Decay is part of nature, and in my view there’s a beauty to it. A matter of opinion - but there’s at least one other consideration: neglected graveyards can be dangerous. Accidents occur all the time, especially with larger stones and memorials: people don’t realise how unstable these structures can become.
You can buy solutions that are designed to clean and bleach gravestones. The ones I am familiar with will whiten them within a week or less and are completely safe for most stone types. I am glad to see you start to restore that graveyard. I live next to an old cemetery that has gravestones dating back to the early 1800s and some from this year. Gravestone design has definitely changed a bit over the years.
I'm a member of the SAR - Sons of the American Revolution and one of the things we do to honor our patriot ancestors is to mark their graves with a marker during a dedication ceremony. If that would be of interest to you in having done, you can contact a local SAR chapter near the cemetery and their color guard would be happy to do that. There is no cost. Just a suggestion and another way to honor Phineas' service and memory. I appreciated your video and dedication to repairing the graves.
Thank you sir. Thank you so very much. As a historian and a recorder of old and abandoned cemeteries it crushes my soul how many of our old cemeteries are just dozed over when developers and new property owners acquire them. That is definitely not what these peoples families were thinking about when they laid their loved ones to rest.
This was very interesting. My great-great-grandfather, born in Virginia. was at the Battle of Yorktown, at age 16. He died in 1855 in Mississippi at age 90 and was buried on the land that he settled and farmed and raised ten children. It was over a hundred years later that his grave was given a proper headstone by the DAR chapter named after him. His grave is literally in the middle of nowhere, overgrown by pine trees. Every grave has a story, and I appreciate all of you who work to preserve that. And you do so with respect. I also follow Wade.
I absolutely LOVE that you are restoring the cemetery as well! You should come up with a fitting graphic and make Teator Road Cemetery shirts, or Hayward Rivenburg Farm Cemetery Restoration shirts or the like to help fund the whole project. Hell, even prints made from grave-rubbings.
Love the fact that you can't hide that big heart of yours...every video you make shows a bit of love about things that matter, the ones that are real & fundamental.
Gosh- I live in Upstate NY. I wish I had known- i would have come to meet you and help you and Wade with this one. I'm gearing up to do a full restoration of a small cemetery in my town. Check out the playlist here: ruclips.net/p/PL8id24RA9pTP5l1MNyeMLOyUgL31rcZy9
Many people were encouraged to leave Connecticut and move west. Theres a northwest corner of ohio called "the firelands" many people who lived in " Connecticut territory" which stretched into Ohio lost everything from the British burning them out, hence the name firelands. They moved and set up the Western Reserve Territory in Ohio. Western Reserve University was named after the territory. Western Reserve Territory was the second organized territory after "The Ohio Company" established in Southeastern Ohio close the Ohio River, hence Ohio University the first college in Ohio. Most of the people in the Ohio Company were Revolutionary war members Rufus Putnam being a General who knew George Washington very well.
The drawings looks like indians (or native americans ?!) ones or south america (Incas) drawings, it's interesting and nice to see on a tomb stone (for a Frenchy at least
I have friends who do a lot of gravestone recording, and I have done a bit myself. If you have any high resolution photos of the inscription, especially if you can get a raking light on it, we might be able to decipher it.
The lower inscription looks like it says something "smith" and something "hill". You never really showed it clearly in the video but it looks like it could be read.
Respect for doing this guy. I do enjoy all your videos dont often comment. I wonder if any of theses peoples family are seeing this. and maybe do not know it.
I'm John Canfield. In the early 1600s two brothers, Matthew and Thomas, came to Connecticut from England so all Canfield's in the country are descendants of the brothers. The epicenter of the Canfield's is in Northhamtonshire in southern England. Going back even further we originated in Normandy, France and the family name was Cam de Filo (or Philo?) They emigrated to southern England.
@@jimmydiresta There’s a 50/50 chance I am a direct descendant. I forgot if I’m from Matthew or Thomas, I’ll have to dig around my genealogy records to know for certain.
Just watched your video. I can appreciate your dedication as i have been the caretaker of a family plot for over 50 years. I just had the markers professionly cleaned to their original white marble look.
My parents purchased my childhood in Milford from the Canfields; in fact some Canfields live down the street from me currently. I thought the name was just common, until you said they moved from Milford. Wonder if they are connected. I will have to ask them next time I see them.
If you think about it.... For example two hundred years ago an undertaker made a tombstone, and never imagined that two hundred years from now Jimmy's hand would touch them and fix everything. We never know, nor can we even imagine that things we have made or just an ordinary photograph will be held or restored by our descendants a hundred or two hundred years from now.
I don't know if you've tried to do charcoal rubbings of any headstones that are hard to read, but that sometimes helps. Also, a man with a your resources might know someone with a LIDAR scanner. Not only would that help read the stones, but would be able to identify if there are any graves without headstones, by seeing the the various soil densities around the graveyard.
The Association of Gravestone Studies provides guidance on how to preserve/repair these monuments. In general, any non reversible repair must be reserved for extreme situations.
While your conservational efforts are applauded, couldn't the metal support frame been given a more artistic appearance? Such as tree branches or a vine growing around the stone? Something more esthetically pleasing to the eye than the basic industrial crate like design.
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I have found it rather hard on a light colored monument, but darker colored if you rub wheat flour in lightly at first. If still not able to read rub it in a little harder. Good luck and great video. PS I have mended broken monument as you did but laid it in new concrete for added support. Keep up with the cemetery. It is a very commendable thing to do.
Amazing. I absolutely love this.
As a representative of the Canfield family, I thank you for your service. Also from one maker to another a heartfelt thank you. I'm going to say this is my favorite video you've ever made.
Thank you! ☺️
You’re related to John and Phineha?!?
If you are indeed a family member and were so concerned then you could have hired a monument specialist and or replace the stone; instead of accepting the metal work and adhesive monstrosity in its place. Your concern obviously doesn’t include any financial backing to the stones/grave yard maintenance.
@@joycegifford8826 If you don't have anything nice to say keep your thoughts to yourself.
You sure kept your promise of taking care of the graveyard, Jimmy. This was a very interesting video, you restored the tomb stones respectfully and mindful of their history. Hope you will share more of this project here on youTube!
John is my 5th cousin eight times removed. Thanks for restoring the markers!
Such a pleasure working with you Jimmy, amazing work!
Thank you brother!!! Come back anytime 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you both, you are great steward's. I'll have to send you a video of a small family cemetery up in the hills of Livingstonville.
Very satisfying.😊👍🇨🇦
The way You honored those men by restoring their graves says alot about YOUR character. You are honorable indeed.Way to go!
Hard to think of a better new owner of the property. Someone that has some time and the talent to care for the cemetery. Nice restoration.
There are a few sites with recommendations on how to read faded tombstones. One says mirrors and aiming the sunlight just right. And the other mentions using cheap very thin aluminum foil and a make up brush to run the inscription. It would be interesting to see if they work for you. Great work!
What a wonderful service you guys are preforming. Thank you for the respectful act of restoring the grave site marking the passing of family members of the past.
Great job Jimmy and Wade! This is probably one of my most favorite videos you have done Jimmy. Restoring the past and bringing honor and light to these departed souls once again. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼
Absolutely beautiful Restoration of a gorgeous stone !
Thanks Jimmy, for an interesting diversion from the house restoration, thank for being so respectful of the history and personal story behind this, the process you followed seemed the right compromise between conservation and preservation !
I’ve watched you for years and you are one of the first you tubers I subscribed to but this elevates you to a whole extra level. Thank you for all your efforts restoring these graves. My hat is off to you and your team.
Thank you! 🙏🏼
Super restoration. It was great seeing them in the dark during Maker Camp. Bravo, Jimmy.
The spirits are happy! great video!
Thank you for taking the time and caring enough to restore these gravestones
Jimmy you say it in passing but if he fought at Lexington that's a huge deal. Good work brother in saving American history.
nice work👍👍. I see a face on the tombstone under the yellow ribbon in 1:58
Good job Jimmy well done
The property next to mine has a small cemetery that's really old and when the property was sold the new owner was gonna bulldozer it over till I told him if he did he would pay... one way or another! Needless to say he didn't. I try to sneak over and clean it when I can. The land is for sale but I'm unable purchase but if I could I'd buy it and build a fence around it.
I've been watching your content now for several years, and the more I watch, the more I'm so impressed. I understand that producing this level of content is a grind. Keep it going. You are an inspiration...
So very cool that you are doing this such an amazing thing.
There are so many people that would not take the time or effort to have done what you are doing because they have no tie to the place of rest. It is great to see you trying to honor those who have been layed to rest there.
Very nice- great job!
That is really awesome keeping there memory alive
Good work!
Hey Jimmy. I guess you renovate all cemetery in the future. Please make before/after video and pictures. Thank you.
Wow, so amazing. I love that you honor these hardy souls this way. Kudos to you sir.
This is interesting stuff!!! Well done.
Did you consider gluing it to other stone. It would look much better. If done right it might look like original pice.
This was so interesting well done indeed
You've done a grave service to those before us. Good job Jimmy and thank you for sharing!
Wow, what an extremely respectful thing you've done for remains that happened to be on a piece of property you bought. I commend you for something that hadn't even occurred to me until now is something that people might have an option to be respectful or disrespectful about. The idea of owning property hasn't seemed like a realistic opportunity to me and so I've never considered the kind of things that would come along with it, like gravestones etc. I like the way you've gone about it
I don’t think it would be disrespectful to leave it as it is. Decay is part of nature, and in my view there’s a beauty to it. A matter of opinion - but there’s at least one other consideration: neglected graveyards can be dangerous. Accidents occur all the time, especially with larger stones and memorials: people don’t realise how unstable these structures can become.
It's not enough to be a blogger and maker, you need to be a person! Respect!
Not seeing the link to the other channel.
Once all the stones are in place colab with a landscaper to get the ground all choochie
Connecticut was probably getying too crowed for them. So they moved on.
How did he perfectly align the pin holes?
You can buy solutions that are designed to clean and bleach gravestones. The ones I am familiar with will whiten them within a week or less and are completely safe for most stone types. I am glad to see you start to restore that graveyard. I live next to an old cemetery that has gravestones dating back to the early 1800s and some from this year. Gravestone design has definitely changed a bit over the years.
Nice restoration.
You didn't put your 𝙳𝙸𝚁𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙰 trademark/signature on the it? 😉
It’s beautiful that even in death that father helped to keep his Son standing.
Beautiful observation. I noticed that too.
Good on You guys for respecting those who have gone before us… Each one has a story✌🏼
I'm a member of the SAR - Sons of the American Revolution and one of the things we do to honor our patriot ancestors is to mark their graves with a marker during a dedication ceremony. If that would be of interest to you in having done, you can contact a local SAR chapter near the cemetery and their color guard would be happy to do that. There is no cost. Just a suggestion and another way to honor Phineas' service and memory. I appreciated your video and dedication to repairing the graves.
You’ve honored their memory. You are an excellent caretaker of the property.
Thank you sir. Thank you so very much. As a historian and a recorder of old and abandoned cemeteries it crushes my soul how many of our old cemeteries are just dozed over when developers and new property owners acquire them. That is definitely not what these peoples families were thinking about when they laid their loved ones to rest.
Canfield is one of my family names. Not sure if I'm related to these ones, but I like to think I could be. Thanks for restoring their gravestones!
This was very interesting. My great-great-grandfather, born in Virginia. was at the Battle of Yorktown, at age 16. He died in 1855 in Mississippi at age 90 and was buried on the land that he settled and farmed and raised ten children. It was over a hundred years later that his grave was given a proper headstone by the DAR chapter named after him. His grave is literally in the middle of nowhere, overgrown by pine trees.
Every grave has a story, and I appreciate all of you who work to preserve that. And you do so with respect. I also follow Wade.
I live in Mississippi and if you do not mind me asking whereabouts is he resting?
Thank you for restoring the gravestones. I am related to the Canfields and I currently live in Milford, CT.
Wow that’s incredible come visit
Link to Wade’s channel didn’t work.
A museum would match the stone to natural stone or composite stone, cut it to shape, and glue it to the back of the stone. Just sayin'.
I absolutely LOVE that you are restoring the cemetery as well! You should come up with a fitting graphic and make Teator Road Cemetery shirts, or Hayward Rivenburg Farm Cemetery Restoration shirts or the like to help fund the whole project. Hell, even prints made from grave-rubbings.
Tried the link you provided in your text. Doesn't work.
Love the fact that you can't hide that big heart of yours...every video you make shows a bit of love about things that matter, the ones that are real & fundamental.
Very cool man showing respect and preserving history! 🤙
I think the link to Wade's video is broken?
Gosh- I live in Upstate NY. I wish I had known- i would have come to meet you and help you and Wade with this one.
I'm gearing up to do a full restoration of a small cemetery in my town. Check out the playlist here:
ruclips.net/p/PL8id24RA9pTP5l1MNyeMLOyUgL31rcZy9
Please find your closest chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, they can help you identify Patriots and mark their graves.
Many people were encouraged to leave Connecticut and move west. Theres a northwest corner of ohio called "the firelands" many people who lived in " Connecticut territory" which stretched into Ohio lost everything from the British burning them out, hence the name firelands. They moved and set up the Western Reserve Territory in Ohio. Western Reserve University was named after the territory. Western Reserve Territory was the second organized territory after "The Ohio Company" established in Southeastern Ohio close the Ohio River, hence Ohio University the first college in Ohio. Most of the people in the Ohio Company were Revolutionary war members Rufus Putnam being a General who knew George Washington very well.
Did you try making a pencil rubbing onto paper?
Sometimes you can get a legible version of the epitaph.
So kind, respectful and proper. If the dead can be grateful, then for these kindness they will shed a tear. Thank you for sharing!
The drawings looks like indians (or native americans ?!) ones or south america (Incas) drawings, it's interesting and nice to see on a tomb stone (for a Frenchy at least
I have friends who do a lot of gravestone recording, and I have done a bit myself. If you have any high resolution photos of the inscription, especially if you can get a raking light on it, we might be able to decipher it.
If you have access or a friend with an infrared camera it will expose the faded text really well. Old archeology trick
So nice. I have an early 1800's cemetery by my place with very little left of the headstones. They need to be cared for.
The ancestors thank you my friend
That steel is likely to do a number to the stones. Different rates of expansion.
There is always that guy.
There’s a face image on that headstone at 1:57!!
The lower inscription looks like it says something "smith" and something "hill". You never really showed it clearly in the video but it looks like it could be read.
Will you be leveling and cleaning the area?
Good video
Loved following this story!! Nicely done!
Great work, Jimmy. Love that you’re restoring the gravestones.
Total respect to you all for doing that and fixing the broken stones they would of ment so much to someone. 👍👍👍👍👍
Respect from Belarus!
Terrific work on restoring those headstones Jimmy! I just had to have my wife watch this video because she is from Milford, CT! 👍👍
New subscriber. From Wade's channel. I am a professional genealogist and archivest. I love finding missing family members.
Both men are recognized as supporters of the Revolutionary War f John Canfield b.1724- d.1796
and his son Phineas Canfield b.1753-d.1800
Respect for doing this guy. I do enjoy all your videos dont often comment. I wonder if any of theses peoples family are seeing this. and maybe do not know it.
Respect ❤
omgosh...this is wonderful! that home is beautiful!...i see so many graveyards with fallen tombstones..thank you for doing this...Becca M Indiana
Wow 1796 George Washington was president. A lot of history in your backyard Jimmy.
This is a fantastic historical video. Good mending job, cheers from MASS.
Great Job Jimmy & Wade!!! Much respect for you doing that restoration.
it's so beautiful that I have no words... I was afraid that you would destroy this cemetery, and here's something like this.
I'm John Canfield. In the early 1600s two brothers, Matthew and Thomas, came to Connecticut from England so all Canfield's in the country are descendants of the brothers. The epicenter of the Canfield's is in Northhamtonshire in southern England. Going back even further we originated in Normandy, France and the family name was Cam de Filo (or Philo?) They emigrated to southern England.
Wow what was your profession?
Are you a direct descendant of john ?
@@jimmydiresta There’s a 50/50 chance I am a direct descendant. I forgot if I’m from Matthew or Thomas, I’ll have to dig around my genealogy records to know for certain.
@@jimmydiresta I retired from AT&T several years ago, was a white collar IT guy.
An honorable effort on your part Jimmy. Wonder if any of the descendants are aware and thankful for it.
That looks amazing! I’m sure these people are looking at you with respect and admiration for you did on their behalf,
Cool project. Interesting. Mahalo for sharing!
Just watched your video. I can appreciate your dedication as i have been the caretaker of a family plot for over 50 years. I just had the markers professionly cleaned to their original white marble look.
Very respectful job Sir, thank you ~Smile oN
I too was born in Milford, CT, like John Canfield, 256 years later!
I came here from ,Wade' channel.I will keep watching.Great job on the repair.
My parents purchased my childhood in Milford from the Canfields; in fact some Canfields live down the street from me currently. I thought the name was just common, until you said they moved from Milford. Wonder if they are connected. I will have to ask them next time I see them.
If you think about it.... For example two hundred years ago an undertaker made a tombstone, and never imagined that two hundred years from now Jimmy's hand would touch them and fix everything. We never know, nor can we even imagine that things we have made or just an ordinary photograph will be held or restored by our descendants a hundred or two hundred years from now.
Allen Teator Road Cemetery in Durham, New York
I don't know if you've tried to do charcoal rubbings of any headstones that are hard to read, but that sometimes helps. Also, a man with a your resources might know someone with a LIDAR scanner. Not only would that help read the stones, but would be able to identify if there are any graves without headstones, by seeing the the various soil densities around the graveyard.
The Association of Gravestone Studies provides guidance on how to preserve/repair these monuments. In general, any non reversible repair must be reserved for extreme situations.
While your conservational efforts are applauded, couldn't the metal support frame been given a more artistic appearance? Such as tree branches or a vine growing around the stone? Something more esthetically pleasing to the eye than the basic industrial crate like design.
Your a good man jimmy. Happy Trails
Very interesting iconography. Does anyone know the meaning of that face?