We lost nearly all. What little is left is being torn down and leveled to be replaced with modern buildings that are cold and have no value beyond what the owners paid to build them
@@vononymous8054 Yes sir.................I am grateful to be the age I am (70) as I passed my prime years in another America which is mostly vanished now. Young people today will never understand the true freedom we had. Go to a sporting goods store today and most everything is sinister looking and just black like death itself. When I grew up hunting guns had beautiful wooden stocks and very few used semi-auto guns. Never dawned on anyone that one day people would not even understand there are only 2 sexes........male and female and we were happy being what God made us! Sick sick lost people today...........like the Bible says......."an evil and perverse generation"!
Thanks for taking us back in years to the final resting place of so many local folks. It is a shame that so many places like this have been forgotten and fallen into disrepair. Too bad today, the younger generation don't care to maintain them like we did when I was young. Every other Sunday my folks would take my brother and I out to the cemetery to visit the parents and grandparents. Mom would bring flowers and pa brought his grass clippers so we could trim back the grass that was growing up around the stones. I didn't understand when I was young and pa said he liked to come and just talk with his pa for five or ten minutes. I am 69 years old now and a great grandpa myself, and yes, I like the time I can talk things over with my pa and get his advice.
There is so much beauty and lost arts. I love your videos...being from a town called Lost Creek WV...it makes me think of a time that I canned over 500 jars of garden veggies and berries...sadly at 61 I am reduced to a one room high rise apt due to a bad heart...I spend much of my time watching about the Appalachian tales, some true, some half truths and others just made up by excellent story tellers....I have to still be content and thank God...for at least I have my own real memories of the beautiful mountains of WV. God bless you Donnie!
I remember seeing a movie when I was a very very young child about the flooding and the Tennessee Valley Authority and how an elderly women protested leaving her home. I believe it is called the Wild River starring Lee Remick and Montgomery Cliff. When I first found my kin in the mountains and hollers of West Virginia and at the bottom of Hurley, Virginia I asked to see where my Cherokee grandmother Eliza was buried. Grandma Eliza is buried at Guesses’ Fork way up on the mountain. My cousin Glenna Fay Walker recently told me that she was born wayback in the holler there in a log cabin. I did not know that !Glenna Fay is my age and everyone I have ever known in my life was born in a hospital. There is so much interesting lost history in these wonderful and beautiful areas of Appalachia. Thank you for capturing them for us and sharing them so eloquently for us to remember until we are passed on. 😇
Donnie, I love all of the publication about TVA history. I really appreciate all the time you put into this. Very educational to myself and I'm 64 years old. Still learning
Donnie, My 3rd great grandfather Henry Hunter deeded land and built Davis Creek Primitive Baptist Church back in 1797 and the old church is still going and the building still stands on Davis Creek Rd off of HWY63 in Speedwell TN. Henry Hunter is buried behind the church in a cow pasture near the creek. I live near this old church in Powell Valley named after my family. Hope to see a video one day of this area. Dennis Powell
It's a shame progress overwhelmed the peaceful life style of these people, the reason no song birds as my people say is because these Graves are forgotten & left! Found this video to be peaceful & sad, thank you for sharing.....ATB
I watch these kind of videos and see kids out running through the woods and creeks and I think just what kids are missing nowadays. Kids set playing video games now and don’t know what they’re missing.
I used to work for the park system and there was a old cemetery. Way back in,the woods. From the mid 1800, and way before. Some just had rocks to mark the grave and maybe a an initial carved on the rocks. But we would keep it clear of vegetation weeds and such. And maintain the old road leading to it. Not to many people know about it,,.
Diane Holcomb........Thank you for sharing. Thank you for the respect you're showing to the deceased. That is so respectful. Folks don't much care these days. I read your comment to my husband, he to was touched. (He hardly gives his opinon)
@@peggyhill7283 I don't work any,more. I got in,a bad car wreck. But I'm,ok. Just not fit to work. ,but. Keeping up that old cemetery was part of our job. Actually there was a couple a people who had long past relatives in,that cemetery and they would bring floweres on,decoration day. Glad you liked. That. Thankyou,,,
Heckuva story Donnie, that sure is beautiful country. Its sad to see what the price of progress has done to our rural areas and Im glad theres still people like you to remind us.
There is so much beauty right here in the US, there is no need to travel to other countries. Maybe if we appreciated what we have, more people would care more and help one another more.
Love to watch your videos. It was a different time and a totally different way of life. It was hard times for these folks, but they appreciated whatever the Lord provided for them. We take so much for granted today. Thank you and please keep bringing these great videos.
Reminds me of the cemetery where my great Grandmother is buried, with her baby daughter Louise, with only a pointed rock to mark the grave. Black Creek Cemetery is in the middle of Nowhere. The.entrance.looks like someones old driveway at first , unpaved and then opens up to probably 10-12 acres of serene ,cedar tree lined paths to the graves. It broke my heart when my great Aunt took me there. So many folks seemingly forgotten. I was grateful to my Aunt that she took me to pay my respects to my maternal Great Grandmother of.Nauvoo, AL , died 1923 of TB at 32 years of age 6 weeks after her last baby girl died of disentary at 13 months old. Tears flowed from both our eyes , she at.the loss of a big sister , me for the Grandmother I NEVER knew. My grandmother was 4 years old when the State took them away due to my great grandmothers illness. Many sad stories buried in these old forgotten places of "Last Resting". Thank you for both the visuals and the time you took to tell this wonderful story of Lost Creek Cemetery.
Just so you'll know. - - Some of us with 'the lost past' have made it to California. Try as we might there was nothing that could be done about finding family history (nobody would say anything about the past, a closed door for sure, since most relations came from another area.) California became a good place to start over or get ahead as they say. What little knowledge of my past that I acquired, I put it in a MEMOIR. "Nobody's gonna read it!" they all said, but soon realized there'll be one person wanting to know. "Somebody has to make it back to tell the story" I thought. Just saying Donna Rogers, some did leave a message for the others.
@@richardbowers3647 Dear Richard, I don't know your age but I can about guess by your nice message that your parents and grandparents were probably like mine, didn't talk about " thevpast" especially if it hurt or perhaps not so pleasant a social circumstance. I really had to DIG BACK TO MY ROOTS WITH OMLY MY GREAT GRANDMOTHETS NAME but Fortunately , as you said SOMEBODY REMWMBERED AND ANSWERED AND SHARED MORE THAN I COULD HAVE DREAMED TO KNOW.Im glad you decided to write your Memoir. I'll bet it's wonderful. Keep telling the stories that you know! And aren't we so fortunate to have outlets like RUclips channels and the internet And Ancestory .Com to help shed some light on our treasured past. I'm sad that anyone wpuldcthinl that WHERE WE COME FROMs should not or could not be very important to a present generation. My findings tho limited explained much , like the missing pieces of a puzzle just falling into place. Please keep asking and searching all who might know the least little bit. I wish you luck and thank you for replying toy comment. Keep safe!💙D
I love how u shed light on what mountain people are really like. Im 53 and in my late 20s me (from WI) and my girlfriend who used to live in S.C took a road trip down south and I wanted to see the mountains. She told me that u NEVER go to the mountains unless u have a guide or u have a large group with u. She painted a very scary picture of the people who lived there with all being back woods, killers, cannibals and psychos. She compared it to the movie, The Hills Have Eyes! Scared me half to death! Thank u for clarifying what good and loving people actually live there ! Myths spread far and wide!
Enjoyed this so much, learned a lot and found out so much fascinating history. You narrate this story so well, thank you for sharing this wonderful part of the country
Our Father above keeps records of each and every one of us. No one is lost in history. Thank you Father for that. Thanks for paying honor Donnie to these people of days gone by. Your friend, Louise
Thank you for doing this video. When I was younger I used to look up old cemeteries in Northern Wisconsin came across the foundations of old logging camps also
Nice historical piece Donnie. I enjoyed hearing about the churches and seeing the photos. So sad to move graves. Looks like they did quite a job with the excavation of the Indian burial grounds. I am descended from Lakota Sioux and wish I had more history. It was my great grandmother. My great grandfather was a very tall red headed blue eyed man and my grandmother was just lovely in the photos I have of her in her beautiful dresses and her dark hair pulled up. Thanks for sharing this-Char
I believe there are many Americans who have at least 1 native American grandparent or great grand . there are many alive today . the ways of the native Americans don't disappear with the passing of the generations. . they remain is it DNA? Is it RNA? Who knows ? It remains though .
@@reenierossi3724 thank you! I only have one picture and she is in a very proper full length dress with her hair is pinned up and she is standing and he is in a suit seated in a chair next to her. She is smiling and just lovely. Reminds me of my mother.
Thanks for the wonderful story. Many years ago we were hiking in Virginia and came upon a few old apple trees and a grave with an unmarked stone at the base of an old tree overlooking the valley. I can't imagine how many lost graves there are such as the ones you have shown here.
Dear Donnie, I LOVE your videos. Thank you so much for all your hard work to bring these to us. You are doing such a magnificent job and I love the way you talk. Please keep them coming as long as you can. I am 59 and from GA. Some of these videos make me feel longing and homesickness. What home I do not know...I do know that the first place my ancestors settled was in North Carolina according to old records...Words simply cannot convey entirely the soulful feelings I get just listening to you. YOU ARE GREATLY VALUED, LOVED AND APRECIATED BY TOTAL STRANGERS... JOY B.
Thats wild..... I lived in Kings Mtn from 1986-2004 & I and my sons would go all the time to the battle field & walk through the woods. Thanks for sharing! (=
A beautiful place. I was just there yesterday. My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Conrad Sharp, is buried there. It's sad that the place has grown-up and not cared for. A few years ago, my dad took cement and repaired several gravestones that had broken.
Donnie Laws, I really enjoy these videos. I said in a previous post on one of your other videos featuring Middlesboro, that I live in Fonde. It should have said, "LIVED" in Fonde. My Family left there in 1952 when the coal finally started going. They began to strip mine the place shortly after. My Dad had to head north to find work.
I think I know what I'm going to be doing in a few weeks during my vacation. Thanks for putting the wanderlust back into me. I love history, not what they teach in schools these days.
At 9:01 I see them sittin there at the table eatin milk and bread! Corn bread I'm sure! I still eat milk and bread! I love your stories! They remind me so much of my childhood! It's truly amazing that u r tellin our stories! Thank you!
Love that video, Donnie, I'm 49 years old. Used to go down to eastern Kentucky every Summer as a kid, down at my aunt yullas farm. I live in Cincinnati, man did I love it there. They had no electric no running water, we used to go and get a big green garbage can and put it on the back of a truck and go out to a spring near the creek. Learned my of things on that farm and my family. I do sure miss those times. Love watching your show, sir .keep doing what you're doing. Sure do thank you.
The way you describe the eerie quietness of those cemeteries reminds me of the graveyards in Boston. In the middle of the busy, noisy city, you can see where some of the Nations founders and their families are buried, and it was the same weird silence and calm. Even in the city!
Donnie I sure wish we had you in Southern WV with so much history to see and nobody to tell the stories. Old horse trails, forgotten cemeteries. I my childhood we found these while exploring. Where is Tazewell? There is a Tazewell VA 45 minutes from my home in WV.
My Mom's family is from Knoxville TN. When my sister and I went to visit in 2014 we went driving around and just a simple wrong turn we found the Buffalow family cemetery. Driving down the road you would have never known it was there. It was just by luck we found the old family cemetery
Wow Tabitha Snodderly lived to be 79 that's good for back in the 1700's Good video of the graveyard I guess we get a respect from the ones before us. You kind of get that feeling when you walk thru a graveyard and read all the different families born and died dates. Then your mind gets to wandering.
Even though I'm sure they don't take kindly to us black folk there's still something attractive about them and I really enjoy watching this. It's ashame we've had so many conflicts and they don't like us. They seem like such good humble people just like a lot of us are.
My Familys all from west Tennesee over in the Jackson area and I remember as a Teen goin out lookin for and Finding an old Family Cematary and Cleanin it up some with a Hatcht, Ax and Hand saw ,then tellin Family members about it and now some Forty + Years Later it is Properly Maintaned by some of the Locals be it Township , County or Whatever, I'm not sure who but mowed and well marked ,that was like a Treasure Hunt in my Younger Years !!! Thank You for bringing back the Memories !!!
When a nearby farm wàs divided and sold off the home was picked-up and moved , the barn tore down . All that was left was two stepping stones carved out of sandstone. The developer pushed the old stepping stones into the cellar of the home and covered it over with dirt . How much labor went into carving these stones and moving them to the old home site , people getting up on horses and wagons , only to be cast off like so much waste . Donnie , it's a shame how values have changed . Take care and God bless you . 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Dear mr. Laws Isaw the family name Tilman as well. It is the name of my friend here in the Netherlands. So nice. I will tell him. Wonderfull the way you narrate and show us the history of your country . Thank you so much !It is very touching.
I did some digging on a couple of names I could see on the grave markers. Just for kicks, I looked to see if there was a relation and....there was! I don't live near there but had family that came from TN generations ago. I've enjoyed the stories immensely and hope you won't run out! Thanks so much.
This history is important from us and our children to learn. I remember that I know a family of Sharps that are from Sharp's Chapel, and are likely related to Sharps buried here.
Just to think of all the praying, singing hymns, feelings of redemption, getting dressed up Sunday morning. All that happened, and shouldn't ever be forgotten.
@@donnielaws7020 God bless you. All the goodness from those churches were passed down to many generations. The spirit of this can never be reclaimed by nature.
We need MORE people like this today!! The 3 F's-Faith, Family and Freedom was a thing before it was a "thing"!! These folks were the originators of this!! Such s simple life back then, no MATERIALISTIC people. So, when did all this change and why?
I just found you this evening. I so appreciate and enjoy your Story Telling. This is the true History of a part of the Country most people know nothing about. I am enjoying learning. My husband's favorite subject, History. I am sure you will be getting a whole lot of views from him too. Thanks for Sharing and Telling Our Story, the fabric of this Great American Republic.
Just got notification of your video on metal detecting in an old plantation house. We are powering through your videos and enjoying the heck out of them. Thanks so much for sharing your craft of story telling.
I wouldn't mind nature taking back her land. I want a 'green' burial myself. I don't want to be put in a concrete box. I want to go back to the earth. But I'd still like a marker for my ancestors. Thank you for you wonderful stories!!
I cant get over how well you cover history. My family and yours were once on the same land. Haywood, Burke,.......I love this shared history and the way you tell it. Thank you so much. The Regulators in those mountains and the patriots who sprang from should be a story. I would love for you to talk of Watagua and 3 Fork Creek. My grandfather 7 times was Hanged as a regulator. His name was Messer and his Son's and grandsons came to Haywood and then into Tenn , but also before that. Thank you for telling the story..
If you don"t know the story of The Road To Nowhere in Bryson City NC, check it out. It"s a shame those families got forgotten about and left with no way to visit their loved ones graves, Today it"s a part of The Smokey Mountain Parkway, I swear Bigfoot goes there too. i felt a connection to my Cherokee ancestors the firsf time i visited the tunnel, Crazy ole country girl me went alone lol Thanks Donnie for all your videos and hard work, Blessed be
@@donnielaws7020 my pleasure. I also shared your video on a Facebook group about Appalachian people. Have shared several & people really like them. Helping them learn Appalachian history and share their thoughts/memories.
I just found your channel, I am in Canada, but love history of any country. I really enjoyed this video, you are an excellent narrator, and story teller. I look forward to watching more of your videos.
You spoke of the clinch river.. my great grandfather used to float log rafts down the river to sell the logs during the spring floods.. he was on a float when his first born child died.
Donnie, I've found cemeteries on outings. More and more people are doing genealogy. Please make a list with GPS coordinates if you get the time and post it. Matter of fact, I have five graves on my property in Liverpool, NY. I put them on the Internet and three of the descendents came to visit. Now the entire Thayer family knows where their kin are buried. I consider them communities because of the resurrection. All will come forth and receive what they earned by the lives they lived. That's why these grounds are sacred and must be respected. Thanks for sharing fellow boomer! Ps, not to long ago families would gather on Sundays in the cemeteries and have picnics and socialize next to their kin's remains. Life is eternal and they watch us closely from the other side of the veil and appreciate the visits. ...
I like seeing old graveyards always interesting to me because of the times when those people lived here before we did an wonders what they thought an did an the hardships they endured I like history an I like knowing about were our ancestors come from an
After the 2nd WW, my Grand Dad ( Clyde Francis Sponagle) made a few good friends from the USA. They used to come up to his hunting camp ( Carding Mill Brook Camp) .Camp was built in 57'. They brought him up a deer carrier they made and use down there hunting. Green. It is still there at Camp today.
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How much we have lost in this country culturally and how little we have gained in return.
Well said my friend.
We lost nearly all. What little is left is being torn down and leveled to be replaced with modern buildings that are cold and have no value beyond what the owners paid to build them
Wayne,Amen to that😢
@@vononymous8054 Yes sir.................I am grateful to be the age I am (70) as I passed my prime years in another America which is mostly vanished now. Young people today will never understand the true freedom we had. Go to a sporting goods store today and most everything is sinister looking and just black like death itself. When I grew up hunting guns had beautiful wooden stocks and very few used semi-auto guns. Never dawned on anyone that one day people would not even understand there are only 2 sexes........male and female and we were happy being what God made us! Sick sick lost people today...........like the Bible says......."an evil and perverse generation"!
Your voice makes me nostalgic for a time that’s way before I even existed.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I know exactly what you mean
Thanks for taking us back in years to the final resting place of so many local folks. It is a shame that so many places like this have been forgotten and fallen into disrepair. Too bad today, the younger generation don't care to maintain them like we did when I was young. Every other Sunday my folks would take my brother and I out to the cemetery to visit the parents and grandparents. Mom would bring flowers and pa brought his grass clippers so we could trim back the grass that was growing up around the stones. I didn't understand when I was young and pa said he liked to come and just talk with his pa for five or ten minutes. I am 69 years old now and a great grandpa myself, and yes, I like the time I can talk things over with my pa and get his advice.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
There is so much beauty and lost arts. I love your videos...being from a town called Lost Creek WV...it makes me think of a time that I canned over 500 jars of garden veggies and berries...sadly at 61 I am reduced to a one room high rise apt due to a bad heart...I spend much of my time watching about the Appalachian tales, some true, some half truths and others just made up by excellent story tellers....I have to still be content and thank God...for at least I have my own real memories of the beautiful mountains of WV. God bless you Donnie!
I remember seeing a movie when I was a very very young child about the flooding and the Tennessee Valley Authority and how an elderly women protested leaving her home. I believe it is called the Wild River starring Lee Remick and Montgomery Cliff.
When I first found my kin in the mountains and hollers of West Virginia and at the bottom of Hurley, Virginia I asked to see where my Cherokee grandmother Eliza was buried. Grandma Eliza is buried at Guesses’ Fork way up on the mountain. My cousin Glenna Fay Walker recently told me that she was born wayback in the holler there in a log cabin. I did not know that !Glenna Fay is my age and everyone I have ever known in my life was born in a hospital. There is so much interesting lost history in these wonderful and beautiful areas of Appalachia. Thank you for capturing them for us and sharing them so eloquently for us to remember until we are passed on. 😇
I think it was Wild River.
Wild River.
I remember that movie!
Donnie, I love all of the publication about TVA history. I really appreciate all the time you put into this. Very educational to myself and I'm 64 years old. Still learning
Thanks for sharing my friend.
We will keep learning until the day we die and are planted. Hope people will remember us.
Donnie, My 3rd great grandfather Henry Hunter deeded land and built Davis Creek Primitive Baptist Church back in 1797 and the old church is still going and the building still stands on Davis Creek Rd off of HWY63 in Speedwell TN. Henry Hunter is buried behind the church in a cow pasture near the creek. I live near this old church in Powell Valley named after my family. Hope to see a video one day of this area. Dennis Powell
💜 amen
Oh me all that history is gone like dust in the wind. Thank you sir for sharing your stories with us. Be safe and GOD BLESS y’all Amen 🙏
Your welcome friend.
It's a shame progress overwhelmed the peaceful life style of these people, the reason no song birds as my people say is because these Graves are forgotten & left! Found this video to be peaceful & sad, thank you for sharing.....ATB
Your welcome my friend.
Grey wind isn’t great
But is it progress?
Do you know why birds fly upside-down over DC? Because there isn't anyone worth shitting on. .....
I watch these kind of videos and see kids out running through the woods and creeks and I think just what kids are missing nowadays. Kids set playing video games now and don’t know what they’re missing.
I do to my friend.
I used to work for the park system and there was a old cemetery. Way back in,the woods. From the mid 1800, and way before. Some just had rocks to mark the grave and maybe a an initial carved on the rocks. But we would keep it clear of vegetation weeds and such. And maintain the old road leading to it. Not to many people know about it,,.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Diane Holcomb........Thank you for sharing. Thank you for the respect you're showing to the deceased. That is so respectful. Folks don't much care these days. I read your comment to my husband, he to was touched. (He hardly gives his opinon)
@@peggyhill7283 I don't work any,more. I got in,a bad car wreck. But I'm,ok. Just not fit to work. ,but. Keeping up that old cemetery was part of our job. Actually there was a couple a people who had long past relatives in,that cemetery and they would bring floweres on,decoration day. Glad you liked. That. Thankyou,,,
Heckuva story Donnie, that sure is beautiful country. Its sad to see what the price of progress has done to our rural areas and Im glad theres still people like you to remind us.
Ant it the truth. Thanks for sharing my friend.
There is so much beauty right here in the US, there is no need to travel to other countries. Maybe if we appreciated what we have, more people would care more and help one another more.
Love to watch your videos. It was a different time and a totally different way of life. It was hard times for these folks, but they appreciated whatever the Lord provided for them. We take so much for granted today. Thank you and please keep bringing these great videos.
I appreciate that. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Reminds me of the cemetery where my great Grandmother is buried, with her baby daughter Louise, with only a pointed rock to mark the grave. Black Creek Cemetery is in the middle of Nowhere. The.entrance.looks like someones old driveway at first , unpaved and then opens up to probably 10-12 acres of serene ,cedar tree lined paths to the graves. It broke my heart when my great Aunt took me there. So many folks seemingly forgotten. I was grateful to my Aunt that she took me to pay my respects to my maternal Great Grandmother of.Nauvoo, AL , died 1923 of TB at 32 years of age 6 weeks after her last baby girl died of disentary at 13 months old. Tears flowed from both our eyes , she at.the loss of a big sister , me for the Grandmother I NEVER knew. My grandmother was 4 years old when the State took them away due to my great grandmothers illness. Many sad stories buried in these old forgotten places of "Last Resting".
Thank you for both the visuals and the time you took to tell this wonderful story of Lost Creek Cemetery.
Thanks for sharing my friend. These old Cemeteries are being forgotten.
Just so you'll know. - - Some of us with 'the lost past' have made it to California. Try as we might there was nothing that could be done about finding family history (nobody would say anything about the past, a closed door for sure, since most relations came from another area.) California became a good place to start over or get ahead as they say. What little knowledge of my past that I acquired, I put it in a MEMOIR. "Nobody's gonna read it!" they all said, but soon realized there'll be one person wanting to know. "Somebody has to make it back to tell the story" I thought. Just saying Donna Rogers, some did leave a message for the others.
@@richardbowers3647 Dear Richard, I don't know your age but I can about guess by your nice message that your parents and grandparents were probably like mine, didn't talk about " thevpast" especially if it hurt or perhaps not so pleasant a social circumstance. I really had to DIG BACK TO MY ROOTS WITH OMLY MY GREAT GRANDMOTHETS NAME but Fortunately , as you said SOMEBODY REMWMBERED AND ANSWERED AND SHARED MORE THAN I COULD HAVE DREAMED TO KNOW.Im glad you decided to write your Memoir. I'll bet it's wonderful. Keep telling the stories that you know! And aren't we so fortunate to have outlets like RUclips channels and the internet And Ancestory .Com to help shed some light on our treasured past. I'm sad that anyone wpuldcthinl that WHERE WE COME FROMs should not or could not be very important to a present generation. My findings tho limited explained much , like the missing pieces of a puzzle just falling into place.
Please keep asking and searching all who might know the least little bit.
I wish you luck and thank you for replying toy comment. Keep safe!💙D
Thankyou for sharing that.
@@opybrook7766 Your so welcome.
I love how u shed light on what mountain people are really like. Im 53 and in my late 20s me (from WI) and my girlfriend
who used to live in S.C took a road trip down south and I wanted to see the mountains. She told me
that u NEVER go to the mountains unless u have a guide or u have a large group with u.
She painted a very scary picture of the people who lived there with all being back woods, killers,
cannibals and psychos. She compared it to the movie, The Hills Have Eyes! Scared me half to death!
Thank u for clarifying what good and loving people actually live there ! Myths spread far and wide!
Only in the movies my friend.
Thank you, for the history and the songs.
Your welcome my friend.
Your videos warm my heart. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome friend.
Enjoyed this so much, learned a lot and found out so much fascinating history.
You narrate this story so well, thank you for sharing this wonderful part of the country
Your welcome. Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
Our Father above keeps records of each and every one of us. No one is lost in history. Thank you Father for that. Thanks for paying honor Donnie to these people of days gone by. Your friend, Louise
Thank you for doing this video. When I was younger I used to look up old cemeteries in Northern Wisconsin came across the foundations of old logging camps also
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Always grateful for the time spent on your channel,thanks👍💜
You are so welcome my friend.
Nice historical piece Donnie. I enjoyed hearing about the churches and seeing the photos. So sad to move graves. Looks like they did quite a job with the excavation of the Indian burial grounds. I am descended from Lakota Sioux and wish I had more history. It was my great grandmother. My great grandfather was a very tall red headed blue eyed man and my grandmother was just lovely in the photos I have of her in her beautiful dresses and her dark hair pulled up. Thanks for sharing this-Char
Thank you. Thanks for sharing your story and thanks so much for watching my friend.
I would love to see that picture of your great-grandparents.
I believe there are many Americans who have at least 1 native American grandparent or great grand . there are many alive today . the ways of the native Americans don't disappear with the passing of the generations. . they remain is it DNA? Is it RNA? Who knows ? It remains though .
think you Donnie , for sharing ...God bless you & yours
@@reenierossi3724 thank you! I only have one picture and she is in a very proper full length dress with her hair is pinned up and she is standing and he is in a suit seated in a chair next to her. She is smiling and just lovely. Reminds me of my mother.
Your Narration is great love the story quality feel and great history HH DLs
Thank you sir. Thanks so much for watching.
Enjoyed that beautiful sad haunting music Donnie thanks you
Very welcome friend.
Your a great story teller been binge watching all day.
Awesome! Thank you!
Enjoy watching your videos and listening to you talk about the past.
I appreciate that my friend. Thank you.
Thanks for the wonderful story. Many years ago we were hiking in Virginia and came upon a few old apple trees and a grave with an unmarked stone at the base of an old tree overlooking the valley. I can't imagine how many lost graves there are such as the ones you have shown here.
I would say countless from the old pioneers my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Enjoy all the stories you share of the history here. Thank you so much. God bless 🙏 🙌 ❤
You are so welcome. Thank for sharing my friend.
Dear Donnie, I LOVE your videos. Thank you so much for all your hard work to bring these to us. You are doing such a magnificent job and I love the way you talk. Please keep them coming as long as you can. I am 59 and from GA. Some of these videos make me feel longing and homesickness. What home I do not know...I do know that the first place my ancestors settled was in North Carolina according to old records...Words simply cannot convey entirely the soulful feelings I get just listening to you. YOU ARE GREATLY VALUED, LOVED AND APRECIATED BY TOTAL STRANGERS... JOY B.
WOW! Thank you kindly friend.
Thats wild..... I lived in Kings Mtn from 1986-2004 & I and my sons would go all the time to the battle field & walk through the woods. Thanks for sharing! (=
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS, THANK YOU.
SEE YOU NEXT TIME.
Thank you friend. God bless you.
A beautiful place. I was just there yesterday. My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Conrad Sharp, is buried there. It's sad that the place has grown-up and not cared for. A few years ago, my dad took cement and repaired several gravestones that had broken.
Awesome! I love that place! So much history there. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Donnie Laws, I really enjoy these videos. I said in a previous post on one of your other videos featuring Middlesboro, that I live in Fonde. It should have said, "LIVED" in Fonde. My Family left there in 1952 when the coal finally started going. They began to strip mine the place shortly after. My Dad had to head north to find work.
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love the history you share of the south. That's where my daddy's people are from many are gone now along with their history Thank you Donnie❤😊
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
I think I know what I'm going to be doing in a few weeks during my vacation. Thanks for putting the wanderlust back into me. I love history, not what they teach in schools these days.
Your so very welcome my friend.
It is so interesting to see these old pictures.....thank you for sharing them!
Your so welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Fantastic video Donnie! You are such a gem! Thank you for your hard work to bring us these important historic stories! God bless you!
Thanks so much. Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
At 9:01 I see them sittin there at the table eatin milk and bread! Corn bread I'm sure! I still eat milk and bread! I love your stories! They remind me so much of my childhood! It's truly amazing that u r tellin our stories! Thank you!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you for the history. God bless.
Your welcome.
Love that video, Donnie, I'm 49 years old. Used to go down to eastern Kentucky every Summer as a kid, down at my aunt yullas farm. I live in Cincinnati, man did I love it there. They had no electric no running water, we used to go and get a big green garbage can and put it on the back of a truck and go out to a spring near the creek. Learned my of things on that farm and my family. I do sure miss those times. Love watching your show, sir .keep doing what you're doing. Sure do thank you.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My great grandparents are buried there.
I love this place. So much history here. Thanks so much my friend for sharing.
Watching again Donnie love history
Thank you, Donnie.
I'm enjoying your videos.
God 🙏 bless.
Sir, have you written any books as yet? I want one! Love your stories and the way you read them!
Not yet!
Fascinating stories and sights up in those woods. Beautiful, thank you for sharing Donnie. I enjoy learning all about life and history.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Very Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Love these videos. Love you taking us back in time. ❤
Thank you friend.
The way you describe the eerie quietness of those cemeteries reminds me of the graveyards in Boston. In the middle of the busy, noisy city, you can see where some of the Nations founders and their families are buried, and it was the same weird silence and calm. Even in the city!
Thank you for sharing my friend.
Donnie I sure wish we had you in Southern WV with so much history to see and nobody to tell the stories. Old horse trails, forgotten cemeteries. I my childhood we found these while exploring. Where is Tazewell? There is a Tazewell VA 45 minutes from my home in WV.
There is so much history and stories in these mountains. I wish i could cover them all. Thank you my friend.
A beautiful presentation! Thanks 👍!
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Thank you so much for sharing this video… it’s an absolute treasure! My ancestor’s history is in from Hawkins County, TN. (I’m from San Diego, CA).
Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
Summer Wells is missing from that county 3 months now! She is like 5 years old.. I’m from Oklahoma
@@isaiahmajka3030 I hope she is found my friend.
Born and raised in Hawkins County,, not too far from Shaprs Chapel. It's a beautiful place over there. Thank You for all your stories and videos! ❤
My Mom's family is from Knoxville TN. When my sister and I went to visit in 2014 we went driving around and just a simple wrong turn we found the Buffalow family cemetery. Driving down the road you would have never known it was there. It was just by luck we found the old family cemetery
So interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. It’s important we don’t forget.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Donnie, I just love your videos...so interesting the way you tell these stories with love and admiration for the people and the land...God bless ya...
Thank you so much my friend.
Wow 👏 I love the music 🎶 too this wonderful video, it's really awesome 👌 👏.
Thank you very much my friend.
Third or fourth time watching and/or listening to this one , excellent excellent content
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you for all you do my family growed in those areas
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you
Wow Tabitha Snodderly lived to be 79 that's good for back in the 1700's Good video of the graveyard I guess we get a respect from the ones before us. You kind of get that feeling when you walk thru a graveyard and read all the different families born and died dates. Then your mind gets to wandering.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Been hunting many times on chuck swan and scouting but there is a feeling you get in those woods unlike other woods.
I feel at home there. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Even though I'm sure they don't take kindly to us black folk there's still something attractive about them and I really enjoy watching this. It's ashame we've had so many conflicts and they don't like us. They seem like such good humble people just like a lot of us are.
Thanks you friend for sharing this. I grew up with some really great black friends. You judge people by their ways not their skin. God bless you.
Such a place needs documenting. Thank you.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My Familys all from west Tennesee over in the Jackson area and I remember as a Teen goin out lookin for and Finding an old Family Cematary and Cleanin it up some with a Hatcht, Ax and Hand saw ,then tellin Family members about it and now some Forty + Years Later it is Properly Maintaned by some of the Locals be it Township , County or Whatever, I'm not sure who but mowed and well marked ,that was like a Treasure Hunt in my Younger Years !!! Thank You for bringing back the Memories !!!
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank You for showing us this video.
Your very welcome my friend. God bless.
Their stories live on today ! Those people were tough as nails & they gave that toughness to their kids & grands . so they live on
Yes they was. Thanks for sharing my friend.
When a nearby farm wàs divided and sold off the home was picked-up and moved , the barn tore down . All that was left was two stepping stones carved out of sandstone. The developer pushed the old stepping stones into the cellar of the home and covered it over with dirt . How much labor went into carving these stones and moving them to the old home site , people getting up on horses and wagons , only to be cast off like so much waste . Donnie , it's a shame how values have changed . Take care and God bless you .
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It's a shame how things are now. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Dear mr. Laws
Isaw the family name Tilman as well.
It is the name of my friend here in the Netherlands. So nice. I will tell him.
Wonderfull the way you narrate and show us the history of your country .
Thank you so much !It is very touching.
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you for you work Donnie
Your very welcome my friend.
Great stories as usual, keep it up
Thanks, will do!
My family roots run deep in the mountains of Kentucky and South West Virginia. From all backgrounds..good ol mountain people.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks you for sharing. Great videos.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I did some digging on a couple of names I could see on the grave markers. Just for kicks, I looked to see if there was a relation and....there was! I don't live near there but had family that came from TN generations ago. I've enjoyed the stories immensely and hope you won't run out! Thanks so much.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Love the history! My ancestors came from lots of these area's.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
This history is important from us and our children to learn. I remember that I know a family of Sharps that are from Sharp's Chapel, and are likely related to Sharps buried here.
Yes they are. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I absolutely love your videos.
Thank you friend.
Enjoyed very much
Thank you my friend.
Sometimes I wish we could go back to the old days and the old ways.
Me to my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Just to think of all the praying, singing hymns, feelings of redemption, getting dressed up Sunday morning. All that happened, and shouldn't ever be forgotten.
Amen my friend. Thanks for sharing that. God bless you.
@@donnielaws7020 God bless you. All the goodness from those churches were passed down to many generations. The spirit of this can never be reclaimed by nature.
I love your stories.
Thank you friend.
We need MORE people like this today!! The 3 F's-Faith, Family and Freedom was a thing before it was a "thing"!! These folks were the originators of this!! Such s simple life back then, no MATERIALISTIC people. So, when did all this change and why?
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks my Friend!
I really enjoy the videos.
I live in Mid Tn but folks swear by the way I talk my ancestors must have been Irish/ Appalachian.
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I just found you this evening. I so appreciate and enjoy your Story Telling. This is the true History of a part of the Country most people know nothing about. I am enjoying learning. My husband's favorite subject, History. I am sure you will be getting a whole lot of views from him too. Thanks for Sharing and Telling Our Story, the fabric of this Great American Republic.
Welcome aboard my friend. Enjoy the channel and thank you.
Just got notification of your video on metal detecting in an old plantation house. We are powering through your videos and enjoying the heck out of them. Thanks so much for sharing your craft of story telling.
Thanks for sharing😊
My pleasure 😊
Thanks Donnie. Keep walking and talking.
That's the plan, Lord willing. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I wouldn't mind nature taking back her land. I want a 'green' burial myself. I don't want to be put in a concrete box. I want to go back to the earth. But I'd still like a marker for my ancestors. Thank you for you wonderful stories!!
Your welcome friend.
I cant get over how well you cover history. My family and yours were once on the same land. Haywood, Burke,.......I love this shared history and the way you tell it. Thank you so much. The Regulators in those mountains and the patriots who sprang from should be a story. I would love for you to talk of Watagua and 3 Fork Creek. My grandfather 7 times was Hanged as a regulator. His name was Messer and his Son's and grandsons came to Haywood and then into Tenn , but also before that. Thank you for telling the story..
Your so welcome friend. Thanks for sharing you story. Wow 7 times.
🙏🤗 Glad they found it
Thanks.
If you don"t know the story of The Road To Nowhere in Bryson City NC, check it out. It"s a shame those families got forgotten about and left with no way to visit their loved ones graves, Today it"s a part of The Smokey Mountain Parkway, I swear Bigfoot goes there too. i felt a connection to my Cherokee ancestors the firsf time i visited the tunnel, Crazy ole country girl me went alone lol Thanks Donnie for all your videos and hard work, Blessed be
Wow, I'll check it out. Your are welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Really cool video, and I love the background music.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Donnie there is so much history there I can’t believe the cemetery isn’t kept up it’s a shame isn’t it
It is a shame my friend.
The old stories about the old days are really wonderful. Makes me feel nostalgic. Thank you for posting these.
Glad you enjoyed it my friend. Thanks.
Makes me homesick for a place I've never been.......
Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 my pleasure. I also shared your video on a Facebook group about Appalachian people. Have shared several & people really like them. Helping them learn Appalachian history and share their thoughts/memories.
@@graceisamazing5493 Thank you.
thank you so much
You're welcome!
Thanks Donny
Your very welcome.
I just found your channel, I am in Canada, but love history of any country. I really enjoyed this video, you are an excellent narrator, and story teller. I look forward to watching more of your videos.
Welcome aboard my friend. Please do enjoy the channel videos. Thanks.
You spoke of the clinch river.. my great grandfather used to float log rafts down the river to sell the logs during the spring floods.. he was on a float when his first born child died.
Sad, Thanks for sharing friend.
Thank you
Your very welcome my friend.
Thankyou Donnie,hope to meet u somday
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Donnie, I've found cemeteries on outings. More and more people are doing genealogy. Please make a list with GPS coordinates if you get the time and post it. Matter of fact, I have five graves on my property in Liverpool, NY. I put them on the Internet and three of the descendents came to visit. Now the entire Thayer family knows where their kin are buried. I consider them communities because of the resurrection. All will come forth and receive what they earned by the lives they lived. That's why these grounds are sacred and must be respected. Thanks for sharing fellow boomer! Ps, not to long ago families would gather on Sundays in the cemeteries and have picnics and socialize next to their kin's remains. Life is eternal and they watch us closely from the other side of the veil and appreciate the visits. ...
Awesome my friend. Great ideal. Thanks for sharing this story and info.
Great video Donnie
Thank you very much my friend.
I like seeing old graveyards always interesting to me because of the times when those people lived here before we did an wonders what they thought an did an the hardships they endured I like history an I like knowing about were our ancestors come from an
The memories of times gone by
I understand my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
I wish you could have showed the air view of the land and the lake today but still it was Great Thank you I want to come ck it out !
Maps is all I had at the time my friend. Thanks for sharing.
After the 2nd WW, my Grand Dad ( Clyde Francis Sponagle) made a few good friends from the USA. They used to come up to his hunting camp ( Carding Mill Brook Camp) .Camp was built in 57'. They brought him up a deer carrier they made and use down there hunting. Green. It is still there at Camp today.
I couldn't tell you friend. At entrance there is some old camps with buses that has grown up. Could be one of them. Thanks for sharing this.
Very interested and great work! Thank you for all your knowledge. I live in North Georgia near Nottely lake. I bet there are similar stories here.
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing.