A Headstone Breaks In Half: And No One Knows

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • Of the headstones I've seen and worked on, the ones that are broken always capture my heart and attention. Even though this stone is relatively simple in nature and the story we have is limited, it tells us there is something here worth preserving.
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Комментарии • 62

  • @AMM3.
    @AMM3. 4 месяца назад +4

    I love that you honor the memory of those who are buried by speaking their name and telling what you know about them.

  • @karenvaughn2248
    @karenvaughn2248 4 месяца назад +3

    I am so happy that someone is repairing these tombstones. Keep up the good work.

  • @Lucinda_Jackson
    @Lucinda_Jackson Год назад +22

    So beautifully done that the casual observer would never know you'd been there. I love that you care enough to want to put things back to right, but care deeply enough to find out whose marker or monument you are setting straight. It's the personal, human to human connection... 🕊️

  • @robinwilssens4960
    @robinwilssens4960 Год назад +28

    I just stumbled across your channel! This is such a lovely thing you're doing. Very respectful ❤ thank you!

  • @sherryrector2275
    @sherryrector2275 11 месяцев назад +4

    So proud of you and everyone who are repairing these forgotten people and broken headstones. Thank you.

  • @preshuspup
    @preshuspup Год назад +6

    I stupidly just assumed these were only ever in one piece? Im 51 and the loved ones I've lost have always been cremated and scattered... I love learning about all this amazing stuff, your history is so much longer than that of Australia where I'm from 😊

  • @marks1435
    @marks1435 2 месяца назад

    I've never seen these videos before (and just subscribed), but when I clicked on this one, the gentleman on the stone has the same birthday as I do. Great videos. The work you do is so amazing, and the stories are wonderful. Thank you for doing this!

  • @Glen.Danielsen
    @Glen.Danielsen Год назад +45

    Wade: As you are working with a head stone, I’m sure the person is standing right there with you. This is very meaningful.

    • @ramonortiz7462
      @ramonortiz7462 Год назад +1

      No. It is APPOINTED unto man to die then your SPIRIT goes back to God who gave it.

    • @Glen.Danielsen
      @Glen.Danielsen Год назад +4

      @@ramonortiz7462 Hermano Ortiz, I wonder what then happens when a spirit returns to God. It is sure that there is an after-life, though the Bible is quiet about what it looks like. Yet I am certain about one thing: I have had experiences myself that make me certain that ancestors do return and at times give aid to us. Be blessed, Hermano. 🙏🏽💛

    • @ramonortiz7462
      @ramonortiz7462 Год назад

      @@Glen.Danielsen It is APPOINTED unto man to die and then the JUDGEMENT. I'm sorry but the only thing made up is that spirits roam the earth after death of the body yet after death of the PHYSICAL body sets the spirit free and returns to God who issued it.

    • @garrettb.4257
      @garrettb.4257 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@Glen.DanielsenHave you considered the Catholic Church?

    • @Glen.Danielsen
      @Glen.Danielsen 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@garrettb.4257 I am a Latter-day Saint, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yet I love the tradition of beautiful stained glass art in the Catholic Faith! 🙏🏽 😊

  • @ruraladventurer1884
    @ruraladventurer1884 Год назад +9

    Thank you for doing this. It makes me incredibly sad when I see forgotten stones like these.

    • @Scots_Diesel
      @Scots_Diesel Год назад

      Unfortunately it comes to us all.

  • @Paulie1232
    @Paulie1232 Год назад +2

    Absolutely beautiful work in caring for the dead....😊

  • @1998kamjo2005
    @1998kamjo2005 Год назад +2

    From all the loved ones resting in those graves...Thank you sir❤❤❤😊

  • @susanbaker8023
    @susanbaker8023 Год назад +2

    I just found your channel. What a beautiful thing you are doing. So very respectfull of these departed souls. Bless you.

  • @mrrs8118
    @mrrs8118 Год назад +3

    Appreciate your kind work

  • @amandawheeler2972
    @amandawheeler2972 Год назад +1

    You are amazing! Thank you for caring about these people and their headstones.

  • @ahujeffrey
    @ahujeffrey 10 месяцев назад

    I'm a new subscriber, and an instant fan! I love what you're doing here, respecting the deceased, and putting things right. In my family, I'm the only one to visit, clean, place flowers at my ancestors' graves (whenever I'm in the old country). Since I'm a newcomer to the channel, I'm curious as to whether or not you are paid and compensated for your work. Do you have to contact the family, if they're even available, before engaging in this kind of restoration? You seem like a very kindhearted individual. Much ❤

  • @Frankie--da-fixer
    @Frankie--da-fixer 11 месяцев назад

    I had to fix my dads stone because a heavy storm blew the stone off the base,i just cleaned it best i could,and used F26 to bond it back together,bend standing nearly 20 years now!!

  • @JohnnyUtah26
    @JohnnyUtah26 Месяц назад +1

    Did you ever see any ghosts or spirits in the cemeteries?

  • @geraldblackburn4883
    @geraldblackburn4883 11 месяцев назад

    This is good testament to the person, and allowing their legacy to live on, after 50 to 100 years (seems like a long time to us) there is doubtfully any material from the body left in the ground. This leads a lot of people to say, why do we use so much ground for burial when it is all gone after 100 years. I think about this and wonder, maybe some truth to that ?

  • @tracyroake2815
    @tracyroake2815 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for what you do

  • @Vaasmios
    @Vaasmios Год назад +1

    I went to school with a prigge and we where best friends from 3rd grade into 12th grade when he moved and stopped contacting me , he's in Florida now and I hope Jacob is doing well

  • @donnamay7524
    @donnamay7524 Год назад +2

    You do such an amazing job !!!! Bless you for all you do and with such great respect . Love watching your videos !!!!

  • @ahujeffrey
    @ahujeffrey 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks!

  • @finscreenname
    @finscreenname Год назад +1

    Great work as always!! 👍👍
    Hope you gave Mr Klucas a quick wash for holding the camera.😊

  • @Overflowersonly
    @Overflowersonly Год назад

    Nice work

  • @DurzoBlunts
    @DurzoBlunts Год назад +2

    I have a nearby cemetary that has a few headstones that are just flat rocks. No carving or inscription on any of them. Appalaichian people, i figured just poor mountain folk.

  • @kennethreffitt2051
    @kennethreffitt2051 Год назад

    Thank you! Good music good description and great work. I love how you tell the story of the family as you restore it

  • @TSYRR350
    @TSYRR350 Год назад

    Brother, you are a Saint with the work you do.

  • @elisabethbenders-hyde5286
    @elisabethbenders-hyde5286 11 месяцев назад

    Oh geez, looks like you needed some knee guards. What makes me come back to your channel is the background information you find about the individuals whose headstones you repair and clean. Being into genealogy I know that's not something you can quickly gather together and takes some research.

  • @vermontvermont9292
    @vermontvermont9292 Год назад +1

    Could really use you at the Plainfield vt cemetery, the one in the village. Plus both cemeteries in Northfield VT. It's amazing how they're all just falling apart. Who's in charge of the upkeep anyway? The village cemetery in Plainfield is literally falling into the river, and you can see where things are starting to um...come up. 1812 was the oldest death I've found there.

  • @libertyvilleguy2903
    @libertyvilleguy2903 Год назад

    Well done my friend, thank you for doing this.

  • @littleboydesign
    @littleboydesign Год назад

    Veteran cleaning grave stones

  • @graveconcerns
    @graveconcerns Год назад

    I only hope that someday I have half the knowledge you do. You keep me inspired to do better.

  • @nolansnerfarena3422
    @nolansnerfarena3422 11 месяцев назад

    Really cool stuff. Looks like I live less than an hour away if you ever want some help.

  • @tomt9543
    @tomt9543 8 месяцев назад

    Explain the lead strips. I don’t understand what purpose they serve unless you’re using them as shims.

  • @tassie7325
    @tassie7325 11 месяцев назад

    Just found this clip and I am amazed. What a noble job you are doing, Sir.
    One question, if I may. What is the purpose of the lead wedges?

    • @uptoolate2793
      @uptoolate2793 11 месяцев назад +1

      To support the weight so all the putty he rolls into the seam has a chance to set up and not get squeezed out from the weight.

    • @tassie7325
      @tassie7325 11 месяцев назад

      @@uptoolate2793
      Thanks

  • @gdroege44
    @gdroege44 Год назад

    You do amazing work!

  • @mygrammieis
    @mygrammieis Год назад

    Much Respect ✊

  • @marcopampulim2203
    @marcopampulim2203 Год назад

    When you this restoration do you try to find any relatives from them?

  • @beckysnead8914
    @beckysnead8914 6 месяцев назад

    When there are so many headstones that need repair and cleaning in every cemetery, how do you choose one to work on? Are you volunteering to do this, or does someone else request your help, or are you paid?

  • @geraldblackburn4883
    @geraldblackburn4883 11 месяцев назад

    You may not want to machine that, but I would, make perfect surfaces, make a few dowels and then coat both entire surfaces with contact cement or two stage epoxy and be done with it !

  • @williamsmart1767
    @williamsmart1767 Год назад

    In our local cemetery in Scotland they have knocked down any headstone in disrepair due to a child being accidentally killed by one falling, have you come across something like this in your line of work ? It’s Sad but also an understandable state of affairs for this to happen.

  • @kathymorkassel3236
    @kathymorkassel3236 11 месяцев назад

    ❤❤❤ wow how did you get started ? A nd how did you learn what to do .? HOW do you get approval for your work..?😊 God bless . Thank you 😮

  • @jamessheets6604
    @jamessheets6604 Год назад

    Wade….I love your videos! What do the wedges do? Do you put your goop on the outside of the wedges to seal them under the stone?

    • @bobcrowder6403
      @bobcrowder6403 Год назад

      It is to create a space to allow the epoxy putty to adhere the 2 pieces. Otherwise the weight of the stone would squeeze it all out.

  • @ramonortiz7462
    @ramonortiz7462 Год назад

    Do you have to have permission to handle/repair the stones?

    • @libertyvilleguy2903
      @libertyvilleguy2903 Год назад +4

      Good question. Yes, technically, you should seek permission from the family. However, as one who cleans old gravestones, I can tell you that in most every instance, the family can’t be found for those who died in the 1800’s or earlier. Thus, I don’t try to contact family, but assume they’d be fine with me cleaning the gravestones of their ancestors.

    • @ramonortiz7462
      @ramonortiz7462 Год назад +1

      @@libertyvilleguy2903 I only asked out of curiosity. What you do is a testament to the human spirit to help others past or present...

    • @libertyvilleguy2903
      @libertyvilleguy2903 Год назад +1

      @@ramonortiz7462 Thank you!

  • @lenorelestrange
    @lenorelestrange Год назад

    Forgive my ignorance but what exactly is the lead wedge for?

    • @bobcrowder6403
      @bobcrowder6403 Год назад

      It is to create a space to allow the epoxy putty to adhere the 2 pieces. Otherwise the weight of the stone would squeeze it all out.

  • @terryreynolds1366
    @terryreynolds1366 Год назад

    I bet Jesus has a good spot for you thanks

  • @KillingReal
    @KillingReal Год назад

    THERE ATE 3 HOUSES ON TOP OF A HILL IN MY TOWN. IT USE TO BE A FAMILY PLOT IN THE MID 1809S WITH 5 KNOWN BURIALS. ME AND MY FATHER FOUND THE HEADSTONES OF 5 ON THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL AND FOUND THE INFI AT ARE LIBRARY. BACK IN 2002 THEY BUILT THOSE HOUSES, BUT NEVER MOVED THE BODIES OR TOLS THE PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT THE HOUSES. I COULS NEVER FIND ANY LIVING RELATIVES OF THE OLD FAMILY. WHAT SHOULD I DO? TELL THE HOME OWNERS