@@NavyWife Absolutely Lena, it's nice for not just the family but the viewers to be able to come to closure. Some of these things are just so awful. I have nightmares if there's no conclusion sometimes
@@TheVeek192 Just kick rocks and move along. Your reply is unnecessary Edit: I see you changed your nasty comments. But I'm going to leave this message up anyway so people will know that you're a hypocrite. But I guess it's your thing to be like that. Just stop being mean all together...
Love to toke: I'm not a citizen of the US, as obviously you are. So WELL DONE contributing YOUR portion of tax towards this worthy cause!! You must be proud!! Let's hope none of your family members ever go missing - bcoz I bet you'll scream for help then!
My mom had a baby brother that died at birth. In the 1930's, the depression. The family had no money and had to surrender the baby to the city, who buried little David in an unmarked grave. Before my mom passed in 2010 we looked into where he had been buried. We knew the cemetery and hoped to put up a family marker. Unfortunately, my sister was shown a large patch of bare grass where many others had been buried by the city with no records or markers as to who is buried where. I still think perhaps some money could be raised to put a common marker on this patch of grass to acknowledge those there, even if unnamed. Unsure on the cemetery's policy. It is just the living paying respect to the dead and an acknowledgement that these people were alive and mattered at one time. I get why the town is hoping to name this soul now that we have advanced technology to do so. Respect.
Moe Wilson Most people buried their kids in the backyard, not in cemetaries, back then. Were they living in a city apartment? BTW, bodies totally disappear after 75 years so nothing is under that patch of grass.
Gail Regula I guess if you lived in the country. My mom grew up in the depression 30's. Her family always rented. Her mom and dad, two sisters lived always with an aunt or uncle to help share rent. There was no welfare back then and the family got by in an era of few jobs until the WWII. With no money and unable to afford funerals, cities took over the burial of the dead. Cremation was not big back then. Where do you think they buried the bodies? It is called a pauper's funeral. Most cemeteries have a section for these people whose families had no money to bury their loved ones or the person was unknown homeless. Yes, the cemetery does have records to the extent that bodies are buried there. Just no exact records on where in this area baby David was buried. I guess today they cremate the bodies.
Just so you know, there would be no physical remains left at all of a body simply buried in the ground in the 1930s especially a newborn's body if the body wasn't in a casket with the casket inside of a cement burial vault (highly unlikely in this case). A wooden coffin buried directly in the ground wouldn't make any difference in preserving the remains. It would have to be in a vault and even vaults break down eventually.
Actually there was a form of spring break back then. Some of the majority cities down there were booming and there was a rather large influx of people in Florida at that time. Of course calling it spring break would have been absolute insanity at that time being even going across the state of Georgia would take a long time. In reality in the 20s Florida was a popular vacation spot for the rich.
Yes, he could of been a thief and disowned by the family. Maybe that is why no one came forth to claim the body or at least put a real name on tombstone.
Excellent point. There are a lot of well off people who don't care when their children go missing. Check out the story of Vance Rodriguez, aka Mostly Harmless.
1:41 "But someone like that someone is more likely to be missing him" So because he was Wealthy means his parents would be miss him more than a not so wealthy parent?
This is so stupid. No, rich people don't miss their children more, but they would have been better able to document it, report it, keep a diary of it, and pass it down through the family. Poorer people at the turn of the last century weren't likely literate, let alone able to be taken seriously by police. This is a stupid comment.
Spend all the tax payers dollars on 90year old dead bones. All they found was a fucking tooth !!! Spend that money on a recent missing human. All that boys relatives are dead. They don't help no one , thay just want the damn adventure of this ! See how people are ? !!!**.
Agree completely - especially the reasoning why they said (at the time) he was well bred. Come on folks - completely irrelevant to say he was privileged in the context of this story.
My Grandma had two brothers that jumped a train for California during the Great Depression from Missouri, they never heard from them again. Wrong year of course. But similar fate.
I put up with them every day I work. Which you want to talk about? The one that wants to remain off the grid and is proud he hasn't had an "address" of his own in 20+ years? He spends his paycheck on beer and drugs. Or do you want to talk about the twins who both work and their girlfriend? Again, the twins paychecks go towards beer. How about the one that worked at a scrap yard making good money that chooses to live in abandoned tractor trailer trailers so he can use them money on beer? Then there is another female who chooses to sleep by the creek and sells her body for crack or heroin. Shall I keep going?
John Stilwell the sad thing is that these people have mental and emotional problems that influence this kind of behavior. Rejection, anger, addiction. The problems compound themselves.
@@SUPERIORWOMAN I hope that's not the case; or I hope that they took enough sample (i.e. a few teeth---marrow from a femur) to save until such time that technology has evolved enough to still do something w/ whatever they have---that poor little kid
No disrespect meant towards this kid, but what about all of the unmarked military graves that are all over the country? Why can't we find out who these men are that fought for our country first and then figure out later who this teen is that got hit by a train?! 😨
In war thousands of bodies are recovered but impossible to identify without dog tags or other identification. The cost of DNA testing would be astronomical. Do you want your taxes to go even higher to pay for it?
A remarkably noble gesture by people who who obviously are very caring and mean well but I think it's very misguided. The victims parents are long since dead so to "reunite" him with his parents in the grave belies a belief in the hereafter. If the hereafter is a fact then the boy in the grave has probably been reunited on the other side anyway. These people should direct their caring spirit towards people who are still alive and suffering. There are more than enough poor souls like that who are still living to go around.
The truth is it's something easier to get involved in things you feel an emotional and unthreatening connection with. People often feel uncomfortable with others suffering. In general though, we waste momentous amounts of time and money on things we don't really need to when there is SO much people need. Does it make sense to spend millions an on Olympics, or block buster films? Those things are distractions though and easy to focus on. There isn't anything wrong with competition and films - but those things could probably put aside awhile while we sort things out. But that won't happen with our current reality because there's money to be made out of those things.
mrfester42 when they say they returning him to his parents they just mean he's being buried close to them as he should be. He might have brothers and sisters and cousins or even nephews and nieces who may want to visit and remember him
John K I agree, they say he could have niece's and nephews, SO WHAT? They never knew him, he means nothing to them, all the people who would have cared are passed on. Turns out his mother knew about it and SHE decided to let him stay put.this just turned out to be nothing more than a desecration of this poor kids grave. 96 years later? rediculus.
He still exists just not here nor in his last body. There's really no point in asking for them to rest in peace, they are more alive then we are in a more loving place.
This breaks my heart....but the people that cared enough to give him a grave stone with "Some Mother's boy" those amazing people that paid for that deserve a blessing. Each one of you that did that....thank you.
What a waste of money! Especially since the parents identified him back in 1921 and apparently didn't care that his gravestone didn't have a name on it.
Not a waste of money . But , a mix up that needed fixing , no matter the cost. BUT!! The whole sad story IS such a very sad WASTE , of this young Boy trying too be A Man but doing it without knowing How .
My grandfather(RIP) hopped the trains in the midwest as a teen and young adult. About the same era this child got struck. He loved to travel this way during the depression. This was not uncommon for young men in the midwest. Indeed the great American Songwriter Woodie Guthrie also jumped freight trains and traveled all over America back then.
No the fuck they don't there's some really terrible people in this world that don't need to be identified if they got hit by a train that would be for the best idiot
"...someone like that, someone is more likely to be missing him"...WOW! What an insensitive and ridiculous statement! To all of us not born with a silver spoon in our hands, I guess we're not likely to be missed. From my own family's impoverished existence and stories from generations passed, I KNOW that when someone goes missing...regardless of economical standing...they are missed by family and friends. Money doesn't buy you emotions, lady! I've also heard stories of children being sent off to boarding schools across the world...never even knowing their parents or feeling love and affection from them. This woman is a joke.
This seems like a collosal waste of time and money. We could be helping people alive who are homeless or giving that money to elders who don't have enough on their fixed incomes. SMH
The fact that he appeared to be from a wealthier family makes it more likely someone would be missing him??? For real??? What, poor people are incapable of love? Wow. Institutional prejudice against the poor is pretty deeply rooted in this country.
Contacting his immediate family is not the point. With the extensive family tree databases that exist now, DNA can identify a genetic link to people alive today. They might be two or three generations removed, but it's a start. The closer the link, the more evidence there is to provide a name to this John Doe. Once that's done, his family's descendants (direct or otherwise) will finally know what happened to him. Let's put it this way... If the FBI called you to say that by DNA analysis they identified him as your grandfather's baby brother - thought by the family to have run away and joined the war (and died there). You're telling me you can speak for your whole family in saying no one would care in the slightest?
It was 96yrs ago. The people that knew are him are probably all dead. What purpose does it serve ? Why not leave the dead alone ? Can,t the news media find anything better to talk about ?
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When he was killed, how come no one noticed who he really was?
SmoothRide not to mention most states didn't require a driver's license in 1921. I think is was as late as the 30s and possibly the 50s before a driver's license was required across the entire nation. Even fingerprinting was not exactly effective. It could take months or even years for someone to identify fingerprints. It required a hired tracer that traced the fingerprints by hand in the 60s I can't imagine what it took in the 20s
The inside of the watch possibly has a jeweler's mark if it was ever worked on. If the records of that jeweler are still available then the Jeweler might have written down who the work was done for. My pocket watch from 1917 has several jeweler's marks and the most recent jeweler, Jaques Solberger, explained the marks to me.
My great grandfather hopped the trains during the Great Depression, he said it was a hard time. He told me he was riding on top of a train one time and the train was coming up on a tunnel so he had to lay flat against the train to fit in the tunnel. He said the smoke from the train in the tunnel was so thick and it was choking him really bad. Clearly he made it out if he was able to tell me the story when I was a child. But it’s hard to imagine that kind of lifestyle, crazy. I guess you do what you have to, to survive.
"someone like that, someone is more likely to be missing him" wow that was one hell of a statement...guess poor people just dont give a damn about their kids and arent likely to miss them at all should they go missing..... 1.38
But think about it some family somewhere must have heard stories about a family member who vanished without a trace. by doing this. His family will find out what happened to him and he will have his name back. Theres nothing worse than being lost without a name
Barbara Cook his name was frank haymes.his mother knew he was buried thier the whole time.i doubt they did it for that keep in mind this was in 1921 .any family worth charging died.
All this and the family already knew he had died and where his burial was.............need to investigate before you investigate.......waste more taxpayers money.......
The remains of an unnamed teenager, buried under the name 'Some Mother's Boy' 96 years ago, have finally been identified. Frank Haynes was killed when he was struck in the head by a train in Georgetown, Kentucky on 1 April, 1921.
The Kommandant that's not the FBI tho now is it. A RETIRED agent doesn't equal the FBI or their budget. 😂😂😂 Also if you must know I didn't pick this name. Somehow my old Apple ID that I sold got tied to this YT account and now I can't change my YT name. So I guess jokes on you for getting so upset tough guy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 😂😂😂 Have a nice night and you're still an asshole and a pretty petty one at that. ✌🏼😂
It seems a bit odd that no family stepped forward to try and claim him if the reports are true that his mother knew he was dead. That would leave me to speculate that the family could not afford to come and claim him, or that he was possibly disowned by them. It didn't take much for a child to be on the outs with families back then.
I don't understand how someone can die and NO ONE comes forward to identify them.I have watched many of these cases and it's totally unbelievable that no one knew who they were. Even if they didn’t have family in the area,they were seen by neighbours,shop workers, the postman,people they met in passing....Would all these people not recognise them if their images appeared on TV or in the press?... How anyone could stay silent and allow a person to be buried with no mourners or worse, no name is very sad and it's something I couldn't do...Whether i liked them or not.
My dads uncle that died at birth has a simple tombstone on the edge of the cemetery with his name and the year 1893. My dad has forgotten many things including this. He is 86 at the end of the year.
SmoothRide You know, I was going to go into this whole thing about how I work with the poor, homeless youths, and how if he hadn't had on tailored clothes and expensive watch, they'd have given him a number and buried him in a paupers grave. How in America if you're poor, a minority, etc. you get a mass grave stacked 3 high. But, I'm not going to argue with you. You think how you want. You have as great day now! Bless your heart....
The boy had been identified by the family four months after the accident. They were poor. It was forgotten. Frank Haynes. He had gotten into a fight with his father, run away, was travelling with another boy. They tried to jump trains. One made it. Franks head was run over. The other boy was never identified. They had bone fragments and teeth. Now buried with his parents.
The, as you state, “hobos or homeless”, may not be missed by loved ones.... but for sure, miss their loved ones and their lives before. Your news is most insulting and ignorant.
Went some digging, he's been identified and apparently, his parent knew he was dead 6 months after the incident and did not do something about it. would like to know the family relationship and if he is indeed from a rich family.
Not to be a negative person but wouldn’t it be better to actually spend their money, time and resources on newer cases that could actually have a positive impact on people?!! I’m sorry he was hit by a train but his immediate family is long gone. There’s really no reason to do this.
Not sure what purpose this serves. In the unlikely event that a remote family member is identified, I'm not sure that they would feel any attachment and be willing to bear the expense of a reburial or cremation.
i have a friend who has been missing for a very long time and i havent seen or heard from them since high school. havent gotten any phone calls ,texts ,notes from them and even until this day nothing .
It was said that the young man's name (A Mother's Son)- was said to be Frank Haynes. I know the child & his parents are long gone now but I can't help but wonder- ☆☆☆ IF THE MOM HAD KNOWN THAT HER CHILD HAD BEEN HIT BY A TRAIN, ECT- ☆☆☆ WHY WOULDN'T THEY WANT THEIR SON BURIED NEAR WHERE THEY LIVED? ☆☆☆☆ WHY WASN'T THE CHILD'S NAME PUT ON THE HEADSTONE?!☆☆☆☆ ☆ What I don't get is that they don't mention the watch that was found with the body that had ID marks- plus- the tag on the shirt with the name ☆'JONES '☆ was on it & they never told us what ID was on the buttens. Did the ID on the buttens have 'FH' on them or '_?_ J' Just wondering. I mean they seemed not to even do any DNA testing that I know of. ☆☆ Why not?!☆☆ According to the story: Members of his family saw the news report & came forward with 'proof' that the mother (now dead) had a picture of her son, taken a few days before he died-, along with info that her son had been killed by a train. ☆☆☆ They said they'd throught that the child had been 'well dressed ect' THEN why was he messing with trains that way? (Buy a ticket to ride? if so well dressed?) ☆☆☆ 'IF' --the MOTHER--had the 'paperwork' at the time of her son's death (like I've already said here) WHY WASN'T THE CHILD'S NAME PUT ON THE HEADSTONE?!! I would think that with time & maybe saving for it the child could have been ' RE-BURIED '--maybe at a family plot or close to where the family lived. If you look at the comments & find a name 'Angle something' there's a Web site that tells you about it.
We still have people who are missing. Yet we’re digging the grave of one who has been dead for nearly 100 years?! Smh simply being he was white and middle class
I found him on Find A Grave. There are photos of newspaper articles which state that his father identified him but did not tell the mother because she was ill. It states that the father wanted him buried as unknown.
His family knew when he died. This is from Find a Grave: Mathews says the family had identified the teen from a photo a few months after the accident in 1921. They knew he was buried in Georgetown, but they didn't know it was an unmarked grave. After the body was exhumed in March the family came forward and told their story. "They have documents that was kept in the family bible saying his mother wrote this.. 'Frank went to Georgetown in 1921 was struck by a train and buried there," Mathews said.
So are they going to do it for others as well that are also unidentified? Or are they choosing him specially because he's white? Cuz It seem to be the main highlight blonde hair blue-eyed well dressed...also he's wearing nice clothes and other clothing and things that have other people's initials on it, I think maybe he stoled, I bet you anything he was probably a scam artist because he had blue eyes and blond hair he could get away with it. That's probably why his mother didn't care.I'm not trying to be judgmental or anything but it's kind of weird how they just bring up "he has blonde hair, blue-eyed well-dressed and we had to find out who he was for his family"so are they going to do it to other people of other races as well? Cuz I'm sure there are lots of other people out thereof different races who are also unidentified or probably could have family that don't even know what happened to them because they were all separated due to slavery or imprisonment and things of that nature, so are they prepared to do it for other people?
My God, let the poor guy rest. Nothing to gain by rummaging through his remains at this point. Let the "experts" practice their DNA-craft on more recent crimes for cripe sakes. No one came forward 100 years ago to say this fellow was missing..... then let him be.
Seriously? After all those years, you think a body would be visible? What did you think the bones where they showed in the plastic container? Oh, maybe the bones were for a dog in the area
It would be an awesome thing to do - but spotty records of slaves, the lack of burial records for them, even FINDING the graves can be impossible. Records lost/destroyed would probably be one of the biggest barriers to carrying out such a project ...
I can't believe that blond-haired lady said someone like that would probably be missing more than what the hobo that she said they did they knew that he wasn't let me tell you something a mother is a mother whether to a rich or poor child a child gone as a child missed by Rich or poor that was a very ignorant statement to say
They identified him as Frank Haynes and he's going to be reburied next to his family.
Bless these people
thank goodness
Thank you very much for posting that he had been identified.
@@NavyWife
Absolutely Lena, it's nice for not just the family but the viewers to be able to come to closure.
Some of these things are just so awful.
I have nightmares if there's no conclusion sometimes
@@katrinkasanfranciscobayare7364 The viewers don't need closure. Jesus.
@@TheVeek192
Just kick rocks and move along.
Your reply is unnecessary
Edit: I see you changed your nasty comments.
But I'm going to leave this message up anyway so people will know that you're a hypocrite. But I guess it's your thing to be like that.
Just stop being mean all together...
I'm glad an attempt is being made to identify this unknown boy - as should be for all unidentified people.
Idle Onlooker this is bs
Idle Onlooker you pay the taxes to cover it on your own. It would be different if his mother was alive
Elizabeth Calias you mean the boy in the box??
Love to toke: I'm not a citizen of the US, as obviously you are. So WELL DONE contributing YOUR portion of tax towards this worthy cause!! You must be proud!! Let's hope none of your family members ever go missing - bcoz I bet you'll scream for help then!
Jose Sanchez: Good idea. Perhaps you should contact these people with that suggestion.
My mom had a baby brother that died at birth. In the 1930's, the depression. The family had no money and had to surrender the baby to the city, who buried little David in an unmarked grave. Before my mom passed in 2010 we looked into where he had been buried. We knew the cemetery and hoped to put up a family marker. Unfortunately, my sister was shown a large patch of bare grass where many others had been buried by the city with no records or markers as to who is buried where. I still think perhaps some money could be raised to put a common marker on this patch of grass to acknowledge those there, even if unnamed. Unsure on the cemetery's policy. It is just the living paying respect to the dead and an acknowledgement that these people were alive and mattered at one time. I get why the town is hoping to name this soul now that we have advanced technology to do so. Respect.
Moe Wilson Most people buried their kids in the backyard, not in cemetaries, back then. Were they living in a city apartment? BTW, bodies totally disappear after 75 years so nothing is under that patch of grass.
Gail Regula I guess if you lived in the country. My mom grew up in the depression 30's. Her family always rented. Her mom and dad, two sisters lived always with an aunt or uncle to help share rent. There was no welfare back then and the family got by in an era of few jobs until the WWII. With no money and unable to afford funerals, cities took over the burial of the dead. Cremation was not big back then. Where do you think they buried the bodies? It is called a pauper's funeral. Most cemeteries have a section for these people whose families had no money to bury their loved ones or the person was unknown homeless. Yes, the cemetery does have records to the extent that bodies are buried there. Just no exact records on where in this area baby David was buried. I guess today they cremate the bodies.
Just so you know, there would be no physical remains left at all of a body simply buried in the ground in the 1930s especially a newborn's body if the body wasn't in a casket with the casket inside of a cement burial vault (highly unlikely in this case). A wooden coffin buried directly in the ground wouldn't make any difference in preserving the remains. It would have to be in a vault and even vaults break down eventually.
Beautifully said, and I'm sorry for your families pain. 💙
Hugs and prayers 🌹🌹 God is love He will get you all through
"going to Florida for spring break"? Give me a break. There was no spring break in 1921 and hardly anyone lived in Florida besides alligators.
Shoot I was down there in 23 and the women were wild! Or was that the gators? I don't remember hell I'm 97 don't worry me with such things!
I bet rich kids has spring break....
"has spring break"? Do you mean "had" you moron.
jack thomas you suck.
Actually there was a form of spring break back then. Some of the majority cities down there were booming and there was a rather large influx of people in Florida at that time. Of course calling it spring break would have been absolute insanity at that time being even going across the state of Georgia would take a long time. In reality in the 20s Florida was a popular vacation spot for the rich.
Wait, so he's wearing a suit with a name in it that doesn't match the initials on the watch and it never occurs to them that he stole them both?
Yes, he could of been a thief and disowned by the family. Maybe that is why no one came forth to claim the body or at least put a real name on tombstone.
And he was so disparate to catch the train. I think you are right!
My thoughts exactly!
The suit was tailored to him. And the watch could have been his dad's or something. So who knows
he was a well groomed kid, stop shitting on everyone, even people who've been dead for over 100 yrs
I'm sure the poor and middle class would miss their loved one too .
Excellent point. There are a lot of well off people who don't care when their children go missing. Check out the story of Vance Rodriguez, aka Mostly Harmless.
Nice pfp
Soooooo right
They play a sound of a diesel train whistle while a picture of a steam locomotive is shown ! Geniuses.
mikerca Jeniuses..
That also made me mad
Very observant.
HAHAHA WHAT THE HECK
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"But someone like that someone is more likely to be missing him" So because he was Wealthy means his parents would be miss him more than a not so wealthy parent?
I know! People get fixated on these events. It almost becomes a life goal and something to do. I suppose they have to justify it in their minds.
Yep she said wealthy people basically weren't more important but they would be missed more wow I caught that too
This is so stupid. No, rich people don't miss their children more, but they would have been better able to document it, report it, keep a diary of it, and pass it down through the family. Poorer people at the turn of the last century weren't likely literate, let alone able to be taken seriously by police.
This is a stupid comment.
Spend all the tax payers dollars on 90year old dead bones. All they found was a fucking tooth !!! Spend that money on a recent missing human. All that boys relatives are dead. They don't help no one , thay just want the damn adventure of this ! See how people are ? !!!**.
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"He led a privileged life", what an asinine the to say about some poor kid who got killed by a train.
Agree completely - especially the reasoning why they said (at the time) he was well bred. Come on folks - completely irrelevant to say he was privileged in the context of this story.
that was stated in 1921 when he died, jesus christ chill out.
So wonderful that you folks are trying to send him home. God bless you.
My Grandma had two brothers that jumped a train for California during the Great Depression from Missouri, they never heard from them again. Wrong year of course. But similar fate.
Scott J damn they probably started a family in California. Who knows.
Scott J so did they die or you don’t know?
How horrible Scott. Hopefully they lived but they left their family wondering. I'm so sorry.
Your average Joe 💀😂 I meant like sons or daughters lol
Go on Ancestry.com and you might discover second cousins if they actually made it there
shame the same effort is not made for the homeless...
The homeless choose to be that way. They can get jobs and find places to live but it is easier to stay on the streets and drink and/or do drugs.
Have you ever actually seen a homeless person? Because it obvious that you know jack all about why the majority of them are out there.
I put up with them every day I work. Which you want to talk about? The one that wants to remain off the grid and is proud he hasn't had an "address" of his own in 20+ years? He spends his paycheck on beer and drugs. Or do you want to talk about the twins who both work and their girlfriend? Again, the twins paychecks go towards beer. How about the one that worked at a scrap yard making good money that chooses to live in abandoned tractor trailer trailers so he can use them money on beer? Then there is another female who chooses to sleep by the creek and sells her body for crack or heroin. Shall I keep going?
Being homeless is a choice in modern times.
John Stilwell the sad thing is that these people have mental and emotional problems that influence this kind of behavior. Rejection, anger, addiction. The problems compound themselves.
That train horn was sooooo unnecessary to insert. It was so loud it was nauseating.
Rod Walchly so we can’t slightly criticize the news now? little pussy stfu.
Frank apparently didn't hear the train horn either.
It should have steam whistle not a diesel horn which wasn't invented yet.
@Unkraut60 you his bitch that he needs you to stand up for him? Let his nuts go, would ya'?
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I wish someone would do that for 'the boy in the box' fron Pennsylvania . So sad for anyone to never have a name. Known only to God.
That's a pretty famous case. Wonder if they ever tried entering DNA in websites to see if they match any family members?
@@pinkrose5796 Do they have DNA?
I want to say they did and the dna was too degraded :(
@@SUPERIORWOMAN I hope that's not the case; or I hope that they took enough sample (i.e. a few teeth---marrow from a femur) to save until such time that technology has evolved enough to still do something w/ whatever they have---that poor little kid
They finally found out what happened recently
No disrespect meant towards this kid, but what about all of the unmarked military graves that are all over the country? Why can't we find out who these men are that fought for our country first and then figure out later who this teen is that got hit by a train?! 😨
Gazzy Bishop HERE HERE!!!
You helping out or nah? Otherwise sit down. Everyone matters just not all at once.
In war thousands of bodies are recovered but impossible to identify without dog tags or other identification. The cost of DNA testing would be astronomical. Do you want your taxes to go even higher to pay for it?
They're all dead not like time is of the essence
Because in some cases the body is unidentifiable or is in a condition we’re there is not sufficient dna for testing
not to be obtuse but if his mother recorded that he had been hit by a train why didn't she find out where he had been buried.
I wonder if it was more arduous to communicate back then? Lots of time has passed. People just fixated on this.
A remarkably noble gesture by people who who obviously are very caring and mean well but I think it's very misguided. The victims parents are long since dead so to "reunite" him with his parents in the grave belies a belief in the hereafter. If the hereafter is a fact then the boy in the grave has probably been reunited on the other side anyway.
These people should direct their caring spirit towards people who are still alive and suffering. There are more than enough poor souls like that who are still living to go around.
I don't think they care what you think.
The truth is it's something easier to get involved in things you feel an emotional and unthreatening connection with. People often feel uncomfortable with others suffering. In general though, we waste momentous amounts of time and money on things we don't really need to when there is SO much people need. Does it make sense to spend millions an on Olympics, or block buster films? Those things are distractions though and easy to focus on. There isn't anything wrong with competition and films - but those things could probably put aside awhile while we sort things out. But that won't happen with our current reality because there's money to be made out of those things.
Rosalina 90 agreed
Symbolic gestures may seem trivial at this point but it does afford us some closure.
mrfester42 when they say they returning him to his parents they just mean he's being buried close to them as he should be. He might have brothers and sisters and cousins or even nephews and nieces who may want to visit and remember him
I do not get this He is long dead his parents are long dead let him rest in peace let the past be the past
John K I agree, they say he could have niece's and nephews, SO WHAT? They never knew him, he means nothing to them, all the people who would have cared are passed on. Turns out his mother knew about it and SHE decided to let him stay put.this just turned out to be nothing more than a desecration of this poor kids grave. 96 years later? rediculus.
+ Steve Franklin
John K Money better spent helping the homeless vets
John K he should at least get his name known
+effooo2000 WHY? He belongs to the past
Let the poor lad rest in peace.
nwlman I can’t even roll in peace.
They're finding his name and family not desecrating his grave.
He deserves to be known.
He still exists just not here nor in his last body. There's really no point in asking for them to rest in peace, they are more alive then we are in a more loving place.
I agree. What a waste
This breaks my heart....but the people that cared enough to give him a grave stone with "Some Mother's boy" those amazing people that paid for that deserve a blessing. Each one of you that did that....thank you.
So happy he was identified and is back with his family.
Where did you get that from?
Pretty crazy to think that everyone born on earth died on earth. For over 2.3M years there is dead body basically everywhere.
Okie TC ikr
What a waste of money! Especially since the parents identified him back in 1921 and apparently didn't care that his gravestone didn't have a name on it.
Where did it say the parents identified him? Did you look it up?
Agree, Kelly.
Not a waste of money . But , a mix up that needed fixing , no matter the cost.
BUT!! The whole sad story IS such a very sad WASTE , of this young Boy trying too be A Man but doing it without knowing How .
So basically if he was a hobo or under privileged his body would have never been exhumed?
My grandfather(RIP) hopped the trains in the midwest as a teen and young adult. About the same era this child got struck. He loved to travel this way during the depression. This was not uncommon for young men in the midwest.
Indeed the great American Songwriter Woodie Guthrie also jumped freight trains and traveled all over America back then.
Yea, I still have that 45 by him. Good song.
one question, why?
Him just like everybody else still living or deceased deserves to be known.
No the fuck they don't there's some really terrible people in this world that don't need to be identified if they got hit by a train that would be for the best idiot
"...someone like that, someone is more likely to be missing him"...WOW! What an insensitive and ridiculous statement! To all of us not born with a silver spoon in our hands, I guess we're not likely to be missed.
From my own family's impoverished existence and stories from generations passed, I KNOW that when someone goes missing...regardless of economical standing...they are missed by family and friends.
Money doesn't buy you emotions, lady! I've also heard stories of children being sent off to boarding schools across the world...never even knowing their parents or feeling love and affection from them. This woman is a joke.
This seems like a collosal waste of time and money. We could be helping people alive who are homeless or giving that money to elders who don't have enough on their fixed incomes. SMH
I fully agree with you. Sadly here in America we dont help the hungry n homeless. Very sad.
I was thinking the exact same thing!!! Or they could at least try to solve the millions of relevant cases.🤦♀️
Have you opened up your wallet ansy time, recently? Or, are you just one to complain on the internet? Lol.
I'm not sure you would feel the same if it was one of your children
John Goble- Coroner- what a lovely gentle man; so nice to see people who care for and about those who were, seemingly, forgotten.
It's more respectful to let the dead rest and not disturb their burial.
They don't care😂
Fucking really? It's not respectful to let the dead to be left unknown? You make many people who have been sent to insane asylums look innocent!
If he was so wealthy why was he running to catch a hobo train?
Why are they doing this, they seem to be exhuming left right and center. Just leave these poor people alone.
This boy deserves to have his identity known and be reburied next to his loved ones
The fact that he appeared to be from a wealthier family makes it more likely someone would be missing him??? For real??? What, poor people are incapable of love? Wow. Institutional prejudice against the poor is pretty deeply rooted in this country.
None of his known relatives are probably even still alive.
Joshua Hull you don't know that. There is a chance he could be identified, even just by word of mouth of this video.
Contacting his immediate family is not the point. With the extensive family tree databases that exist now, DNA can identify a genetic link to people alive today. They might be two or three generations removed, but it's a start. The closer the link, the more evidence there is to provide a name to this John Doe. Once that's done, his family's descendants (direct or otherwise) will finally know what happened to him. Let's put it this way... If the FBI called you to say that by DNA analysis they identified him as your grandfather's baby brother - thought by the family to have run away and joined the war (and died there). You're telling me you can speak for your whole family in saying no one would care in the slightest?
Joshua Hull ~ Wrong! www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/16/some-mothers-boy-teen-struck-by-train-in-1921-identified.html
Angel For Animals yeah, I just got your message. His name was Frank Haynes. Its great he could be layed to rest with loved ones.
Joshua Hull ~ I agree. I'm glad that he is no longer without family. It makes me sad to see lone graves, especially children.
It was 96yrs ago. The people that knew are him are probably all dead. What purpose does it serve ? Why not leave the dead alone ? Can,t the news media find anything better to talk about ?
When he was killed, how come no one noticed who he really was?
SmoothRide not to mention most states didn't require a driver's license in 1921. I think is was as late as the 30s and possibly the 50s before a driver's license was required across the entire nation. Even fingerprinting was not exactly effective. It could take months or even years for someone to identify fingerprints. It required a hired tracer that traced the fingerprints by hand in the 60s I can't imagine what it took in the 20s
Queen of Borneo Island Young Lady his name was frank haymes she knew where he was burried
The relatives today wouldn't even know him, so its disrespectful to disturb his grave
The inside of the watch possibly has a jeweler's mark if it was ever worked on. If the records of that jeweler are still available then the Jeweler might have written down who the work was done for. My pocket watch from 1917 has several jeweler's marks and the most recent jeweler, Jaques Solberger, explained the marks to me.
Cliff Leverette you smart but they already found out who he is
Watch was stolen by the undertaker.
Cliff Leverette after 96 years a long shot would be child’s play compared to that
Another commenter pointed out the pocketwatch had initials different from his own, so it was likely stolen
My great grandfather hopped the trains during the Great Depression, he said it was a hard time. He told me he was riding on top of a train one time and the train was coming up on a tunnel so he had to lay flat against the train to fit in the tunnel. He said the smoke from the train in the tunnel was so thick and it was choking him really bad. Clearly he made it out if he was able to tell me the story when I was a child. But it’s hard to imagine that kind of lifestyle, crazy. I guess you do what you have to, to survive.
May he rest in peace.
He knew what his name was he doesn't need you people disturbing his resting place now. If you couldn't get it done then you shouldn't do it at all.
He was positively identified as 19-year-old Frank Haynes, in case anyone was wondering.
So if it had been a homeless person...they don't have people that would miss them? That lady really said it so wrong.
Wonder if he was my kin? Nice to know that he's with his family now and can rest forever more in peace.
"someone like that, someone is more likely to be missing him" wow that was one hell of a statement...guess poor people just dont give a damn about their kids and arent likely to miss them at all should they go missing..... 1.38
They should have let him rest in peace, they must be looking for relatives so they can charge them for the burial..... Let the dead rest in peace.
But think about it some family somewhere must have heard stories about a family member who vanished without a trace. by doing this. His family will find out what happened to him and he will have his name back. Theres nothing worse than being lost without a name
Barbara Cook his name was frank haymes.his mother knew he was buried thier the whole time.i doubt they did it for that keep in mind this was in 1921 .any family worth charging died.
Finding a corpse's name and burning them with that and their family is actually aiding them in resting in peace
@@darthsailormoon4831 Super uncalled for!.
@@darthsailormoon4831 What are you talking about wasting a life? nobody said anything about that....this boy deserves to be known.
All this and the family already knew he had died and where his burial was.............need to investigate before you investigate.......waste more taxpayers money.......
Every time they said "some mother's boy" I cried. 😭😭😭
The remains of an unnamed teenager, buried under the name 'Some Mother's Boy' 96 years ago, have finally been identified.
Frank Haynes was killed when he was struck in the head by a train in Georgetown, Kentucky on 1 April, 1921.
Where was he from?
anybody that misses him is long-dead they know where he's at wasting money feed somebody
da'dub or house them
That's true
The Kommandant also the FBI refused to help. news.sky.com/story/some-mothers-boy-identified-as-frank-haynes-after-96-years-10917841
The Kommandant that's not the FBI tho now is it. A RETIRED agent doesn't equal the FBI or their budget. 😂😂😂 Also if you must know I didn't pick this name. Somehow my old Apple ID that I sold got tied to this YT account and now I can't change my YT name. So I guess jokes on you for getting so upset tough guy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 😂😂😂 Have a nice night and you're still an asshole and a pretty petty one at that. ✌🏼😂
da'dub you feed them
It seems a bit odd that no family stepped forward to try and claim him if the reports are true that his mother knew he was dead. That would leave me to speculate that the family could not afford to come and claim him, or that he was possibly disowned by them. It didn't take much for a child to be on the outs with families back then.
I don't understand how someone can die and NO ONE comes forward to identify them.I have watched many of these cases and it's totally unbelievable that no one knew who they were.
Even if they didn’t have family in the area,they were seen by neighbours,shop workers, the postman,people they met in passing....Would all these people not recognise them if their images appeared on TV or in the press?...
How anyone could stay silent and allow a person to be buried with no mourners or worse, no name is very sad and it's something I couldn't do...Whether i liked them or not.
My dads uncle that died at birth has a simple tombstone on the edge of the cemetery with his name and the year 1893. My dad has forgotten many things including this. He is 86 at the end of the year.
If they thought he had been a poor young man, they would never do this! Its a shame!! But its very true!
SmoothRide You know, I was going to go into this whole thing about how I work with the poor, homeless youths, and how if he hadn't had on tailored clothes and expensive watch, they'd have given him a number and buried him in a paupers grave. How in America if you're poor, a minority, etc. you get a mass grave stacked 3 high. But, I'm not going to argue with you. You think how you want. You have as great day now! Bless your heart....
The boy had been identified by the family four months after the accident. They were poor. It was forgotten. Frank Haynes. He had gotten into a fight with his father, run away, was travelling with another boy. They tried to jump trains. One made it. Franks head was run over. The other boy was never identified. They had bone fragments and teeth. Now buried with his parents.
The, as you state, “hobos or homeless”, may not be missed by loved ones.... but for sure, miss their loved ones and their lives before.
Your news is most insulting and ignorant.
Thanks for what you do..
His family knew of his death...And didn't want him . ...
Went some digging, he's been identified and apparently, his parent knew he was dead 6 months after the incident and did not do something about it. would like to know the family relationship and if he is indeed from a rich family.
“Privileged” boy. Stop using this word
What these people are doing is heart warming! GOD BLESS THEM ALL!
What a waste of government funds
Jhakeil Jackson You're a waste of air.
Jhakeil Jackson this isn’t a waste. This is a human who has a life and they deserve to be identified.
Thank you all who are concerned, for his young life. You are a blessing & an Angel 👼. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾HOME AT LAST🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
This is a waste are you kidding me . Take the money and help the living
I so agree.
Michael Nesbitt nothing nobody matters til there dead unfortunately.
Michael Nesbitt fuck the living
Good point
Michael, I was thinking the same thing,jeez
Your description is wrong. It's "boy," not "son." And you're a news organization??!
There are homeless people and people that are starving. They could have spent that money on people that are alive and in need.
& Those are the same folks that everybody drives past & thinks "better him than me"
This is now over three years old. How about an update?
How sad, that he remained unknown for so long.
What a generous community to find out who's child he was.
God bless these people 🙏
Not to be a negative person but wouldn’t it be better to actually spend their money, time and resources on newer cases that could actually have a positive impact on people?!!
I’m sorry he was hit by a train but his immediate family is long gone. There’s really no reason to do this.
Well i hope i am rich so just incase i get hit by a train someone will wanna make sure im taken care off
Not sure what purpose this serves. In the unlikely event that a remote family member is identified, I'm not sure that they would feel any attachment and be willing to bear the expense of a reburial or cremation.
Peter Palmer it gives dignity to the dead
Poor kid. Such a shame. Glad he now has his name back
I was curious, any updates on this young mans identity. Thank you.
Identified as Frank A. Haynes, born 1902.
i have a friend who has been missing for a very long time and i havent seen or heard from them since high school. havent gotten any phone calls ,texts ,notes from them and even until this day nothing .
That train sound was incorrect for the.
I am going with the person. I they should help the vet. Home less
Exactly!! Food banks, abused animals...no child should be hungry especially this country
So, who is he? Follow up please.
www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/scott-county/article156370509.html
It was said that the young man's name (A Mother's Son)- was said to be Frank Haynes.
I know the child & his parents are long gone now but I can't help but wonder-
☆☆☆ IF THE MOM HAD KNOWN THAT HER CHILD HAD BEEN HIT BY A TRAIN, ECT- ☆☆☆ WHY WOULDN'T THEY WANT THEIR SON BURIED NEAR WHERE THEY LIVED? ☆☆☆☆ WHY WASN'T THE CHILD'S NAME PUT ON THE HEADSTONE?!☆☆☆☆
☆ What I don't get is that they don't mention the watch that was found with the body that had ID marks- plus- the tag on the shirt with the name ☆'JONES '☆ was on it & they never told us what ID was on the buttens.
Did the ID on the buttens have 'FH' on them or '_?_ J'
Just wondering. I mean they seemed not to even do any DNA testing that I know of.
☆☆ Why not?!☆☆
According to the story:
Members of his family saw the news report & came forward with 'proof' that the mother (now dead) had a picture of her son, taken a few days before he died-, along with info that her son had been killed by a train.
☆☆☆ They said they'd throught that the child had been 'well dressed ect' THEN why was he messing with trains that way? (Buy a ticket to ride? if so well dressed?)
☆☆☆ 'IF' --the MOTHER--had the 'paperwork' at the time of her son's death (like I've already said here) WHY WASN'T THE CHILD'S NAME PUT ON THE HEADSTONE?!!
I would think that with time & maybe saving for it the child could have been ' RE-BURIED '--maybe at a family plot or close to where the family lived.
If you look at the comments & find a name 'Angle something' there's a Web site that tells you about it.
Someone is more likely to be missing them because they had a gold watch and were well kept?
DOES IT mean more if he's of means , b s all u.n named should be checked not just a privlaged one b s
It would be interesting to follow up on this (although I'm in the UK). These kinds of stories fascinate me!
“Well kept well groomed” how tf you know that he could have stolen them
We still have people who are missing. Yet we’re digging the grave of one who has been dead for nearly 100 years?! Smh simply being he was white and middle class
Nice troll bait racist comment 👍
Nameless no more. RIP Frank Haynes
I found him on Find A Grave. There are photos of newspaper articles which state that his father identified him but did not tell the mother because she was ill. It states that the father wanted him buried as unknown.
2:31 guy sounds like that one character on family guy.
Cleveland
@@jeffnaslund nope. Bruce
Where is the photograph? Who snapped it and how was it connected to "someone" buried here?
he went home a loooong time ago
His family knew when he died. This is from Find a Grave: Mathews says the family had identified the teen from a photo a few months after the accident in 1921. They knew he was buried in Georgetown, but they didn't know it was an unmarked grave. After the body was exhumed in March the family came forward and told their story.
"They have documents that was kept in the family bible saying his mother wrote this.. 'Frank went to Georgetown in 1921 was struck by a train and buried there," Mathews said.
His real name was Frank Albert Haynes.
So are they going to do it for others as well that are also unidentified? Or are they choosing him specially because he's white? Cuz It seem to be the main highlight blonde hair blue-eyed well dressed...also he's wearing nice clothes and other clothing and things that have other people's initials on it, I think maybe he stoled, I bet you anything he was probably a scam artist because he had blue eyes and blond hair he could get away with it. That's probably why his mother didn't care.I'm not trying to be judgmental or anything but it's kind of weird how they just bring up "he has blonde hair, blue-eyed well-dressed and we had to find out who he was for his family"so are they going to do it to other people of other races as well? Cuz I'm sure there are lots of other people out thereof different races who are also unidentified or probably could have family that don't even know what happened to them because they were all separated due to slavery or imprisonment and things of that nature, so are they prepared to do it for other people?
My God, let the poor guy rest. Nothing to gain by rummaging through his remains at this point. Let the "experts" practice their DNA-craft on more recent crimes for cripe sakes. No one came forward 100 years ago to say this fellow was missing..... then let him be.
J.P. Stone But now they can dig up his mother and tell her what happened to them. Change her headstone to "Some Boy's Mother"
JP Stone on the contrary, finding a dead person's name gives him dignity and would probably be seen as helping the dead find peace in many cultures
Mom and son reunited with each other in heaven ❤
If your going to post a video like this then let's see the body? Just sayin...
Mark Hatfield body decomposed
Mark Hatfield I agree
99 years later there's not going to be a body
T and T
Thank you captain obvious...
Seriously? After all those years, you think a body would be visible? What did you think the bones where they showed in the plastic container? Oh, maybe the bones were for a dog in the area
I think it's safe to say his parents aren't worried about his whereabouts anymore.
They had Florida Spring Break in the 20s lol
B Davidson Yes, MTV spring break.
Well kept people are more likely to be missed? Wow
Okay sooo any atempt to find any long killed slaves an give them a name to?
stay triggered snowflakes actually my family's workers were given our name... Their decendants are in touch with me...& Also with my last name ❤
It would be an awesome thing to do - but spotty records of slaves, the lack of burial records for them, even FINDING the graves can be impossible. Records lost/destroyed would probably be one of the biggest barriers to carrying out such a project ...
I can't believe that blond-haired lady said someone like that would probably be missing more than what the hobo that she said they did they knew that he wasn't let me tell you something a mother is a mother whether to a rich or poor child a child gone as a child missed by Rich or poor that was a very ignorant statement to say