The Appalachian axe murderer - W.V - Worst cemetery we have seen
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- The story of Matthew Perison, executed in 1948 West Virginia for axing his family to death. Death certificate pulls and grave site hunt.
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I'm so glad the two of you don't get tired of of investigating & telling about the lives of people. I enjoy your channel so much. Thank you
Thank you Beth! no we never get tired of it, hopefully never will. I feel like its actually made us more appreciative of life and how living simple is really the key to happiness.
I had some physical setbacks that slowed my adventurous spirit. I've always loved walking through old cemeteries, pondering the lives lived before. Thank you brother.
Very welcome
The condition of the graveyard is deplorable! But the fact that your trying to find the graves, I commend you.
Thanks 🙏
Kinda sad town and counties don't keep them maintained.
And it disturbs me when people say "it's just an old cemetery" because it's loaded with history 😁
Thank you for the amazing tour!
Thanks Sharon
It might be family owned graves, that are on private property, in which case the towns or counties aren't required to maintain.
Love hearing your stories! I live in Marion County Kentucky and am not physically able to go searching through the cemeteries like I used to. I have always loved looking at the names and dates and wonder at the stories they could tell. Makes me wish I had listened closer to the stories my grandmother told. Keep up the good work!!
Glad you like them! We appreciate you watching
I live in the Indianapolis area but many of my ancestors are buried in your area and we found several of them not far from the Maker's Mark distillery.
@@steveoconnor7069 If you ever get the chance to come down it's a beautiful area. Check out the Bourbon Trail and find your ancestors. Sounds like a good weekend.
I'm from Marion county
I grew up in chapmanviille and worked in Logan I never heard this story 👍 WV was and still is a tough place my great grandfather was shot and killed in the 30's over an argument with a butcher
It has a bloody history for sure. I find crazy stories
I am glad I found your channel I am enjoying it. Thank you for sharing you both do a great job. ✌️
Another awesome video. Thanks for taking us along! You two are good people!
Thanks Bill!
I love old cemeteries, it saddens me to see them in this shape, unfortunately, WV has many that look just like this one. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching
Many Cemeteries for families or groups in this area are in very poor condition. The cyclical nature of the Coal business and the rapid mechanization of the mines resulted in a mass migration of the younger generations starting in the 1950's. When these people left there was no one left to tend the graveyards. Logan, WV peaked in population in about 1950 at 6,000 or so. Now less than 1,000.
It is the same in any mining district, just look at all of the old Ghost Town cemeteries in abandoned played out gold mines in the West, An the old copper / iron mines of Michigan's upper peninsula there is literally hundreds of graveyards that are nothing more than a series of sunken lines in the ground and maybe a sandstone some time to Mark the grave, the Old logging camps and logging villages are the same way throughout almost anywhere the logging industry came through and set up logging camps and sawmills with a small village nearby, it is real good that some of the CZcams channels are making an attempt to document some of these graveyards,
I came across you about two weeks ago. Thank you for climbing those hills and being out in the cold to present your findings. I know that has to be fun investigating your stories. I know it is for me when I’m tracking down my ancestors. In fact my ancestors came from Carter county Kentucky and around 1910 they settled in Oregon . Love history.
Loved this video. I caretake a small museum in Wirt County wv. At the historical Rathbone well oil n gas museum. During the Civil War there were thousands of people here. Not now. Might be an interesting story to publish. Welcome anytime. It's quite the story of greed honor and misfortune
What's the chance that since he was buried in an undisclosed grave that he might not even have a marker? What's the chance that since he was buried in an undisclosed grave that he might not even have a marker? I thank you immensely for your investigation of these pieces of history & bringing them to us. Otherwise we likely would never know of. I'm the genealogist of our family. I've been able to trace back to my mother's great-great-grandparents who traveled from the Shenandoah Valley, VA to Warren Co, IN. Amazingly the cemetery they are burried in is in Attica, Fountain Co, IN. It is very close to the home I grew up in. Sadly the graves have been vandalized so badly markers are stacked in random piles & from what I've learned the office has no map of who is buried where. It absolutely infuriates me. & completely boggles my mind as to how **anyone** can be so disgustingly disrespectful. Grrrr!!! 😡😡😡
Moundsville may bury all executed prisoners in the same place and unmarked, to prevent destruction, etc.
I just found your channel and I love it! That cemetery broke my heart! I know there are volunteers who go out and try as best as they can to clean up old cemeteries it's too bad you cant reach out to them. Thank you! Very interesting!
It's such a remote area, it's hard to get anyone to do anything here, we are cleaning some up as we have time, thanks for watching 😊
We have gold mining here. To see the operations are pretty interesting.
And the pits are huge.
Both occupations are rough jobs.
The neglect of any cemetery is an atrocity.
Some urban explorers have stumbled upon completely forgotten cemeteries that have been extremely overgrown that they were hidden.
At the times these souls were laid to rest. No one imagined these areas would be forgotten and lost to time. Many have markers that were completely illegible. I believe our taxes should be allotted to maintaining our cemeteries as with mowing and upkeep of court houses and schools.
Those crypts broken and empty are heartbreaking.
I would like to believe the remains were relocated rather than robbed.
Many just don't have the respect nor compassion for the dead as they should.
Tessa D. I say, let's put the lazy prisoners to work, make them do something besides nothing🧹⚰️🪦⚒️🪚🌑⛓️🤬😡🌱🌿🍁🌱🍃
@@crm208 That is a excellent idea. I would definitely be for that. Their lives are a tad too cushy. They sometimes have them clear hwys . So why not cemeteries!
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i have not heard of this case! thank you! i feel so bad for the little child!
You both seem so kind and gentle, and that is why I subscribed. :)
Really nice people there in WV, and your laughter is contagious.
Thanks!
My best friend in the 1970’s was born and reared in Holden, WV. There were beautiful homes there. A hospital, coal company store, private doctor’s offices. Still a nice area. Well-maintained over the years.
I been in that cemetery many times growing up! It was beautiful!
I thoroughly enjoyed your work here. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
i love all of yours and Heathers investigating, and sharing with us, so intresting!
There’s also another axe murdering story which occurred in Bruno, WV and in Man, WV. These people don’t play and they all own several axes.
Another awesome video, those mountain cemeteries are tough as heck, to walk, shame this one's not taken care of!!!!!!!
Yes I agree and thank you for the support!
You mean this killer was a Sunday school teacher and Boy Scout leader????? WOW! What a story! Thank you for investigating this man and sharing it with your audience. I loved your research.and video.
I have a weird life too. I like your videos. You guys are fun and informative. I'm from Colorado and just moved to Virginia this month. Love learning all this stuff. Thanks for all you do.
Thanks for watching!
Obviously those above-ground graves were broken into, either by thieves that were looking to steal off of the bodies, or just vandals. That would be a good place for jail inmates to clear off.
Inmates clearing up cemeteries is a great idea.👍👍
Good idea. But probably cruel and unusual punishment and we cannot have them being abused.
Dripping with acidic sarcasm!
Most of those above ground graves weren’t vandalized, they were removed by family to other locations. I lived on that street for 30 years, until 2003. I can see my house in the video.
Greetings from Pittsburgh! I just got wind of your channel and you guys possess the same interests as me. I have driven through most of West Virginia during my own excursions; until I really did my own research, I was ignorantly unaware of the mysterious wonder/history your state has to offer. I once drove through a town called Jane Lew! Thank you for all your efforts and work. 👍
Welcome aboard!
Thanks for even more history! Loving your channel.
I'm from Northern Kentucky, but my father and his family is from Harlan County, Kentucky. They buried their family on they called Hensley Hill. I don't know if it's still there, haven't been there since I was 7 years old, I'm 63 now. Maybe you can find out. Thank you, I like your videos on old Kentucky history. Great job
Yikes what a horrible man. his poor family. These abandoned cemeteries make me so sad. I cannot imagine burying a loved one & having no marker. I'm sure they are unmarked because their families were too poor to afford one. I know this is silly but I worry if a 100 years after I'm buried will the cemetery look like this. I enjoyed this video. I like all the videos on your channel.
We think about that as well, what a cemetery will be like later..thank you so much for the support and kind words
No it"s not silly at all really, For me i tell my friends & family, Bury me in a cardboard box if they want to, But i would like a marker of some kind that would last a few yrs anyway, letting people know that i had a name, was born, lived & died, & if not to much cost, with the words written on the marker, SEE I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK But really it"s sad when there are no markers, My Dad never knew where his mom was buried, he was oldest of 5 siblings at age 9 when she died, & shortly after he moved away, only knew the area where there were 5 more unmarked graves, in line, even the church records did not know for sure which one was G Mothers, this was back in late1920s
This is why many of us, me and most of my family, decided on cremation. No matter the condition of a cemetery, after your kids are gone, most all of us will have long been forgotten. No one will visit, no one will know who you were. And you don't have to worry about ending up in a disgraceful lot like this one has been allowed by an uncaring community. This is more a reflection on what kind of people live in that little town.
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It does not reflect negatively on the town, it is not their responsibility to clean up someone else's space, using their time and resources.
When you die ? You either go to the golden gates if it is open for you ? You have eternal life 💘 with our glorious Jesus ? If not ! Burn 🔥 in hell . one day our lord will have every person in the graves rise just like Lazarus .
WOW, brush, twigs and you name it. Thanks for your hard work and sharing it with us.
You are so welcome!
Those are the oldest poorest condiondishioned grave's I've ever seen,this is so sad🥺
So sad to see the cemetery in that condition. Sad story but very interesting history. Thanks for sharing will be following closely.
Thanks for watching
Thank you very much Leo and Heather, for all your hard work and dedication, and perseverance. This is a very sad story. Is there a record somewhere, testimony as to what his relationship with his wife and in-laws was like? It does not excuse what he did, but he may well have just snapped at that moment. I just feel sorry for that poor little boy, seeing what he saw. The cemetery was very interesting, especially the above ground crypts. A shame about the condition they are in, I truly hope that the proper authorities removed the remains and reburied them properly somewhere else. This would be a great cemetery to visit on Halloween 🎃
Please let us know if you find out anything else about the victims, and Matt.
Great video, thank you very much again Leo and Heather. 😊
Just found your channel a couple days ago and am really enjoying it
That was a pretty in interesting cemetery ,you can learn so much from them, i worked in one myself when i was younger, back then in the 1800's most people were buried in pine boxes , each plot is marked with a number. We would call the backhoe contractor in to dig the grave next to mom and dad nothing should be there, a lot of times as there digging you see parts of pine box coming up, we stop double check it make sure no other graves are suppose to be there its for the family a reserved plot, some cemetery's are so old there record keeping was not that accurate, some people could not read back then and you had a lot of unmarked graves people just couldn't even afford a marker.
Very interesting!.
Too bad they couldn’t use prisoners to clean up the old cemeteries.
@buck9739....
They did & still do, depending on what State it is. My home State of Arkansas is 1 of many States that do it.
@@Houkasmokingcaterpillar I do cemetery work as a private contractor. There’s just so much labor involved. If I was a prisoner I would want to be out doing something useful
This is crazy because just over a century earlier, and just 9 minutes down Holden Rd., another axe murder took place: that of poor elderly Mrs. Anne Lawson by her two slaves, who had gotten drunk!
We have another video posted about her. Grave site and tons of other info.
I am so happy I found your channel. My families are from West Virginia and love your videos
What a shame! It's bad enough that its so grown over for the common individuals laid to rest there but for the Veterans. Shameful...
Very interesting content, brilliantly put together. Subbed instantly.
Greetings and best wishes from the UK 🙏🇬🇧👍
Awesome, thank you!
Those grave up on them there hills are the oldest, I miss doing things like this now that my husband is deceased 🥺 good to see you and your wif do this 🙂
Thanks Lisa
I’m a new fan - I like your channel . I grew up in Ohio and had relatives from Weston, WV .
Scots/Irish as they call it .
Anyways - thanks for the great material . Keep it up !
Thanks and welcome
My God. That was the day my mother was born in Logan. My Dad is older and I'm going to ask him if he remembers this , his mother would have been working at the hospital back then.
Lucky you to have such rich history !
It's really a shame the county doesn't have some individuals doing community service to clean up and restore that cemetery.
hi from the UK I really enjoyed your video and looking forward to seeing more of them .just subbed
Awesome! Thank you!
I love your videos, I grew up in Lebanon ky and my mom and dad are both from ky. Ive done some research on my dad's family in london ky. Very interesting. My gr gr grandparents came over from Switzerland and was part of the swiss colony in east bernstat ky. Interesting info I came across. 😊
Another great video, thank you so much for sharing your wonderful hobby, I found a gold mine when I found your channel. Thank you for all the work you do ❤
Thank you! What a compliment
It's so sad the disrespect people show for the dead.
Your so right
Thanks! I was born in Holden in '57 in the old Island Creek Coal Company hospital that used to be on the hill near the Bungalow. Mom and dad are buried in Chapmanville at Highland Memory Gardens. My wife and I will be in the plots beside them. This was a wonderful video! I really appreciate it and enjoyed hearing your voices, they Take Me Home Country Roads!
damn County judges when handing out community service sentences should have the offenders clean up these abandoned cemeteries! such a damn shame seeing them look this bad.
There are some beautiful monuments in that cemetery. It's so sad it's in disrepair. I was taught to respect the graves. So many people showing their disrespect by throwing garbage.
I'm an empath, too. It's a mixed blessing. I love hearing stories of people that have passed on on
Thanks for another great history lesson.
Our pleasure!
Place of death was Ethel, WV. Not Holden. Ethel is a Coal Camp locate on the other side of Logan from Holden. Ethel sits on Dingess Run (Creek).
This is a sad story & the state of the cemetery is one of the worse I’ve seen. 😢
You know those families never seen that coming.
*The idea of those Veterans alone…breaks my heart!
How sad he thought killing was the answer that made his son grow up without parents or his grandparents he knew and loved may they rest in peace.
Very sad and uncalled for
@@thehillbillyfiles speaking of the son, I'm very curious to know what happened him.
This is a great channel. You guys are fantastic. Don’t change a thing.
Thanks!
That is a sad story. I wonder what happened to the little boy? It makes me sad to see graveyard’s in such poor shape. Who owns the land that the graveyard is on? Would they know who’s buried there and where the graves are? Here in Wisconsin there is always someone who has a record of who is buried in cemetery’s or graveyards. Sometimes it takes a bit of work to find out who has the records but that is how I found my maternal great grandparents graves. Take care.
There is a small list online of people buried there, Jack is listed, not the 2 ladies, but its not a real reliable source. I have no idea who owns it, I know they are there, just pretty sure the markers are not visible anymore. But I may look into that. I will also check the boy, now Im curious
FAG all 3 are listed but no pic of markers
@@thehillbillyfiles Did you find out what happened to the little boy? I'm guessing he'd have no surviving family and be traumatized from finding the bodies in the middle of the night. I'm not sure if all country homes there had electricity then..
Just found your channel today! Love it. Wish you would do more in Lawrence and Johnson counties in Kentucky. Love what you do!
Thanks 😊 we like to visit the locations so right now we are limited , but hopefully soon!
Wonder if you could find out anything about the son, where he went, when is wound up living. Might help some
I love your videos they are very good videos keep up your great work
Thanks, will do!
Sometimes the mystery of where most remains to stay a mystery must be eternally wrapped in memory.
Fantastic story. I have never heard it before. I could see you writing a true crime book of Logan co. I would certainly buy it!
Thank you!
Wow how old is the cemetery? Like when or what year was the first person buried in that cemetery that would be very interesting to know... It's like I wonder what it look like back in the day like was it well notably noticed of burials? Or is everybody just buried far apart from each other?
It's such a travesty that these cemeteries aren't cared for
I really like yall's stories, facts, an videos. Thank you for sharing 🦋
Very interesting
Thank you
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Glad you like them! We appreciate the kind words 😊
I can’t say that I’m very surprised to see the state that this cemetery is in. The vast majority of people don’t care about these old places, even if they have family members buried there, they are often several generations removed and don’t even know who they were and feel no obligation for the cemetery’s care & upkeep. The 30 and below crowd seem to have very little respect or interest in taking care of anything, much less a cemetery. They might have to take their head out of their phone for a little while and they can’t be having that. A few exceptions to that rule, but getting fewer and fewer all the time.
👍 agreed
I would like to see y'all go over to Christian county and Hart county Kentucky and do some stories on their graveyards
Interesting & sad idk how I stumbled onto this, glad I did thou. 💞
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for showing & explaining a little about coal mine. We don't see them here in Wisconsin.
My pleasure!
WV had one ominous-looking penitentiary.
Moundsville has a pretty blue bridge crossing the Ohio river.
A nice simple, clean design. Though I believe would be much better in a medium green.
Wheeling W.V. also has a. Beautiful bridge crossing over the Ohio river. Love Wheeling. 😘
I'm wondering if the smashed crypts were once occupied, but that people relocated remains and they simply festered, collapsed. The first that looked like a small Chapel was especially saddening. I 'love walking thru cemeteries and graveyards myself. There are a few in my area overgrown, unkempt, but accessible with stories to tell. In fact the one can be seen on a FB Page, I grew Up In Plainfield, NJ(my own hometown). A fellow went about the Evergreen Cemetery locating several people who had interesting stories. Let me know if you're up this way, I may need a week to show you about!!
Will do thank you!
Interesting video, I enjoy visiting old cemeteries.
Now that's an old cemetery it's awesome.
I thought that as well!
New subscriber, ❤️ your channel. Be careful you might fall in one of those grave indentations. Very interesting vid.
Thank you, I will
I'm new to your station I don't even know your name or your lady friend's name but I really do like your videos so I subscribed looking forward to the future videos this is Terry and Wichita Kansas 74 years old and I love walking through old cemeteries take care of my friends
I'm in agreement with the judge too. We should still use this method of execution because there are some bad eggs out here.
I like to hear old stories that’s why I subscribed.
Almost every State have a Bureau of Cemetery and Furneral organization where a citizen can report issues with a cemetary... with those sink holes and the nature of kids being as they are, it might be an idea to report this area... not sure if they can do more than just out up signs and have news conferences but it might help. Sometimes area churches will take on these areas for at least the grounds clean up.
No one is taking care of that cemetery anymore, what a shame!
Man, that would be bad if someone climbing that hill fell and landed on those pikes sticking up out of the ground at the bottom where that crypt was used a a storage locker.
Some of those holes look so deep that it makes me wonder whether someone had dug up those graves.
Worthwhile endeavor Lady stay healthy safe travels God's grace to you.
Thanks 🙏
I grew up playing in cemeteries. I know that may sound awful but we grew up with our cousins as close as siblings and decoration day in the south was a big thing for us. The church didn't have no play ground, so we visited unknown graves, picked wildflowers for those that didn't get any decoration , cleaned headstones and made up stories about those we didn't know. I wouldn't take nothing for those days. Appalachian Alabamian.
There used to be a mortuary in Holden. If it still exists they may have records of them and where they are buried.
cool thank you
Thank you and Heather for all your research and persevering the history so sad to kill your whole family or a car or anything else for that matter and so sad and disrespectful to throw trash into someone's grave 😢 it is very old cemetery and in ruff shape that you for trying be safe tell Heather hello
Thanks for the support! We appreciate you 💗
Exactly! I'ma get cremated so nobody gonna find mine to party on lol
You wouldn’t mind, when we die out flesh n bones return to the dust , our souls is what’s important! Lots of people put to much into empty vessels .
You remind me of Willie Nelson🎙️
Jack Martin's grave is at 11:32 on the video. It's the brick structure (crypt) to the right of the screen, or at least, that's what it says on the Whitman Cemetery website. I thought I heard you say "Butler" when you were looking at it. Such a sad story.
Curious, is there a record of these people buried at the courthouse even though graves are caved in?
Some do, but a lot are unknown or lost records. Families kept grave info in family bibles, which tended to get lost over time...
That is the saddest cemetery i have ever seen. So sad.
That cemetery shocked me, it looked like all of the above burial plot had been broken into.
ASMR and murder. My favorite combo!
A ways up the road from there is 22 mine road, there is a place on the highway where u can park and put your car in neutral and your car will roll up Hill! Have done it personally supposed to be associated with the Mamie Thurman ghost
Thanks Bret! We did a couple videos there already, it's a neat place
👍 another great video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just found ya, like your style,ty for your time given
Thanks for watching! we appreciate it
Wow all the collapsed graves! Must not have been put in vault first. In Michigan the coffin is put in concrete vault to avoid that. There’s an old civil war era cemetery near me that’s not collapsed like that. Wonder if they had vaults then? Doesn’t the county have plot maps or something, or even what areas were being used at that time 1940’s😊
Sealable vaults were invented in 1912, and not widely used, especially in rural communities, until well after World War 2. Cemeteries didn't start requiring them until the late 1950s into the 60s depending on the size of the cemetery.
love this channel. And your accent
Good example of how the devil works. Arguing over a stupid car that they hardly used which ends up killing loved ones. A Sunday school teacher at that. My goodness what a story . Thank you for sharing. Sadly, the devil does this too many times. Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you all. John 3:16. Revelation 21:4. SM Lockridge.
I wonder what happened to the child.
Yes me too..hope he had some family to go to..he'd be about 80 now...poor fellow to find your mama like that. Was probably terribly traumatized from all that. May he have found some peace and loved ones through his life.
I know exactly where this is, I use to go by the cemetery all the time going to 5&6 Holden church with my dad, When I was young this was a beautiful cemetery but it's been probably at least 50 years since someone was laid to rest there.
I'm sure it used to be beautiful