Abandoned - My Ancestors’ 180 Year-Old Home + Family Cemetery Update/Cleanup
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- In this video, I take you with me through the latest cleanup effort in the Charles Family Cemetery and exploring their abandoned home just a short distance away. The house is almost 200 years-old! Thank you for watching my second video! I’m still very new to CZcams and editing, so please forgive the imperfections. New and better videos coming to you soon!
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Edit: The John M. Charles House was demolished to make way for development between April 11th and April 13th, 2023. I’m deeply saddened by its destruction and am uploading a video soon detailing what I was able to capture of this event. Fortunately, I was able to save bricks and some timbers from the home. I wish I could’ve done more to save it but money is more important to most than history in Greenville, South Carolina.
Thank you to all of you for your wonderful support and kindness in my previous video! I think this video is an improvement over my last but there may still be some imperfections here and there. I’ll make the next one better. More cemetery and historic adventures to come soon. Enjoy!
My video about the destruction of the house: czcams.com/video/AgtdLsYyf04/video.html
Sorry it was demolished before more could be done for it's value to the family.
You are so young to have the want to improve your heritage. It certainly shows you and yours are very responsible, respectful and not afraid of doing work, hard work to do it!💕
Living in Iowa we see a lot of old farm homes that are abandoned that the tweekers will take over to set up their meth labs!! It makes me so incredibly irate that people would do that to your house. I’m sure you feel as if you’ve been violated as this old homestead has🤬
Wow, so sad. But like you said, the house was completely stripped, vandalized, and probably used as a meth lab (or something), so, it's probably for the best; just good that you got to document it before it was gone. Hope the cemetery doesn't suffer the same fate. Best of luck to you!
See if the county or state has a law forbidding any destruction of cemeteries. In Georgia, where I live several developments were denied due to small cemeteries being on the land. It disturbs me when I hear of history being destroyed.
Those daffodils aren't wild. They were planted there by your ancestors. You should dig up a few clumps, or several clumps, and replant the bulbs on your own property. A living memory for you. And you could dig them up again later if you move.
It's refreshing to see a young man who actually cares about the preservation and respect of his historical past
Thank you for your kind words!
You might be able to claim the cemetery as a historical site for preservation to prevent any development. Plus being an actual descendant might help.
Nice idea. Might be something he can mention to the owner. They are also a descendant of the same family.
How amazing! It would be so cool if you could save the house and we could watch you restore the whole property. What a beautiful place. You are lucky to have such a rich family history. Thanks for sharing!
P.S. you should metal-detect the land too!
That wisteria is beautiful and I'm sure it was a joy to look out of those windows and see it. I hate that the home was destroyed. The redevelopment is happening everywhere and unfortunately it's money over memories and history these days.
Please try and save that beautiful house.. so much family history is getting lost. I would love if i had this opportunity to have a piece of history like this that has been in the family for so long..great video, thanks for sharing 👍
Have a great day, everyone ✌️
That Wisteria growing on the house is so beautiful.
I wish more people would take care of their Cemetaries the way you did. The older ones need care!
I love the Wisteria blooming all around the house. Look forward to watching future videos on the cemetery cleanup. Good job so far!
Hi! Please be careful about panning the camera swiftly around for any duration. It makes us a bit queasy and dizzy. Don't let this discourage you, just keep it in mind. Thanks for sharing your history with us. Sad to see how vandals have wrecked your ancestorial home and especially the cemetery. It is considered to be a work of mercy, honoring the dead to take care of a cemetery. Good work! By the way, unless there is significant rot or termite damage you could renovate that house for around 230-270k. Not a million, but not cheap either.
Thank you for your comment! I’m getting better with practice :)
@@palmettocemeterian I think what you’re doing is wonderful and so commendable! You should try to get your family Cemetery designated as an Historical Site and protected. That way there should be Grant money you could also apply for to help with upkeep and restoration and possibly even fencing or other measures to cut down on vandalism. It might help to make it all a bit less stressful for you. Good Luck!
I haven't read it yet, but there is a book called how to make videos that don't suck. Panning the camera around swiftly all over the place is nauseating. I love what you are doing. Please keep doing it, but take your time, go slowly, give the eyes of your viewers time to catch up. I realize that you are still learning. We all are. God bless you. It makes me so sad that this magnificent home was demolished. Keep making videos and always keep reading and learning about how to make them better for your viewers. You may have made this video only for yourself. If so, nothing is lost.
I thought I was the only one getting dizzy. LOL
Oh man, I wish somebody would buy the home and restore it! It’s beautiful! And wow, the old letters and photos were an awesome find! And of course, great work on the cemetery! Thank you for sharing the journey!
I second that emotion 🌿
We found the abandoned cemetery in Illinois that my ancestors are buried in. It was in much the same shape as yours. Not long after we visited, a distant cousin and a crew arrived on the scene and cleaned it up and made the township keep it up. 143 souls are buried there and I know their families have no clue how it was being treated. So glad you're trying!! Too bad family can't keep the house and restore it.
I grew up in this area, and drove past your family cemetery and home every day. I never went into the cemetery, since it’s private property, so I appreciate your showing it.
Anyone with good intentions is welcome to check out the cemetery anytime!
Your respect for the cemetery is very much appreciated …..and hopefully becomes a foot print for other to follow.
You can usually get free fencing from people that are updating, it would be nice to get a fence around the cemetery and build a fanmily plaque
How wonderful to see you being SO Respectful of your Ancestors! You have given me a Little More Faith in your Generation!
Stay Safe & God Bless! 😊🙏🏼💜
I wish someone would rescue that once beautiful house! I will never understand why and how someone can allow a old home to collapse and be forgotten! We lose so much history 😢
Oh how I wish I could go back in time and see how they lived and see this home when it was built and cared for. If walls could talk what an interesting place this would be. Thank you for sharing your video’s.
Deborah Kelly when I see these old homes, I often think about when they were first built and the family was coming there on the very first day, moving in. How thrilled they must’ve been and how beautiful the house was. Everything so fresh and new and the people so excited! How proud they must’ve been of their lovely new home. It’s sad to see these houses that have sheltered so many different souls through good times and bad, left to fall to ruin and demolished.
@@Jackielocks very well put !!
Wow, they salvaged every single window from that place, even the banister. Those old windows are worth lots of money these days. They can't make them like that anymore. My family has an old home about as old as this one. The windows are very hard to replace to original.
I'd love to buy the place and restore as well as maintain the cemetery. It would be so serene and a labor of love indeed
G'day from.Australia...your ancestors will be proud of you....well done.
Thank you, friend! I appreciate your visit from Australia.
That house was beautiful at one time. You can still see it even in its shape that it’s in now.
Hello...I honor your efforts and your new CZcams channel. I think you said you are in SC somewhere. Maybe you could arrange to offer those people who might be interested in helping you a day or so an opportunity to do this. I'm in the Garden City area on the SC coast. Anyway, just a thought.
New Subject...That quick swing of the camera is not unusual to new video photographers. I have learned this. Force yourself to go way too slow and then when that becomes normal you will be able to speed up a bit as needed.
I am sorry the house was destroyed. It is hard to see a landmark of your family ancestors abandoned, vandalized, and demolished. Thankfully, you made a video to remember the house. The lovely bones and the beautiful light from the windows in each room show how your ancestors designed it to be to be a bright and gracious home.
It's heart breaking to see such a beautiful and well built home to be left to ruin. Too bad the family couldn't have had a reunion and figured out how to preserve this beautiful home and to leave a legacy for for future generations.
Beautiful house. I would take cuttings from the lovely Wisteria Vine and take a walk around the land with a metal detector.
what a beautiful house this must have been at one time, it's a shame the vandals and squatters had to come in and do their damage,, i wonder if the gentleman in the funeral picture, may have been one of your relatives,, maybe that lived in the house at one time ?, great work also on the Family cemetery keep it going ,
Very cool that you were able to get footage of your ancestors abandoned home before it's demolished. Thanks for sharing!
That WRITING ON THE WALL though 12:06 .. someone with a truly disturbed mind was hanging around that property! 😳
DUDE.!!! U and the others are crushing it nicely.!!!!wow.. AWESOME. Proud.!! of u .
Thank you so much!
Watching your video now and I really am enjoying it. Glad to see you are cleaning up your families resting place. And the house! I bet it was quite fantastic initially day.
I'd DIE to visit and volunteer! Omg..my brother lived outside there...in Ida. Coming from Ga....I passed so many properties with old structures I'd love to investigate and ruminate over😂....hooked on history I guess
How sad that it is gone now. It is clear from your video that it was once a very beautiful home! It had so much natural light! Wow! Thank you for sharing this with us!
The daffodils were planted by your ancestors. They are not native here. Back when all the settlers came to America they brought them with them. They would put them around their homes. Anytime that you see daffodils and irises that means at one time there was a home there. The home may go away in time but the daffodils keep on multiplying and coming back year after year as a marker for a once family home.
I own what is left of our family farm in NC. On that farm once was a house that looked identical to your family home. Unfortunately, it burned to the ground many years ago and before I owned it. I had great ideas of restoring it as my mother and uncle were born there, my grandfather and his 3 siblings were all born and raised there and my great grand parents had lived there many many years. I'm not sure of the full history of the house, such as when it was actually built and who built it. There is a family cemetery somewhere on another piece of property my great uncle owned, which is just up the road and was once part of the farm I now own. I really need to get out and look for it.
You should definitely go find it! Make sure it doesn’t get developed over
Did you say there might be some freed people back there? I ask, my great grandmother (raised me) is buried outside of downtown Dallas, well a LARGE CORP was going to build in the land behind her cemetery. Well, guess what, it is a freedman cemetery. Adios large corp. the city helps keep it up. Just saying you might want to get back there, possibly find some more valuable burial spots. City might help out $$$$. Maybe you will get to keep your land. Cemeteries cannot be moved. Good luck and God Bless you young man. That civil war plaque is totally awesome. By the way, your familial house is gorgeous. Reminds me of where I grew up.
Love those old cemetery, you and your pretty assistant are doing a great job cleaning it up, the house was beautiful in its day its a shame it has gone down but its too far gone to fix it now it would cost a small fortune to fix it enjoyed the video from NC love those old plantation houses in SC have spent a lot of time in SC love it enjoyed your video take care
Thanks so much! The pretty assistant says thank you for saying she’s pretty! Made her day
I do like watching your vids
about your family ,
it's so interesting , shame the house was left to go to ruin , sad in a way
but I will keep watching & take a interest in what you post , thanks for letting us into your life a little 😊🙏
Just watched your video. I take care of a family cemetery that was in much the same condition as yours. You should be commended for your dedication and caring. We must remember who we are and where we came from.
I bet it was beautiful back in the day . Sad to see it the way it is now
thank you for your respect of the past and having the ability to preserve the past. Be blessed.
You need to retrieve that stone that your ancestors used to mount horses and coaxkes.
I’ve thought about how to do it but it’s huge! It must weigh several hundred pounds
I think it's awesome that you are doing this for your ancestors 😊😊
That device is a buttonholer for a sewing machine. The flowers outside were Camilla’s that you thought were roses and the other flowers were azalea’s.
Cemetaries are so beautiful & peaceful. Thankyou for cleaning it up so it looks beautiful again! So beautiful! ❤️ keep us posted please on how it goes...
How amazing that you can see the actual house where your ancestors lived!
It is truly a beautiful home. Thank you for sharing with us. Imagine if that tree out front was still standing and what that looked like. Gorgeous!
I hope you can preserve the cemetery,. Would be a shame to see that go
I just came across your channel, and I know how heartbreaking it is to see your ancestors' home in such a state and knowing it will be torn down with nothing you can do to stop it. I've been there. But I didn't get to document the house before it was gone. It does feel like a part of your past is just evaporating. Im glad you got to document it and glad to see you taking care of the cemetery.
Sad to see what people have done to the "home" . I hope you were able to protect the cemetery to resect those at rest there. Your respect for history is refreshing, God Bless you.
To bad you couldn't restore your family home and move in to it. Next to my fa Cemetery and others is my great grama farm. When she passed one of my Uncles got it and he turned around ,gave it to one of my cousins ex husband. He's has made a mess of it and letting it rot. It should of been left to a family. I visit my family Graves next to the house. He hates me . The last time I was there he came over to the rock wall my great grandfather built. Kept looking at me saying, stuff. The next I go and he starts I will call the police. I'm glad your cleaning your family Cemetery. It's sad to see what people have done to your family home. I can only amagine what he's done to my grama home. Every room of the farmhouse was beautiful.
Have you researched the deed? It would be interesting to see how many owners there have been.
I'm glad to see another video from you, if there were more people that cared no cemetery would end up forgotten! This video is better than your first one, you're doing great keep them coming!
What a beautiful tribute you have made. It must be an incredible feeling for you to know this is where you come from; your ancestors who walked, laughed, played and lived hard but productive lives....that led to you being on this earth.
So heartbreaking it is gone, but you have done your ancestors a great honor by memorializing their lives, their home and their memory.
If the new owners intend on building, there must be restrictions and required land testing, investigating etc where there is a cemetery.
God love you for doing this. I'm going to watch your previous video and keep up-to-date on your progress. Wonderful video. You're a terrific person.
Your ancestors are watching down and saying 'thank you, my boy'.
(meant to say...if you can, try to retrieve the upping stone from the new owners and put it on your property and maybe one of the plants)
How cool to see and be in your family's historical house. This may sound funny but if I had that treasure I would be cleaning it up also. I love this stuff.
As I am watching you go through the house, tears are coming up to see the blatant destruction of yet another fine structure, by people driven by desperation and drugs. What a lovely home it must have been. I am so sorry you had to see that. And so sorry you couldn't save it. Time and again I have watched old structures being stripped down, torn down, carted off and flattened all so developers can put up cheap( but expensive) houses that essentially all look the same, with no character. It disturbs me that so many of us want the bigger, better deal rather than cherishing and restoring the old.
Indeed, I take it very personally, though there's really nothing I can do about it except care.
I think I read someone suggest you contact the county in regards to getting some support for protecting your family cemetery. I dont know whats all involved for getting it listed on the National Historical Register, but maybe that could be an idea worth pursuing. There may be a historical society in the city or county that could help provide funding through grants or donations. A small cemetery like that is old enough to garner protection and not necessarily something you have to do all on your own.
Best of luck to you and the others in your family working to preserve the past.
Seeing videos like this is always a big reminder that our lives are very short. We’re here today and gone tomorrow. Our home is really in heaven . Do not be attached to anything here on this earth because it’s all left behind. If we are, attached become detached, and so easy to become attached to things on this earth, because the world keeps telling us we should put our value only here. The world is wrong.
Yes, please take some of the daffodils before they’re all gone. I bet the place was gorgeous back in its day. I hope the cemetery will be safe from developers!
It's a month later and i watched this one It's good 👍 when a relative decided to do what you have done Don't know if you found the slave sematery or not but it would be nice if you did One of my sister's have been doing our history on our ansesters for a long time maybe 30 or 40yrs now and my youngest brother been doing it a number of yrs also Keep all the memories you have they will last you a lifetime Sharing their history and videoing it is priceless You have a great video here
Fireman 🔥🔥🔥
The windows are amazing, all the way to the floor,I love it
My favourite part was the very old purple wisteria vine growing wildly on the outside of the house! 🦘🥰
Thank you for sharing what you do with us and of course the cleaning and restoration of graves. I’m sure they (deceased) would be very grateful.
Thanks for sharing this video
My impression is, they were very wealthy. That house is very well built.
Those old mop boards are made out of beautiful wood, should pull them off and make a table to remember your family’s old homestead, thanks for sharing your family’s old place. Love this kinda stuff.
After watching all the hard work, time, and effort you are putting into clearing out the cemetery, I have one thought... You should buy, borrow, or rent a chain saw!
It must have been beautiful. The wisteria is gorgeous. We had a farm in KY with a cemetery and the cemetery was protected by law. We had to allow any relatives of the deceased in if they wanted to visit the cemetery.
This house a historic treasure and should be saved.
Bless you for trying to care for an ancestral home. Did you ever live here at all ? You are a fine young man, and I'm sorry it was demolished, but glad you were able to get something to keep,of your family. Thankyou for showing us. Gayle in Whitby,On. Canada.
What a beautiful home. It sure doesn’t look as old as it is. What a shame, so sad what people do to others property.
I am so sorry your family house has now been demolished. It looks as though it should have been scheduled a historic home. I think that is much easier in the UK I think. Good that you got a video of it for posterity. You are right though money is everything now in this world.
The wisteria was so beautiful, it's May as I watch this so I know it must be much prettier now.
Just found your channel. Are you in SC? I subbed. Great what you are doing! History preserved. ❤️🌈
Yes! Home base is Greenville County.
I cannot wait to see what you have in mind to do to your family cemetery. So sorry about your family ancestry home .but yes money talks many languages. Much respect from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 ❤️
You should look into buying the part with the house, (or ask about hauling the house itself away to a different location). Moving an entire house seems daunting, but that house looks like its still solid, and thats how they used to build them back then. Cool video!
Beautiful flowering trees and shrubs . Take cuttings for sure .
It is incredibly maddening to me that people think they are entitled to go onto & into someone else's property and use it as their own, take what is not theirs and destroy the property for their own entertainment or profit. I wish you could have saved the house and I also wish all of the doors, woodwork etc. would not have been pilfered. I hope you are able to clean up and restore your family Cemetery. Best of luck with your future projects!💞
WOULD TRUELY LOVE TO SEE THIS ALLLL renew, and useable 4 u .
It's a shame people are so shallow that they do stuff like that. It's so sad. Thankfully, you are getting it cleaned up.
That was a wonderful old house, sry you lost it,. Looking forward for more videos .
It looks like it originally had a two-story porch as well..... With a balcony on the second floor. Many homes here in the south were built with a second-story balcony back in the 1830s-40's......All the way up until the Greek Revival era.
Oh it was beautiful, that wisteria was so lovely.it’s a shame that ‘upping Stone could not be saved.
well the sad fact of the matter is>>>the doors and fireplace fronts probably got used for firewood..the house does not look to be in too bad of shape>>its awesome that you are keeping up to date on your family property and history ..>>if the property is for sale why not buy it???It probably is a cheap grab>>>I almost had the chance to purchase my grandparents home in upstate NY but>>I was just a few days late>>>Did not realize it was my parents house till after the sale>>that was a sad time so if you have the opportunity look it up, see how much they are wanting for it
You’re probably right! Sadly, the property is on a very expensive piece of commercial real estate.
wow the scrappers certainly stripped that house bare., Bannisters sawn or broken off at the sockets are no use to anyone. I suspect they just burned all the bannisters in the fireplace to keep themselves warm .I hate to say it, but I believe the house is now so far gone that there is no restoration possible, you woud simply be guting it, putting in new walls ceilings, doors and windows, making it a modern reproduction. It would end up costing more than you would spend to buy another period house that didn't need restoring. If you do want a souvenir, I suggest that both the stone step at the back door amd tjhat Upping Stone would be worthwhile saving, They look like they date back to when the house was built. No point leaving them there to have some bulldozer scoop them up with everything else to be taken away to the dump when the house is demolished. Sounds like you have some contact with the owners, surely you could ask them if you could legally take them before the sale goes through? Nice to have the actual step your ancestors trod on 150 years ago.
Those steps may end up elsewhere from the house :)
Sooo cool !! Thanks for sharing!!! You’re doing great work keep it up !!
God Bless you for the care that you and whoever is with you took with the cemetery. 🙏. What tales you can pass down to your family and then they can pass it on and so forth. Thanks for this info. 😀
Y’all have done so much work! Your ancestors would be proud! I think there’s a cemetery society in that area. They help with a lot. Fixing headstones, cleaning them with the right cleaner and equipment, etc. The Historical Society might have pictures, or drawings of what that property once looked like! Be really careful walking around. Make a lot of noise!
I'm interested to watch you progress. I hope you can restore it and perhaps fence it off. It would be nice to see it more protected.
The cemetery in talking about.
I wish 🤞 I was there to help you with the cemetery I do the same thing when I got a day I'm not busy I go around to different cemeteries in my community and I mow and fill up sunken Graves and erect tombstones that have fallen down..you are a very good genuine man my friend ❤️ may God bless you my friend
Beautiful house inside. Very grand. Sad that it's gone.
I am so sorry the house was demolished. That's sad. But I'm glad u got a chance to check it out before hand! Keep up the videos! I love this kind of stuff so I'll be subscribing and following for sure!
I am enjoying this video of this old family home and cemetery.thank you for taking me along with you.
How sad 😢 beautiful old house Love the wisteria wish I had a cutting. You should take a cutting the misses must have loved it. ❤
Enjoyed this very much. Could you please slow down the camera, moving to fast. I wanted to focus on some of beautiful wall paper, and some other aspects of the old home! Hope it can be saved!!
I planned on re-filling the house but time ran out, sadly. It’s demolition was completed yesterday. Time for another subdivision or apartment complex I suppose. They grow like weeds here. I’m pretty heartbroken over it.
It is good to see a young person interested in there history First time seeing your video
You’re so amazing. How wonderful that you’re doing this. I’m sure your ancestors are smiling down upon you ❤
You are a wonderful man, saving the history of your ancestors ❤️ God Bless and thank you for sharing this amazing part of history
What state are you in? I find these smaller family cemetery's interesting. I discovered Helen Gurly Brown and her husband David Brown are buried in her family cemetery in NW Arkansas, she ran Cosmopolitan magazine and her husband was a Hollywood producer
My Mothers family are all from Greenville and surrounding Easley, Pickens, etc. w
What incredible history and pride for your interest in our family history. The video is fantastic. The freeway traffic behind sound was bit annoying, however I know infrastructure of our cities growing requires some family members before us certain circumstances. And yes, cemeteries are to be respected. There are regulations to protect moving our ancestors to different local. Keep the search strong
I would love to see you do more content like this, you explain the past so well, I can see you explaing the past of many more homes!
So so sorry you have to say goodbye to your Lady . She was full of interesting rooms. All of the voices she heard, including prayers, are gone with her. It's like, son, I was violated and broken hearted. Please let me be put to sleep.
Up from her will be a new beginning.
Her roots and your family roots are going to keep rising.
I think it feels like a death to see old family homes run down and too damaged to repair . She needs a celebration. You aĺl walked in her many rooms that you could.
You are showing your video and I thank you.
Someday you and your wife will be building a family.
I don't know if Lady's measurements were taken. You can estimate from your video.
You build a home. It will be named after you and your wife. Maybe your girlfriend is ready.
Take care. Do something in going forward as in planting roots.
The Tree of Life goes on. 🙏