Today, I visit the 14th U.S. President, Franklin Pierce, who's buried at Old North Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire. #cemetery #president #graves #history
Kind of sad really. Lost all his children tragically. Lost his wife. And he wasn't popular. And maybe drank himself to death. I am not going to judge him. Sometimes life is hell.
I had to Google Nathaniel Peabody Rogers and found out he was a very influential person. He was a lawyer against slavery and for women's rights and animal rights.
I like seeing them as well .. Lots of folks do cemeteries nowadays and I don't know of any of the others who do the Presidents graves.. I have been to a few myself of course.. went to Hermitage a couple years ago.. amazing history there and of course, Monticello and Washington's and JFK... One day, I would love to see Lincolns
Whiskey was a little risky back in the day. Wow, it’s a bit rustic and forgotten. I like the old gothic type fence and headstones. I was a scout and we would take care of old cemeteries that needed cleaning to earn badges or craft points. Thank you for the informative video🤠👍
It's a common practice for towns to put flags on all veteran's graves every Memorial Day. Sometimes the Boy Scouts do this as part of their community service.
It’s a bit of a misnomer to say Pierce was pro slavery. Like many politicians of his day he felt slavery was an issue for the individual states to address. Politicians of that time were forced to take that stance for federal offices if they wished to get southern support, which they would require to win votes and offices. He was actually anti slavery, in fact he asserted it should be abolished from the face of the earth. Pierce’s biography was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne leading into the 1852 Presidential election. Hawthorne met Pierce at Bowdoin College in Maine, while both were students. They were lifelong friends. Interesting fact: Hawthorne had changed his name to escape its dark past. Hawthorne’s great, great grandfather, John Hathorne, had been a leading judge at the Salem Witch Trials.
Hi Mr. Steve, touring the burial site of the 14th President Franklin Pierce was amazing. So sad he and Mrs. Pierce lost all three kids at such a young age. 🎉🎉🎉 As always, you never disappoint. Your friend from the great Peach 🍑 State of Georgia 🍑 THANK YOU ❤
Good morning Steve. I am really enjoying your visits to the presidential resting places. Yesterday I had the privilege of a friend inviting me to accompany him on a trip to Hermitage, Tennessee, where Andrew Jackson lived and is laid to rest. It was beautiful there.
Steve would you fufill my suggestion by visiting the grave of John philip sousa please and you are the sweetest kindest most special guy on youtube ♥️♥️
Some of the older cemeteries in Fresno County have these. I took my son to a really old one last weekend. We were in the foothills found a the oldest still in use church donated in the the 1860’s and the people who donated the land buried in the old cemetery. I hadn’t been out there in years unfortunately many of the standing headstones had been vandalized and broken. Always enjoy your videos.
If I'm not mistaken, his son Benjamin was killed while Pierce was on his way to Washington just before his inguaration. His wife mourned throughout his term in office. So sad.Get video!😊
It's surprising how modest the grave is I think it's kind of sad but the grave is very modest just like Teddy Roosevelts I think was very modest as always good job Steve
I noticed his son Benjamin died on January 6, 1853. That may have been a few weeks before inauguration. That had to have been horrible to get thru that month.
It was actually 2 months before his inauguration, back then the Presidents took office on March 4. It was later changed to January 20 to shorten the "lame duck" period between the November election and inauguration day. This likely contributed to Pierce's drinking problem, as I read that he said that the office no longer meant anything to him after his son died.
I live in NH, and we put flags on the gravesites of all our veterans. And by the way, Concord isn't pronounced Con Cord, it's pronounced Conkerd. It's a NH thing!
Thank you for sharing Steve. Well done as always. Pierce suffered a lot of tragedy in his life, including seeing his son killed right before his eyes because of a train crash. I am sure he suffered from depression and with that became an alcoholic. Rest in peace Mr. President. Thanks again Steve.
That cemetery ( The Old North Churchyard,) predates America. The City of Concord was settled in 1727 by charter on the authority of the Massachusetts bay Colony as The Penacook Plantation, and Later, The Town of Rumford of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Most of the patriarchs of the founding 92 Families are buried there. Many of the families who founded Rumford had come up from Haverhill and Salisbury of The Mass Bay Colony. Rumford WAS The Western Frontier in 1727-29 when the original town was surveyed and the first buildings built there. The only thing further west was Old Fort #4 on the Connecticut River. Two days and a bit hard March from Rumford. So Called as it was the 4th and furthest fort out from Boston. The original western boundary of the Hampshire Grants was the West bank of the Merrimack river that runs through Present day Concord, so Massachusetts Bay had legislative jurisdiction over the area but the area was disputed between the two colonies. As the Lt. Governor and later Governor of the fledgling New Hampshire colony, one Benning Wentworth had his eyes on the Mast Yards just west of the Penacook Plantation, Tall virgin White Pines which were used for the masts of the ships of the Royal Navy were worth a good deal of money and Benning Wentworth meant to have them and was eventually successful in petitioning the crown to expand the western boundary of the Hampshire Grants from the Merrimack River to the West Bank of the Connecticut River which is the border between the states of New Hampshire and Vermont today. (This makes New Hampshire responsible for the cost and maintenance of all bridges that span the Connecticut River between the two states to this day.) So President Franklin Pierce is in with Rolf's and Walkers, and Osgoods and Bradleys and Greenes and Merrils and Eastmans and Stickneys, all of whom were represented in the first 92 families who settled the Penacook Plantation. Look up Colonel Benjamin Rolf's tombstone, not far from President Pierce. . It is a slate stone. It looks like it was caved Yesterday. There is no locked gate on the Old North Church Yard. Nobody wants to bother President Franklin Pierce. His grave was really run down many years ago and a Boy Scout repaired it as his project for Eagle Scout. It has been refurbished since but it at one time was the most neglected of all the presidential graves. Franklin Pierce rests in peace. He doesn't get many visitors. I'm a writer of historical fiction. Look for me on Amazon. I am working on a book about colonial Concord called "The Rumford Diaries". It should be out in about a year. Franklin Pierce was a Democrat. Republicans had not yet been invented. The New Hampshire legislature has met in Concord since 1782. In 1782 they voted themselves a $100 annual stipend to defer costs of travel and lodging while the legislature was in session. They have Never increased that stipend since it's establishment in 1782. The New Hampshire Legislators STILL Pay themselves $100 a year. Our Federal legislature could learn a lesson from the folks who govern New Hampshire Rest easy Mr. President. It's a good thing they didn't cremate him. He was such a heavy drinker the fire would still be burning.
Most of the white older stones in New England are marble, a form of limestone. They melt over time due to acid rain. Granite stones hold up much better. Granite only became more widely used after railroads opened up to the granite quarries and granite could be transported over distance. My own marker, a bench marker, came from the Rock of Ages granite quarry in Barre Vermont.
What is interesting is most of the granite you will find in this cemetery was quarried locally. Rattlesnake Hill is one of the principal quarries that provide this material throughout the country. The Granite State is this state's nickname for good reason.
The flags are distributed by veteran's groups to anyone who served on Memorial Day in New England. Mist people don't include their military service on the grave itself.
I’ve been privileged to visit 9 presidential grave sites, and wish to visit more. Thanks for sharing the Pierce, Van Buren grave sites. Very well done, and so interesting. Really appreciate the job you do Steve.
Hi Steve. I enjoy your Presidential visits to their final resting place. I enjoy that you give a little background story on some of our U.S. Presidents. 🇺🇸 Your videos are so informative and lots of fun to watch. Thank you Steve for taking a once in a lifetime travel video to visit the Presidents of the United States of America. You saw so many Graves on your travels and I for one appreciate what you did to show us these many videos. The many hours of video editing must have been very pain saking but the quality and effort shows in the end. Until your next video Steve, Take care dear friend.
The inscription on the Sanborn headstone probably was for Company E of the 1st New Hampshire Heavy Artillery Regiment. Most likely in the Civil War. Enjoyed your tour of the cemetery. Old cemeteries are lessons in history.
Love your channel. Many cemetery in the East Coast have the headstones like these in New Hampshire. Hope to see a video from one of many cemeteries in NYC.
Love seeing all these Presidents resting sites, and hearing their histories. You do a great job Steve,, although l live in the UK, lve always been interested in history!!. Many thanks for all that you do. A UK fan 🇬🇧👍..............
In Ohio, our 'rule of thumb' is that all cemeteries open at dawn and close at dusk IF the cemetery has no locking gates. Our local, famous, historic cemetery & arboretum has a Greek temple to our local governor and his family. A descendant was interred in the 2010s. The flags mark the graves of soldiers. They usually have metal holders denoting the deceased's war service. We have markers from G.A.R. (Covil War), Spanish-American, WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. I have heard about 'War on Global Terror" though have yet to see one (license plate/holders-yes).
Just a little fyi - those 3 yellow flowers on the Thomas grave at about 10:50 are dandelions and are considered weeds in most parts of the country. In a few days, those flowers will turn into fluffy balls of seeds that will be scattered by the wind to grow more dandelions. Thanks for another great tour!
As always, this is a wonderful educational video! I'm sitting here having my lunch, and it's such a pleasure to watch your videos and hear your soothing voice as you describe the events; I get more enjoyment from watching your videos than watching the very depressing news.
Hi Steve! On President's Day we drove over to Princeton NJ to visit the grave of Grover Cleveland. It is also very modest. There were no inscriptions that indicated that Cleveland had been President! Aaron Burr is in the same cemetery.
Nice video. Thank you for the walk around. I love hearing the birds in the background. Franklin Pierce did not leave the legacy he hoped for. His wife dead, children dead, lost the leadership of his party and then the nation experiencing a civil war. No wonder he drank too much…and it killed him!
I don’t think it would be surprising for him to be a heavy drinker. That’s a lot of trauma and in those days, no real mental health care or anti-depressants would have been available.
Hi Steve 😊 I'm a few days late. Sinuses and allergies have taken a beating on my. It sounds like he lived a sad and lonely life. 🕊️🙏❤️ Thank you dear friend 😊 What a beautiful old cemetery.
Thank you for sharing all the info and experience of this cemetery. The fast movement of the camera was a little distracting, try to pan a little slower. Thank you again.
pierce's story is so heartbreaking. i am so suprised there isn't a biopic on his life already. drinking is not the only cause of cirrhosis. i was diagnosed at 23 with non alcoholic fatty liver disease due to my obesity and at one point i was so close to cihrossis. love the content as always see ya next time
Hi Parker, once again, thanks for your very kind donation! Thanks for sharing this with us. That sounds scary. I hope you are ok, health-wise, now! Have a great week and you'll be getting a shout out in an upcoming video! :-)
Have you ever been to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia? There are 2 U.S. presidents plus Jefferson Davis buried there. Also civil war generals and both Union and Confederate soldiers. It’s very beautiful….like an outdoor statue museum.
I've only just redized and find out on my family history that I'm related to a lot of famous grave so you have gone to and it goes way back to the year of sex or so. Just to let you know I'm probably in shock right now. It's only found out yesterday and I'm still surprised and that's on my dad's side of the family and I'd never knew any of them so just keep it. Keep the good work going and thank you for everything that you do and I will always watch you and support you by watching
It must've been hard to lose his kids especially the way they passed. And I've Also heard Pierce is usually ranked towards the bottom of Presidential rankings consistently
The flags are put on the graves of people who served in the military. From what I understand they are put on by the Veterans Association. The Cemetary where my parents (my father was in WWII) & husband (was in Vietnam) are buried have flags put on from Memorial Day until fall.
Great as always and always something to learn from you at my age! I love that house right next door to the graveyard...I would live there! How does that cold, wet weather do on your Palm Springs bones? Thanks...as always!
Hi William, I loved those houses next to the cemetery too. I would definitely live there as well. And I couldn’t wait to get back to the dry desert heat lol! 😎👍
Nice peaceful old Cemetary 😌 I've heard some about Pierce and his wife watching their son get crushed to death. How horrifying 😢 😳 And he supported the confederacy as you said. He wasn't well liked at all. I'm enjoying these. Thanks Steve 😊
I love these old cemeteries. They do need to do more to preserve the writings on the stones. Thanks for showing and yes please always use your iPhone 😂
I lived in Concord for 12 years, it is a beautiful city and its final resting places are classic New England Cemeteries. I visited Old North Cemetery several times doing research. I'm surprised you did not visit Christa McAuliffe when you were in the area she is laid to rest about 3/4th of a mile up North State Street in Calvary, Concord's traditional Catholic Cemetery. Men buried at Old North served from the Revolution to the Mexican (Pierce was a Brigadier General in that war) to the Civil War. This included several cenotaphs of men who died in the Civil War whose remains could not be returned home.
Thanks for sharing Tom. There were so many famous craves that I wanted to visit on this road trip, but I only had six weeks and tried to stay focused on the President graves and as many others as I could, but I still miss so many because of lack of time. ☹️
Lost his wife, lost three kids before age 12, hard to come down harshly on someone seeking ethanol therapy after all that, especially in the mid 19th Century.
I live in Indiana and most of our gravestones are kind of big but there are are some cemeteries here that have flat graves.Mime won't have a flat stone. Mine will have a bench where my family can sit and visit me.I love all your vidios.You do an awesome job researching everything.
Watching that man walking his dog in the cemetery, I am reminded when I was a young child how my parents taught me not to even walk on a grave, so much was their respect for the dead. The thought that the dog may relieve himself on any grave is despicable.
Kind of sad really. Lost all his children tragically. Lost his wife. And he wasn't popular. And maybe drank himself to death. I am not going to judge him. Sometimes life is hell.
I had to Google Nathaniel Peabody Rogers and found out he was a very influential person. He was a lawyer against slavery and for women's rights and animal rights.
So much sorrow in his life. It’s not surprising he drank. The cemetery is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Pro slavery, lousy president.
He may have a problem with the bottle. Because of the deaths of his children and wife.
I’m really enjoying the Presidents final resting places. Thank you as always Steve!
I’m happy to hear that Catherine. 😀👍
I like seeing them as well ..
Lots of folks do cemeteries nowadays and I don't know of any of the others who do the Presidents graves.. I have been to a few myself of course.. went to Hermitage a couple years ago.. amazing history there and of course, Monticello and Washington's and JFK...
One day, I would love to see Lincolns
@@TheGraveyardChannel it`s nice that you bring them to our attention.
Whiskey was a little risky back in the day. Wow, it’s a bit rustic and forgotten. I like the old gothic type fence and headstones. I was a scout and we would take care of old cemeteries that needed cleaning to earn badges or craft points. Thank you for the informative video🤠👍
I'd read that Franklin Pierce was quite fond of the drink. I'd also read that he gave his entire inauguration speech, some 3300 words, from memory.
I do remember that. Interesting and ppl said drinking (tho it is true in most cases) impair memories
It's a common practice for towns to put flags on all veteran's graves every Memorial Day. Sometimes the Boy Scouts do this as part of their community service.
The local DARs, too.
Pierce's close friend from college was the writer Nataniel Hawthorne, who wrote the Scarlet Letter.
It’s a bit of a misnomer to say Pierce was pro slavery. Like many politicians of his day he felt slavery was an issue for the individual states to address. Politicians of that time were forced to take that stance for federal offices if they wished to get southern support, which they would require to win votes and offices. He was actually anti slavery, in fact he asserted it should be abolished from the face of the earth. Pierce’s biography was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne leading into the 1852 Presidential election. Hawthorne met Pierce at Bowdoin College in Maine, while both were students. They were lifelong friends.
Interesting fact: Hawthorne had changed his name to escape its dark past. Hawthorne’s great, great grandfather, John Hathorne, had been a leading judge at the Salem Witch Trials.
Hi Mr. Steve, touring the burial site of the 14th President Franklin Pierce was amazing. So sad he and Mrs. Pierce lost all three kids at such a young age. 🎉🎉🎉 As always, you never disappoint. Your friend from the great Peach 🍑 State of Georgia 🍑 THANK YOU ❤
Thank you, Janice! 😊👍
Yes I have heard of this president. Thanks to the great sounding birds too. Thanks for the cemetary visit.
Morning Steve… I also live in Palm Springs and thought it was great. You visited the part of the world where I grew up… New England.!
Is the New England Mob still around?
Hi Jim, it sure is different back there isn’t it? I like the name of your CZcams channel. My other CZcams channel is called @SteveInPalmSprings 😀
Good morning Steve. I am really enjoying your visits to the presidential resting places. Yesterday I had the privilege of a friend inviting me to accompany him on a trip to Hermitage, Tennessee, where Andrew Jackson lived and is laid to rest. It was beautiful there.
Steve would you fufill my suggestion by visiting the grave of John philip sousa please and you are the sweetest kindest most special guy on youtube ♥️♥️
Good morning Kevin, my visit to Andrew Jackson’s gravesite is one of my most popular videos on this channel. I’m glad you got to visit too. 👍
Hi Steve thanks for your historic tours
Some of the older cemeteries in Fresno County have these. I took my son to a really old one last weekend. We were in the foothills found a the oldest still in use church donated in the the 1860’s and the people who donated the land buried in the old cemetery. I hadn’t been out there in years unfortunately many of the standing headstones had been vandalized and broken.
Always enjoy your videos.
Thanks for sharing that with us, Dano! 👍
If I'm not mistaken, his son Benjamin was killed while Pierce was on his way to Washington just before his inguaration. His wife mourned throughout his term in office. So sad.Get video!😊
I used to drink but quit Feb 17th 1983 age going on 27
Congrats, Patti. It’s not easy to do. 👍
It's surprising how modest the grave is I think it's kind of sad but the grave is very modest just like Teddy Roosevelts I think was very modest as always good job Steve
Hi Steve another good story here. I think back then drinking was a way to drown their sorrows. Good day to you and Jim! 💁♀️🌞🌅
I noticed his son Benjamin died on January 6, 1853. That may have been a few weeks before inauguration. That had to have been horrible to get thru that month.
It was actually 2 months before his inauguration, back then the Presidents took office on March 4. It was later changed to January 20 to shorten the "lame duck" period between the November election and inauguration day. This likely contributed to Pierce's drinking problem, as I read that he said that the office no longer meant anything to him after his son died.
I live in NH, and we put flags on the gravesites of all our veterans. And by the way, Concord isn't pronounced Con Cord, it's pronounced Conkerd. It's a NH thing!
A lot of cemeteries no longer allow standing headstones as many have fallen on people injuring them and some deaths as well
The cemeteries/ graveyards/ churchyards here in UK 🇬🇧 are also mostly open 24/7
Love this beautiful cemetery, thanks Steve for sharing. ❤
The bird that is singing through most of your video is a redwing blackbird.
Thanks Randy, I was wondering, what kind of bird it was. I’ve never heard one of those in California. 👍
That is really nice looking cemetery and all the houses around it
The flags are for veterans. Local scout troops and veterans place them. Enjoying your channel!
Thank you for sharing Steve. Well done as always. Pierce suffered a lot of tragedy in his life, including seeing his son killed right before his eyes because of a train crash. I am sure he suffered from depression and with that became an alcoholic. Rest in peace Mr. President. Thanks again Steve.
That cemetery ( The Old North Churchyard,) predates America. The City of Concord was settled in 1727 by charter on the authority of the Massachusetts bay Colony as The Penacook Plantation, and Later, The Town of Rumford of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Most of the patriarchs of the founding 92 Families are buried there. Many of the families who founded Rumford had come up from Haverhill and Salisbury of The Mass Bay Colony. Rumford WAS The Western Frontier in 1727-29 when the original town was surveyed and the first buildings built there. The only thing further west was Old Fort #4 on the Connecticut River. Two days and a bit hard March from Rumford. So Called as it was the 4th and furthest fort out from Boston. The original western boundary of the Hampshire Grants was the West bank of the Merrimack river that runs through Present day Concord, so Massachusetts Bay had legislative jurisdiction over the area but the area was disputed between the two colonies. As the Lt. Governor and later Governor of the fledgling New Hampshire colony, one Benning Wentworth had his eyes on the Mast Yards just west of the Penacook Plantation, Tall virgin White Pines which were used for the masts of the ships of the Royal Navy were worth a good deal of money and Benning Wentworth meant to have them and was eventually successful in petitioning the crown to expand the western boundary of the Hampshire Grants from the Merrimack River to the West Bank of the Connecticut River which is the border between the states of New Hampshire and Vermont today. (This makes New Hampshire responsible for the cost and maintenance of all bridges that span the Connecticut River between the two states to this day.) So President Franklin Pierce is in with Rolf's and Walkers, and Osgoods and Bradleys and Greenes and Merrils and Eastmans and Stickneys, all of whom were represented in the first 92 families who settled the Penacook Plantation. Look up Colonel Benjamin Rolf's tombstone, not far from President Pierce. . It is a slate stone. It looks like it was caved Yesterday. There is no locked gate on the Old North Church Yard. Nobody wants to bother President Franklin Pierce. His grave was really run down many years ago and a Boy Scout repaired it as his project for Eagle Scout. It has been refurbished since but it at one time was the most neglected of all the presidential graves. Franklin Pierce rests in peace. He doesn't get many visitors. I'm a writer of historical fiction. Look for me on Amazon. I am working on a book about colonial Concord called "The Rumford Diaries". It should be out in about a year. Franklin Pierce was a Democrat. Republicans had not yet been invented. The New Hampshire legislature has met in Concord since 1782. In 1782 they voted themselves a $100 annual stipend to defer costs of travel and lodging while the legislature was in session. They have Never increased that stipend since it's establishment in 1782. The New Hampshire Legislators STILL Pay themselves $100 a year. Our Federal legislature could learn a lesson from the folks who govern New Hampshire Rest easy Mr. President. It's a good thing they didn't cremate him. He was such a heavy drinker the fire would still be burning.
Wow, how interesting. Thank you for sharing all of this with us Edward. 😊👍
Most of the white older stones in New England are marble, a form of limestone. They melt over time due to acid rain. Granite stones hold up much better. Granite only became more widely used after railroads opened up to the granite quarries and granite could be transported over distance. My own marker, a bench marker, came from the Rock of Ages granite quarry in Barre Vermont.
Ironically, those who could
not afford marble markers
bought (or made themselves)
a marker out of siltstone.
What is interesting is most of the granite you will find in this cemetery was quarried locally. Rattlesnake Hill is one of the principal quarries that provide this material throughout the country. The Granite State is this state's nickname for good reason.
The flags are distributed by veteran's groups to anyone who served on Memorial Day in New England. Mist people don't include their military service on the grave itself.
I appreciate the video and your observations.
Thanks Quinley!
Thanks again, Steve for another fun video that video happens to take place in my hometown of Concord, New Hampshire
Thanks, Robert, it’s such a different world back there compared to where I live on the West Coast. I really enjoyed you area and state! 😊👍
Thank you for sharing very interesting.
This is a lovely looking Cemetery. Thank you for doing this. take care.
Beautiful cemetery and thank goodness doesn’t look like it’s been vandalized.
That is a nice cemetery. I noticed all the nice houses surrounding it. I guess that's 'progress'. Great video, Steve. Take care :)
I’ve been privileged to visit 9 presidential grave sites, and wish to visit more. Thanks for sharing the Pierce, Van Buren grave sites. Very well done, and so interesting. Really appreciate the job you do Steve.
Glad you enjoyed it and good luck on the rest of your visits! 👍
Thank you….
Hi Steve. I enjoy your Presidential visits to their final resting place. I enjoy that you give a little background story on some of our U.S. Presidents. 🇺🇸 Your videos are so informative and lots of fun to watch. Thank you Steve for taking a once in a lifetime travel video to visit the Presidents of the United States of America. You saw so many Graves on your travels and I for one appreciate what you did to show us these many videos. The many hours of video editing must have been very pain saking but the quality and effort shows in the end. Until your next video Steve, Take care dear friend.
Thank you MrMark, I appreciate that and I’m glad you’re enjoying them. 😊👍
Keep up the good work steve im really enjoying these videos
Thanks, Wesley 👍
Losing his family could be why he drank so much?
Thank you, Steve!❤
Good morning from Central Pennsylvania
Good morning Jeffrey!
Love this Steve!! Beautiful and sorrowful!!!❤❤
What an interesting story Steve! Happy Saturday!
Glad you enjoyed it Cole! 😊👍
The inscription on the Sanborn headstone probably was for Company E of the 1st New Hampshire Heavy Artillery Regiment. Most likely in the Civil War. Enjoyed your tour of the cemetery. Old cemeteries are lessons in history.
Thanks, Lamb and I agree, they sure are. 😊👍
Who were the bottom 3 on that list? Bet they were from more recent years.. 🙄
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Hello Steve, Thanks for sharing your trip to New Hampshire and sharing the story on President Pierce. Have a great weekend.
Thanks Chuck, you too!
Love your channel. Many cemetery in the East Coast have the headstones like these in New Hampshire. Hope to see a video from one of many cemeteries in NYC.
Love seeing all these Presidents resting sites, and hearing their histories.
You do a great job Steve,, although l live in the UK, lve always been interested in history!!.
Many thanks for all that you do.
A UK fan 🇬🇧👍..............
In Ohio, our 'rule of thumb' is that all cemeteries open at dawn and close at dusk IF the cemetery has no locking gates.
Our local, famous, historic cemetery & arboretum has a Greek temple to our local governor and his family. A descendant was interred in the 2010s.
The flags mark the graves of soldiers. They usually have metal holders denoting the deceased's war service. We have markers from G.A.R. (Covil War), Spanish-American, WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. I have heard about 'War on Global Terror" though have yet to see one (license plate/holders-yes).
Seems like a peaceful cemetery. Some of the headstones could use some TLC. Interesting video.
I have Pillsburys in my family tree on my Moms side of the family. Sanborns too. Lots of relatives in NH.
Just a little fyi - those 3 yellow flowers on the Thomas grave at about 10:50 are dandelions and are considered weeds in most parts of the country. In a few days, those flowers will turn into fluffy balls of seeds that will be scattered by the wind to grow more dandelions.
Thanks for another great tour!
Get those Drunk Drivers Off The Roads!
As always, this is a wonderful educational video! I'm sitting here having my lunch, and it's such a pleasure to watch your videos and hear your soothing voice as you describe the events; I get more enjoyment from watching your videos than watching the very depressing news.
Thanks L! 😊👍
We in NH has a list of all the people who was in the military and what cemetery they are in including small one that are in the woods
Hi Steve! On President's Day we drove over to Princeton NJ to visit the grave of Grover Cleveland. It is also very modest.
There were no inscriptions that indicated that Cleveland had been President!
Aaron Burr is in the same cemetery.
Hi Gerry, glad you were there too. That’s my next video. 👍
Fascinating historical facts regarding Franklin Pierce! RIP! 🙏🙏
Nice video. Thank you for the walk around. I love hearing the birds in the background.
Franklin Pierce did not leave the legacy he hoped for. His wife dead, children dead, lost the leadership of his party and then the nation experiencing a civil war. No wonder he drank too much…and it killed him!
Thanks again for the interesting info on one of our Presidents. I really enjoy seeing all of these gravesites. Great job Steve!
Thanks for this video, often wondered about this president
I learn so much from you. Thank you
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Great vid, I love the old northeastern graveyards, very charming. Thanx Steve.
Another Great Video My Friend. Looking forward to the next one. God Bless and take care my Friend.
I don’t think it would be surprising for him to be a heavy drinker. That’s a lot of trauma and in those days, no real mental health care or anti-depressants would have been available.
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Steve. Always enjoy your videos and your great narratives.
Thanks, Michael 👍
Very much enjoy your Presidental grave visits. Thanks!
Hi Rick, I'm happy to hear that. Thanks, so much, for your very kind donation. You'll be getting a shout out in an upcoming video! :-)
I'm related to him. I'm also related to Barbara Bush. Her maiden name is Pierce.
I sure wouldn't want to live so close to a cemetery! haha
Almost 10,000 views in less than an hour🎉 you've come a long way my friend 😁 keep up the good work!
Thanks Dwayne! 😃
Thanks Steve
Keep up the great work! 🇺🇸
Hi Steve 😊 I'm a few days late. Sinuses and allergies have taken a beating on my. It sounds like he lived a sad and lonely life. 🕊️🙏❤️
Thank you dear friend 😊 What a beautiful old cemetery.
Hope you’re feeling better now Leesa!
Charming setting to me. Just in a neighborhood surrounded by citizens.
Thank you for sharing all the info and experience of this cemetery. The fast movement of the camera was a little distracting, try to pan a little slower. Thank you again.
More historic grave tours would be nice. But love all your videos 💙
pierce's story is so heartbreaking. i am so suprised there isn't a biopic on his life already. drinking is not the only cause of cirrhosis. i was diagnosed at 23 with non alcoholic fatty liver disease due to my obesity and at one point i was so close to cihrossis. love the content as always see ya next time
Hi Parker, once again, thanks for your very kind donation! Thanks for sharing this with us. That sounds scary. I hope you are ok, health-wise, now! Have a great week and you'll be getting a shout out in an upcoming video! :-)
Have you ever been to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia? There are 2 U.S. presidents plus Jefferson Davis buried there. Also civil war generals and both Union and Confederate soldiers. It’s very beautiful….like an outdoor statue museum.
I recently visited Lincoln's tomb again
I've only just redized and find out on my family history that I'm related to a lot of famous grave so you have gone to and it goes way back to the year of sex or so. Just to let you know I'm probably in shock right now. It's only found out yesterday and I'm still surprised and that's on my dad's side of the family and I'd never knew any of them so just keep it. Keep the good work going and thank you for everything that you do and I will always watch you and support you by watching
Looks like a really old cemetery
Those 3 little "flowers" looked like dandelion weeds
Thanks!
Hi Cliff, as always, you are awesome! Thanks! :-)
It must've been hard to lose his kids especially the way they passed. And I've Also heard Pierce is usually ranked towards the bottom of Presidential rankings consistently
Hey Steve how are you , l enjoyed this video and this president had so much sorrow in his life.
The flags are put on the graves of people who served in the military. From what I understand they are put on by the Veterans Association. The Cemetary where my parents (my father was in WWII) & husband (was in Vietnam) are buried have flags put on from Memorial Day until fall.
Great as always and always something to learn from you at my age! I love that house right next door to the graveyard...I would live there! How does that cold, wet weather do on your Palm Springs bones? Thanks...as always!
Hi William, I loved those houses next to the cemetery too. I would definitely live there as well. And I couldn’t wait to get back to the dry desert heat lol! 😎👍
Love the beautiful houses around the cemetery too! Bet they are haunted! 😱🙄😉😂🤣😁👋🏼💞
Nice peaceful old Cemetary 😌 I've heard some about Pierce and his wife watching their son get crushed to death. How horrifying 😢 😳 And he supported the confederacy as you said. He wasn't well liked at all.
I'm enjoying these. Thanks Steve 😊
This is a beautiful cemetary. He had such a tragic life.
I love these old cemeteries. They do need to do more to preserve the writings on the stones. Thanks for showing and yes please always use your iPhone 😂
Interesting. I don't recall learning about Pierce in my young school days.
I lived in Concord for 12 years, it is a beautiful city and its final resting places are classic New England Cemeteries. I visited Old North Cemetery several times doing research. I'm surprised you did not visit Christa McAuliffe when you were in the area she is laid to rest about 3/4th of a mile up North State Street in Calvary, Concord's traditional Catholic Cemetery. Men buried at Old North served from the Revolution to the Mexican (Pierce was a Brigadier General in that war) to the Civil War. This included several cenotaphs of men who died in the Civil War whose remains could not be returned home.
Thanks for sharing Tom. There were so many famous craves that I wanted to visit on this road trip, but I only had six weeks and tried to stay focused on the President graves and as many others as I could, but I still miss so many because of lack of time. ☹️
@@TheGraveyardChannel Stickney's Mausoleum Grave compared to Pierce's more simple grave is a form of an allegory.
Lost his wife, lost three kids before age 12, hard to come down harshly on someone seeking ethanol therapy after all that, especially in the mid 19th Century.
I live in Indiana and most of our gravestones are kind of big but there are are some cemeteries here that have flat graves.Mime won't have a flat stone. Mine will have a bench where my family can sit and visit me.I love all your vidios.You do an awesome job researching everything.
Thank you, Jennifer. I love cemetery benches. 😊👍
Very beautiful cemetery. 🪦
Watching that man walking his dog in the cemetery, I am reminded when I was a young child how my parents taught me not to even walk on a grave, so much was their respect for the dead. The thought that the dog may relieve himself on any grave is despicable.