Mr Dick an Mr Balls burried close to each other. Very funny! Great work you do. Look forward to the next adventure.

Between your channel and mother load memories fb page I’m getting a great education on our local history, love it.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

That is awesome! Glad you are learning a bit about the area!

@alanajarrell3533

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy b;

Im amazed by the amount of information you have on so many of these people especially since most appear to be rather non-famous. Great to have you keeping these stories alive

Glad you are finding new places during the quarantine to explore. Too funny with the two guys, B and D.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Right?! Ha ha ha! Would you have caught that by yourself?

@Corgis175

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy Might have caught it.

Im Retired Golden gate bridge painter and always heard about the golden rivet. Didn't know it was never placed.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

The big question is where is it today? I'd like to know! Thanks for watching!

@rrrobeltnest7295

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy The Golden Gate Bridge does have a Place they have a lot of historical things of the bridge.Cars toll booths ect.

This cemetery is incredible, well kept. You and Sara stay well.

This cemetery has a lot of family history.It is good that you are keeping they're memories alive.Tony

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

I'm trying! Thanks!

Jeff, I especially enjoyed your journey around the Masonic Cemetery in Sonora. I’ll have to visit the two graves of pioneers, Mr. Dick and Major Balls. Thanks to you, they will not be forgotten! 😆😅🤣. I enjoyed your historic research of Sonora. My mom and dad spent their honeymoon in Sonora, 75 yrs. ago. I appreciate all your vintage photos. They aide in your factual commentary. I’ll bet you taught Ken Burns that technique! Lastly, the country music that you used at the end was great! Keep on that trail, Jeff and Sarah! We enjoy your travels so much! Breakfast is on me if I see you at the Velvet Grill!

Seeing as Sara is in lockdown, what a perfect time to watch " SHANE " . No excuses 😉

@HistoryHunterSarah

4 жыл бұрын

Good try! I'm still working from home and spend a few days a week at the office. Still haven't watched it. Take care!

Another great video. Thanks Jeff

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

What a great story this was. With me having been a Mason since 1991, this story was very much endearing to me. Thank you so much for this episode.

@jbenziggy

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! These old cemeteries are interesting!

My husband and I both lost it at Mr. Dick and Mr. Balls. We are so not mature. 😂😂

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

I guess I'm not too mature either. I'm glad it made you laugh. But honestly did you catch it before I said it?LOL

@KU25746

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy My husband did. I'm really surprised I didn't! Haha. For a 39-year-old I have the mind of a 12-year-old boy sometimes. LOL

@lonnied7709

4 жыл бұрын

You have lots of company in the "not so mature" group!!

@benjaminmann6963

3 жыл бұрын

🤪👌

@melwig2813

3 жыл бұрын

Not only is he Mr. Balls, but he’s Mr. Major Balls. I guess nobody messed with him.

ok, that comment about the 2 buried next to each other cracked me up! great job as usual Jeff!

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha! Would you have caught that on your own, too?

@jennysjourney02

4 жыл бұрын

Same! I literally lol.

@leahreposa4599

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy yes, great minds think alike.

Hello Jeff another great job on Sonora if you want some other nice cemeteries to go check out check out the ones in Coulterville you'll find all walks of life Indian Chinese Germans Americans plus my wife is also buried there in Coulterville I lived there for 10 years and some of the happiest times in my life until I lost my wife to cancer another great place to check out would be the iron door Saloon in Groveland oldest the oldest still operating Saloon in California or maybe you already know this but thank you again for walking me through some of the country I previously walked before

Thank you for your reply, really great to see someone taking the time to answer the comments, much appreciated, hope History Hunters goes from strength to strength.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! We try to answer as many as we can but it's becoming a big job the more subscribers we get. But I also love communicating with good folks like yourself, Royston!

Some Masonic graves now have the inscription: "Called From Labor" on a specific date. Wonderful information on the history of the Mother Lode.

Thanks for taking me along

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

You bet! Thank YOU for watching!

Another thoroughly enjoyable "history lesson", thanks for the GREAT episode. And speaking of digging graves in the rocky ground; your grandmother told me some years ago that when she was young, she recalls the ground in her home state of Oklahoma being so rocky, they had to use dynamite to blast out the holes for the graves.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that explosive insight! I heard that back east the ground gets so frozen in the winter that they have delayed burial until the grave could be dug. At least that's what happened with my great grandfather on my dad's side.

Didn't realize California had so much history learned so much watching these videos jeff one of these days if things ever get back to normal I'm gonna take the family on a few weeks trip back out to California and visit some of these places it goes to show they came from all over the world to California during the gold rush. Thanks for another great video my friend. Man that was comical how those 2 names were close to each other it had to be done on porpoise lol.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, isn't that a kick? Dick and Balls buried close to one another! Ha!

@johnnyjesus8

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy 😂

Thanks Jeff always interesting

Another great cemetery! The Otis Greenwood crypt use to really creep me out as a kid walking around the place.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Really? You actually remember that specific crypt?

@themiccrazy

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I've only been scared in two cemetery's this one and the pioneer cemetery in Dublin California.

These poor people have been long forgotten.

The two men who knew Mark Twain when he spent time on Jackass Hill were Bill and Jim Gillis. Bill is my great grandfather and Jim is his older brother.

Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s always interesting!

@jbenziggy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Connie. Happy to hear you like us!!!

Love your story and history. That was funny about mr. Dick mr. Ball! God bless you

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha! Thanks!

Thanks for taking us along!

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Well thanks but thank you for joining along!

I know of a Sonora CA cemetery that's tucked away downtown, that you haven't been to yet. ! Or maybe you just didn't make a video. ! Thank you for doing what you do. ! It's so interesting. !❤❤❤

I watched this video again, very enjoyable. So many graves gone and probably forgotten, until you do your research. Those old graveyards, scenery and history (and a great host) adds so much to our lives as we learn how those before us lived and built this great country.

@jbenziggy

2 жыл бұрын

I do appreciate the comment, John! I think it's important to remember our history for it explains how we came into existence as people and as a country.

Hallo Jeff,bin zufällig auf euren Kanal gestoßen und habe ihn gleich abonniert bin begeistert,ich liebe die alten Westernfilme und es ist sehr interessant die Drehorte zu sehen so einen Kanal habe ich mir immer gewünscht einfach super macht weiter so und liebe Grüße aus Thailand,bin vor 6 Jahren mit meinen Papa und meiner Frau dorthin ausgewandert

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Willkommen in unserem Kanal! Ich bin froh, dass du die Show genießt! Danke fürs Abonnieren!

I really enjoy your History Hunters I believe Crabtree entertained the miner by doing the Cancan Dance with her legs. Barbara

Thank you Jeff, well done! I really like the old photos mixed in with your presentation.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. I would love to use more photos if they were available ... and if every museum which had them would share them without charging exorbitant user fees. I'm not making a lot money just yet. LOL

Another "over the top" great video, Jeff. My husband and I continue watching your videos everyday. Sometimes we binge watch them several hours a day. We feel like we are right along there with you as we love to go cemetery hunting as well. Love your sense of humor about the two tombstones that you wonder if it was a coincidence that the two were buried side by side. I was wondering if you were going to address that. Ha! We had a chuckle about the tiny little naughty streak of our friend, Jeff. Keep up the good work....we learn so much every single day from you.

@jbenziggy

Жыл бұрын

What a great comment, Scheryl! Thanks for making my morning. We are truly honored and humbled to know there is an unseen audience who feels like they know us as you join us in our adventures. It makes me want to step up our game in terms of content and quality knowing you binge watch our episodes. Sorry about my "naughty" side but when I saw that I thought to myself, "You've got to be kidding!" Can't help but wonder if the folks burying them side by side had a private joke going. LOL

I like that you do so much local history.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I'd like to branch out to other areas but you know with the Great California Lockdown it will probably go all year long. I'm done with the house arrest thing.

This was a great video, of Gold Rush era Sonora Masonic Cemetery thanks for sharing!

@jbenziggy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Looks like an excellent Eagle Scout Project opportunity.

That is a beautiful cemetery, but hate to see fallen tree on grave and areas of overgrowth, Looks like some of the residents (living) homes are right up on cemetery. Don’t know if I would want to live that close. Thanks Jeff! 🇺🇸🚜👍

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it would be kind of strange to look out the kitchen or living room window and see large grave markers and an unruly cemetery. I feel bad that the Lucy Crabtree marker has been knocked over by a tree. Maybe somebody in Sonora will see this and take their chainsaw and get some firewood and upright her toppled marker! Thanks for watching!

History buried with them. Beautiful day there. Very interesting episode so well done I felt like I was there with you....thank you✌️🌈

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

To say you felt like you were there with me is a great compliment! Thanks and I am glad you were able to "tag along." LOL

@nicholassteel5529

4 жыл бұрын

History Hunters yes really I don’t know why I felt I was there tagging along from one gravestone to another with you.....something about the ambiance you created with your relaxed attitude and camera work?????? The weather looked perfect and you getting under that tree to look at the writing on the broken stone. Dry humour about the dick and balls names being accidentally next to each other etc....perhaps it is all coincidental or maybe you are a genius?

as always,another well informed video.great video

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Courtney!

Interesting.... Thanks....

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for watching us again, John!

I live in Sonora and lived here since 1990 when I was 4 and still reside here Ben Soulsby's house still stands Its at the Methodist Church in Soulsbyville and has a rock arch in front which is just up the road from the house l grew up in 1990 - 2013 l lived in Soulsbyville.

Love your history lessons. A lot of research has to be done on your part. Keep up the great work to benefit us all.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Thank you for taking us along stay safe and well

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

Mr. Dick buried by Mr. Balls! Hilarious! Especially with the serious look on your face! Great video!

Wow another good one, somehow I missed it back when. But I am hysterics over Mr. Dick and Mr. Balls. Can imagine the flack they took back in their day.

I enjoyed this very much. My brother-in-law is buried in this cemetery and my sister will be buried there when she is gone. Many of these names are familiar to those of us who have lived in Tuolumne and Stanislaus Counties. I've wandered through this cemetery many times and thank you for giving me a treasure I can keep.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Another great video Jeff I always look forward to your videos. Love the history of my county

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!!!

I love the US historical era of 1800's,so full of interesting topics.I'm from Canada.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! We appreciate it!

Wonderful, Thank you ! Very informative.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome! Thanks for watching! Let me know what you might like us to check out in the future!

Excellent work...

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Always enjoy your program!

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for letting us know!

Love that printing press on the epitaph. How unusual. Great finds!

Love, love history! This was a great video. I love going to old cemeteries. As always thanks for sharing!

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Thanks Jeff for another well researched pi

@richardyoung4616

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff for another well researched video, always interesting.

@richardyoung4616

4 жыл бұрын

Never mind a slip of the finger.

Thanks for the history lesson on my town, I’ll be checking out more of your videos as I love local history.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you! Please subscribe if you haven't!

Fantastic video as always .Thank you Jeff

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

You have a very enjoyable and informative channel and it is evident that you put a lot of effort into your episodes. It's a lot of fun to watch and learn about all of this cool history. Great job!

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, John! We do a lot of research but we love to shoot it and package it up into an enjoyable viewing experience! We appreciate you letting us know that you are having fun with us!

Neglected cemetery but still kind of beautiful. I didn't comment on your Bodie video but I must say enjoyable videos from my now favorite channel. Please keep going!!!!

You should do Coulterville, CA. It's really interesting. And Groveland.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

They are on my list. It may take a while to get to it as there is a ton I want to get to ... just need the time! Thanks for the suggestions!

Mr. Dick next to Mr Balls! Lol good one. Love the history!!

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha. Thanks, Connie, for watching. I thought I'd get kick-back for that quip but I couldn't help but notice. LOL

Love your work, as always interesting, and fun.

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Great Video! Thank You

Beautiful area & well done vlog

Interesting as always and very informative!! Always like the back stories like the Golden Rivet for the Golden Gate Bridge... wonder if it is still around some where! 👍👍

The two people you are looking for could be buried at the cemetery up by Bald Mountain Road. Mountain Shadow Cemetery is the name of that one. There is also a cemetery at the corner of W. Jackson St. Might want to look there for those ones. They also could be buried in Jamestown or Columbia.

Interesting video> You also made us laugh out loud!

@jbenziggy

Жыл бұрын

Oh … I know why! He he he

Another great one ...

@jbenziggy

3 жыл бұрын

We appreciate you watching and commenting Betty! You're kind!

Not sure you have ever explored Virginia City NV graveyard. Lots of history. Nice job.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised you missed my video on the VC cemetery. kzread.info/dash/bejne/p6GZqdRrj7XNnJs.html

You do a really good job with these cemeteries in that you do research, you're not just reading. Well done. 👏 You know I'm catching up with your videos and travels. Lucky me! There's more 😃 That said, I don't know if the marinas and wee tiny tows all along the Cali Delta are of interest to you. Starts in Stockton, goes to the Bay. Tons of history in those marinas and some really great food. City of Locke, wee Tony town, Al the Wops has exxxxcellent food. Oh.my.gosh. Thanks for this trip to Sonora. 👋

@jbenziggy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Janice! You sound like you're really enjoying our series of videos!

@janicecanfield9211

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy mandatory for all kids in school...or should be. 🤔 LOVE your channel

What is so sad within 50 to 100 years after we die no one will remember us. However, a few of us seem to like to visit cemeteries and do a little research. Which you are now doing, More and more people are now being cremated, soon cemeteries will be things of the past. Lord help us if down the road soylent Green comes true. :) That said, I am a Christian so to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Amen :) So we really don't die. we just go live somewhere else.

@jerrysullivan8424

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you again for another good video.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Amen, brother. I, too, am a Christian. I'm glad we have a God who cares that we live forever with Him and provided the way, the truth and the life!

@jerrysullivan8424

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy That is great. it seems like I have met you somewhere, you look like someone that I know. I was in the Marines station n So Ca. in 1977-78. but you are younger than I. also all of us have a twin somewhere in the world. :) So you do look like someone that I have run into some time or another. LOL! Thank you for responding. One day you will have so many viewers writing comments you won't have the ability or time to respond. Your programs are that good.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jerry! I don't think I'm that good yet but we're learning. I graduated high school in 1979 so I'm not that much younger than you.

Informative and interesting as always. I live pretty much in the middle of the areas you cover and how many Gold Rush and Northern California history buff. So this is all Wonderful to me. However I am surprised you've never covered Bodie. I see you've done Aurora which is very close by and on the other side of it.

Hi! I've never commented before. I was going to tell you what "Ici Repose" meant, but someone beat me by 5 hours! We've enjoyed your shows. We've watched all of them, and just wait now for the new ones to pop up.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Well thank you, Tom! Glad you finally came out and commented! I actually googled ICI repose afterward and found out what it meant but didn't stick it in the video! Thanks for being a follower!

Antigo este cemitério muito top meu bhother

Great video sad to see a cemetery in such conditions. You should do a video on Aimee Semple McPherson she is buried near Walt Disney I just learned about her.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

I have definitely given her consideration! I hope to get to LA this summer ... if the state would let up on this ridiculous restriction of our freedoms!

More about the Segerstrom family. I have no idea if they’re related but there are still Segerstroms here in Sonora. Kate Segerstrom is a judge here in Sonora, and her son-in-law Sam Segerstrom is a sonora high tennis coach and a real estate agent

Good history

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks my friend!

LOL, the location of Mr. Dick and Mr. Balls couldn't had to have been on purpose. That would have been some coincidence, don't you think? Thanks for the laugh. I wasn't expecting that :-)

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

I've gotten more comments about that section! Ha ha! I doubt if it was deliberate since we're talking the 1850s and 1860s (they had more class back then) but as I was crouched down there and saw the two last names side by side I had to laugh. Thanks for watching, Steve! Hope all is well!

Another good video! I have several books on the boomtown days, mostly on Bodie and Aurora-- you may have guessed that. Some of the books, the “forward” is written by a Donald Segerstrom, of Sonora.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting! If he's no longer living I bet I know where to find him! Thanks, Dave!

Very interesting thank you

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I enjoyed the video!

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!!! We strive to entertain and educate!

Oooo I'm from Sonora! I'm a photographer and I've taken photos in that cemetery! 😄 This is interesting!

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Glad you liked it!

Have you checked out liberty and Elliott cemetery in acampo? It would be great if you did a video on those two. I guess a lot of kids were buried in the liberty cemetery and some of the graves are under the freeway.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

I was actually considering those so any information on who is buried there would be much appreciated!

@MrMonkeyGeorge

4 жыл бұрын

www.findagrave.com/cemetery/8109/memorial-search?page=1#sr-14731701

Another great video. There's also a Jewish cemetery behind the Sheriff's Office and the City Cemetery off of Jackson St near the corner of Ash St.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Sonora has lots of cemeteries, one in East Sonora too.

Next u should go to Greeley hill it’s a very small town that has a lot of history it’s between Coulterville meriposa and Groveland

In Gult Ca. There's a old cemetery of the town liberty that no longer exist.

Love the video I’ve noticed a lot of people have Freemason headstones were they all freemasons back then

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

There was definition an expectation to join these fraternal organizations if you were a successful businessman. Today service clubs are sadly on the decline in America.

So cool to find this! I am doing a podcast about our local cemeteries, I live here in town. I have done this same excursion so many times! So neat to watch from home on such a hot day!! Let's do a project together if you ever come back!

Hi history hunter I love your channel! Can you make of video of hickman ca I live here please I would love to know about it

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

It's possible that I could in the near future but for the time being ... check out my Stockton cemetery video. I visit the grave of Louis Hickman and talk about him as the founder of Hickman.

Its so sad that these cemetery's are no longer tended by Any Relatives.... there must be SOME about?? Another great video tho... have you been to TOMBSTONE, in Arizona i think?? that would be a Great video

I love the joke about Mr. Dick and Mr. Balls.

Love the videos. Noticed your last name. Small world. My daughter's best friend from Livingston shares the same name. Was wondering if you were related to her dad, Eric.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha! He’s my first cousin. Our dads are brothers!

Great history, thanks, I have subscribed. Shame on the Masonic order that they have not kept the cemetery in better shape. If I lived in the area I would volunteer to help keep it up.

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

@Jeff: Please, please, please present something about Robinson's Ferry and the mysterious Melones fire and the erasure of the history of Melones.

Smashing the like button

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Elvis! See, you are alive! LOL

@jj90789

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy great videos.. TCB⚡thank you.. thank you very much

Thumbs up. BTW: Jeff have you read any of the books authored by Tulare Farmer Victor Davis Hanson? Any opinion of his latest?

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

I love Victor Davis Hanson but I thought he was a professor?

@Dive-Bar-Casanova

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy A real eye opener: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eHmMrpeOg9iqd6w.html

Happy holiday

@jbenziggy

2 ай бұрын

How your Memorial Day holiday was memorable!

Another cool one is in Sonora behind to old jail. Shame on Sonora for building a new addition onto the jail and building over some of the old graves.Some say the old part of the jail is haunted .

I think Lucy grabbed that tree she lived up to her name. I dont know if it would be politically correct, but I sure would like to a cable camera inside those little holes just to see if the coffin was visible. Might of been very ornate but then it might of been wooden. And those fences they were all hammered together no welding back then.

I know of an old small cemetary i can't find much info on. Maybe you can help me research it. Located along feather river between Oroville and Biggs ca

@16:10 is Dr. Dodge related to whoever Dodge Ridge is named after?

Are you guys thinking of doing a video on Bodie California ?

@jbenziggy

4 жыл бұрын

I would like to but I have to convince Sarah since we've "been there, done that." Of course we visited before I started History Hunters! Thanks for watching!

@bobthebuilderyeshecan1623

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy thankyou so much !

@bobthebuilderyeshecan1623

4 жыл бұрын

@@jbenziggy and love watching your videos !