The veteran plate you asked about; GM2 was the rank of Gunners Mate, Second Class. May he rest in peace.

Leo dear you don't owe us any explanation your true followers including myself love what you and Heather do and anything you make from this great work you do here for your channel you dam well deserved and more. You just keep doing what you're doing because your seriously preserving our history and doing it honestly and that's more than I can say about the narrative history we've been lied to about so I admire your honesty greatly it's like a breath of fresh air. Never stop telling and taking us a long on this awesome channel. Y'all work hard to get this out to everyone and we could never pay u enough ever for your honest truth and preservation of our true history Love y'all Lori in Louisville Kentucky

Arnold Norman,Kelly Norman,Jessie Norman ,Elvie Jean Smith we're 4 of 12 children of Ted & Bessie Norman whom are also there!As well as Hazel Smith was their Granddaughter!😇❤️🙏 My Grandparents & Uncle's/Aunt's!😇 Thank You Soo Much for what your doing it's Amazing & May God Bless Y'all! ❤🙏💗🥰

Leo,my granparents was Hatfield.they lived on blue springs hollor and we are direct decendants from the feud my great great granpa is constable Floyd Hatfield cousin of Devil anse.we have 2 family cemeterys there one is across from the old blackberry school on the hill to the left facing the school that is where floyd and my great great great grandparents are and the other is up blue springs hollor less than a mile thats where my great grandfather wayne Hatfield floyds son and my grandpa thurman and granma bessie Hatfield and other family members including my brother Larry Taylor if you have the time id love to see you do a video of the cemataries.the cemataries arent marked the one on blue springs is above a old white house that was my grandpa's my cousin gary Hatfield lives behind the cemetery on the hill

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

Ive been to them, My relatives are also buried there, I just haven't posted it yet, we have cemetery videos stacked up

@dontaylor3039

Жыл бұрын

@@thehillbillyfiles what are your relatives names cause we may be family.i was told everyone there was related

@dontaylor3039

Жыл бұрын

@@thehillbillyfiles actually I know for a fact I'm related to everyone in there so we are more than likely related.

I did genealogy of my ancestors in WV for over 20 years. Been in many cemeteries in the mountains just like this one. Such peace! I’m looking forward to the rapture now. It won’t be long and many of your ancestors will be raised. Hopefully you will hear that call to and not have to experience death. God bless you. Wonderful video.

I love the headstones with pictures... there are several headstones 🪦 😀 with pictures in our family cemetery that was filled and closed in the late 1890's. Almost every headstones has a picture. We were there a couple of years ago and it is so strange to turn around and see a picture that looks exactly like me... 👍 the one picture that I could be a twin to died 1854...

Wow...alot of sad history there and the epitaphs are just beautiful. Thank you for sharing their pictures and giving us their story.

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Thank you for sharing this video. My grandfather was mentioned at 24 mins 14 seconds. Arnold Norman! May he continue to rest peacefully 😘

Very good video i am planning on doing a tour of some of these cemeteries in a couple of years upon my retirement

I’m a WV girl living in Florida and I love your channel! It’s unique and that makes it even more special. You and Heather are adorable and I love how friendly, honest and genuine you all are (that’s the WV in you!) sending all my love from Florida!❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

@Cliffyzjiffy

Жыл бұрын

In fl wife is from wv

@shelleymflorida

10 ай бұрын

@@Cliffyzjiffy I meet people all the time from WV down here! I’m in southern Florida!

Thank you for sharing! Seemed like such a close family. They lived in a beautiful place. I am envious of their life style. May they rest in peace!!!!

❤This is beautiful graveyard. Thank God it's not mistreated.

These cemeteries are more beautiful than the fancy park-like burial grounds in big cities. Thank you for sharing your hard work, Mr. Leo.

GM 2 is Gunner's Mate Second Class. I enjoyed the tour!

I cant get over how beautiful the country is where you are! I enjoyed watching this video

@thehillbillyfiles

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

I am related to everyone in that cemetery. They are all related by blood or marriage. My 2nd great grandmother is there. Elizabeth Hatfield who married William reilly Norman. You can barely read her gravestone now. My dad is there. Eph of all Hatfield is there he is my 4th great grandfather and Anna Mckinney is there she is my 4th great and my 5th great grandmother. My 2 great Aunts are there. Its an entire extended family buried there. My great grandmother Mary Norman and John L. Ratliff are there in unmarked graves or gravestones that have worn off. And I am sure that my great uncle Albert is there also in an unmarked grave. There use to be a cemetery map of everyone buried there. But when the old caretaker died, it was in a notebook, and they can't find it now. Some of us would pay big money to find that notebook! 😏 I know he had it there in 1989. It is now lost forever. 😢

@emmayoung9503

2 ай бұрын

Gunner's mate?

@user-sb3xs1jk3g

24 күн бұрын

Iam 11th cousins to Moose Hatfield

@user-sb3xs1jk3g

24 күн бұрын

Gorge Neville to Nellie Albough Wright back

@user-sb3xs1jk3g

24 күн бұрын

Also my Grandfather Mary Houston back to Jesse McCoy

Leo… Excellent video. I can certainly sense your compassion for the dead. May they all rest in peace🕊️

GM2 would probably be Gunner's Mate 2nd class, if my US Navy rank/rate memory serves correctly. My father served on board the USS Iowa in WW2 in the South Pacific. He dies in 1999, but he was also a Gunner's Mate. He was born in 1926 and his father, my grandfather (whom I never met; he died years before I was born) had to sign for my dad to join the USN because he was just 16 years old. But this was wartime and, nowadays, we have no idea what it's like. I have 21 year-old and 15 year-old sons and I can't imaging sending either of them off to fight.

Greetings from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania once again! If I was going to write a book on The Hatfields&McCoys, you folks would be consulted FIRST. This is an amazing, fascinating, and WELL-RESEARCHED part of your channel. You should get an award from KZread! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR DEDICATION AND WORK IN THIS FIELD. 👍🙏☦

I love your laugh, and history. I was told that my paw paw went to Kentucky to get his wife. We have ties to those folks.

Hi, I just read the comment from the West Virginia girl that lives in Florida...I am a Florida girl that wants to live in W Virginia... I have relatives in PA and it's beautiful there..found your wonderful channel today and you got me hooked. I'm so looking forward to the day I live by mountains, streams, and REAL dirt. Thank you for you channel ❤

@thehillbillyfiles

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Heather is from California, shes been here 20 years and loves it

I love what you and Heather do. My mom always said you die twice. The first time when you leave your earthly body and the final time when someone speaks your name for the final time. So every time you read those names you are helping keep those people alive. I've lost 3 sons and I never want anyone to stop speaking their names . William ,James, and Zeb. I speak their names every time I can. Thank you guys for what you do and the respect you show for all those people.

@steveball1339

Жыл бұрын

God bless you and your three Sons, William, James, Zeb !!!

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@gayeyount7948

Жыл бұрын

@steve thank you so saying their names. It means the world to me.

@tracidavis8991

Жыл бұрын

William, James, and Zeb. God bless you! May peace and love be with you always..

@gayeyount7948

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Traci for saying their names.

If this isn’t pure American history, I don’t know what is. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for your video. We enjoy your videos. My dad was born and raised in a very small town in southern Illinois. Yes, he was a hillbilly. The town is still a small town today. I was stumped trying to find more information about his parents and siblings from when he was young. For some strange reason I reached out to the local library. On a chance, I call the library one day and spoke with a very nice lady and she explained that their town does not have the budget to put their little local newspaper on the internet. However, they do have seniors from the community who come in to volunteer to look through the newspaper's archives at the library to find news articles of any kind for people doing geneology. The library does ask for a small donation to pass along to the volunteers for their time and effort. A very nice elderly woman spent hours going through the microfilm between the 1930s and the 1940s. She found some wonderful little articles. The largest article was about my uncle who was killed in WWII. It was actually a couple of articles. I sent a small donation and then the 70+ year old lady sent me a Thank You card. I'm slowly learning unique ways of finding details of stories. Something to think about when you aren't able to find details to an unusual or young death.

Leo I just want to say thank you and Heather for the great videos that you do and all the research you do I'm a 74-year old man in Kansas and you don't know how I appreciate watching your videos God bless you both and if I've messed up in here it's because I talk to text when you get my your fingers don't work too good son take care and keep the videos of coming

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

GM2- I think it stands for Gunners Mate maybe 2 stands for level?

@bikinilover1853

Жыл бұрын

Gunnersmate second class, e-5 is his enlisted pay grade.

Thank you and heather for all yall do

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

Your so welcome!

Yall do great.Heather has a voice for this stuff.Yall do a wonderful job of honoring people

the Boyd headstone is stunning.

I love the way you all do your research and everything down to the T

❤You can feel the love in this place

Absolutely beautiful headstone the one with Ronald and Betty Sue ❣️ thank you for the beautiful tour I'm related to them Hatfield's ❣️

@lynd4852

5 ай бұрын

I am related too, I've got to dig up more information.

Sentimental hour of sorts. Thank you God Bless

I just found your channel. Excellent. I really liked how you showcased the Hatfield and then went on to show the other stones. I am a life long Charleston, WV native.

I love these videos. Wandering cemeteries always makes me wonder about the people buried there. We all have a story.

Wow, that is a beautiful resting place. I can feel the history as you walk through and say their names. Thanks Heather for the info on these folks. Leo, I appreciate you taking care of these gravestones by wiping off debris and clearing vines wherever needed. This is the only cemetery I have ever seen with so many pictures! Amazing place!

@thehillbillyfiles

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much 🙏

I appreciate your kind words my grandfather was George hyden and my dad which was reserved beside him has been laid to rest at Anderson Hatfield Cemetery.

According to my family's story, my 4 times great grandmother and Devil Anse Hatfield's mother were sisters. My great grandmother name was Susan "Susie" Ramey Stapleton. Her husband's name was Robert Stapleton. They had a bunch of kids.

I like what you said about as long as someone is out there saying their names that they aren't forgotten. I recently lost my dad he is buried by my brother and my mother will he laid to rest on the other side of him. I pray not for a long long time. I want to thank you for what your doing. I am not from there I am from southern Indiana but what your doing is a great thing. ❤

What a beautiful place! Thank you and Heather for making such amazing videos.

@thehillbillyfiles

9 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

These are beautiful states to visit. Just beautiful.

Amazing video ❤

I love your podcasts. I noticed it is rainy in almost every video.... lol

Fascinating. I really enjoy the cemetery tours. My dad and I would wonder around the cemeteries each year looking at different stones during Memorial Day. It was always a special day for me. Thanks to you and Heather for your hard work.

I love these beautiful cemeteries & the legacies they represent. They remind me every single day that it's not about the dates, it's about the dash. These monuments, however reverent & beautiful, are usually inscribed by 2 dates, the day we were born and the day we die. These were just 2 days in our lives however important, are just an abbreviation for all the days in between. Some are many, some way too few, but all of them are precious. Thank you for your respectful work.

Thank ya'll for all that ya'll do to get these videos to us. I know it can be challenging to do all the research and all the traveling to find all these sights. I truly hope ya'll know how much we appreciate all that ya'll do. Even though I'm not related to these folks, i really appreciate and enjoy the stories. God bless ya'll and may God protect ya'll on all your travels. Keep up the great work.

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

What a great video! Very interesting, love the way Heather puts up the information about the person, and Leo, you must be part mountain goat always climbing up mountain sides.great job

Bless their hearts! They really had a rough time back then.

I just came across your channel and I love that you tell the history and how they passed away. Thank you for sharing

Leo mentioned how many people die not long after their spouses. Randolph McCoy's uncle and aunt, John and Margaret Jackson McCoy, died the same day. They supposedly promised each other that when one died, the other would soon follow.

This has been a wonderful video and taken in a beautiful cementar with lots of pictures. Thanks!!!

I really enjoy your videos...I have met Paul Hatfield when he had his museum in Cave City, Ky...really good man!!! I love how he is preserving the family history...and now I have found your videos...time to binge watch a channel about one of the facts of history that I find very interesting...don't mean to babble...again...thanks for the great videos ❤😊

Another beautiful episode-thank you!

Bless your heart!! First time I have seen your channel! Was very educational and well presented! Will be watching your videos again.God bless you and your wife.

Oh wow! That is beautiful!!(Boyd)

My kin are from Panther, WVA., along the Tug Fork River. Many Mc Coy mailboxes along the route into Hurley, Va. Both Hatfield and McCoys have married into my Walker bloodline. My uncle Junior worked in the coal mine with one of them.

I have been trying to follow you and it's been great watching you go through the history. I don't think I learned the truth about the Hatfield and Mccoy. That's a real shame we can't get the real history taught in schools.

What an awesome video Leo? Thank you for sharing the names of these people. Heather does an amazing job with the research.

Hi iam from UK i love your videos of people passed away and its fantastic how you know there history , and what thay died of its brilliant and very interesting glad I found your video keep the good work up thank you xx

Just recently found out that I'm related by blood to all of them, when you research your family it's amazing. Thank you for this video❤❤

GM 2 (Gunners Mate 2nd class)

You guys are doing a great job!

@thehillbillyfiles

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Leo, you did not mention that Annie, was around 105 years of age. That was a remarkable feat, in those days. Worth mentioning.

@thehillbillyfiles

5 ай бұрын

Maybe I didn't notice? pretty sure id have mentioned it otherwise.

So enjoyed this program be blessed my friend ❤️🙏

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

Same to you!

Hi Leo, I enjoyed watching. Heather does a great job telling the stories of the deceased when she can it humanizes them. When so many folks never give a deep thought and think they were here just like we are now. Good job guys!

I found your channel/videos week ago and thoroughly am enjoy watching these. I love this type of videos of our history.

Beautiful grave stone! Deer and church! ❤

Thank you so much for this video. Its the first of yours that I have seen but not the last! The background history is brilliant and told very respectfully

@thehillbillyfiles

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Really appreciate all you two do

❤❤❤ God bless you and heather i pray jesus suppley yalls ever need when its hard to work rhank yall guys ❤❤

This the best vid so far on the Hatfield family. Keep it up I will subscribe and share.

I really enjoyed this video! It was so great how you would put in the extra facts about who their parents were and how they passed away. 😊

@thehillbillyfiles

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much ❣️

My uncle by marriage was related to the Musick’s of Meadowview, Russell County, Va. He passed away last week at 93.

Very pretty stone

I love you page and I want to thank you

@thehillbillyfiles

10 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

GM2 is Gunner Mate 2nd Class

This was awesome, now u have a new fan from New Zealand, just fantastic stuff bro yeah

I absolutely love your channel.

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jennifer!!!

Thank you Leo

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome

You make very interesting videos. I just started watching them the other day

@thehillbillyfiles

11 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Thanks Leo.

Thanks for the tour.

@thehillbillyfiles

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

It is sad to think that your future, is reached back to pre CW as most of these tombstones do.

I love your videos and all of the extra info you put on them, how many children or what they died of , so intresting! yall do such a great job!

@thehillbillyfiles

8 ай бұрын

thank you! Happy thanksgiving!

Hi Leo! I enjoyed this video with the pictures and history. Hope you do more of these ⚰💐

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! We have done several, we don't plan to stop,but they are a lot of work research wise lol

GM2 is definitely gunners mate 2nd class. My son was the same rank in the U.S. Coast Guard. 🇺🇸

Yes GM stands for Gunner's mate 2 is second-class

Love what yall doin ❤

You all are so amazing because I'm in my family history right now and in my genealogy there is George Oliver Hatfield Sr, who was married to Cosley Blackburn, who are also supposed to be buried there at Anderson Hatfield Memorial Cemetery in McCarr, Pike, Kentucky! What I find strange is that their son, Jeremiah H Hatfield, died in Pike, Kentucky but was buried in Blackberry City Cemetery in Blackberry City, Mingo County, West Virginia! Let me know what you all think about that, George was related to my late husband!

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

I never heard of blackberry city or that cemetery. I do see it is close to us, I think we will go check it out! Ill look for Jeremiah for you!

Excellent video!

@thehillbillyfiles

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Thanks!

@thehillbillyfiles

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Mary!!

Thank you doing my history that complete the history niw iam going find the history of the ines from United Kingston they gad lit mire things if good on besides , sadness,they are my cousins the 11 th Moses Hatfield, your a nice nan for sharing

Thank you

@thehillbillyfiles

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

They sure take care of that cemetery!!

People suffered so badly back in the day. GM 2 was a Gunner's Mate,Leo.

I could do a family tree of that whole cemetery and show you how everyone there are all related.

I wonder what the parents would make of a lass from Lancashire England crying over their 4 year old son nearly 100 years later. Heartbreaking. I know a few Hatfield’s that live near me.

My great grandma was Cherokee and her name was America Rivers.

Hello like your videos and the GM2 is Gunnery Mate second class

Annie is my 4th great grandmother, by daughter Phebe Music