If I saw this stone, my first thought would have been that Elizabeth died while she and Simeon were engaged.

@ottaviapoti6626

3 ай бұрын

Same 🙋🏻‍♀️

@joanbelmont5450

3 ай бұрын

👀

@only1dutchgirl

3 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly

@Guitarbarella

3 ай бұрын

Me too.

@KateLove21

2 ай бұрын

But she was 64 according to the grave

I was expecting the reason for Simon writing such a snide headstone would be something stupid like Elizabeth not doing laundry often enough, or refusing to allow Simon to use her backdoor; yet somehow the true answer was far stranger and far more petty.

@Sea-cucumber1151

3 ай бұрын

When I first read your comment and it says using her “back door”, I was thinking what? That’s gross, and frankly rude….as if thats a reason to be bitter…..…..I thought you were being coy and obnoxious, misogynistic …then realized you meant literally her back door! Mind went straight to the gutter. My apologies for so many accusatory thoughts….😂😮

@the_real_Kurt_Yarish

3 ай бұрын

@@Sea-cucumber1151 No, it's the gutter one. The joke being that it would be an incredibly petty and obnoxious reason to be angry over, and yes, indeed misogynistic. That's the framework of the joke, these aren't supposed to be reasonable reasons to be angry.

@Stopcommentingthesamecomments

2 ай бұрын

​@Sea-cucumber1151 the actual lack of awareness u have is insane first off u read the comment and then thought the person was saying that not doing butt stuff was a reasonable reason to have this gravestone But then u still didn't realize that u agreed so u read it again then thought they meant a back door to a house ? I'm just guessing at ur thought U still didn't understand that this person was saying So I'll break it down They thought it would be something silly and it was something silly just not something silly we expected im actually worried u are out in public not trying to be mean or even Crack a joke because oo boy ur silly

I've got my stone planned out already. It's going to say: "I'm pushing really hard so there better be some $%*&@ daisies up there"

@stephaniehowe0973

4 ай бұрын

😂

@becmckinlay5073

3 ай бұрын

😂

@theOlLineRebel

3 ай бұрын

That is cute.

@mistybollinger3312

3 ай бұрын

Omg that's so cute!! I love it!! 😂😂

@waitwhat1029

3 ай бұрын

The best one i've ever seen was a woman's headstone.... If you can read this, you're standing on my tits.

What a weird story and a crazy man. I respect Elizabeth for resisting.

I may have something put on my sister's stone when she dies. Her senior year locker combo. When she was a senior, I was a sophomore. She would have me put her books in her locker. I kept forgetting the combo. Near the end of the year, I asked her about it again. She half yelled "It's 0-10-48, and don't forget it this time!" She graduated in 1992. I've never been able to forget it in all these years. It would be an eternal rub on her to have her stone say 0-10-48.

@stephaniehowe0973

4 ай бұрын

😂 absolutely

@Imjetta7

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

My first guess was Simeon had an affair with Elizabeth either before or during his marriage to Lydia. Lydia was either viewed as a better match or refused to divorce him.

My dream is to have a grave marker so cool it's covered by a future descendant of Dime Store Adventures.

Nobody digs up more interesting stories than you, and nobody tells them better than you, man. Thanks as always.

Elizabeth was before her time, as it is said. Drew a line and adhered to it.

This took such a freaking turn holy cow.

@renerpho

4 ай бұрын

Holy cat, rather.

@carolnahigian9518

3 ай бұрын

Wow💛

@joannmetz4413

3 ай бұрын

Holy cat is right

Simeon is completely unhinged, 😂 !!! Im in Jersey i gotta make it up there to bring these ladies some roses, im so glad you have passed on the story for Elizabeth. ❤

The poetic justice of his gravestone being lost to time and hers still standing creating mystery and intrigue.

Thanks for for letting the cat out of the bag on this despicable man ! To bad a cat didn’t get his tongue! Always like looking at old headstones especially the old graveyards. Great video and camera angles of the graveyard. 🐆🐆🐆👍

Another great story! One thing,...."slander" is verbal,....if it's in print, it's "libel" and is a more serious offence.

The fact you go to the location and give the explanations there is insane man, that is dedicated!

@San-li9ml

9 ай бұрын

@@beaverofthepola2071 What does this have to do with my comment, I said dude goes to these places and explains the story, real or not, at said location

Maybe it's a "there's plenty of stray cats, free food! Be a good servant and be cheap and obedient as possible!"? Cause I cannot even wrap my head around this!🤯

@katherinethegreat

4 ай бұрын

Nope,won't fly no matter how you try to clean it up. Hunting was free back then. That must've been one Helluva heatstroke to bake his brain into being that kinda freak.

@HLBear

4 ай бұрын

I admit I'd have left. And not go back to give him a kindly ear 🤨

@renerpho

4 ай бұрын

I'm a bit surprised by the story, TBH. Cat meat consumption wasn't particularly unusual in 1760, but it would have been when the story was recorded in the late 19th century. This makes me doubt its veracity. Elizabeth's reaction to it is an anachronism; kind of like someone in 1900 said to have insisted on a vegan diet.

@renerpho

4 ай бұрын

Reading the newspaper clip, it sounds to be like he insisted on eating cat *food*, not cat *meat*...

@lulzdragon7339

3 ай бұрын

@@renerphoThe "died from eating too much cat" also makes me doubt the truth of this. It might be socially unacceptable, even gross, but people CAN eat cat. She didn't die from eating too much cat. If that isn't true then what else in the story isn't true? I don't know, this just seems very mythological, the neighbors' gossip about what they heard happened 100 years before just really isn't a compelling source to me. I'm also not sure what "cat food" means at this time. Special food sold just for cats wasn't really a thing until a century after this story. People generally let their cats be pest control and hunt their own food, maybe giving them scraps of meat.

Thank you for doing your due diligence and giving Elizabeth her dignity back. ^_^ I'm just going to go ahead and imagine that, where ever Simeon's headstone may be, it says, "Should have been a real man instead of an pathetic coward." lol

Ah, yes, an average Rhode Islander.

Theres an Oddfellows Cemetery here in my town that the parents put up the headstone and it's very clear that they hated the husband. It's something like beloved daughter who married so and so and then became ill and battled her illness bravely but perished. They way it was worded it was like if she hadn't married this loser she wouldn't have gotten sick and died. That's why I love going to the old cemeteries

This is one of my favorite channels to watch. Focusing on the little minutia of folk history is far and few between these days so it's nice to see it isn't forgotten.

I don't blame you, Elizabeth. Simeon was off his rocker.

Simeon may have contracted Toxoplasmosis

@nunaalsoknownasohare6388

9 ай бұрын

In theory if that affected humans, wouldn't that cause someone to want to do the opposite? It's supposed to make small animals want to get eaten by cats

@pigslam

4 ай бұрын

it does affect humans. it can kill you

@dmcgee3

4 ай бұрын

It cannot kill you. There’s not a ton of research on it being as it’s a brain parasite and difficult to study in humans without taking samples. There however is some evidence to suggest it might be much more common in humans than previously thought and basically would just make you more agreeable cats’ wants. Like if your cat wants more food your more likely to give them more. If you got more than one cat you probably have it

@galndixie

3 ай бұрын

@@dmcgee3 Wrong on all counts.

You're a fantastic story teller and an underrated channel. But you make videos because you like to, Not just to satisfy the needs of viewers. That's why I like you. Keep doing what you love my guy, I'm not in a position to be your Patrion, But I love your ability to tell stories.

This is why it's good that we as a society decided that lead and mercury are bad things and promptly removed them from as much of life as possible. I suspect this is the source of all the strangest beefs, habits and sheer lunatic pettiness that human history is dotted with.

@653j521

4 ай бұрын

How about arsenic?

@woah6958

3 ай бұрын

How about small isolated communities? That's a gotta be a factor as well.

@sinndymorr6358

3 ай бұрын

​@@woah6958For certain!! Isolation makes it much easier for the, Rev. Richard Billings of the world, to convince people, to do ludicrous things.

@evil1by1

3 ай бұрын

Or a desperation for an answer/cure to the myriad of diseases and afflictions that plaqued people. If you didnt know about germs or genetics or nutrition and saw every manner of the afflicted and couldn't understand why some seemed contagious, some seemed only contagious within a family and other just struck down people at random or en masse you'd be pretty superstitious too. Hell people currently are if you look at the wacky beliefs around what causes modern aliments we dont currently know the cause of or prevention thereof.

Copper-backed headstones are a rare practice more over the copper has been stolen for its value over the centuries. it's a European tradition practiced from the netherlands to the Scandinavian countries it might be connected to the Vikings although not much evidence remains because of the above-mentioned theft of the copper most we usually find is the copper oxide on a headstone showing it was once copper-backed other than that I have found that there are about a 100 graves in existence with complete copper backed headstones on our beautiful planet today.

Yeah, Simeon went insane. Wtf.

I imagine there were a lot of Missing Cat signs everywhere too!

@peggyh4805

4 ай бұрын

They probably posted on Facebook. 😁

Gotta make sure that when I die, the mortician doesn’t have it out for me

My God, he’s Alf!

@schmatzler

9 ай бұрын

🤣

If you’re ever in Wellfleet cape cod take a look at the Moses dill grave stone in duck creek cemetery It seems Off in some way.

Another great video. I definitely was not expecting this to be his problem lol

The man was insane, so was his friend.

Your channel is so underrated, I just stumbled on this a few days ago. Love the stories and history you're digging up!

Damn.... I have to say, that completely surprised me. Truth really is stranger than fiction. You could never get away with a story like that if it wasn't true.

im a little compton native! went to school across the street from this cemetery. spent a lot of time there

I was not prepared... What the actual frick!?

OMG WOW just wow. BTW, I don't know why you don't have more subs. Your channel is awesome. I just found it and am binge watching. I'm a cemetery/old church/historical marker fan. I''ve been to every cemetery in southeast LA with my bff who passed away a few years ago. We had so much fun together.

Pretty sad when your headstone says something you don’t agree with, but you’re in no position to argue.

Easily becoming one of my favorite channels on KZread! Keep it up man!

Stellar intro sequence yo - can tell you put lot of thought into it. Keep it up, love watching your videos and enjoying your natural talent. Your enthusiasm makes it seem as if these videos are a blast to create, and I surely hope they actually are. Great work.

I envy all the history yall have back east..... The closest thing like that to me would be the house of the doctor from the book Starvation Heights....She apparently conned rich heiresses to come to her healing place and then starved them before having them sign thier fortunes over to her and her partner..... house and graveyard are about 5 miles from my house... slim pickings for old history here in the pnw.....

Dude, you're an absolute treasure on this platform. Love it, keep it up

Notice the postcard must be very old, and since that was published, someone put copper/bronze edging “support” on Elizabeth’s stone. Not a good idea. As we can see the copper corrodes, and further, it is not the same material as the stone, so both can cause problems. Stone seemed perfectly good. (I love slate, when it doesn’t delaminate.)

Wow! What a tale. I liked the music in this vid, too.

Awwww my kitty is laying on me while watching this. Simeon also had 6 kids with Lydia which meant she had 7 kids to care for normal in those days but adding in the cat eating 😮

TY for your fun quirky stories

Simeon was petty AF

Thanks for using this platform to vindicate Elizabeth. Thanks speaking up for her when others remained silent, assuming only the worst about her character. The truth has been out there this whole time, waiting for someone to take the initiative and look for it. Good on you.

Simeon may have been the one to choose the name Lydia for his daughter. It may have been meant as an insult to Elizabeth for refusing to eat cat, whereas his first wife did eat it.

Your videos are so interesting. Thanks for the great history and old stories.

Oh wow from RI, Little Compton relatives. I had no clue this cemetery was there. Great channel.

many are saying it was cat food and not cat meat. If this happened at the same time where whaling for oil was a big thing, then it would be quite plausible that the "cat food" was the whale meat that was sold as animal food.

Thanks for the video and story just found your channel looking forward to the next video ❤

The first thing that popped into my head was that one was the wife, and the other was his mistress.

I love visiting cemeteries because you can learn so much about a community by reading the headstones of the older inhabitants (not so much nowadays). When I taught 5th grade for 6 years I would teach my class about the symbolism of the grave art and how we could learn a lot about our town’s original inhabitants (as a part of American history) and then we would actually visit the cemetery to do grave rubbings, find family members buried there and learn about the people by reading the inscriptions on the headstones. My students loved this activity and several have told me that they continue to do it and have introduced their children to it.

Hm, this new cat diet sounds pretty good to me. We should get some Hollywood types on board, maybe some Tiktok influencers to help spread it among the hip digital youth. The Cat Chow Challenge, it'll be called, where you have to eat nothing but feline steak for a full month. Health benefits include violent shuddering, explosive clothing, and obscene kneecap mutations.

That's why my MOM wouldn't. Eat squirrels 🐿️ she said it looks like cat 🐈 .

Simeon was nuts.

First thoughts were that either Elizabeth died young before they could be married and had been Simone's first love or true love, or his family had said no to the marriage so he later ended up with Lydia. But it sounds more like Simone was not satisfied with Elizabeth's idea of being a wife and/or it's that case of the dead first wife being angelified and no one can ever measure up. Then you get to the cat's as food part. And...wait...what? Now I feel bad for Lydia. And for Elizabeth, but at least she got out and lived her life. I thought her headstone was from a broken heart from a lost love or such. Nah, just a dude who didn't know to get out of the sun and was a bit cuckoo-bananas. But poor Lydia didn't seem to have much choice.

@kanesmith8271

4 ай бұрын

Lydia was just a gold digger slay girl 😂💅

Everybody has someone in their family that's unconventional! We have Mr. Alonzo Butler who couldn't make up his mind in the 1860s between Viola and Maggie. He had a son with the single Viola and then knocked up Maggie before deciding to marry her. Their daughter Ella got pregnant by a traveling salesman but she wouldn't tell anyone who it was but if there was anybody who understood, it was her dad, Alonzo! He built her a house and was supportive until she married another. We're now trying to figure out who the traveling salesman is through DNA. Cemeteries, newspapers and old relatives in nursing homes are awesome sources of information!

A little snark from beyond all the gravestones

Nope. Didn't see that one coming. 😂

OHMYGOD YOU SAID LITTLE COMPTON!! Whoop whoop!!

My exhusband tried to get me to eat roadkill at times and I’d tell him absolutely not! Even when ( after we were divorced) I took my adult sons to visit their dad in a senior citizen center, he was complaining because the kitchen staff refused to let him pick up roadkill and cook it himself. This from a man who has had several mini strokes and he didn’t have full use of one. In later years after he was moved back to Texas he was diagnosed with two types of dementia so that might have had something to do with it. He liked sushi but I can’t stand it or lobster either.

What a crazy story. Now I'm imagining herds of cats (cat-tle?) running around pastures in the Midwest 🤣

Good one !

I never saw that conflict coming.

I was just mentioning the other evening, asking why so many cats go Missing in this neighborhood. Since 2012, I have fed the feral neutered and spayed cats, but continuously they will be around for a while and then suddenly disappear off of the planet...dozens of them! I still remember all of them, and I wonder where they went! Do folks still practice this sick Ritual/Religion?

Keep in mind that women often didn't have a choice who to marry. Women were chattel, belonged to fathers/brothers until married off by her male relatives. Family politics, money and holdings played a big part in this. It could be that this woman was slated to marry Simeon and then a better offer came in from the other family. Perhaps it was too late for her family to arrange another marriage for her.

I did not see that coming. 😮

this is such a weird story ..

Love your content, would love to have you do my Gpa

Great video

It was cat food, not cat itself. I read the newspaper clip.

@dancingnature

3 ай бұрын

Back then cat food would have been food that humans wouldn’t eat like old spoiled meat . Simeon might have been stingy with food .

That's so absurd, I'm not sure if it must be a legend as it's too absurd to be true, or if it must be true as it's too absurd for a legend.

I can think of one more interpretation. One that the ladies had no part in. Perhaps Lydia was married to Simeon but He wished he had married Elizabeth. In that case, poor Lydia, if she knew,

That's wild!

Great story. Thanks for sharing with us. ❤.... I wouldn't eat cat meat either. 😨

I want my Tombstone to Say... "I just needed a Nap" 😂

Frankly, there would have been 2 mysterious deaths (Billings and Simeon) if they "fatted up cats" for butchery anywhere near me. And likely only their bones would be found. Cats have to eat, too.

Look at the very small space from the head of tombstone to the head of the following headstone. Were these people like two feet tall?

@Garden366

4 ай бұрын

Oh good grief! I was thinking the exact same thing! Did they cut off their legs or put one casket partly on top of another??

Why are the buried side by side is an interesting question.

Given my avatar, I'm horrified...yet simultaneous unable to get "Cat's In The Kettle" by Weird Al Yankovic out of my head!

“Elizabeth, who should have been the wife of Elizabeth Palmer.” ?

Honestly, hearing about his reason? I'm over here. Playing stardew Valley and I was so stunned. I just died from a green slime in year 5. Wtf

Was it worth it??? Probably..

@Itssmial_Ova

9 ай бұрын

Meaow

Ok that’s disgusting!🤢 What a creep he was!

First thing I thought was it was a guy who was bent someone turned him down and had the money to try to shake the women who didn’t want him forever.

Was lydia the woman edgar Allen poe wrote about i his poem?

So the dispute was about refusing to regularly eat cat. There's a joke in there, somewhere.

Omg so funny!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

I had a Chinese roommate in college. My Dad, being my Dad, quizzed her on all the animals she had eaten. Dog, of course, turtle oh yeah, elephant, interestly enough yup. You name it she tried it. She said everything was good, except cat. Cat apparently doesn't taste good.

I love cats too much to ever eat one 😢 I just want to cuddle all the kitties we have 3 cats and 3dogs❤❤

Straight outta Lil’Compton….😾

wtf lol thats madness, with what ive seen though with people i can certainly entertain it

I immediately expected just a crappy dude did that 😂

How did they end up buried side by side?

Were there cat cook books around that time that cat diet was taking off ?

Thanks for the video! You kinda' remind me of the singer from a band called Spacehog. If you read this, check out "In the meantime" and tell me what you think.

Is that an actual graveyard, or just a field for headstones?