Volunteers to keep it cut

Thank you, Leo, Heather and Danny! I also love the old cemetery videos. Heather does great research on the graves. God rest the souls of these precious men and at times with their wives who came from Europe and even Turkey to work in the mines in the 1910’s through 1940’s or so. Hard times. So many thousands of miles away from home. Some of the young men were only in their late teens. Hungarians, Czechs, Yugoslavians, Italians, Romanians, Welsh, etc. Some families never knew what happened to their loved ones 😢

That is a  shame  no one takes care of the Graves no more

They literally went over on top of graves with that highway.

The cemetery videos are my favorite! Thank you for researching COD. Its always interesting to know what happened to them.

Some of the headstones are just beautiful.

What an interesting cemetery!  Thank you so much for taking us there.

Very interesting hope you go back in few months. So sad when Grave yard is neglected . Lots history right there. God bless you all and your family’s . Ty for taking us along.

This is what we call the Gary #10 Cemetery. It was mainly for immigrants (Ukrainian, Hungarian, Russian, German). You'll also see some headstones with Latin on them. Gary was a diverse coal town. It is if I'm not mistaken, the oldest cemetery in the area. One not far up the road from this one, the Thorpe Cemetery, houses a lot of immigrants as well, and is still in use. The main road was in fact actually built over top of graves. Far as I know, they didn't move them. Also, back in 2004 when a bad flood occurred, part of the cemetery washed out into the road. The section that was washed out is the part in the video at the 17:40 mark where you make notice of there being graves but no markers (the flattened area). When the slide occurred (started just above where you were) it took headstones and some caskets with it. My aunt has a picture of the slide and there are caskets and headstones just sitting in the middle of the road amongst the rocks and mud. Forgive my description, but they were popping out of the dirt like daisies. I can't quite recall exactly what was done with the "uprooted" caskets or the headstones. Whether they were reburied or moved entirely, I'm not sure, so that is why there are quite a few graves not accounted for or marked (in the particular section). I don't believe there is a full list of those buried in this cemetery, pre-slide anyway. Also, at the 19:42 mark, that piece of PVC is marking a gas line. The cemetery used to be maintained by the city, but unfortunately it has been left to deteriorate for some time now. People just don't care anymore. History isn't important to them. It's a shame. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

The unmarked graves always make me sad. I can't imagine leaving a loved one in an unmarked grave. Very cool cemetery. I can't wait to see it in the winter. I'm so happy you didn't meet any snakes. I hate snakes.

Living in Appalachia was like living in a different world. What’s amazing is these people have respect for one another. Most of what they had they made and took care of it. They worked hard for their accomplishments. Love these videos and appreciate you and your wife for bringing us the history. I love the scenery when you film in the woods.

This is heartbreaking.  A highway built on top of graves is horrible.

Thank you Leo for taking us to this wonderful cemetery! Makes me wish I learned a little bit of Hungarian when my grandmother and aunts were still around!

Lovely old resting place may they all rest in eternal peace 🕊️

Very interesting can’t wait for the colder weather so we can see more

It brake my heart ❤️  to see people  don't  care no more

Enjoyed the video. Yes, please go back when easier to see all the graves ect. The gates and fencing are beautiful!!

t No. 3 Works. The work force was highly diverse; a 1915 West Virginia Bureau of Mines report listed 1,479 hand-loading miners employed at Gary, with 227 white Americans, 271 African-Americans, 360 Hungarians, 224 Rumanians, 135 Italians, 145 Poles, and 117 miners of Slavic descent.

I was curious and looked it up:

“In 1890, there were 236 native Hungarians in West Virginia. By 1900, there were 1,062 Hungarians in the state, with about half of them split evenly between McDowell and Marion counties. Most were coal miners.”

I grew up about 3 miles from here. My father had 2 brothers buried in unmarked graves here.