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It’s beautiful that even in death that father helped to keep his Son standing.

Such a pleasure working with you Jimmy, amazing work!

You’ve honored their memory. You are an excellent caretaker of the property.

As a representative of the Canfield family, I thank you for your service. Also from one maker to another a heartfelt thank you. I'm going to say this is my favorite video you've ever made.

Good on You guys for respecting those who have gone before us… Each one has a story✌🏼

I'm a member of the SAR - Sons of the American Revolution and one of the things we do to honor our patriot ancestors is to mark their graves with a marker during a dedication ceremony. If that would be of interest to you in having done, you can contact a local SAR chapter near the cemetery and their color guard would be happy to do that. There is no cost. Just a suggestion and another way to honor Phineas' service and memory. I appreciated your video and dedication to repairing the graves.

You sure kept your promise of taking care of the graveyard, Jimmy. This was a very interesting video, you restored the tomb stones respectfully and mindful of their history. Hope you will share more of this project here on youTube!

The way You honored those men by restoring their graves says alot about YOUR character. You are honorable indeed.Way to go!

There are a few sites with recommendations on how to read faded tombstones. One says mirrors and aiming the sunlight just right. And the other mentions using cheap very thin aluminum foil and a make up brush to run the inscription. It would be interesting to see if they work for you. Great work!

This was very interesting. My great-great-grandfather, born in Virginia. was at the Battle of Yorktown, at age 16. He died in 1855 in Mississippi at age 90 and was buried on the land that he settled and farmed and raised ten children. It was over a hundred years later that his grave was given a proper headstone by the DAR chapter named after him. His grave is literally in the middle of nowhere, overgrown by pine trees. Every grave has a story, and I appreciate all of you who work to preserve that. And you do so with respect. I also follow Wade.

I absolutely LOVE that you are restoring the cemetery as well! You should come up with a fitting graphic and make Teator Road Cemetery shirts, or Hayward Rivenburg Farm Cemetery Restoration shirts or the like to help fund the whole project. Hell, even prints made from grave-rubbings.

Love the fact that you can't hide that big heart of yours...every video you make shows a bit of love about things that matter, the ones that are real & fundamental.

Thank you for restoring the gravestones. I am related to the Canfields and I currently live in Milford, CT.

Phineas is an American hero from before there was even a United States of America-- a Revolutionary War veteran. Great work on his stone.

John is my 5th cousin eight times removed. Thanks for restoring the markers!

What a wonderful service you guys are preforming. Thank you for the respectful act of restoring the grave site marking the passing of family members of the past.

Canfield is one of my family names. Not sure if I'm related to these ones, but I like to think I could be. Thanks for restoring their gravestones!

Great video. Even before the Revolution many people from New England were moving west because all of the available farmland had been taken. Parts of Vermont were called New Connecticut, other parts were called the Hampshire Grants.

So kind, respectful and proper. If the dead can be grateful, then for these kindness they will shed a tear. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you sir. Thank you so very much. As a historian and a recorder of old and abandoned cemeteries it crushes my soul how many of our old cemeteries are just dozed over when developers and new property owners acquire them. That is definitely not what these peoples families were thinking about when they laid their loved ones to rest.

Total respect to you all for doing that and fixing the broken stones they would of ment so much to someone. 👍👍👍👍👍

Very cool man showing respect and preserving history! 🤙

Great job Jimmy and Wade! This is probably one of my most favorite videos you have done Jimmy. Restoring the past and bringing honor and light to these departed souls once again. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼

Great effort. Thanks for caring about these things - thumbs up.

Thanks Jimmy, for an interesting diversion from the house restoration, thank for being so respectful of the history and personal story behind this, the process you followed seemed the right compromise between conservation and preservation !

So nice. I have an early 1800's cemetery by my place with very little left of the headstones. They need to be cared for.

Absolutely beautiful Restoration of a gorgeous stone !

Respect from Belarus!

I’ve watched you for years and you are one of the first you tubers I subscribed to but this elevates you to a whole extra level. Thank you for all your efforts restoring these graves. My hat is off to you and your team.

Great work, Jimmy. Love that you’re restoring the gravestones.

I came here from ,Wade' channel.I will keep watching.Great job on the repair.

Hard to think of a better new owner of the property. Someone that has some time and the talent to care for the cemetery. Nice restoration.

Super restoration. It was great seeing them in the dark during Maker Camp. Bravo, Jimmy.

Terrific work on restoring those headstones Jimmy! I just had to have my wife watch this video because she is from Milford, CT! 👍👍

The ancestors thank you my friend

How noble a work. And so thoughtful. Hats off to you Jim.

What a great vid, 213 years on and still remembered

This is really cool. Good on you for taking the time and energy to restore these monuments and keep the memory of those people going for at least another century. Crazy how there’s a website with old pictures you were able to reference too!

omgosh...this is wonderful! that home is beautiful!...i see so many graveyards with fallen tombstones..thank you for doing this...Becca M Indiana

Thank you for your work in preserving history!

Hi Jimmy, your dedication to the memory of those that went before is very touching. Thank you.

Good job Jim. So glad you’re taking care of the old cemetery. What a great project. Very important. Thank you.

That's awesome you are keeping up with that cemetery.

So interesting. Thanks, Jimmy.

I've been watching your content now for several years, and the more I watch, the more I'm so impressed. I understand that producing this level of content is a grind. Keep it going. You are an inspiration...

I appreciate the respect you are giving to past residents of the area when few people have that respect that today. It shows a new owner's respect for past residents of families from the area. This is rare today. Hopefully the owner in 100 years shows the same respect when maintenance is needed again. Thanks.

All ancestors except my grandparents are buried in small family or farm plots just like this. In upstate NY, Greene, Schoharie, and Otsego counties. Thank you for taking the time to restore them.

Beautiful work Jimmy. Well done.

Thank you for taking the time and caring enough to restore these gravestones

I've been waiting to see this one Jim, great job!!

An honorable effort on your part Jimmy. Wonder if any of the descendants are aware and thankful for it.

Such a great story to tell. Thanks for sharing!

Beautiful job, beautiful workshop!

Thanks for filming that Jimmy.

Thanks Jimmy 👍 You're a good man. 👍

Fantastic Jimmy the family will appreciate what you have done.

Jimmy you say it in passing but if he fought at Lexington that's a huge deal. Good work brother in saving American history.

This is awesome. A great way to honor our founding relatives.

Thank you for taking time to care for these people in this way.

Very honorable of you, Jimmy, to restore this cemetery. Much respect to all those involved.

Excellent, just excellent thank you!!

I watch your videos all the time. But thank you for respecting those people by repairing their headstones.

If you have access or a friend with an infrared camera it will expose the faded text really well. Old archeology trick

It is nice that are becoming the care taker of that cemetery

Great work Jimmy.

Your a good man jimmy. Happy Trails

Thank you for doing that, Jimmy.

Cool project. Interesting. Mahalo for sharing!

Great job!

Such a lovely gesture to restore the headstones Jimmy ❤

Amazing preservation of history, fascinating !

Amazing work. Wow that's crazy.

Loved following this story!! Nicely done!

super cool of you to do this Jimmy

Very honarable work. Clearly done with love and craftsmanship.

This is amazing, I can’t wait for more

Very nice- great job!

Remarkable job!

This is interesting stuff!!! Well done.

Good work!

Awesome job

The spirits are happy! great video!

Hello Mr. Diresta, you are a great Person!🙏

it's so beautiful that I have no words... I was afraid that you would destroy this cemetery, and here's something like this.

That was interesting video plus you did a great job restoring them. Getting excited to see more restoration of the house.

Wow, so amazing. I love that you honor these hardy souls this way. Kudos to you sir.

So frickin cool!!!

Nice job. I’ve visited many cemeteries in Pennsylvania putting flags on veterans graves. Some of the graves from the 1700’s are completely worn away with no inscriptions visible. I’ve heard that over time acid rain eats the stone away.

Glad to see you respectfully restoring the graveyard. I already respect you, but now I respect you so much more

Nice work Jimmy.

It's really nice to see the care you're giving to this headstone. Since you started showing the cemetery in your content, I can't drive past a cemetery without wanting to stop and look around (I have a couple of time too 😂). They're just really interesting places

Great Vid!

Great vid!

So very cool that you are doing this such an amazing thing.

nice work👍👍. I see a face on the tombstone under the yellow ribbon in 1:58

you are doing a good thing and giving respect .

The property next to mine has a small cemetery that's really old and when the property was sold the new owner was gonna bulldozer it over till I told him if he did he would pay... one way or another! Needless to say he didn't. I try to sneak over and clean it when I can. The land is for sale but I'm unable purchase but if I could I'd buy it and build a fence around it.

Very respectful God Bless you

Good job Jimmy well done