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! ❤🙏💗🥰

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

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!❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

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

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.

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 KZfaq! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR DEDICATION AND WORK IN THIS FIELD. 👍🙏☦

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...

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

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!!!!

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

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

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 ❤

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

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

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 ❤😊

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

Thank you and heather for all yall do

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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. ❤

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. 😢

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

Sentimental hour of sorts. Thank you God Bless

❤You can feel the love in this place

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

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.

the Boyd headstone is stunning.

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.

These are beautiful states to visit. Just beautiful.

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

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

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.

Another beautiful episode-thank you!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 😊

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.

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!

So enjoyed this program be blessed my friend ❤️🙏

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

I love you page and I want to thank you

You guys are doing a great job!

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.

Amazing video ❤

Really appreciate all you two 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!

Thanks for the tour.

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.

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

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

Oh wow! That is beautiful!!(Boyd)

I absolutely love your channel.

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

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❤❤

Thanks Leo.

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

Thank you Leo

Beautiful grave stone! Deer and church! ❤

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!

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

Love what yall doin ❤

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

Excellent video!

Very pretty stone

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

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.

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

Thanks!

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

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

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

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

They sure take care of that cemetery!!

GM 2 (Gunners Mate 2nd class)

GM2 is Gunner Mate 2nd Class

Leo & Heather, thanks for all the work you do! I have a cousin who is descended from the John McCoy line (son of Old Wm). I’m from the Harmon McCoy line. I turned him on to your videos & he just watched the John McCoy cabin video. He wants to know if it’s possible to get a copy of that video. His name is Gary McCoy & I’ll tell him to give you all some money each month! Thanks, D. McCoy Autry

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

If you go bk there could you please find COETTA FORD Died Feb 6th 2014. She is buried there. I'm in Ga and haven't been able to visit. She was a best friend of mine ... her Mother Judy Little is buried there also. I did find a grave photos for COTY