I've always liked wandering through older sections of a cemetery, reading the headstones and pondering what their lives were like.

If anyone is interested Edger Allen Poe is also buried in Baltimore.

Lincoln (pennies) is literally on top of booth. He has the high ground

Unfortunately, you are mistaken that he is buried there. That is actually another relative’s foot stone. His grave is unmarked, and most historians agree that it is directly behind the obelisk.

I feel like leaving coins with Lincoln’s face on them on the grave of the man who shot and killed Lincoln is kind of like a slap in the face to Booth. Like, “you’re never going to be forgiven for this. Lincoln has his face on this coin, but all you have is this tiny gravestone.” Definitely a final insult. He’s being mocked.

Lincoln Penny's on top of his tombstone? Greatest troll ever. The irony.

There's a lot of symbolism in 19th century graveyards - if you see broken columns, bits haven't actually fallen off. They mean "A life cut short"

The best tombstone sentiment I have ever read; " Think of this as you pass by, as you are now so once was I. As I am now you too shall be, Lord pray my friends to follow me. My friend went running out of the graveyard after reading that one!

I could spend all day in an old cemetery!

Interesting.Alot of those 1800's and early 1900's tombstones were truly beautiful works of art.Old cemeteries are very interesting.

There was a brother to John Wilkes Booth who was also close to Lincoln, that brother interestingly enough saved Lincolns son's life. And was acknowledged by the President .

I believe that restrictions have been in place at newer cemeteries as to markers. This would explain the bland nature of the modern cemetery. The cemetery that you show is truly beautiful and I know from experience it is easy to spend a full day in such a place. You get a real sense of the past and the people who built this nation. Peaceful

I love how much you love things, things that people don't usually notice.

“This graveyard is so beautiful” that is something I never thought I would hear, although I do agree.

The real Booths grave is unmarked......

That’s a nice looking cemetery, I bet the locals are just dying to get in there.

"A coin left on a headstone or at the grave site is meant as a message to the deceased soldier's family that someone else has visited the grave to pay respect. Leaving a penny at the grave means simply that you visited. A nickel indicates that you and the deceased trained at boot camp together, while a dime means you served with him in some capacity. By leaving a quarter at the grave, you are telling the family that you were with the soldier when he was killed" Im assuming this is why there are pennies on his gravestone, lincoln just happens to be on the penny though.

I have no tears for John Wilkes Booth.

that statue of the women ,is the virgin mary standing on the devil.

2:25 "Cemeteries just don't look like this anymore, because you don't have artisans who do this kind of work anymore." Lack of skilled stone cutters is not really the the reason. Artistic and dramatic grave stones came into fashion during the Victorian era, when cemeteries were visited as recreation and, in the post Civil War era, American cemeteries reflected the public's fascination with death--they were the original goths, as it were. As that interest faded in the mid 20th century, demand for fancy stones waned. Cemeteries have been redesigned for ease of maintenance. It is far easier to mow large lawns when the markers are set flush on the ground.

The Booth family were all accomplished actors and it was John's brother Edwin who in fact saved President Lincoln's son Robert Lincoln's life in Passaic New Jersey by pulling him to safety by an incoming train after Robert tripped over his bag and fell into a railway pit. After the assassination of Lincoln Edwin quit acting out of shame his brother brought upon him. Many years later he made a comeback.

I been living in Baltimore for 55years I never knew this...thanks for sharing

Joseph Booth was John Wilkes' younger brother. Cora is Joseph's second wife. Richard Booth was John Wilkes' grandfather. John's parents were Junius Brutus Booth Sr and Mary Ann Booth. Often confused to be a marker for John Wilkes, this white stone in the Booth family plot is the foot stone for his sister, Asia Booth Clarke. John Wilkes is buried without any stone. His name does appear on the rear of the Booth obelisk though. ow.ly/NlrGx

When we passed this at night it looked so awesome. So it's great to see it filmed in the light of day. Very impressive! Thanks

I just love old cemeteries like that...they really are beautiful.

These cemeteries are very old. The older gravestones are different than some of today. But they really have a lot of charm and are great educators of part of our nation's history. They are fascinating to look at and read.

You're wrong about John Wilkes grave. I was told by a couple who actually know. He's buried behind the giant monument, unmarked. That white stone, is the foot stone to his sister's grave.

Actually, that’s not where Booth is buried. That’s his sisters foot stone that for some reason myth keeps visitors believing it is. The family felt it would illicit vandalism if his plot was marked so they didn’t put up a stone at all. According to some sources, he lays behind the main family monument.

"I believe these were his parents" His father was 2 years younger than him then :-D

Creepy knowing we are all going to be in a grave one day. Life just to short 😩

Great video thank u...I like how you pointed down & said-Right down there-😂LOVE the Lincoln pennies!!

All the more impressive that much of the carving then was done by hand.

I've been reading my lineages and Mr. Booth is a distant relative! Kind of coool.

am just glad people havent graffiti'd the entire site. then again i wonder if you asked 100 randomers on the street who JW Booth was, most wouldnt have a clue.

Dan, Green Mount Cemetery is a classic example of the Rural Cemetery Movement that occurred between the 1830s-1890s. These cemeteries were inspired by the creation of Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The first "rural cemetery" in America was Mount Auburn near Cambridge, MA. Others quickly followed, Laurel Hill in Philadelphia, Green-Wood in Brooklyn, and Woodlawn in the Bronx. Look up info on "Rural Cemetery Movement;" I think you will find quite interesting information.

I think most people are leaving a penny here because of him killing Abe Lincoln; do to the fact that I would doubt any of his friends or acquaintances are still alive.I like the fact his stone sits all alone away from the rest of the family. Makes me personally think the family was ashamed of him and his actions. I'm surprised he was buried in the family plot at all.

Always respectfully done. Thank u

Rest in Peace. Lincolns tyranny was at last cut short by your brave deed! Lincoln had to account for the war he waged against his own people. Lincoln's name should live in everlasting infamy for the hundreds of thousands that died needlessly. Alas, your grave is neglected and your good name insulted but your words will echo into history. Sic semper tyrannis!

I lived in Jackson Missouri once. And at the police station there was a toumstone of someone who died in 1859, it was apparently vandalized and broken off and the police station had it in the back of the building right by where the graveyard was. And I couldn't believe the police were just keeping it there couldn't they have taken a Walk thru the cemetery to see what grave it belonged to, and see if it could have somehow could have been repaired. It was despicable to me the cops could have done something.

Junius Brutus Booth was father to both John Wilkes and Edwin Booth.

I recall having read in the book "Twenty Days" that Booth supposedly was wrapped in canvas and weighted with cannon balls and buried in the Potomac River. Perhaps this is just another situation that we will never know for sure.

John Wilkes booth was a great man may he rest in peace

john wilks booth was a hero

Wind noise was very distracting. You might want to do a little research. John Wilkes Booth parents were British actor Junius Booth and Mary Ann (much younger actress and they were not married). Junius Booth was married to a woman in England.

His parents names were Father:Junius Brutus Booth Mother: Mary Ann Holmes

I too enjoy amazing and beautiful artwork on tombstones---Woodlawn in Brooklyn NY is unbelievable---you could spend wks checking that place out. Great vlog--thank you, enjoy watching them !

I just looked it up on Wiki. Junius Brutus Booth and Mary Ann Holmes Booth were the parents of John Wilkes Booth, so you showed their headstones at about 3:20 into the video. I think it's ironic that his father's middle name was Brutus. And I love the Lincoln pennies all over his tombstone. So fitting!

There's a tradition of counteracting the bad juju at the grave by placing Lincoln head pennies face up on the headstones to "lock the assassin in the ground."

next time i'm in Baltimore i'll try to visit there between my mugging and my car-jacking

"If your ever in Baltimore and wanna check out just a really cool cemetery."

The stone you pointed to is a footstone for another family member. It's the footstone that goes with the headstone with the cross and scroll you showed at the end; it's the feet end of a woman's grave. John Wilkes Booth is in an unmarked grave back behind the obelisk.

We have a cool cemetery like that here in alabama where hank williams is buried

I'm related to john wilkes booth. Edwin booth is my 4 great grandfather

The Saint with the serpent under her foot is Saint Martha. JWB was the son of the Shakespearean actorJunius Brutus Booth, whose name appears on both the obelisk and a stone in this video. His brother referred to by others here was his brother, the actor Edwin Booth. Like the Barrymores, theater was the family business. The cemetery is also festooned with many stones that attest to the Greek cemetery movement, which effected the way stones were sculpted in graveyards all up and down the east coast in that period. The historian Gary Wills has written pretty marvelously about it in his "Lincoln at Gettysburg", which chronicles the roots of the poetry/school of rhetoric that led to the crafting of the Gettysburg address. A worthy and fascinating read.

What people think is the unmarked headstone of John Wilkes Booth, is actually the unmarked footstone of his sister Asia, who was the wife to actor John S. Clarke. John Wilkes Booth, was buried behind the obelist.

Why show the grave of a coward who snuck up behind a man & shot him in the head without being able to defend himself? A great man no less.

For a split second, I thought his grave was in the drain (at the beginning of the video). Lol

I like springs . So pretty. Thanks for sharing.

i've worked in cemeteries my entire life. i'm 56, cemtery spring water is the best water i've ever drank. truth

4:30 That's the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen people do to an assassins grave 🤣

At 2:22...the statue is the Blessed Mother...crushing satan's head...very Catholic statue.

I am from Baltimore. Chubby (Norman Chancy) from the Little Rascals is also buried in the graveyard at the top the hill. Poor guy was only 21 years old when he died.

i love the old world art so much was put into the design so much love and dedication

thats asia booth's foot stone, not john wilkes's headstone

I love the scrolls! Are they cast concrete or carved marble? I would love to see a tour showing all the different kinds of really beautiful tomb stones .

Traditionally it is NOT an insult to leave a penny on a gravestone. It is in fact a sign of respect and commemoration. The fact that it is a Lincoln head penny? Well that is the only penny in common circulation. It comes from Military Tradition. When visiting a fallen soldiers grave you leave a penny. A nickel if you served in the same War as the fallen soldier; a dime if you served in the same unit as he and a Quarter if you served in the same battle or if you were with him when he died. Leaving the penny of the grave of John WIlks Booth means those are from people who recognize that Booth died in service to his country, The Confederacy. If I were there I too would leave a Penny out of respect for a fallen solder, regardless of what side of the war he fought on. I do this when visiting the graves of fellow solders.

THANKS FOR THE VIDEO.. I HAVE BEEN THERE MYSELF ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO. AWESOME PLACE!

God bless John Wilkes Booth!

She's stepping on the serpent Satan.

You know the sad part is, he didn't had to do what he did, but he killed Lincoln. Not only Lincolns family suffered but his family suffered too after his actions, His brothers acting career never achieved success all because they shared the same last name. In the end, Lincoln's legacy lives on and so those booth's (just not too much)

Not everyone hates booth, not everyone is brainwashed into thinking Lincoln was all that!

Your history is off, good effort though. JWB does not have a marker at the family plot, he is buried behind monument for his parents. The little markers are actually foot markers for the person resting there; some actually have the initials on them.

Wind protector for your mic dawg

God Bless John Wilkes Booth! Lincoln is burning in hell where he belongs. Sent hundreds of thousands of good men to their deaths.

Strange family, the grave at 3:22 has a middle name of Brutus. Brutus was one of the assassins of Caesar. If war is a "failure of diplomacy'" then Lincoln's failure of diplomacy was responsible for 750,000 people being killed and many more than that wounded. Booth killed only one person. They both have blood on their hands. Robert E. Lee said, after the War was over and he was an old man, that his decision to become a soldier was the biggest mistake of his life. I wonder what Lincoln would have said about his decisions when he was old and grey.

John Wilkes booth is my 5th great uncle crazy right

I love how he has the most pathetic headstone in the family

he deserves a national holiday. my hero.

Wow that's a massive cemetery!!

That is not John Wilkes Grave. Thats a footstone..Booth is beind the obelisk, unmarked.

last Cemetery of its kind

didn't know about the pennies, very cool...I guess the message is 'you can blow out his candle, but you can't blow out a bright fire"!

Very cool! Thanks for sharing! You took me to a place that I would not have seen in my life.

A lot of people died to get there

Bury him with his family and have no judgement. That is up to God.

Thanks Dan. That is an interesting clip. John Wilkes Booth's father was Junius Brutus Booth. They were a famous family. That night at Ford's Theater, everyone knew Mr. Wilkes Booth. He was a VIP, there with his bride to be, Lucy Hale. Mr Lincoln knew who he was. In possession of a loaded gun, John Wilkes Booth walked past everyone on his way up to the President's booth. If Mr Booth had his say, I think he would rather have folks putting Lincoln, five dollar bills on his grave. That way he could get something to drink.

Tudor Hall in Harford County north of Bel Air Maryland is where Booths home is located.....it is open to the public and has a eerie feel to it.....

I'd relive myself on johns headstone

The statue is not a she, he is Jesus holding his foot upon the serpent.

The statue that is described as "eerie" is a rendition of Our Lady of Grace--a well-known Roman Catholic depiction of the Blessed Mother (Mary, mother of Jesus). She is standing on a snake, indicating the defeat of Satan and the snake is atop the Earth, indicating that Satan, when cast out of heaven, came down to earth. This link provides a much more detailed description www.motherofallpeoples.com/2010/11/our-lady-of-grace-and-the-miraculous-medal/

This video has it completely wrong. 4:07 that is a foot stone which was a common practice and there is a few in the Booth plot with the initials of who it belongs to. That said stone is Asia Booth's, John Wilkes is buried behind his fathers obelisk alongside with 3 or 4 of his siblings in unmarked graves.

3:41 RAB Harry Potter fans???

I love the irony of leaving pennies.

Just catching up on some of your work. You visit the most interesting places. Keep up the good work!

John, Abraham. Abraham, John. Now be nice to each other...

What A brave man

Too bad that cemetery is sitting in one of the worst areas of Baltimore, I doubt the coins left on that tombstone will be there long.

I'm loving your 2nd channel , cool videos 👍🏻

There is still art in the Monument Companies, most of it is drawn digitally. I live near the Wichita Mountain chain in Oklahoma where they mine granite, and there are many many many monument companies here with art comparable to the 18th centuries that was still being produced by hand even 10 years ago. So yeah there are many very talented individual artists working for monument companies and is still a very very professional art form.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.