Would love one day to be able to siy down with this man and have a cup of coffee and a great story. Best school you could ask for. They dont teach history.
Our Father above keeps records of each and every one of us. No one is lost in history. Thank you Father for that. Thanks for paying honor Donnie to these people of days gone by. Your friend, Louise
Just found you very recently. You sir are an example of why I love my southern roots. I'm soon to be 58 grma. My heart is comforted by your work. I mourn for the old ways To respect and treat others with dignity. Like we ourselves want to be treated. I'm poor but happy with what I do have. Loving family. Breaks my heart to see the carnal depravity. The pure evil that is suffocating humanity across the world. The ones that should be protected,are being exploited.... Horrors!!! Thank you sir from bottom of my heart. I do stroll around cemetery and grave yards myself here in the piedmont nc. Peaceful soul searching places. May our Creator, Most High God of Spirits spread His arm's around you,your family. For all of humanity that is crying. Feel that this is truely the beginning of sorrows. May we all stand in our Lords day and be worthy. Thank you.
Donnie your stories are so interesting wishes my family talked about our people but they didn’t please keep telling these stories for as long as you can God Bless you and your family🙏🙏😊😊
I watch these kind of videos and see kids out running through the woods and creeks and I think just what kids are missing nowadays. Kids set playing video games now and don’t know what they’re missing.
I noticed some flowers at one of the grave stones, it’s nice that someone is remembered. Thank you Sir for remembering these lost places and allowing us to learn about them.
I'm so happy to hear what you said about Native Americans.I have been learning all I can about them,as they didn't teach us hardly anything concerning indians I have much respect for them.And you are right,the land was stolen from them.To this day they are still frown apon.When they care about everything and everyone.They have never been treated fairly.
Well, many were forgotten, but not quite. They carried the torch also, connecting history right up to us. Without the forgotten, our culture woy not exist.
Thanks for taking us back in years to the final resting place of so many local folks. It is a shame that so many places like this have been forgotten and fallen into disrepair. Too bad today, the younger generation don't care to maintain them like we did when I was young. Every other Sunday my folks would take my brother and I out to the cemetery to visit the parents and grandparents. Mom would bring flowers and pa brought his grass clippers so we could trim back the grass that was growing up around the stones. I didn't understand when I was young and pa said he liked to come and just talk with his pa for five or ten minutes. I am 69 years old now and a great grandpa myself, and yes, I like the time I can talk things over with my pa and get his advice.
There is so much beauty and lost arts. I love your videos...being from a town called Lost Creek WV...it makes me think of a time that I canned over 500 jars of garden veggies and berries...sadly at 61 I am reduced to a one room high rise apt due to a bad heart...I spend much of my time watching about the Appalachian tales, some true, some half truths and others just made up by excellent story tellers....I have to still be content and thank God...for at least I have my own real memories of the beautiful mountains of WV. God bless you Donnie!
If it weren't for folks like you places like this, and people of long ago and their stories would be lost to time...thank you Donnie for keeping history alive!
I think I know what I'm going to be doing in a few weeks during my vacation. Thanks for putting the wanderlust back into me. I love history, not what they teach in schools these days.
I love the way you are preserving Appalachia stories and history. I love listening to your voice it is like coming home. I grew up in Birchwood TN. Thank you.
A beautiful place. I was just there yesterday. My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Conrad Sharp, is buried there. It's sad that the place has grown-up and not cared for. A few years ago, my dad took cement and repaired several gravestones that had broken.
This just breaks my heart. How can people just forget about the dead like that. I appreciate you because now these people have been remembered.. God bless you for sharing awesome history.
The dead here are forgotten because those who would remember them are also gone. Some have died, some have moved away, some probably think that the graves are at the bottom of the lake. And how careful was the TVA at locating ALL the graves? The ones with headstones, maybe. But human nature hasn't changed. It's not impossible that some crews thought moving the headstones was good enough. Many of the dead who had no headstones are probably underwater. No ground-penetrating radar to help in the search in those days.
I love how u shed light on what mountain people are really like. Im 53 and in my late 20s me (from WI) and my girlfriend who used to live in S.C took a road trip down south and I wanted to see the mountains. She told me that u NEVER go to the mountains unless u have a guide or u have a large group with u. She painted a very scary picture of the people who lived there with all being back woods, killers, cannibals and psychos. She compared it to the movie, The Hills Have Eyes! Scared me half to death! Thank u for clarifying what good and loving people actually live there ! Myths spread far and wide!
Mr. Laws did a detailed and thorough look at this not forgotten history. Thank you. 😊 I have lived very closely to his depiction. Hard life but so rewarding. Some are still.living without electric , inside plumbing and still using a wood cook stove. A must is water. You have to have access to fresh water. You can live without electric and use an outhouse. Progress has changed quite a bit but the people still are passing down what you need to know. Born and raised in Florida. I left at 19 came back to Florida age 46. When I saw picture of Baptism I recalled exactly what was shown. Yet, we were all singing , Shall We Gather at the River. THANK YOU SOMUCH !!!! I'm going back before this Christmas, Lord willing. Im coming home.
Enjoyed it as usual thank you Donnie my Dads family lived on the Clinch river my Mamaw saved her husband and 2 of her children from a flood way back then had 3 more children after that love the history
This was wonderful!! It was also my personal history. I am a descendent of those Sharp's, Rice, Loy and others that settled that area. Thank you so much!!!!
Love that video, Donnie, I'm 49 years old. Used to go down to eastern Kentucky every Summer as a kid, down at my aunt yullas farm. I live in Cincinnati, man did I love it there. They had no electric no running water, we used to go and get a big green garbage can and put it on the back of a truck and go out to a spring near the creek. Learned my of things on that farm and my family. I do sure miss those times. Love watching your show, sir .keep doing what you're doing. Sure do thank you.
Dear Donnie, I LOVE your videos. Thank you so much for all your hard work to bring these to us. You are doing such a magnificent job and I love the way you talk. Please keep them coming as long as you can. I am 59 and from GA. Some of these videos make me feel longing and homesickness. What home I do not know...I do know that the first place my ancestors settled was in North Carolina according to old records...Words simply cannot convey entirely the soulful feelings I get just listening to you. YOU ARE GREATLY VALUED, LOVED AND APRECIATED BY TOTAL STRANGERS... JOY B.
At 9:01 I see them sittin there at the table eatin milk and bread! Corn bread I'm sure! I still eat milk and bread! I love your stories! They remind me so much of my childhood! It's truly amazing that u r tellin our stories! Thank you!
I have to agree with what you just said. It was perfect. I could care less about famous people or rich people. How wonderful it would be to sit down with common people that lived long ago to hear their stories and even their parents stories. To hear what it was like living during that time and how things were done and what it looked like at that time. To hear that rich history from a time long gone.
I like seeing old graveyards always interesting to me because of the times when those people lived here before we did an wonders what they thought an did an the hardships they endured I like history an I like knowing about were our ancestors come from an
Thank you Donnie thank you sir. The work that you do is invaluable. Can't put a price on it. I have found your videos to be a reprieve an escape from the rigors of this world. Glad I found you 👍
Mr. Laws, I always enjoy your stories. My lost pioneer cemetary was in 75 I was on a forest service helitack cew. We were set off hovering over a 200 ft drop into the creek. In about 10 ft there ws a cemetary newest grave 1888.
Another great story Donnie and it is a beautiful place. It's sad that nature will eventually reclaim the graves of these early settlers. But that's the natural order of things I guess. You are providing a service to those buried here who can no longer speak for themselves. You're keeping their history alive. Decades from now your videos will still be here for those who come after you. Those videos will ensure that those buried here will never be forgotten. I enjoy your videos so much. Thanks Donnie.
Wow Tabitha Snodderly lived to be 79 that's good for back in the 1700's Good video of the graveyard I guess we get a respect from the ones before us. You kind of get that feeling when you walk thru a graveyard and read all the different families born and died dates. Then your mind gets to wandering.
I remember seeing a movie when I was a very very young child about the flooding and the Tennessee Valley Authority and how an elderly women protested leaving her home. I believe it is called the Wild River starring Lee Remick and Montgomery Cliff. When I first found my kin in the mountains and hollers of West Virginia and at the bottom of Hurley, Virginia I asked to see where my Cherokee grandmother Eliza was buried. Grandma Eliza is buried at Guesses’ Fork way up on the mountain. My cousin Glenna Fay Walker recently told me that she was born wayback in the holler there in a log cabin. I did not know that !Glenna Fay is my age and everyone I have ever known in my life was born in a hospital. There is so much interesting lost history in these wonderful and beautiful areas of Appalachia. Thank you for capturing them for us and sharing them so eloquently for us to remember until we are passed on. 😇
I wish I could go out there I probably have folks out there no one left here!! I would love to go hunting if only I could fine a place up there! I love your story’s I could listen to you for hours.
Thank you, Donnie, I know you had to have done some hiking to get to this cemetery. The off-road vehicles can only go so far. As we enter a very tough time in these United States, it's good to look back and see how our ancestors survived their tough times. Sometimes I want to buy land in the Appalachians, but I know I'm too old to endure it now. It takes someone young and healthy. Still, we can learn from them yet.
This puts me in the mind of Sears Cemetery here in Whitley County Kentucky Donnie, they never moved it whenever they was building Laurel River Lake and it sits on their old farm ridge that's now Daniel Boone Forest.. My homeplace sits a couple miles from it, i go up every spring and clean the old cemetery off, i put a headstone up for Ellen Delph Sears..
Sir, please for as long as you can, continue to share any history from the Appalachia's. I'm from Florida and I clearly remember my mother and one of my aunts taking me on the Georgia side of the Tennessee River. I had a tiny plastic sailboat that I got to play with at the edge of the water and my aunt told me that I was in the Tennessee River and across the water was Tennessee. When I was 36 years old I related this back to her and she was stunned that I even had memories of that. I was 3. Fortunately my cousin (2 years older than me) and I were her favorites so I begged for another visit to the river. I got 2 more. I have loved Tennessee ever since.
So appreciate Donnie Laws... keeping all of us in tune with a time and age that barely exists anymore....God bless you Donnie ...may we meet in Heaven above...till then the Applician Mountain remains almost heaven!!! 🌻🌄🦋🐎🌾🏞️
Love to watch your videos. It was a different time and a totally different way of life. It was hard times for these folks, but they appreciated whatever the Lord provided for them. We take so much for granted today. Thank you and please keep bringing these great videos.
Donnie, you are doing a great service to these people by keeping their history alive. Thanks for taking the time to do it. It's sad to hear of so many lives upended in the name of progress.
Dear mr. Laws Isaw the family name Tilman as well. It is the name of my friend here in the Netherlands. So nice. I will tell him. Wonderfull the way you narrate and show us the history of your country . Thank you so much !It is very touching.
Would love one day to be able to siy down with this man and have a cup of coffee and a great story. Best school you could ask for. They dont teach history.
WOW! Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
As someone who does family history I feel that it is very important to document these older cemeteries as you are doing
Thank you friend.
Thank you Donnie, God bless
Your very welcome my friend.
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS, THANK YOU.
SEE YOU NEXT TIME.
Thank you friend. God bless you.
Our Father above keeps records of each and every one of us. No one is lost in history. Thank you Father for that. Thanks for paying honor Donnie to these people of days gone by. Your friend, Louise
Love these videos. Love you taking us back in time. ❤
Thank you friend.
Just found you very recently. You sir are an example of why I love my southern roots.
I'm soon to be 58 grma. My heart is comforted by your work.
I mourn for the old ways To respect and treat others with dignity. Like we ourselves want to be treated. I'm poor but happy with what I do have.
Loving family.
Breaks my heart to see the carnal depravity.
The pure evil that is suffocating humanity across the world. The ones that should be protected,are being exploited.... Horrors!!!
Thank you sir from bottom of my heart. I do stroll
around cemetery and grave yards myself here in the piedmont nc. Peaceful soul searching places.
May our Creator, Most High God of Spirits spread His arm's around you,your family. For all of humanity that is crying. Feel that this is truely the beginning of sorrows. May we all stand in our Lords day and be worthy. Thank you.
Your welcome. Welcome aboard my friend. Please enjoy the channel videos. Thank you.
Donnie your stories are so interesting wishes my family talked about our people but they didn’t please keep telling these stories for as long as you can God Bless you and your family🙏🙏😊😊
I watch these kind of videos and see kids out running through the woods and creeks and I think just what kids are missing nowadays. Kids set playing video games now and don’t know what they’re missing.
I do to my friend.
I love these old pictures. These folks were all about family and community. Seems like a much better time.
Yes it was my friend.
I noticed some flowers at one of the grave stones, it’s nice that someone is remembered. Thank you Sir for remembering these lost places and allowing us to learn about them.
Yes, Some people still remember their family members. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm so happy to hear what you said about Native Americans.I have been learning all I can about them,as they didn't teach us hardly anything concerning indians I have much respect for them.And you are right,the land was stolen from them.To this day they are still frown apon.When they care about everything and everyone.They have never been treated fairly.
That is a very sad, but true story. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
I sure did like this!
Thank you friend.
Well, many were forgotten, but not quite. They carried the torch also, connecting history right up to us. Without the forgotten, our culture woy not exist.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
@@donnielaws7020 God bless you back. You are real good at this.
Thanks for taking us back in years to the final resting place of so many local folks. It is a shame that so many places like this have been forgotten and fallen into disrepair. Too bad today, the younger generation don't care to maintain them like we did when I was young. Every other Sunday my folks would take my brother and I out to the cemetery to visit the parents and grandparents. Mom would bring flowers and pa brought his grass clippers so we could trim back the grass that was growing up around the stones. I didn't understand when I was young and pa said he liked to come and just talk with his pa for five or ten minutes. I am 69 years old now and a great grandpa myself, and yes, I like the time I can talk things over with my pa and get his advice.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
There is so much beauty and lost arts. I love your videos...being from a town called Lost Creek WV...it makes me think of a time that I canned over 500 jars of garden veggies and berries...sadly at 61 I am reduced to a one room high rise apt due to a bad heart...I spend much of my time watching about the Appalachian tales, some true, some half truths and others just made up by excellent story tellers....I have to still be content and thank God...for at least I have my own real memories of the beautiful mountains of WV. God bless you Donnie!
If it weren't for folks like you places like this, and people of long ago and their stories would be lost to time...thank you Donnie for keeping history alive!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing.
Watching again Donnie love history
Such wonderful History.
Thank you friend.
Enjoy all the stories you share of the history here. Thank you so much. God bless 🙏 🙌 ❤
You are so welcome. Thank for sharing my friend.
I would love to spend time with you, learning all you know. Thank you for what you are doing.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you, for the history and the songs.
Your welcome my friend.
Enjoyed that beautiful sad haunting music Donnie thanks you
Very welcome friend.
I think I know what I'm going to be doing in a few weeks during my vacation. Thanks for putting the wanderlust back into me. I love history, not what they teach in schools these days.
Your so very welcome my friend.
Another wonderful video. Thank you so very much. 🍀
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love the way you are preserving Appalachia stories and history. I love listening to your voice it is like coming home. I grew up in Birchwood TN.
Thank you.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Love the old time suff .
Awesome! Thank you!
I love the history you share of the south. That's where my daddy's people are from many are gone now along with their history Thank you Donnie❤😊
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
Your videos warm my heart. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome friend.
Thanks for the rich history. I enjoyed getting to see the mapsof where all the old settlements were once. ❤🙏
A beautiful place. I was just there yesterday. My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Conrad Sharp, is buried there. It's sad that the place has grown-up and not cared for. A few years ago, my dad took cement and repaired several gravestones that had broken.
Awesome! I love that place! So much history there. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Thanks so much for sharing. There's so much about this country I would never known about if it wasn't for you sharing. Blessings to you always.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
A beautiful presentation! Thanks 👍!
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Third or fourth time watching and/or listening to this one , excellent excellent content
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend.
This just breaks my heart. How can people just forget about the dead like that. I appreciate you because now these people have been remembered.. God bless you for sharing awesome history.
Your welcome friend. Thanks for sharing.
It's a shame. Would be nice if the roads could be kept clear with those rotary brush shredding attachments on mowers and skid steers
@@fredkeele6578 I agree my friend.
The dead here are forgotten because those who would remember them are also gone. Some have died, some have moved away, some probably think that the graves are at the bottom of the lake.
And how careful was the TVA at locating ALL the graves? The ones with headstones, maybe. But human nature hasn't changed. It's not impossible that some crews thought moving the headstones was good enough. Many of the dead who had no headstones are probably underwater. No ground-penetrating radar to help in the search in those days.
@@lucindawelenc2191 Well said my friend. Thanks.
I love how u shed light on what mountain people are really like. Im 53 and in my late 20s me (from WI) and my girlfriend
who used to live in S.C took a road trip down south and I wanted to see the mountains. She told me
that u NEVER go to the mountains unless u have a guide or u have a large group with u.
She painted a very scary picture of the people who lived there with all being back woods, killers,
cannibals and psychos. She compared it to the movie, The Hills Have Eyes! Scared me half to death!
Thank u for clarifying what good and loving people actually live there ! Myths spread far and wide!
Only in the movies my friend.
It is so interesting to see these old pictures.....thank you for sharing them!
Your so welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you, Donnie.
I'm enjoying your videos.
God 🙏 bless.
So much history that you have taken the time and stories to share with us . I am so grateful and thankful for you.
Oh me all that history is gone like dust in the wind. Thank you sir for sharing your stories with us. Be safe and GOD BLESS y’all Amen 🙏
Your welcome friend.
Thank you.
Your welcome.
Mr. Laws did a detailed and thorough look at this not forgotten history. Thank you. 😊
I have lived very closely to his depiction. Hard life but so rewarding. Some are still.living without electric , inside plumbing and still using a wood cook stove. A must is water. You have to have access to fresh water. You can live without electric and use an outhouse. Progress has changed quite a bit but the people still are passing down what you need to know. Born and raised in Florida. I left at 19 came back to Florida age 46. When I saw picture of Baptism I recalled exactly what was shown. Yet, we were all singing , Shall We Gather at the River. THANK YOU SOMUCH !!!!
I'm going back before this Christmas, Lord willing. Im coming home.
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you
Your very welcome my friend.
Another wonderful video. Thank you. God bless
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.
Thank you for sharing the history of these people and their lands. It was a wonderful story, and you tell it so well.👍
Your so welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you Mr. DONNIE
Your welcome my friend.
Thanks for sharing😊
My pleasure 😊
My grandma and papa was from the mtns in north tenn.i loved to hear then tell their storys.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Enjoyed it as usual thank you Donnie my Dads family lived on the Clinch river my Mamaw saved her husband and 2 of her children from a flood way back then had 3 more children after that love the history
WOW Thanks for sharing this story my friend. God bless you.
thank you
Your welcome.
Fascinating stories and sights up in those woods. Beautiful, thank you for sharing Donnie. I enjoy learning all about life and history.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
loved it , thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was wonderful!! It was also my personal history. I am a descendent of those Sharp's, Rice, Loy and others that settled that area. Thank you so much!!!!
Awesome my friend. Your welcome.
So interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. It’s important we don’t forget.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Fantastic video Donnie! You are such a gem! Thank you for your hard work to bring us these important historic stories! God bless you!
Thanks so much. Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Love that video, Donnie, I'm 49 years old. Used to go down to eastern Kentucky every Summer as a kid, down at my aunt yullas farm. I live in Cincinnati, man did I love it there. They had no electric no running water, we used to go and get a big green garbage can and put it on the back of a truck and go out to a spring near the creek. Learned my of things on that farm and my family. I do sure miss those times. Love watching your show, sir .keep doing what you're doing. Sure do thank you.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Dear Donnie, I LOVE your videos. Thank you so much for all your hard work to bring these to us. You are doing such a magnificent job and I love the way you talk. Please keep them coming as long as you can. I am 59 and from GA. Some of these videos make me feel longing and homesickness. What home I do not know...I do know that the first place my ancestors settled was in North Carolina according to old records...Words simply cannot convey entirely the soulful feelings I get just listening to you. YOU ARE GREATLY VALUED, LOVED AND APRECIATED BY TOTAL STRANGERS... JOY B.
WOW! Thank you kindly friend.
🙏🤗 Glad they found it
Thanks.
The sound of your voice, it just makes me wanna listen😊 I love your videos, takes me to places I've never been GREAT VIDEOS. 👍👍👍
Thanks my friend for sharing this.
@@donnielaws7020 YOURE SO VERY MUCH WELCOME 🤗
Will be waiting to hear more from up coming videos 😃👍👍👍
@@purplepearl1809 Thank you.
thank you so much
You're welcome!
I love your stories.
Thank you friend.
At 9:01 I see them sittin there at the table eatin milk and bread! Corn bread I'm sure! I still eat milk and bread! I love your stories! They remind me so much of my childhood! It's truly amazing that u r tellin our stories! Thank you!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love these stories. Makes me feel closer to the family that didn’t live long enough to meet me and a place I didn’t get the chance to grow up in.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I have to agree with what you just said. It was perfect. I could care less about famous people or rich people. How wonderful it would be to sit down with common people that lived long ago to hear their stories and even their parents stories. To hear what it was like living during that time and how things were done and what it looked like at that time. To hear that rich history from a time long gone.
Beautiful comment and tribute to your ancestors ❤
@@kholbrook203 ❤lovely
Love your stories. So much knowledge of the Appalachian history. Love your trail videos as well. Thank you for all efforts and advice.
Thank you friend.
I love history thank for sharing very interesting
Glad you enjoyed it.
I like seeing old graveyards always interesting to me because of the times when those people lived here before we did an wonders what they thought an did an the hardships they endured I like history an I like knowing about were our ancestors come from an
The memories of times gone by
I understand my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
Thank you Donnie thank you sir. The work that you do is invaluable. Can't put a price on it. I have found your videos to be a reprieve an escape from the rigors of this world. Glad I found you 👍
Awesome! Welcome friend. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing.
Such a place needs documenting. Thank you.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks Donny
Your very welcome.
Thank you donny
Very welcome
Interesting
Our old history being remembered my friend.
Thank you for all you do my family growed in those areas
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you
Mr. Laws, I always enjoy your stories. My lost pioneer cemetary was in 75 I was on a forest service helitack cew. We were set off hovering over a 200 ft drop into the creek. In about 10 ft there ws a cemetary newest grave 1888.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Thanks You Once Again Great Video Stay Safe From Blue England
Thanks, you too!
Thanks you for sharing. Great videos.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Been hunting many times on chuck swan and scouting but there is a feeling you get in those woods unlike other woods.
I feel at home there. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Another great story Donnie and it is a beautiful place. It's sad that nature will eventually reclaim the graves of these early settlers. But that's the natural order of things I guess. You are providing a service to those buried here who can no longer speak for themselves. You're keeping their history alive. Decades from now your videos will still be here for those who come after you. Those videos will ensure that those buried here will never be forgotten. I enjoy your videos so much. Thanks Donnie.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Donnie, I just love your videos...so interesting the way you tell these stories with love and admiration for the people and the land...God bless ya...
Thank you so much my friend.
Wow Tabitha Snodderly lived to be 79 that's good for back in the 1700's Good video of the graveyard I guess we get a respect from the ones before us. You kind of get that feeling when you walk thru a graveyard and read all the different families born and died dates. Then your mind gets to wandering.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank You for showing us this video.
Your very welcome my friend. God bless.
Nice video
Thanks my friend.
Love the history! My ancestors came from lots of these area's.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I remember seeing a movie when I was a very very young child about the flooding and the Tennessee Valley Authority and how an elderly women protested leaving her home. I believe it is called the Wild River starring Lee Remick and Montgomery Cliff.
When I first found my kin in the mountains and hollers of West Virginia and at the bottom of Hurley, Virginia I asked to see where my Cherokee grandmother Eliza was buried. Grandma Eliza is buried at Guesses’ Fork way up on the mountain. My cousin Glenna Fay Walker recently told me that she was born wayback in the holler there in a log cabin. I did not know that !Glenna Fay is my age and everyone I have ever known in my life was born in a hospital. There is so much interesting lost history in these wonderful and beautiful areas of Appalachia. Thank you for capturing them for us and sharing them so eloquently for us to remember until we are passed on. 😇
I think it was Wild River.
Wild River.
I remember that movie!
Your voice sounds like home to me. I could listen to you forever
Thanks for the kind words my friend.
My family roots run deep in the mountains of Kentucky and South West Virginia. From all backgrounds..good ol mountain people.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I wish I could go out there I probably have folks out there no one left here!! I would love to go hunting if only I could fine a place up there! I love your story’s I could listen to you for hours.
Thank you very much. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you for you work Donnie
Your very welcome my friend.
Enjoy watching your videos and listening to you talk about the past.
I appreciate that my friend. Thank you.
Thank you, Donnie, I know you had to have done some hiking to get to this cemetery. The off-road vehicles can only go so far. As we enter a very tough time in these United States, it's good to look back and see how our ancestors survived their tough times. Sometimes I want to buy land in the Appalachians, but I know I'm too old to endure it now. It takes someone young and healthy. Still, we can learn from them yet.
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
This puts me in the mind of Sears Cemetery here in Whitley County Kentucky Donnie, they never moved it whenever they was building Laurel River Lake and it sits on their old farm ridge that's now Daniel Boone Forest.. My homeplace sits a couple miles from it, i go up every spring and clean the old cemetery off, i put a headstone up for Ellen Delph Sears..
Thanks for sharing this my.
Sir, please for as long as you can, continue to share any history from the Appalachia's. I'm from Florida and I clearly remember my mother and one of my aunts taking me on the Georgia side of the Tennessee River. I had a tiny plastic sailboat that I got to play with at the edge of the water and my aunt told me that I was in the Tennessee River and across the water was Tennessee. When I was 36 years old I related this back to her and she was stunned that I even had memories of that. I was 3. Fortunately my cousin (2 years older than me) and I were her favorites so I begged for another visit to the river. I got 2 more. I have loved Tennessee ever since.
Long as I am able and God willing I will try to share these mountains of east Tennessee. Thanks for much for sharing this my friend.
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So appreciate Donnie Laws... keeping all of us in tune with a time and age that barely exists anymore....God bless you Donnie ...may we meet in Heaven above...till then the Applician Mountain remains almost heaven!!! 🌻🌄🦋🐎🌾🏞️
Love to watch your videos. It was a different time and a totally different way of life. It was hard times for these folks, but they appreciated whatever the Lord provided for them. We take so much for granted today. Thank you and please keep bringing these great videos.
I appreciate that. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Donnie, you are doing a great service to these people by keeping their history alive. Thanks for taking the time to do it. It's sad to hear of so many lives upended in the name of progress.
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
Dear mr. Laws
Isaw the family name Tilman as well.
It is the name of my friend here in the Netherlands. So nice. I will tell him.
Wonderfull the way you narrate and show us the history of your country .
Thank you so much !It is very touching.
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I absolutely love your channel! Would love to travel with you in these places. Oh what I could learn! God bless you for doing these videos.
Thank you so much! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
nice job! thank you very much!
Your very welcome.
Really cool video, and I love the background music.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing my friend.
What an awesome job Donnie 🙌 watching from Ohio Smitty out 👋👋👋
Thank you friend.
Their stories live on today ! Those people were tough as nails & they gave that toughness to their kids & grands . so they live on
Yes they was. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks Donnie. Keep walking and talking.
That's the plan, Lord willing. Thanks for sharing my friend.