Just found this cemetery today while staying at the hotel. You are right- the hotel is not forthcoming about its past but I knew it immediately upon seeing f the buildings as they are decaying. Today we found the cemetery and went to explore it and was shocked by how many there were and the fact that the are unmarked. Your video answered our questions. It is a very sad history.
My gg-grandfather’s brother-in-law is buried in Western State cemetery. His name is William Woodson Lawrence. He was from Bath County. I come across many death certificates of people that died at Western State (on the Ancestry site). My sister used to work at Western State and told me about the cemetery a long time ago.
I spent 2 years here when it was converted into a state prison. Our kitchen was in the old morgue and we prepared food on old gurney. I worked there and was able to go in the basement where there was chains on the walls and bathtubs with restraints and the biggest roaches I've ever seen
I am currently gathering information to try to get my grandfather’s medical records. All records have to be certified and you have to have a Notary sign off. They make you jump through all kinds of hoops. After submitting the information requested, you still may not get the records.
My ggggrandmother is buried here. Elizabeth Patton Willis. She was admitted in 1878 by her husband after he killed a man with an axe and went to prison. She was only about 47 at the time and had young children still at home. So sad. She died in 1910 and was buried on the property.
About 20 years ago a volunteer group started a project to give names to the 1,700 people buried in numbered graves at the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. It took a great deal of effort but they finally completed the task.
There's a Western State Mental Hospital in Bolivar, TN also,and that place is what nightmares are built upon. Corruption at its finest and the things they do to people I think they got from the guidelines of Hell torture.
It appears now that the new owners are greatly neglecting the graveyard. Alot of it is overgrown with thicket and the ends even seem as if theyre covered up by the new construction
The one off Statler Blvd (next to Staples) is marked in Google maps and not fenced. I just parked at Staples & hiked up Statler until the slope down to graves was not too steep and ducked under a few sparse picker bushes to see it in icy snow the other night. Most headstones are not marked now. You are supposed to get permission, but I believe graveyards are not to be prohibited to visitors. The silence in this video while showing the large site is really fitting. Thank you, Beautiful Rust. Well done!
Virginia is not particularly rational. The Virginia Code is not written. The Declaration of Independence is. You are wasting your time in the Commonwealth of Virginia. In fact, as much as these graves have no names, the people of Virginia have no names. No family on earth couples the way Virginia does. Anything greater than menial labor is a threat to their history of indentured servants and bond slaves. “A Peculiar Institution” by Kenneth Stampp more than ever explains the Stamp Collection of Virginia is like a WWI nation that no longer exists in the life of the free world. There are limits that math, science or literature will never discuss. That is the spirit of Virginia, lost.
Just found this cemetery today while staying at the hotel. You are right- the hotel is not forthcoming about its past but I knew it immediately upon seeing f the buildings as they are decaying. Today we found the cemetery and went to explore it and was shocked by how many there were and the fact that the are unmarked. Your video answered our questions. It is a very sad history.
Thanks for watching
My gg-grandfather’s brother-in-law is buried in Western State cemetery. His name is William Woodson Lawrence. He was from Bath County. I come across many death certificates of people that died at Western State (on the Ancestry site). My sister used to work at Western State and told me about the cemetery a long time ago.
I spent 2 years here when it was converted into a state prison. Our kitchen was in the old morgue and we prepared food on old gurney. I worked there and was able to go in the basement where there was chains on the walls and bathtubs with restraints and the biggest roaches I've ever seen
I am currently gathering information to try to get my grandfather’s medical records. All records have to be certified and you have to have a Notary sign off. They make you jump through all kinds of hoops. After submitting the information requested, you still may not get the records.
My ggggrandmother is buried here. Elizabeth Patton Willis. She was admitted in 1878 by her husband after he killed a man with an axe and went to prison. She was only about 47 at the time and had young children still at home. So sad. She died in 1910 and was buried on the property.
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About 20 years ago a volunteer group started a project to give names to the 1,700 people buried in numbered graves at the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. It took a great deal of effort but they finally completed the task.
That is wonderful. I hope one day these cemeteries could be cleaned up with a memorial for the people buried there.
this is great! is there a link to it so I can see it?
There's a Western State Mental Hospital in Bolivar, TN also,and that place is what nightmares are built upon. Corruption at its finest and the things they do to people I think they got from the guidelines of Hell torture.
Great job!!!! This is the best video I’ve watched on WSH!
Thanks
my grandfather was born in 1865 and died at the asylum around 1943 I wish there was a way to find information about his stay there.
Do you have his death certificate?
It has been told to me that they ran out of room in the grave yards and they stacked as much as 6 deep in the graves.
I have heard that as well
Yep, I believe that was done, as I heard that from a local chick who knew a lot of detailed history behind the property.
Awww....we watched this morning.....bless those people. How very sad.....and to buried, some without a name. Very well done Rust.....very well done!👍
Thank you.
It appears now that the new owners are greatly neglecting the graveyard. Alot of it is overgrown with thicket and the ends even seem as if theyre covered up by the new construction
No I sure don't I wish I did mostly know that he came there from bath county va.
Oh this is Virginia...I was looking for info on the old Western State Hospital near Tacoma WA...oh well, good video though
Thanks!
The Blackfriar Theater was also created from one of the many numerous buildings
Awesome job keep up the good work
Thanks!
Can you legally go there? Or do you need special permission?
The one off Statler Blvd (next to Staples) is marked in Google maps and not fenced. I just parked at Staples & hiked up Statler until the slope down to graves was not too steep and ducked under a few sparse picker bushes to see it in icy snow the other night. Most headstones are not marked now. You are supposed to get permission, but I believe graveyards are not to be prohibited to visitors. The silence in this video while showing the large site is really fitting. Thank you, Beautiful Rust. Well done!
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Virginia is not particularly rational. The Virginia Code is not written. The Declaration of Independence is. You are wasting your time in the Commonwealth of Virginia. In fact, as much as these graves have no names, the people of Virginia have no names. No family on earth couples the way Virginia does. Anything greater than menial labor is a threat to their history of indentured servants and bond slaves. “A Peculiar Institution” by Kenneth Stampp more than ever explains the Stamp Collection of Virginia is like a WWI nation that no longer exists in the life of the free world. There are limits that math, science or literature will never discuss. That is the spirit of Virginia, lost.
You’re delusional. I live in Va. and have a name.
I even typed this myself, and no, my tongue is not hanging out the side of my mouth.
If you visit it as a tourist you can't leave..😅😆😆