Sadly, this happened to many families. My grandfather and his brother both died during that war. It made me wonder just how many family lines ended during war times.
D M, here in Gettysburg Pennsylvania during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War which was fought from July 1st to July 3rd 1863 a woman lost her husband and their three sons in the conflict in spite of the husband and one son being in the same regiment and the other two sons in two other separate regiments to ensure at least the survival of one of the males in the family. One son was killed on July the 1st during the retreat of his regiment, the second son on July 2nd defending the left flank of the Union Army and the Husband and remaining son died on July 3rd defending the Union center during Pickett's Charge. One of
Welcome to Crystal Lake:) Thank you for sharing that story. Also buried in that cemetery is the Bohl Family. Florence Bohl was the last of the family and in my opinion had a sad, lonely last years of her life. They say Florence still haunts part of Crystal Lake to this day.
barb ander ~ Thank you for the welcome. It is a beautiful place to experience as I was passing through. I’ll have to come back and check that out next time, what a sad and eerie story about Florence.
@@FacesoftheForgotten I'm not sure whether or not you visit cemeteries across the United States of America if so here in Gettysburg Pennsylvania there are 3 cemeteries you may be interested in. The first is the primary civilian cemetery for residents Greenlawn Cemetery, the second Friends Cemetery also known as Lincoln Graveyard for Gettysburg's Negro population mostly former freed and runaway slaves and the premier 3rd Cemetery is the Soldiers National Cemetery which inspired Arlington Cemetery which has unknown graves with an interesting back story Evergreen Cemetery also has an interesting back story as well.
@Martha Fogelin yes it's true that after the Battle of Cold Harbor I believe it was, that a Union General wanted General Robert E. Lee's home of Arlington to be uninhabitable and ordered the burial of the dead of the battle on the property his own son killed in action was buried in Mary Custis Lee's Rose Garden and he had sent a burial party of men to other nearby previous battlefields and dig up not the complete bodies of various Soldiers but only parts of the bodies of various Soldiers and buried them in a mass pit near the house as a grave of the unknowns to intentionally haunt the property as in the 19th century it was believed that a soul couldn't rest in piece if their body wasn't buried intact and in a marked grave and would haunt until properly interred with a name. General Robert E. Lee's wife was Mary Custis the daughter of George Custis who was the son of Martha Washington and her first husband and when Martha Custis became a widow George Washington married her and raised up her children as his own as George Washington had no biological children. Robert E. Lee is the Grandson In-law to George Washington and Robert E. Lee's father Lighthorse Harry Lee was George Washington's Chief of Cavalry during the American Revolution.
@Martha Fogelin I'll have to check I think Richard Harry may have been the brother of Robert E. Lee or his uncle. I'm descended from an illustrious political and military family which predates the American Revolution my ancestral cousin by blood is Founding Father James Madison and his aunt Margherita Madison-McDowell is my ancestral grandmother her daughter also my ancestral grandmother is Agatha Madison McDowell-Birney her husband James Gillespie Birney II who was twice a Presidential Candidate is my ancestral grandfather as is his third born son David Bell Birney.
Your work is so interesting. This story is so sad. Love seeing Illinois in the fall & winter. I grew up in Madison, WI. Brings back memories. Thank you.
God bless her. She went through a tremendous amount of grief. Losing her husband as they went off to war and losing two sons the same month. It makes me think...sometimes people put on a smile or happy face to keep from crying or to avoid talking about the sad things with others....as if to say...I'm ok. Everything is ok.
Thanks for a channel with very interesting and touching content. Henri-Chapelle is still an American cemetary, visited it last year, as well as the Margraten cemetary in The Netherlands. Every Christmas Day, I go to Bastogne to honor the fallen soldiers who fought for our freedom in Europe. Greetings from Belgium
I will take my sons some day to Normandy, I am a huge WW2 history nut (so much so, that I owned a WW2 airplane...torpedo bomber called a TBM Avenger, another story...it crashed in the mountains, had to parachute out 3 years ago, get out of the wilderness...ouch). I will take then to bastion on the band of Brothers tour we checked Ito.
That's cool, owning one of those. One can still find artifacts from WW1 and WW2 here. Where I used to live, there was a Sherman tank standing. It took part of the liberation of that city. About 10 min from my house, an RAF crash site... So it's everywhere down here. Keep up the good work and embrace your interest in history and people.
Very sad. I had 2 great uncles who fought in WWI. They were gassed in France and once they came home, they caught the 1918 flu and died within hours of each other
Good videos and info as always. When I first started watching your videos I didn't start from the beginning, so here I am catching up to the ones I haven't watched yet . I hope to make it to your newest video before Halloween. If I don't leave a comment I'll always leave a like . Have a good morning and know the time you spend on videos is worth it to your fellow viewers.
I can not begain to imagion her pain of lost cause I couldn't ever get over the lost of my girls if it ever happen! She was very strong willed to go on in life!! I can only imagion her pain she hide from everyone!!;( I feel so sorry for her and hope her boys are resting in peace❤️ so many sad heartbreaking stories 😔
The brothers military headstone is broken. So is my father's. The military will replace them but you have to pay for them too be set. I just got all of his paperwork. A mower broke my father's. He was killed in 1965.
IM SO SORRY FOR THE LOSS OF YOUR DAD , MAY I SAY TO YOU AND THANK HIM FOR HIS BRAVERY AND SERVICE , I WAS ONLY A LITTLE GIRL IN 1965 , RIP TO YOUR DAD 🙏💔🕊😥
That tree headstone is from The Woodmen Of The World
Very Sad and Heartbroken this story 😢💔
About the Brothers 💔😔Rest In Peace🙏💐
My Prayers to Them and their Mother🙌🌷RIP
Sadly, this happened to many families. My grandfather and his brother both died during that war. It made me wonder just how many family lines ended during war times.
D M, here in Gettysburg Pennsylvania during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War which was fought from July 1st to July 3rd 1863 a woman lost her husband and their three sons in the conflict in spite of the husband and one son being in the same regiment and the other two sons in two other separate regiments to ensure at least the survival of one of the males in the family.
One son was killed on July the 1st during the retreat of his regiment, the second son on July 2nd defending the left flank of the Union Army and the Husband and remaining son died on July 3rd defending the Union center during Pickett's Charge.
One of
MAY THE PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEIR FACES , RIP TWO BROTHERS THANK YOU FOR YOUR BRAVERY AND SERVICE 🕊🙏💔😥
Very nice cemetery. Thanks for the tour. Rest in peace I all who are here🙏🙏🌻🌺🌺🌹🌸🌼
May they R.I.P. Thank you for your service. Glad your all together🙏😪
R.I.P.. 🙏 tk. U for your service.
Welcome to Crystal Lake:) Thank you for sharing that story. Also buried in that cemetery is the Bohl Family. Florence Bohl was the last of the family and in my opinion had a sad, lonely last years of her life. They say Florence still haunts part of Crystal Lake to this day.
barb ander ~ Thank you for the welcome. It is a beautiful place to experience as I was passing through. I’ll have to come back and check that out next time, what a sad and eerie story about Florence.
@@FacesoftheForgotten I'm not sure whether or not you visit cemeteries across the United States of America if so here in Gettysburg Pennsylvania there are 3 cemeteries you may be interested in.
The first is the primary civilian cemetery for residents Greenlawn Cemetery, the second Friends Cemetery also known as Lincoln Graveyard for Gettysburg's Negro population mostly former freed and runaway slaves and the premier 3rd Cemetery is the Soldiers National Cemetery which inspired Arlington Cemetery which has unknown graves with an interesting back story Evergreen Cemetery also has an interesting back story as well.
@@roya.cathcartjr.5042 - thank you, down the line I will but for now staying in the Midwest and I will be going to Arizona in a couple weeks
@Martha Fogelin yes it's true that after the Battle of Cold Harbor I believe it was, that a Union General wanted General Robert E. Lee's home of Arlington to be uninhabitable and ordered the burial of the dead of the battle on the property his own son killed in action was buried in Mary Custis Lee's Rose Garden and he had sent a burial party of men to other nearby previous battlefields and dig up not the complete bodies of various Soldiers but only parts of the bodies of various Soldiers and buried them in a mass pit near the house as a grave of the unknowns to intentionally haunt the property as in the 19th century it was believed that a soul couldn't rest in piece if their body wasn't buried intact and in a marked grave and would haunt until properly interred with a name.
General Robert E. Lee's wife was Mary Custis the daughter of George Custis who was the son of Martha Washington and her first husband and when Martha Custis became a widow George Washington married her and raised up her children as his own as George Washington had no biological children.
Robert E. Lee is the Grandson In-law to George Washington and Robert E. Lee's father Lighthorse Harry Lee was George Washington's Chief of Cavalry during the American Revolution.
@Martha Fogelin I'll have to check I think Richard Harry may have been the brother of Robert E. Lee or his uncle.
I'm descended from an illustrious political and military family which predates the American Revolution my ancestral cousin by blood is Founding Father James Madison and his aunt Margherita Madison-McDowell is my ancestral grandmother her daughter also my ancestral grandmother is Agatha Madison McDowell-Birney her husband James Gillespie Birney II who was twice a Presidential Candidate is my ancestral grandfather as is his third born son David Bell Birney.
So sad to have two sons not come back.
Your work is so interesting. This story is so sad. Love seeing Illinois in the fall & winter. I grew up in Madison, WI. Brings back memories. Thank you.
The mother bless her heart. Resembles Minnie Pearl
Poor Alvina, losing her husband and sons in such a short amount of time
Very sad losing both sons in the war May the family rest in peace
Thank you for there serve two brother's who fought and died layed to rest 1947 🙏 Robert & Elmer...god rest there soul's.
I'm wondering if the Peters brothers died in the Arden forest during the battle of the Bulge.
That 8s what I thought...the Arden.
@@rhiannonrede band of brothers (i.e. Easy Company and 101st Airborne). 11/02/1944 was the Liberation of Belgium.
God bless her. She went through a tremendous amount of grief. Losing her husband as they went off to war and losing two sons the same month.
It makes me think...sometimes people put on a smile or happy face to keep from crying or to avoid talking about the sad things with others....as if to say...I'm ok. Everything is ok.
Another great video.
You should do just a soilder video..what they did and how they died
love the idea... will think on that! I am a big WW2 history nut.
thank for your story's.
Thanks for a channel with very interesting and touching content. Henri-Chapelle is still an American cemetary, visited it last year, as well as the Margraten cemetary in The Netherlands. Every Christmas Day, I go to Bastogne to honor the fallen soldiers who fought for our freedom in Europe. Greetings from Belgium
I will take my sons some day to Normandy, I am a huge WW2 history nut (so much so, that I owned a WW2 airplane...torpedo bomber called a TBM Avenger, another story...it crashed in the mountains, had to parachute out 3 years ago, get out of the wilderness...ouch). I will take then to bastion on the band of Brothers tour we checked Ito.
That's cool, owning one of those. One can still find artifacts from WW1 and WW2 here. Where I used to live, there was a Sherman tank standing. It took part of the liberation of that city. About 10 min from my house, an RAF crash site... So it's everywhere down here. Keep up the good work and embrace your interest in history and people.
Gosh, how does any parent deal with one loss let alone two? RIP to two hero's who died way to young
Very sad. I had 2 great uncles who fought in WWI. They were gassed in France and once they came home, they caught the 1918 flu and died within hours of each other
Good videos and info as always. When I first started watching your videos I didn't start from the beginning, so here I am catching up to the ones I haven't watched yet . I hope to make it to your newest video before Halloween. If I don't leave a comment I'll always leave a like . Have a good morning and know the time you spend on videos is worth it to your fellow viewers.
Mrs. Peters also had a stillborn child. Sad that she outlived all her children. I do like her picture, reminds me of Minnie Pearl. 😊
April 17th was my grandfather's birthday. In 1969, he died on April 14th and was buried on Apr. 17th.
I can not begain to imagion her pain of lost cause I couldn't ever get over the lost of my girls if it ever happen! She was very strong willed to go on in life!! I can only imagion her pain she hide from everyone!!;( I feel so sorry for her and hope her boys are resting in peace❤️ so many sad heartbreaking stories 😔
Heartbreaking 😢😢
The brothers military headstone is broken. So is my father's. The military will replace them but you have to pay for them too be set. I just got all of his paperwork. A mower broke my father's. He was killed in 1965.
Thanking your father for his service, may he rest in peace. Hope his gravestone gets fixed soon.
It will after the PANDEMIC.
IM SO SORRY FOR THE LOSS OF YOUR DAD , MAY I SAY TO YOU AND THANK HIM FOR HIS BRAVERY AND SERVICE , I WAS ONLY A LITTLE GIRL IN 1965 , RIP TO YOUR DAD 🙏💔🕊😥
Did you realize she had 4 boys one died at birth and then her other three. She was the last to pass in 1969!!
I didn't think they could draft both sons?
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