ABOUT TO QUIT WE STUMBLED UPON IT | REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER CHRISTOPHER SLONAKER RESTING PLACE

[Music] thank you [Music] [Music] oh you guys welcome to this episode of the Appalachian history Detectives I'm on site and I found the slow knicker Cemetery and I'm here with Mr Michael Lee and we have been walking literally for a mile or two and we are now coming up on it we have absolutely been walking through the forest searching for this place and then it is in the middle of absolute nowhere look at this thing it's gonna be one of these unmarked grays well I tell you look how old rusty this is all right Michael I don't know and the last time anyone has been here before look at that that's a shame [Music] David's clinic or look there's a great here one here let's just step across if we don't want to be stressful David Sloane acre Margaret his wife and we're told that this is the palace or Cemetery and that Chris swanaker and his wife are buried here and there may or may not be a has done there are some head sensors that are unmarked 18 . I don't know what the date is [Music] 72's when he died 1846 can you see it where it says date of birth up above there uh 16 . the whole family's here like there's there's a there's an unmarked grave here there's just a stone here these are just absolute Stones there's a stone there oh someone has kept this clean yep yep John Sloane acre oh you're a slow acre 18th [Music] May Sloane acre 1823 orgy Annie I'm going to pause the video right here to share a sad story about Annie according to the Hampshire review July 11 1894. Mr Henry Hawkins and his family were on their way to church when their horses became frightened and ran off and threw the family out of the buggy killing young Annie who was only 17 at the time Mr Hawkins died a short time later from injuries he received It also says a young boy Robert shanholtz was with them and his recovery is doubtful I do not know if he ever recovered here lies Annie and her father Henry together [Music] him stay here we're about ready to give up weren't we wonder how many is buried here I had a market on GPS and put on Find A Grave all right you guys I'll be I'll be getting back with you um hope you guys enjoyed this series the sloanaker series they have yet to find Christopher sloanick or his actual Pioneer residence but we know that it's in this area because uh the the records state that it's near here and this Farm is known as the old Sloane Acre Farm we know that it's just so thick in here [Music] nope [Music] right on this Ridge you know you wonder at this Cemetery here was like in the middle of the farm at one time or a community and uh right there is the old Pioneer Road you can see it remnants of it of course that's not the road we came up but that's it I would say along that road there you're going to find an old Homestay all right you guys so what we're gonna do is uh this cemetery is not on Find A Grave and there's actually no marker for it on the map and so what we plan on doing what Michael plans on doing is we've geo-tagged this and we're going to enter this cemetery on find a gray so at least there's record of it and uh and that way if someone else wants to come up here of course we're not encouraging people just to lollygag up here but there is access up here all right final look nice restful peaceful [Music] [Music] look The Old Road went right down through here [Music] [Music] at the wall it looks like a wall right there [Music] right here foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign Barbarian bushes are never nut [Music] s how you just got that one huh wow look at the Dead Fall [Music] so his uh iron Portugal man here somewhere right next to the river oh we gotta be really close to that it's here's another [Music] kind of creepy place in it [Music] foreign boy I tell you what can you imagine trying to clear this with a team of horses soaps our rocks a little pile right there [Music] that could be Indian right here they could be Indian foreign [Music] [Music] getting through that maybe right through there all right you guys he's finally come up on the river there it is right along here is where his Homestead somewhere it's good look how steep that is this is Aaron furnaces down in here somewhere Forge blacksmith Force got in here somewhere the old uh I wonder if the crossing was right here take a look [Music] boy I tell you what that's that's a sheer that's sheer right there Michael Michael and I we think that the old Ford was in here somewhere that crossed the river and uh still French and Indian fort's not that far but maybe a mile from where we are Indians probably took his Trail right here to the fort boy that beautiful [Music] foreign [Music] oh my gosh look at that [Music] but [Music] there's a rock cliff right now [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] oh wow look at that look at that look at that [Music]

Channel: AHD - Appalachian History Detectives

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Keywords: Appalachian History Detectives, Metal Detecting, treasure hunting, history detectives, history hunters, MineLab Equinox 800, Appalachian Storyteller, Metal Detector, Metal Detecting Finds, Civil War, 1700s, metal detecting finds, hobby metal detecting, Minelab equinox metal detector, silver coins, Storytelling

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Length: 16min 11sec (971 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 24 2023