This is such a beautiful old church, and it and the cemeteries are all that remain to show there was ever a settlement here. Hard to imagine. Link is a good read, lotta history.... digitalarchives.columbusstate.edu/shiloh-marion-baptist-church-and-cemetery Support Sidestep Adventures: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures Announcing the new Patreon members only Facebook group! Visit our Patreon for more details..... My flashlights: bit.ly/2ZkatOt Wukong Magnets who provided me with a few magnets for my channels sent me a discount code to pass along to my subscribers.... The code: Sidestep16 You get 16% off using that code. www.magnetfishingwukong.com/
@Mamie Bobb I removed that comment. I don’t tolerate those kind of comments around here. Anytime I am made aware of them I remove them and block them from the channel. Sorry you had to see that.
PLEASE go back. This was fascinating particularly the native American section. Unusual to find them buried with others at that time in history. My great x 2 grandfather was Native American so i love seeing this cemetery. I would love to see the inside of that church. If only those walls could talk. PLEASE GO BACK. Thanks for another great video
Robert, this is a *MUST* ... you've got to get back out there and see ALL of the beauty this old cemetery and church has to offer! My mother's (entire side of the family) are Native American (Cherokee and Navajo). I have a great love for ALL Native American tribes and just as much respect in my heart for them too. I would absolutely love to see more of this cemetery and pay respects to not only the Native American Indians but to the former slaves as well....they all, each and every person buried there, deserves our love and respect as well!! Again, Thank You for so much love and kindness that you put into your video's... it's much appreciated!! :)
Yes! Please put it on your "to do" list to go back out there....I'd love to see more of this cemetery! Between now and then, perhaps you can locate whoever has the keys to the church so that you can meet up with them and get access to the inside when you return. Very intriguing - as are all of your videos!
Definitely return guys, the place is just amazing . I would like to sit there a little while in silence and get the vibes of the spot which are there for sure. How nice it is to see the little church not only still standing but being looked after. Yep that's great!! Thanks guys.
Thank you for taking me to this cemetery. It is kept up and there are at least some proper identifiers for the groups of people buried there, I'm happy about that. The church being restored, restores my like for those who take the time to preserve history rather than destroy and replace ☺ Thanks again Robert 👍
I was very happy to see this video and the Jossey graves you viewed. The Josseys (and Shierlings also buried there) are members of our family tree. We visited this Church and Cemetery November 2019. The restoration project in your video showed us how much progress has been made over the last two months. Thank you for taking the time to share this Church and Cemetery with others who may never have the chance to see it in person.
I love looking at this church and the two cemeteries. I do know from Ancestry.com my family some of them came from the Clinch Mountains in Tennessee and they were a private mountain folk that did not mix with strangers and thus intermarried. This was way way back. Cherokee Indians mixed with my ancestors too. To me it is so interesting that people who lived at a time when there were not many people still led normal lives. Made families and lived free. This is so wonderful all the history that goes into the making of our nation.
Well Robert that has to be my fave video, it was brilliant and sooo old. Please come back would so love a longer one. Thanks very much for taking me along
Please go back to this cemetery and do a more detailed video. It looks very interesting, I like how the church honored the different groups of people buried there. Thanks, Robert
Why does there have to be hateful comments. I understand your thoughts. But your need to understand there are Cherokee ancestors out there. Cherokees adopted many into their tribe as well. White people included.
Yes, if you can put this on your schedule, I would love to see more of this cemetery. I was impressed with the Native American graves. I had always heard they piled rocks on their graves, now I have seen it in this cemetery. I enjoy all of your adventures. Thanks for taking me along on your adventures.
One of my two families cemeteries have Indians in it. Their graves only are marked with a sand stone at each end of them. I also had a friend show me a Indian burial mound in the woods. I wish I knew more about them but The American Indians Strongly believed in LEAVING THE EARTH AS THEY FOUND IT.
Back then that church would have served as a schoolhouse and meeting hall for the townspeople. I can almost see the comings and goings of daily life. Fascinating!
Yes, please go back to this Cemetery. There is so much to see and you are always so respectful, identifying the names on the Tombstones. Thank you, Robert.
Robert, Thank you for your video of Shiloh Marion Baptist Church and the nearby Church Hill Cemetery in Marian County near Preston, GA. My Great Great Grandfather, Robert Franklin (Frank) Shierling (1844-1868), is buried there along with other members of the Shierling Family and members of his wife's Family, the Josseys. Frank Shierling was a Confederate soldier from 1861-1865, who died within 3 years of returning home from battle-related injuries, leaving a widow (Sarah Rebecca Jossey) and a 6-week old baby (my Great Grandfather, Emmett Lee Shierling, Sr. [1868-1945]). Two of his older brothers (James Anderson Shierling and Brant W. Shierling) died in Virginia during the Civil War. His younger brother Wiley Dorse Shierling (1846-1897) also was a Confederate soldier who returned home to Church Hill after the war and is buried in this cemetery. To say that the Church Hill Community -- like the rest of the South -- was devastated by the Civil War is an understatement. I am grateful to the members of the Shiloh Marian Baptist Church who keep this church going and who maintain this beautiful old cemetery so well. Your video has reminded me to send them a donation to the church for their ongoing efforts, and I will also contribute to Sidestep Adventures for your impressive work in remembering these often forgotten and neglected parts of our not-so-distant past. I live in Fairfax, VA, and don't have an opportunity to visit this location as often as I'd like. Many thanks again. J. Michael Petty
Would truly appreciate your return to this location. I appreciate the honor and respect you show at each location that you visit. I so enjoy all that you do. I would love to be able to do what you do. Thank you so much 💕😊❤️
You ought to check out Little Ogeechee Baptist in Oliver, GA. Very rich in history. Many of my ancestors are buried there. My family told me as I was growing up that the church was used by Sherman as a stable on his March to the sea. Church has been around since the early/mid 1800 but the formation of the congregation was late 1700s. Use to have family reunions there. Remember going through the cemetery and looking at all the historical grave. Thought that would be an interesting place to go check out. Just found your channel and love it. Keep it up.
wow real cool place I live in north ga and I have a grand farther buried some were in south Ga and i cant find him my grand mother has pass on so no one know were to find him his name was sandy hicks and was buried around 1937 I wish I could find him . thanks for the video and thanks for all the hard work. god bless.
Still the original style, sometimes you have to just do what you have to do to preserve the building. My grandparents house is like that it's in rural ky. We've had to replace a few boards here and there, but the house was built in the 30s. And still looks the same as it was before my dad was born.
For sure! I am definitely always for the preservation of the building, rather than it rotting! Just something I think about from time to time. The idea interests me though.
Read that there is a path in the woods behind this church that leads to the baptismal pool with two springs and if you get back there again (hope you do) I hope you'll show that pool and those two springs in the woods!
It would be great if you did another more detailed video of this cemetery. It’s so interesting to see these old graves and to think about their lives and how life would’ve been then. I really enjoy your videos! Happy New Year to you too!
Happy New year to you, thank you so much for sharing the history , yes please come back to all the cemeterys to share more details and the history , please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends ,🙏🙏🙏
So fascinating! Ty for sharing this.we lived out on long island.Hauppauge,NY.the houses were built on Indian burial grounds.there for we lived in a haunted house,I grew up there.the development was built in the very early60s.not to many people know this.that the homes were built on Indian burial ground!
Loved it! Two of our children were born in Ft.Gordon and we kind of consider Georgia our second home. We used to travel out into the country, looking for historic sites. I was wild and amazing in early 60's and our children never forget it. You bring back memories! Thank you!
Please come back and film some more,Robert. I'm way up here in Ontario,Canada. !!! I can't come down there, but I like to hear your very pleasent and empathic voice. You seem like a very nice person, and what you are showing to Cody,will make him a caring adult.... Gayle
I recently found your channel. I find this video simply amazing. Nice job finding it. I'm totally into American history always wanting to learn more. Thank you I thoroughly enjoyed this video I'm looking forward to watching more..
Robert those creek graves are beautiful. If you would like to see some more beautiful ones go to Pinson Babtist church in Pinson Alabama. Cleaning and restructuring those old Creek graves was my mother's class project when she was in grade school back in the 1920's. She is buried there in her families plot The church which was built in the late 1800's was still active as of a couple of decades ago.
@@lucygray6162 My mothers parents were German and Irish, but my father was Creek and Choctaw . This region was primarily Creek. The graves were confirmed by the locals that lived in the area whose family's goes back into the 1700's And yes the Peoples and Owens were members of the church. I haven't been back since my fathers death back in 1999, but at that time the church was active and well cared for. The graveyard was well maintained, and my children were quiet amused at the stories I had about the local culture,and people in that region. Seems history is wrong in about every detail about people I have known and spoken to LOL Hope that helps you Lucy.
Such a great cemetery and with native Americans in too as well as slaves , bless them . Robert you need to return soon and show us some more, thanks so much , from the U.K. ❤️
I found some of my relatives that died from the Spanish flu in 1918 on accident, threw some research, half barried in the ground just plain concrete head stone's
This is such a beautiful old church, and it and the cemeteries are all that remain to show there was ever a settlement here. Hard to imagine. Link is a good read, lotta history....
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Sidestep Adventures beautiful footage. Would love to see more
Please go back to do more history adventure, please be safe out there and God bless everyone 🤗🙏🙏
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PLEASE go back. This was fascinating particularly the native American section. Unusual to find them buried with others at that time in history. My great x 2 grandfather was Native American so i love seeing this cemetery. I would love to see the inside of that church. If only those walls could talk. PLEASE GO BACK. Thanks for another great video
My gr grandmother was 1/2 Lower Creek Native American. The black hair, high cheek bones, etc are seen today in our family. She was from southeast Ga.
Abso-freaking-lutely
Where at Southeast Georgia?
A lot of the others like the "slaves" were most likely Indian too.
that is the first time ive ever seen acknowledgement of slave burials. how awesome
I would definitely get ahold of the church owner to get permission to go inside, then spend more time in the cemetery! It’s beautiful!
Robert, this is a *MUST* ... you've got to get back out there and see ALL of the beauty this old cemetery and church has to offer! My mother's (entire side of the family) are Native American (Cherokee and Navajo). I have a great love for ALL Native American tribes and just as much respect in my heart for them too. I would absolutely love to see more of this cemetery and pay respects to not only the Native American Indians but to the former slaves as well....they all, each and every person buried there, deserves our love and respect as well!! Again, Thank You for so much love and kindness that you put into your video's... it's much appreciated!! :)
Yes! Please put it on your "to do" list to go back out there....I'd love to see more of this cemetery! Between now and then, perhaps you can locate whoever has the keys to the church so that you can meet up with them and get access to the inside when you return. Very intriguing - as are all of your videos!
I am hoping so!
Definitely return guys, the place is just amazing .
I would like to sit there a little while in silence and get the vibes
of the spot which are there for sure.
How nice it is to see the little church not only still standing but being
looked after. Yep that's great!!
Thanks guys.
Thank you for taking me to this cemetery. It is kept up and there are at least some proper identifiers for the groups of people buried there, I'm happy about that. The church being restored, restores my like for those who take the time to preserve history rather than destroy and replace ☺ Thanks again Robert 👍
Thats so cool the native American. Graves.
I love the way you tenderly touch the grave stones. It's a reminder of how precious life is and memories are. Thanks.
Yes please come back out here would love to see more. Great Job!
That was very interesting about the Native American burials. You have filmed a lot of them. A lot of slave graves....
I was very happy to see this video and the Jossey graves you viewed. The Josseys (and Shierlings also buried there) are members of our family tree. We visited this Church and Cemetery November 2019. The restoration project in your video showed us how much progress has been made over the last two months. Thank you for taking the time to share this Church and Cemetery with others who may never have the chance to see it in person.
I love looking at this church and the two cemeteries. I do know from Ancestry.com my family some of them came from the Clinch Mountains in Tennessee and they were a private mountain folk that did not mix with strangers and thus intermarried. This was way way back. Cherokee Indians mixed with my ancestors too. To me it is so interesting that people who lived at a time when there were not many people still led normal lives. Made families and lived free. This is so wonderful all the history that goes into the making of our nation.
Well Robert that has to be my fave video, it was brilliant and sooo old. Please come back would so love a longer one. Thanks very much for taking me along
Thank you four This Adventure greatly appreciated.
Please go back to this cemetery and do a more detailed video. It looks very interesting, I like how the church honored the different groups of people buried there. Thanks, Robert
I am native American my ancestors r Cherokee proud of my heritage
Are you sure you are not a whitey wannabe Cherokee?
Why does there have to be hateful comments. I understand your thoughts. But your need to understand there are Cherokee ancestors out there. Cherokees adopted many into their tribe as well. White people included.
@@Karen-fh7so I don't know why the ❄ always saying that I guess they know what they people did to the native American people.
@@Karen-fh7so not true sir.
I really enjoy all these old cemeteries. I have always been fascinated by cemeteries.
Lol when you said 2045 was in 25 years my brain said no..45 years. Will I ever stop thinking it's 2000? 😂😂 also please do go back!
So peaceful, one of my favourite cemeteries you’ve been to, so much interesting history. Please go back one day. Thank you for sharing. Xx
I'm all for seeing more of this area! Great video,thanks for sharing!
The history is truly amazing. Thanks again for the adventure.
Thank you so much for taking time to do this 👍🏼
Yes, if you can put this on your schedule, I would love to see more of this cemetery. I was impressed with the Native American graves. I had always heard they piled rocks on their graves, now I have seen it in this cemetery. I enjoy all of your adventures. Thanks for taking me along on your adventures.
Beautiful Church and so very interesting about the graves. 🌹🌷🌹
One of my two families cemeteries have Indians in it. Their graves only are marked with a sand stone at each end of them.
I also had a friend show me a Indian burial mound in
the woods.
I wish I knew more about them but
The American Indians Strongly believed in LEAVING THE EARTH AS THEY FOUND IT.
Would love to see you revisit this cemetery and church . Love following your adventures and how respectful you are .
Thank you for sharing. Very important for history.
Love all your videos saying Hi and thanks from Knoxville Tennessee 😁
Hey! Thank you!
Definitely would love to see a more detailed video of this cemetary.
I would love to see more of this church and cemetery very interesting God Bless 😇🙏♥️🇺🇸😊
amazing. you can almost feel the peace tranquility and serenity
Great video as always! I love historical cemeteries😀👍
Fantastic video, love Cemeteries.
Thank you for sharing your videos I love to see the older cemeteries.
This place was very peaceful and wonderful to hear about the history of this land.
THANKS ENJOY ALL YOUR VIDEOS BRO.
Really enjoyed this video would love to see more of this place. Great videos as always.
I really enjoyed this video love from NC 🙂
Another brilliant video 😊❤️
Back then that church would have served as a schoolhouse and meeting hall for the townspeople. I can almost see the comings and goings of daily life. Fascinating!
Love your adventures, and the respect you have for the place's your at. I would love to see more at this site. Thank you for sharing.
Very cool interesting place , yes comeback to this site
Yes, please go back to this Cemetery. There is so much to see and you are always so respectful, identifying the names on the Tombstones. Thank you, Robert.
Robert please do a more detailed video of this cemetery.
Robert, Thank you for your video of Shiloh Marion Baptist Church and the nearby Church Hill Cemetery in Marian County near Preston, GA. My Great Great Grandfather, Robert Franklin (Frank) Shierling (1844-1868), is buried there along with other members of the Shierling Family and members of his wife's Family, the Josseys. Frank Shierling was a Confederate soldier from 1861-1865, who died within 3 years of returning home from battle-related injuries, leaving a widow (Sarah Rebecca Jossey) and a 6-week old baby (my Great Grandfather, Emmett Lee Shierling, Sr. [1868-1945]). Two of his older brothers (James Anderson Shierling and Brant W. Shierling) died in Virginia during the Civil War. His younger brother Wiley Dorse Shierling (1846-1897) also was a Confederate soldier who returned home to Church Hill after the war and is buried in this cemetery. To say that the Church Hill Community -- like the rest of the South -- was devastated by the Civil War is an understatement. I am grateful to the members of the Shiloh Marian Baptist Church who keep this church going and who maintain this beautiful old cemetery so well. Your video has reminded me to send them a donation to the church for their ongoing efforts, and I will also contribute to Sidestep Adventures for your impressive work in remembering these often forgotten and neglected
parts of our not-so-distant past. I live in Fairfax, VA, and don't have an opportunity to visit this location as often as I'd like. Many thanks again. J. Michael Petty
Thank you so much! I sent you an email!
Short but sweet video, Robert. Yes, please go back ! I am thoroughly intrigued by this cemetery.
Hey robert this is your reminder to revisit this cemetery...thanks bunches for these videos I love history...wish someone would do this in ohio
Thank you!
Would truly appreciate your return to this location.
I appreciate the honor and respect you show at each location that you visit.
I so enjoy all that you do.
I would love to be able to do what you do.
Thank you so much 💕😊❤️
What makes this one of my fravort chanel is you take the time out and research and read the dates..thank you
Always enjoy your videos. Would love to see more of this cemetery and church if you can!
I would like to see a more detailed video of this cemetery. The history behind it is fascinating!
Yes it is!
You ought to check out Little Ogeechee Baptist in Oliver, GA. Very rich in history. Many of my ancestors are buried there. My family told me as I was growing up that the church was used by Sherman as a stable on his March to the sea. Church has been around since the early/mid 1800 but the formation of the congregation was late 1700s. Use to have family reunions there. Remember going through the cemetery and looking at all the historical grave.
Thought that would be an interesting place to go check out.
Just found your channel and love it. Keep it up.
Yes indeed, go back and do a detailed vid of this area. Excellent work!
Thank you!
wow real cool place I live in north ga and I have a grand farther buried some were in south Ga and i cant find him my grand mother has pass on so no one know were to find him his name was sandy hicks and was buried around 1937 I wish I could find him . thanks for the video and thanks for all the hard work. god bless.
Still the original style, sometimes you have to just do what you have to do to preserve the building. My grandparents house is like that it's in rural ky. We've had to replace a few boards here and there, but the house was built in the 30s. And still looks the same as it was before my dad was born.
For sure! I am definitely always for the preservation of the building, rather than it rotting! Just something I think about from time to time. The idea interests me though.
Sidestep adventures honors every grave..black or white..bravo to them.!
Love all your videos, this is amazing place.
Interesting, Indian burial are mounds here in Ohio and most people don't realize it and they get destroyed 😢
Would love to see and hear more about this historic area. Great video!
Read that there is a path in the woods behind this church that leads to the baptismal pool with two springs and if you get back there again (hope you do) I hope you'll show that pool and those two springs in the woods!
Great video yes I would ❤️ another visit
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Go back here. I just started watching your videos, you do a great job narrating them n you dont rush the camera. Very interesting videos. Thank you
It would be great if you did another more detailed video of this cemetery. It’s so interesting to see these old graves and to think about their lives and how life would’ve been then. I really enjoy your videos! Happy New Year to you too!
Another great video. Thanks, Robert.
Robert. is age 27
Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
It is so beautiful. We should always Remember our history.
Yes please go back I love these old cemeteries 🙏😇♥️
Happy New year to you, thank you so much for sharing the history , yes please come back to all the cemeterys to share more details and the history , please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends ,🙏🙏🙏
Yes please go back I would like to see more of the cemetery I love history
Yes, please come back to this area
It is truely amazing!
So fascinating! Ty for sharing this.we lived out on long island.Hauppauge,NY.the houses were built on Indian burial grounds.there for we lived in a haunted house,I grew up there.the development was built in the very early60s.not to many people know this.that the homes were built on Indian burial ground!
Get back out there! Yes those are Indian graves. Love the video.
I think I have and inform you I did live in Oklahoma
Preserving our heritage, yay! Thanks for showing us Robert.
Loved the video can't wait for more
Would love to see more on this cemetery.
Please do a walk-through inside the church get permission I love old churches!
I’ll do my best to!
Here's a link that has some beautiful interior views: www.hrcga.org/church/shiloh-baptist-2/
I love your videos. Thanks so much for sharing the history. Please do return to this church and cemetery. It is truly interesting.
Cherokee blood runs thru My veins and Proud of it. Church/ cemetery looks peaceful
Hey Robert thanks for showing part of my heritage, native american's. Yes please do more, I feel connected. That was wonderful thanks.
Please do more on this one
i hope you do go again. so much to see learn etc
I love your videos. Thanks for keeping history alive..
Loved it! Two of our children were born in Ft.Gordon and we kind of consider Georgia our second home. We used to travel out into the country, looking for historic sites. I was wild and amazing in early 60's and our children never forget it. You bring back memories! Thank you!
Please come back and film some more,Robert. I'm way up here in Ontario,Canada. !!! I can't come down there, but I like to hear your very pleasent and empathic voice. You seem like a very nice person, and what you are showing to Cody,will make him a caring adult.... Gayle
Please go back out - I would love to see more and learn about it!
Really beautiful scenery Thanks
More , please ! Really great content there..... please go back ?! 🤓🤓🤓
Thank you for sharing the Native American Graves
im so glad they are trying to care for the church. in a way its one of the only remaining links to a time that has long since passed by.
loved the rock tombs. i think native americans made them to protect their dead from being dug up by scavengers but im not entirely sure
Native Americans believed being buried in the ground trapped their spirit. So being buried on top or on poles their spirit would fly freely
Please share some more sites like this one,ty!
❤️ definitely would love to see more of this area. Love anything about the native Americans.
I recently found your channel. I find this video simply amazing. Nice job finding it. I'm totally into American history always wanting to learn more. Thank you I thoroughly enjoyed this video I'm looking forward to watching more..
Very interesting thanks for sharing
Robert those creek graves are beautiful. If you would like to see some more beautiful ones go to Pinson Babtist church in Pinson Alabama. Cleaning and restructuring those old Creek graves was my mother's class project when she was in grade school back in the 1920's. She is buried there in her families plot The church which was built in the late 1800's was still active as of a couple of decades ago.
Wow! I will definitely have to try to visit there.
Dave, How were you able to confirm those are Creek graves? Were they church members? I am curious about those that Robert taped, too.
@@lucygray6162 My mothers parents were German and Irish, but my father was Creek and Choctaw . This region was primarily Creek. The graves were confirmed by the locals that lived in the area whose family's goes back into the 1700's And yes the Peoples and Owens were members of the church. I haven't been back since my fathers death back in 1999, but at that time the church was active and well cared for. The graveyard was well maintained, and my children were quiet amused at the stories I had about the local culture,and people in that region. Seems history is wrong in about every detail about people I have known and spoken to LOL Hope that helps you Lucy.
Such a great cemetery and with native Americans in too as well as slaves , bless them . Robert you need to return soon and show us some more, thanks so much , from the U.K. ❤️
I found some of my relatives that died from the Spanish flu in 1918 on accident, threw some research, half barried in the ground just plain concrete head stone's