In these old abandoned graveyards of this age segregated slave burial grounds are common. They are also the most endangered due to the lack of markers. This was definitely an important one to document. PayPal Tip Jar: www.paypal.me/rwrightphotography Mail: Sidestep Adventures PO BOX 206 Waverly Hall, Georgia 31831 Follow me on my old farm: ua-cam.com/channels/56vh2L-M0czmoTRLhSMaxg.html Support us on Patreon: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures
Thsnks Robert and Dan fir documenting these forgotten graveyards .It breaks my heart that so many of them dint have markers .I wish sime volunteers frim the community's or countys u document aren't going to these cemetarys and grave yards to clean them up out of respect for the deceased .So sad .
I understand that the African Americans and said slaves were not highly valued in times past however it always upsets me that they didn’t have some sort of headstone to acknowledge their time on earth. Even a simple stone with surname and death date. You’re doing an excellent job Robert documenting these very sad places.
I suspect the slaves were buried by other slaves. It was illegal to teach slaves to read. Without the ability to make or buy headstones with names and dates, they used field stones. The lack of written records on slaves, where they came from, who their ancestors are makes it pretty impossible for black Americans to research their family history.
The only way the twisted minds of the slave owners could somehow reconcile enslaving men, women, children, even babies...was to dehumanize them. The government recorded the slaves on the census but not even a first name. It really is unbelievable that these so called God fearing Christians could be such monsters. How many of those graves were people sent to a premature death due to horrendous working conditions, punishments, rape, and broken hearts when families were sold apart. Evil IMHO, any way you look at it.
Thank you so much for showing us these cemeteries. I wish there were groups that would go clean them up and try to document as much as possible to find out who is buried there. This is history and needs to be preserved.
Robert, your ability to find so many of these abandoned cemeteries is phenomenal...and a matter of great worth to get this documented. I look forward to each new cemetery you discover and the names on the head stone, if any. Many thanks to you and your friend Dan...and Walter too!
I live in the high desert of Nevada where the few trees we do have are dying due to many years of drought. To me, the sound of the deep carpet of leaves is music to my ears. One of my sons lives in north western GA and your amazing videos make me feel closer to him. Thank you for shari ng the time and talent it takes to make these videos. They are amazingly good.
We are so glad we found your videos on Sidestep! Acknowledging the lives of ancestors - whether we knew them or not, is an act of love and consideration for those who came before us and made us who we are today. We wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put into these "forgotten" cemeteries and your dedication to reminding us all to remember our past.
Oh dear, my heart is hurting all over again. Imagine, the parishioners having to make that decision to leave their loved ones behind when they closed the church. Followed by, years later, when the church became derelict and had to be destroyed...again, leaving loved ones even more alone. Tragedy multiplied. I'm bereft for them.
Those of us who love cemeteries (that sounds worse than I meant it to). You all are fantastic and I thoroughly enjoy watching you. Whenever I walk in the woods I run into a gazillion spider webs. Stay safe and keep up the great work.
WOW guys. So true my mother's family cemetery has all the slaves buried in the back of the family cemetery with a separate drive that splits the two areas of slaves & descendants and circles back around to front & some graves with stacked rock and dates back to the 1830's & a separate small cemetery on the old home place with only 5 graves before this last one was established. Her family ancestors moved from King & Queen Cty Va, to Wilkes & Lincoln Cty Ga then to Upson Cty & then to Cobb Cty all with tax records w/no. of slaves
Of all these graves and headstones you have read over the years. This is the first that shares my Birthday. So this person will be my new guardian angel.
Every new cemetery you visit makes me more sad and more angry that all those wonderful people were not considered important enough to have their graves marked. 😢 what a horrible time they lived in though it’s not a lot better today for the average person of color. Every time you take us with you I feel a great sense of history. Robert and Dan thank thank you thank you so much for your care and concern gentle touch.❤️
@@AdventuresIntoHistory proud to say I was putting out flowers yesterday. Though my people are in perpetual care cemeteries, some are in graveyards of old churches in the mountains of NW and NC GA.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory I know where mine are buried. I visit often, with flowers to decorate with and with their stories tucked in my heart. More than that, I know stories about a fair many people in the cemeteries that were friends and neighbors of a few generations back.
I remember going to visit my Dads parents graves around Mothers Day every year when I was young. I was thinking about it a little while ago and became sad that I couldn’t remember where it was or the name of the cemetery. But, thanks to the internet, bits of memory and google maps, I found it!
I have watched a number of these and enjoy them very much. However, I'm curious as to why local historical societies aren't doing more to preserve these cemeteries and restore some dignity to those who came before?
Thank so much for the work your crew dose so much rich history we would otherwise not know about. God bless you all for sharing the stories of the forgotten.
my great great great great grandparents were born into slavery. where they were buried at in Kentucky. was bought by a farm owner in the 1960s and there graves were plowed over. so i enjoy watching videos like this & this cemetery needs to be saved.
How strange for me, there is a place called Bunkum near my family cemetery in the Appalachian mountains of southeastern Kentucky. Robert, how do you keep track of all the cemeteries you have documented on video? It must be a job in of itself just keeping track. All of those unknown (to us) souls. Its always incredibly sad. Once I watch an episode, markers or not, its hard not to have them occupy my thoughts for quite some time. What is today, is very quickly what once was, a long time ago. You become more important with each find Robert. Having Dan along is always special. 👍👍❤
@@2palmsresort278 it is very important. More than most people know, or care about. I was somewhat familiar with my own families area. But to see it in another area of the country, most especially futher south, is most definitely eye opening. Robert deserves so much credit.
@@SondraD7676 he has inspired me to research a good many of the people he has discovered. I have always loved history. I was born 40 years too late for my taste. I've been doing house chores today. Until I sat down to fold laundry I was listening to radio coverage from a Dallas radio station starting on the morning of 11/22/63 through the assassination. I'm a huge JFK buff. Once I sat down I caught up on the boys.
@@2palmsresort278 History, I have always loved it too. I belong in the 1700s or 1800s. I am so unsuited to this time period. Laundry, me too. Just about to check on tshirt sites again.
Very sad the amount of cemeteries abandoned in the woods. Many in Minnesota as well. Love your adventures into the unknown and the fact you find and give peace to the deceased.
Thank you for taking us along on your journeys. From a very young age my Grandparents always took us kids to the cemetery to put flags on the Veterans graves on Memorial Day. I helped my Grandpa til he passed in 2010. I have since taken over his job with great respect for our veterans. It saddens me so to see these cemeteries forgotten to time. These cemeteries are on someone’s property, out of respect they should be cleaned up at least once a year if not more.
What a beautiful area that was. Segregation was terrible, personally I’ve never understood it. Thanks so much for the share Robert I just love catching up with history of these cemeteries. Please stay safe and take care
Really enjoy your graveyard videos! So important for us not to forget these folks, even unmarked you make sure they are remembered and seen! I feel so sad for the African American folks not having a proper marker, but God knows who they are!! You are a special soul! ****************** (What GoPro are you using now 9? Looking for a better vlog camera for our channel. TIA)
Of all the lost cemeteries in the woods that have been found in NJ, none even come close to the size of the ones you've found. Most are single-family or two family cemeteries, with the number of graves being in the single digits, or 20-30 max. Those cemeteries of yours are amazing.
That Holly tree must be 400 years old.. Usually the courser and thicker bark is on a tree the older it is. Trees where the Whatley’s are buried had some really old looking trees there.
So. My mind is racing. Did anyone look up the ladies names? Any info? If not may I try? Your video helped my family to find graves we had no idea where they were. It was wonderful. If I can help do that for someone else that would be amazing.
Question, when a church dissolves as this one has does the property go back to the county? If so, shouldn't the county become the care takers of the cemetery? I find this so sad and disrespectful it breaks my heart. Some one has to be in charge, right?
So I love watching you guys adventures but as a person who is hard of hearing I'm wondering if there is a way of editing out the sound of the leaves it's hard for me to actually hear what your saying when you are walking thru them so I imagine it's hard for people who wear their hearing aids (if you can't ill still watch with captions as I do) I love you guys and what you do please keep making videos
You know but I don't like is the churchyard graveyard is just beautiful well kept and then there's maybe a family plot right next to it and they couldn't even skip over and keep it just as beautiful that irks me
just a heads up. when yr walking through those dry leaves they are REALLY noisey. Might pay to speak more loudly or stop walking when you talk. Very hard on the ears to have volume loud enough for yr soft spoken voices then you start walking and crunch crunch 🍂🍁🍂🍁
Anyone can do this as long as you can do the research. It isn't hard to do. Doesn't matter if the graveyard is on your property or not, sometimes the people who buy the land just don't care and they will destroy the graveyard. For me, it's a duty that if you buy property that has a cemetery or graveyard on it to take care of it. No matter if the only markers are field stones.
@@Hurricaneintheroom I can't imagine what kind of person would build over a graveyard. That's just wrong. I sure wouldn't want to live on a property like that.
They didn't have h e r s e to to deliver those bodies to the graveyard so how did they get there did they put them in a wagon and take them could you tell us something about how they did that that would be interesting.
In these old abandoned graveyards of this age segregated slave burial grounds are common. They are also the most endangered due to the lack of markers. This was definitely an important one to document.
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I enjoy watching videos on cemeteries
Thsnks Robert and Dan fir documenting these forgotten graveyards .It breaks my heart that so many of them dint have markers .I wish sime volunteers frim the community's or countys u document aren't going to these cemetarys and grave yards to clean them up out of respect for the deceased .So sad .
Did they not the Lathan markers
My heart breaks thinking of all those souls that endured enslavement, only to be segregated and forgotten even in death. 💔
I understand that the African Americans and said slaves were not highly valued in times past however it always upsets me that they didn’t have some sort of headstone to acknowledge their time on earth. Even a simple stone with surname and death date. You’re doing an excellent job Robert documenting these very sad places.
I suspect the slaves were buried by other slaves. It was illegal to teach slaves to read. Without the ability to make or buy headstones with names and dates, they used field stones.
The lack of written records on slaves, where they came from, who their ancestors are makes it pretty impossible for black Americans to research their family history.
The only way the twisted minds of the slave owners could somehow reconcile enslaving men, women, children, even babies...was to dehumanize them. The government recorded the slaves on the census but not even a first name.
It really is unbelievable that these so called God fearing Christians could be such monsters. How many of those graves were people sent to a premature death due to horrendous working conditions, punishments, rape, and broken hearts when families were sold apart. Evil IMHO, any way you look at it.
Thank you so much for showing us these cemeteries. I wish there were groups that would go clean them up and try to document as much as possible to find out who is buried there. This is history and needs to be preserved.
It’s lonely, peaceful and yet just an amazing sight to see the remnants of a world that has gone by. RIP to those who found their resting place here.
Thank you for the labors you spend on these graveyards. God is watching you both. God bless!
Nice find very interesting place thumbs up
Robert, your ability to find so many of these abandoned cemeteries is phenomenal...and a matter of great worth to get this documented. I look forward to each new cemetery you discover and the names on the head stone, if any. Many thanks to you and your friend Dan...and Walter too!
The way Dan seems to know all the people in the county reminds me of how much I love small towns.
I live in the high desert of Nevada where the few trees we do have are dying due to many years of drought. To me, the sound of the deep carpet of leaves is music to my ears. One of my sons lives in north western GA and your amazing videos make me feel closer to him. Thank you for shari ng the time and talent it takes to make these videos. They are amazingly good.
I like how Dan is passing his knowledge onto Robert.
Hello fellas Jus sending good positive vibes your way as you both look for those lost graves. I appreciate Robert
I second your thoughts.
sacred places
What great eyes you have. Thank you for taking us on this journey.
Thank you for sharing this. I wish there was a group that would clean up all the cemeteries that you have found. That's sad
Good crunchy walk today.
An amazing piece of local history!
We are so glad we found your videos on Sidestep! Acknowledging the lives of ancestors - whether we knew them or not, is an act of love and consideration for those who came before us and made us who we are today. We wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put into these "forgotten" cemeteries and your dedication to reminding us all to remember our past.
Oh dear, my heart is hurting all over again. Imagine, the parishioners having to make that decision to leave their loved ones behind when they closed the church. Followed by, years later, when the church became derelict and had to be destroyed...again, leaving loved ones even more alone. Tragedy multiplied. I'm bereft for them.
Those of us who love cemeteries (that sounds worse than I meant it to). You all are fantastic and I thoroughly enjoy watching you. Whenever I walk in the woods I run into a gazillion spider webs. Stay safe and keep up the great work.
Great find Robert, you must not forget are history. Thank you✌&❤
Love your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on the study of history and the background
Robert, you sure have a good eye. I’m so glad you found this other graveyard. To it’s just amazing. ♥️♥️😊👍👍🐶
Just an incredible amazing graveyard
Thank you for taking us with you.
Robert you need to make a kit of items to put in your car when you go out looking for old graveyards.
YES! A backpack with clippers; shovel; flashlight etc..
WOW guys. So true my mother's family cemetery has all the slaves buried in the back of the family cemetery with a separate drive that splits the two areas of slaves & descendants and circles back around to front & some graves with stacked rock and dates back to the 1830's & a separate small cemetery on the old home place with only 5 graves before this last one was established. Her family ancestors moved from King & Queen Cty Va, to Wilkes & Lincoln Cty Ga then to Upson Cty & then to Cobb Cty all with tax records w/no. of slaves
Wow!
Of all these graves and headstones you have read over the years. This is the first that shares my Birthday. So this person will be my new guardian angel.
Every new cemetery you visit makes me more sad and more angry that all those wonderful people were not considered important enough to have their graves marked. 😢 what a horrible time they lived in though it’s not a lot better today for the average person of color. Every time you take us with you I feel a great sense of history. Robert and Dan thank thank you thank you so much for your care and concern gentle touch.❤️
Poor people generally did not have anything but a stone or rock. I have a lot of family without markers.
It’s unbelievable how many of these abandoned graveyards there are. I just don’t understand how people just walk away from something like that.
Most people don’t go visit their great-grand parents graves……. And this is the result
@@AdventuresIntoHistory proud to say I was putting out flowers yesterday. Though my people are in perpetual care cemeteries, some are in graveyards of old churches in the mountains of NW and NC GA.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory I know where mine are buried. I visit often, with flowers to decorate with and with their stories tucked in my heart. More than that, I know stories about a fair many people in the cemeteries that were friends and neighbors of a few generations back.
Very likely the families have moved on…
I remember going to visit my Dads parents graves around Mothers Day every year when I was young. I was thinking about it a little while ago and became sad that I couldn’t remember where it was or the name of the cemetery. But, thanks to the internet, bits of memory and google maps, I found it!
Great video Robert and Dan and Walter Thankyou Part one was amazing
Thanks for documenting yet another cemetery Robert and Dan
I have watched a number of these and enjoy them very much. However, I'm curious as to why local historical societies aren't doing more to preserve these cemeteries and restore some dignity to those who came before?
Thank you both for sharing this history🪦🪦
So much history…. Thank you for documenting
Thank so much for the work your crew dose so much rich history we would otherwise not know about. God bless you all for sharing the stories of the forgotten.
Thanks to you guys I look at the ground differently when I am walking in the woods.
Interesting video as always Robert and Dan 👍.
Please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends and thank you for sharing your information on another cemetery
my great great great great grandparents were born into slavery. where they were buried at in Kentucky. was bought by a farm owner in the 1960s and there graves were plowed over. so i enjoy watching videos like this & this cemetery needs to be saved.
I am glad to see you are documenting these old forgotten Cemeteries . The number of these type of burial places astounds me. Keep Safe ❤Keep Well❤
Thanks Robert and your friend for going out and finding these lost graves. Alot of history to be found!
How strange for me, there is a place called Bunkum near my family cemetery in the Appalachian mountains of southeastern Kentucky. Robert, how do you keep track of all the cemeteries you have documented on video? It must be a job in of itself just keeping track. All of those unknown (to us) souls. Its always incredibly sad. Once I watch an episode, markers or not, its hard not to have them occupy my thoughts for quite some time. What is today, is very quickly what once was, a long time ago. You become more important with each find Robert. Having Dan along is always special. 👍👍❤
I don’t understand how Robert knows where all the cemeteries are there but it’s so sad and interesting too
This work is so important. And until I found Robert, I never knew what I didn't know.
@@2palmsresort278 it is very important. More than most people know, or care about. I was somewhat familiar with my own families area. But to see it in another area of the country, most especially futher south, is most definitely eye opening. Robert deserves so much credit.
@@SondraD7676 he has inspired me to research a good many of the people he has discovered. I have always loved history. I was born 40 years too late for my taste. I've been doing house chores today. Until I sat down to fold laundry I was listening to radio coverage from a Dallas radio station starting on the morning of 11/22/63 through the assassination. I'm a huge JFK buff. Once I sat down I caught up on the boys.
@@2palmsresort278 History, I have always loved it too. I belong in the 1700s or 1800s. I am so unsuited to this time period. Laundry, me too. Just about to check on tshirt sites again.
Very sad the amount of cemeteries abandoned in the woods. Many in Minnesota as well. Love your adventures into the unknown and the fact you find and give peace to the deceased.
Thank you for taking us along on your journeys. From a very young age my Grandparents always took us kids to the cemetery to put flags on the Veterans graves on Memorial Day. I helped my Grandpa til he passed in 2010. I have since taken over his job with great respect for our veterans. It saddens me so to see these cemeteries forgotten to time. These cemeteries are on someone’s property, out of respect they should be cleaned up at least once a year if not more.
Oh goody a "part 2" graves everywhere out in the sticks. Thanks guys for the video.
Thanks for sharing this with us. How sad that so many people could not afford a stone marker.
You guys do a great job on history and giving us information.
Of all the cemetery I want to clean up this is the one I want to clean up the most
Too bad the church is gone 😔
A lot of them were simple board structures. If termites didn't get them or post beetles then storms or arson did.
What a beautiful area that was. Segregation was terrible, personally I’ve never understood it. Thanks so much for the share Robert I just love catching up with history of these cemeteries. Please stay safe and take care
Really enjoy your graveyard videos! So important for us not to forget these folks, even unmarked you make sure they are remembered and seen! I feel so sad for the African American folks not having a proper marker, but God knows who they are!! You are a special soul!
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(What GoPro are you using now 9? Looking for a better vlog camera for our channel. TIA)
It would be interesting to hear and see the black people of this area participating in the collecting of this history and adding their perspectives.
Wish I could be walking with y'all have fun
Of all the lost cemeteries in the woods that have been found in NJ, none even come close to the size of the ones you've found. Most are single-family or two family cemeteries, with the number of graves being in the single digits, or 20-30 max. Those cemeteries of yours are amazing.
That Holly tree must be 400 years old..
Usually the courser and thicker bark is on a tree the older it is.
Trees where the Whatley’s are buried had some really old looking trees there.
Hey Robert i saw you on someone else's channel about graves of the builder of Aarons house. Just wanted to tell a belated happy birthday.
Robert you have a fresh find on this one there is nothing on find a grave
Is anything being done by the land owners, the city or another organization to preserve and protect those areas?
I'm noticing Dan may not wear high visibility green, but he too has a uniform. 😉
People die twice. Once when we die and again when we're forgotten.
👍👍👏👏💛💛
So. My mind is racing. Did anyone look up the ladies names? Any info? If not may I try? Your video helped my family to find graves we had no idea where they were. It was wonderful. If I can help do that for someone else that would be amazing.
Wow, did you just come across this cemetery or was there some documentation you found?
We knew there were some out this way….. so we found them
I don’t see how you can tell with all the leaves on the ground and it’s hard to hear you because of the noise the leaves makes when you walk on them
I’ll talk to God about cleaning them up next time we go out.
If you turn the CC on you can pretty much read everything that's said, it's pretty helpful.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory 😆😇
@@AdventuresIntoHistory 😂😂😂
@@AdventuresIntoHistory Ask Him to pile the leaves in big mounds, then you can do a "jumping in the leaves" video. 😄😄
Question, when a church dissolves as this one has does the property go back to the county? If so, shouldn't the county become the care takers of the cemetery? I find this so sad and disrespectful it breaks my heart. Some one has to be in charge, right?
So I love watching you guys adventures but as a person who is hard of hearing I'm wondering if there is a way of editing out the sound of the leaves it's hard for me to actually hear what your saying when you are walking thru them so I imagine it's hard for people who wear their hearing aids (if you can't ill still watch with captions as I do) I love you guys and what you do please keep making videos
Please note the GPS of this cemetery for documentation and genealogy purposes. Thank you!
We have an old cemetery in my home town, it is separated by religious denominations
Just curious. Perhaps you’ve addressed this in the past and I simply missed it. Where is the other Robert who used to do this with you?
Dale
Where is this at ??
More often than not, Churches were built on the high ground. That's where I'd be looking first.
You know but I don't like is the churchyard graveyard is just beautiful well kept and then there's maybe a family plot right next to it and they couldn't even skip over and keep it just as beautiful that irks me
This is totally not about this vlog ,but what happened to the old bird house you were fixing up did I miss something hope you still have it
New videos are on that channel nearly daily….
@@AdventuresIntoHistory okie ty
just a heads up. when yr walking through those dry leaves they are REALLY noisey. Might pay to speak more loudly or stop walking when you talk. Very hard on the ears to have volume loud enough for yr soft spoken voices then you start walking and crunch crunch 🍂🍁🍂🍁
I wish I knew how to do this. Someone will buy the land and put a subdivision on it like it doesn't matter.
Anyone can do this as long as you can do the research. It isn't hard to do. Doesn't matter if the graveyard is on your property or not, sometimes the people who buy the land just don't care and they will destroy the graveyard. For me, it's a duty that if you buy property that has a cemetery or graveyard on it to take care of it. No matter if the only markers are field stones.
Not legally they won’t. And one thing I work very hard on “behind the scenes” is preventing that from happening in the areas where I roam.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory hello from Dallas, thank you for sharing your passion with us and I wish you and others good health 🙏✌❤🌎
@@Hurricaneintheroom I can't imagine what kind of person would build over a graveyard. That's just wrong. I sure wouldn't want to live on a property like that.
not if they ever saw the movie Poltergeist. 🙃
They didn't have h e r s e to to deliver those bodies to the graveyard so how did they get there did they put them in a wagon and take them could you tell us something about how they did that that would be interesting.
Horrible audio
Lamar is French