I know nothing about this place and haven’t been able to find much from research, but can take an educated guess. I believe there used to be a large plantation here. The dates on the stones seem to fit. So does the obvious wealth. I want to learn more. Can you imagine the wealth it would’ve taken to move all of that stone out to those woods way back when? It is incredible to think about. 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/
I actually thought it was pretty amazing that that large obelisk was still standing especially since there's so many trees there now. I'm really surprised that one of them hasn't knocked that over. But it also could be that it's so heavy and that is what is keeping it from being knocked over.
Just watched video here in 2023 and too curious about this Hutchinson family cemetery not to research! Found it! Lorenzo Dow Hutchinson (son of Nicholas) was a prosperous cotton farmer in Harris County. Affectionately called "Uncle Render". Lived near the "Myhands in the Jones Crossroad community where he operated one of two gins." In his will he provided that $10,000 would be used to have a huge monument in the family cemetery. He specified it would be 30' high and sit in the middle of the burial plot. Ten acres around this plot would be set aside as a family shrine. This came from a book I found online, History of Harris County, page 715. I didn't note the author nor publication date.
My family moved to this area in 1974. We live less than 5 miles from Hutchinson's Monument as we locals call it. I can only provide the heresay that I've heard from the age is 7. Just prior to leaving the Asphalt on Moat Road is an old plantation house where the Hutchinsons lived. They operate a fully functional farm and the grave outside of the fencing were their servant's faces. In the 1970s there was rumor of devil worshipers using the cemetery for their rituals including the vandalism and grave robbing. It does appear on Google earth as Hutchinson's Monument. The house is now an event venue. The family was renown for their contributions to the community. Thank you for being so respectful and bringing this fine family to light.
I just found Colonel Lorenzo D Hutchinson, son of Nicholas & Mary Pratt Hutchinson mentioned in the Sept. 28, 1894, issue of the Atlanta Constitution (p4, col2) on Newspapers.com - an article about the prices of cotton in Georgia says Col. Hutchinson had been a successful cotton planter in Harris County for 40 years. In 1893 his cotton crop cost him 7.08 cents a pound & he sold it for about nine cents a pound. The report quoted that "Colonel Hutchinson farms on the intensive system, rotates his crops, and takes all the short cuts to economy that intelligence and experience had taught him." I had to chuckle at the closing paragraph of the article: "When falling prices become a sign of prosperity a flock of buzzards will be a sign that there is nothing dead up the creek."
Looks like a great place to have a Hutchinson family reunion (direct line or not). Grab some yard tools, wear old clothes and bring a BIG picnic lunch to share with people you may be related too and haven't met. You could clean that place up and get those stones back in place.With a bit or research you might even find who's related to those folks locally if any and get the OK. Don't hurt to try.
What a great idea! In the South, we used to call it "Decoration Day" or " Lunch on the ground" as the families would gather to clean, decorate the graves, usually have a preacher to give a sermon, and some music played by folks coming and hear tales of the folks in the graves as the pot luck dinner eaten. Those days are gone, but it would be a great idea to do it again. It is still done in the Appellation mountains.
Robert, the reverence you have for these places is as awe-inspiring as the historic treasures you discover. Thank you for documenting and sharing them. Very important mission you’re on, young man.
How exciting it would be to be able to go to these old, broken down cemeteries to clean them and fix them up to as close to their original condition as possible. This would be one of those. No one, no matter how long they have been dead and buried, should be forgotten. You are an absolute wonder to find these places. Keep it up.
Which is probably why a grave robber(s) thought maybe they were wearing jewelry or something when buried and dug up at least a few of them it looked to me.
My thoughts exactly. Old southern plantation money and plenty of it. Any way you cut it, this must have been breathtakingly gorgeous in its day. Thanks for your discovery.
@@JoanneDunham As a liberal, I would like to know why it wouldn't be P.C. to say that this grave would have been beautiful in its heyday? Why do you think liberals care about how a grave site looked a 100 years ago? Right wingers got to bring politics into everything when it's not relevant.
@@tarag7292 Dam!!! Stupid I guess. I thought the comment was on the plantation not the grave. Ignorant Liberals! And leftist,extremists, Dems,Republican, Trump lovers, we are all human. Say and do what you feel is right in your heart.
Interesting that on the 1850 census they were listed as living at Negro Heel, Harris, Georgia, USA. Interesting name. Him and his wife Mary, their twin sons Lorenza D Hutchinson and William L Hutchinson ages 15. Son James N age 8 and daughter Mary C Hutchinson age 6. Nicholas 1st wife died in 1858 and he remarried to Nancy Davison in the same year. In 1860 Nicholas had 24 slaves. On the 1860 census it says his total value in real estate was $8000 and overall personal value at a whopping $22, 800! No wonder he could afford such a massive monument.
I was in North Carolina and Georgia for a minute. I loved stopping off at the cemeteries and churches. So many families there take their heritage for granted because they've been there a couple hundred years. I just want to see their faces and hear their stories. Pretty cool video. Thanks Robert!
Stupendous find Robert ! My jaw dropped to the ground as I'm sure yours did at first sight of this amazing cemetery. The second time I watched it, I was imagining myself sitting on top of the wall having a conversation with the family, asking them all kinds of questions. The obelisk looked like highly polished black marble. Can you imagine what it took to polish it with no electrical polisher ??
Very impressive. Hope that you are able to find out a little more of the history behind that cemetery. Like you said, you can tell that there must have been a foundation of money to support such an elaborate plot.
So here is what Ill was able to dig up through ancestry. Nicholas Hutchinson father was Nathanial and he was born in New Jersey and he was a revolutionary war soldier. There is a picture of their house in Harris County, it was nice for those days and there are pictures of the cemetery and it was in good shape in 2007. I definitely think it was vandalism. People are just sick.
63Sonotech/US Traveler, please, if you could, can you give us the link where you found the photos of that cemetery?!?!? I'd LOVE to see how it looked before everything was knocked over.
@@lonesomedovecall822 Picture upload on 28 Aug 2007 shows at least one stone already cracked . I hope you can see it here www.findagrave.com/memorial/21230520/nicholas-hutchinson
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I’m consistently impressed by the places you discover. This cemetery is incredible, the work that would have gone into it. Such a shame things don’t last.
What a truly peaceful place to be laid to rest. In spite of the damage, some simply from being there for approximately 200 years and some, sadly, maybe by human hands, it is still an incredible, hauntingly beautiful place. I thank you for your ongoing care and reverence of the resting places that you find, the reading of the names and the respect you consistently show. And, ya know, I’m pretty sure they do too. Soldier on, young man and Godspeed.
Oh wow, I have been watching this channel for a long time wondering if he would ever run into someone from the Ga 44th. My 2nd great grandfather was a Sergeant-Major in the 44th Ga and his older brother was a Colonel in the 44th! Their last name is Estes - I need to find time to go to GA and find my many ancestors’ graves!
I really like your videos. I would love to do what you do. Thanks. I told my husband and grandson that when I die I don't want a headstone , I only want a white wooden cross. Because I could not see anyone coming back to visit. But bless my grandson, he got upset and told me he would for sure visit my grave. He hugged me so tight as he said that. How I do love that boy (he was 24).
this is great! I do so hope that you're uploading these headstones to Find A Grave, and/or others, for people who don't know that their ancestors are buried in the woods in the middle of nowhere, or are unable to get there! You do a great work!
Hey Robert, "I can not believe that THIS is in the woods," has got to be one of the BEST opening lines for a video I've heard so far! First of all, the stone-wall surrounding that family cemetery is absolutely gorgeous! Very impressive, indeed, with the arch-way entrance, the wrought-iron gate, and the large round/orb corner decorations. That family was obviously one of great wealth/prominence in the area. When I saw the large hole in the ground, my very first assumption was that some grave robbing had occurred so, yes, I definitely agree with you about that -- especially since mounds of earth were discernible. There's NO WAY the family, nor any cemetery caretakers (i.e grave diggers, slaves) would have been allowed to leave piles of dirt in the middle of the family plot like that -- it would have definitely been hauled off or, at the very least, smoothed out flat and tidied up. I also agree with you about that large pile of field-stones behind the cemetery -- I'm sure you're 100% correct about that being the family's slave cemetery. The large pile is probably the grave of their most-trusted, prominent slave... with the other individual stones and bricks being markers for the rest of that slave's family that, do doubt, lived/worked for the Hutchinson's as well. Absolutely INCREDIBLE find out in the woods!!!! I so wish the stones that were knocked over were at least laying face up so you could have documented more of them. I believe some were definitely vandalized... although, a couple of those markers were extremely thick and heavy, weighing TONS, which would require GREAT force to be knocked over, so perhaps some were naturally knocked over by huge trees falling or even lightning strikes. We'll never know, I guess. Enjoyed this video IMMENSELY!!! Thank you, so much, for finding this wonderful place and bringing us along!!! Stellar video all around!!! And now I HAVE to read all the comments to see if any further History has been uncovered by your other viewers! It's always so fascinating to read what they find out by doing a little digging themselves -- so HUGE PROPS go out to them as well!!!! Take care... and stay healthy! Valerie
From what I have found with a precursory search of some online records from the time, I believe Nicholas Hutchinson was some kind of local official (i.e. Judge, Lawyer,...) as he appears as a witness in several Last Will and Testaments. That would explain the extravagant obelisk, gateway and cut stone wall (not a insignificant expense then or now).
The last Will and testaments were probably family members and even his own if he was on his death bed. That's what I've found doing my own family research.
REGARDING THE GRAVE OUTSIDE THE WALL THAT WAS BUILT UP WITH NICE STONES. IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE GRAVE OF A HOUSE SERVANT THAT WAS LOVED BY THE FAMILY AND THEY WANTED TO SHOW HER EXTRA RESPECT. SHE COULD NOT BE IN THE FAMILY PLOT BUT THEY WANTED TO RECOGNIZE HER.
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Wow!, Wow!, Wow! It Would be nice, if this small cemetery were newly renovated, documented by the state (picking up the trees around) and thus preserved for the future. 🇺🇸🌷🕯
and Wow Wow Wow It would be nice if they honoured the people who paid with their lives (their slaves & native americans before them) to earn them the money for such an indulgent cemetary.
@@yvellebradley2502 No! It would show that it is being watched. MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE CEMETERY RESTORERS ALSO USE TRAIL CAMERAS AND EVEN REMOTE TRIGGER CELL PHONE SYSTEMS TO LET THE PROTECTORS KNOWN CAPTURE PICTURES OF VANDALS. IT IS A MAJOR FELONY TO DESTROY BURIAL GROUNDS UNLESS YOUR ANTIFA AND DESTRUCTORS THAT GO UNPUNISHED BY LOCAL GOV CLOWNS LIKE PORTLAND AND SEATTLE MAYORS DURING THE RIOTS! Join a group and contribute as you can, financially, physically with clean-up and repairs of stones by masonary volunteers. They know that their works could also be destroyed by a SICK society so help to recruit their skills to help! Good luck!
That was really beautiful at one time. Still impressive but sad with the broken stones and the destroyed gravesite. They must have been very wealthy people. Thank you ,Robert
Great great find! Thanks for taking us back in time, makes us imagine this family's lifestyle and wealth. Sad to see the family doesn't maintain its heritage, may have been lost and forgotten with time. Thanks for sharing, such beauty in history
That is AMAZING that was expansive even back when it was made way out in the middle nowhere I wonder if there used to be a house at one time near by thank you for sharing
Yes I can imagine the wealth. Just thinking about the possible history of the cemetery. I hope you can find out more about this place. Thank you. What a place.
I think Nancy would of been happy you uncovered her as seems the family for what ever reason has forgotten them all very sad Really enjoyed this and cant belieave you found this in middle of nowhere
Beautiful! But it is so sad that someone would destroy a souls resting place. Thank you for documenting these places for historical reasons and respect for the dead.
Hi Robert & Cody, wow now that's an impressive family cemetery, beautiful stonework too. I really hope that grave wasn't robbed as that would just be so sad for the family. Thank you for sharing this amazing place. xx
This place was amazing! Just goes to show that in life we head very different paths, but in death, no matter what color we are, amounts of money we have, we are all the same.
Hi Robert. I found Susan E. Piper grave documentation on Find A Grave. Their site has her death documented as Nov. 24, 1930 and burial location as Hutchinson Cemetery.
Thank you for this! I've done recording and reclamation work on the cemeteries in my area as well as doing websites for genealogy with them and I want to thank you for the care and respect that you give the individuals buried and cemeteries uncovered in your videos. I do it to recover and preserve history. It's a terrible thing to have it all lost. Thanks for showing such a sympathetic attitude to these burial grounds!
I was thinking that in the past folk would be buried with valuables, especially ladies. Some wanted to keep their jewelry with them. That would encourage grave robbers.
That tradition of being buried with ones jewelry made many rich funeral directors. Remember, they were the last to handle the deceased. My oh my, just think about that awhile.
Hallucinogenics -/- this house is gorgeous, I believe it’s privately owned now. (LD Hutchinson House). From what I understand there was a house nearer to the cemetery which no longer stands. Maybe this was his parents home ? I’d love to see photos of it.
Lisa Knell it’s really pretty I’ve Been out there just to have something to do drove by and stopped and checked it out. Mainly drove on the dirt trails and avoided private property markings.
G'Day Robert and clan, My Wife was watching you for the first time and I said to her that I would like a Monument like that one when I pass away and she said please die on a Thursday as the trash gets collected on Friday, Cheers to All.
After watching your video I can be almost 100 percent certain this cemetery was desecrated. Most likely by devil worshipers and thieves. The was obviously a wealthy and prominent family. Sad to see. Thank you sir for documenting these forgotten cemeteries.
450th... Priceless! I can sit here and envision what once was a spectacular plantation, they indeed must have had great wealth. I agree with you Robert, the destruction was made by humans, not time itself.
Love your channel, keep up great work this is history channel. The tone of your voice so soothing. Absolutely love what doing,giving life back to the forgotten.
That on 2:00 is granite, not marble. Granite do a better job in competing with time and elements., it is much more dense and harder then marble, but interesting thing, marble is more expensive then granite so I assume that people use to chose more expensive material to show their endorsment for their late loved ones. I noticed that in US, marble win over granite headstones with huge margine, newer headstones are more done from granite. Here in Europe was oposite, here on our still active comunity cemetery with first graves from 1880-is there`s only two headstones from marble, everything else is granite. Great video as always and great little cemetery in woods, realy impresive entrance and that large obelisc.
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I'm new to your channel, Robert, and have just seen this video. The cemetery is like an oasis and very beautiful. I believe the smooth dark rock of the family monument to be granite. I am enjoying your videos, both on this channel and the OBF.
Fantastic. I sense a difference in architecture between the gate, the ground grave stones and walls as one type, and the obelisk as another. Since all the people on the obelisk have separate graves on the ground too, I wonder if the obelisk was added by descendants later around the turn of the 20th Century?
When I seen the arc way and the size of the monument,I thought plantation money. Unfortunately, the house is long gone. Nice fine. You care to share the location... love e visit myself.
I live in a little market town in the UK, which has its origins back in viking times. Our church is one of only 3 which had a tower and a steeple and the graveyard is still in use today. I love walking around it and reading all the headstones. I think in a couple of hundred years from now there won't be many grave markers from our times as most people choose to be cremated and then have their ashes scattered with no permanent memorial. Your videos are so interesting and informative.
Another great video...watching several of your cemetery adventures now. The large monument is polished granite. Beautiful. Granite usually preserves well like that, as opposed to marble
These are my ancestors mentioned here. Elizabeth Dennis Hutchinson is my 4x Great Aunt and her Parents my 4x Great Grandparents are listed on her headstone. Her Brother Allen Dennis b 1835 is my 3x Great grandfather. My 3rd great grandmother was a former enslaved woman and I’m not sure of their relationship because their daughter was born post Civil War and he Allen had no other children.
someone that knew exactly how those pieces went could be put back together and it would be outlandish beautiful. the open grave upsets me. How far from any people was the cemetery?
I’m watching this video again Robert and it’s still amazing to see something like this out in the woods and the archway built for the entrance into the cemetery
I know nothing about this place and haven’t been able to find much from research, but can take an educated guess. I believe there used to be a large plantation here. The dates on the stones seem to fit. So does the obvious wealth. I want to learn more.
Can you imagine the wealth it would’ve taken to move all of that stone out to those woods way back when? It is incredible to think about.
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I actually thought it was pretty amazing that that large obelisk was still standing especially since there's so many trees there now. I'm really surprised that one of them hasn't knocked that over. But it also could be that it's so heavy and that is what is keeping it from being knocked over.
Just wondering if this used to be a church grave yard, of course the church is gone now.
Sidestep Adventures how close to Sherman’s March was this place?
@@andystuckey2561 it would have been to the East from Atlanta down through Macon and then Savannah. I am guessing this was to the West of the march.
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Just watched video here in 2023 and too curious about this Hutchinson family cemetery not to research! Found it! Lorenzo Dow Hutchinson (son of Nicholas) was a prosperous cotton farmer in Harris County. Affectionately called "Uncle Render". Lived near the "Myhands in the Jones Crossroad community where he operated one of two gins." In his will he provided that $10,000 would be used to have a huge monument in the family cemetery. He specified it would be 30' high and sit in the middle of the burial plot. Ten acres around this plot would be set aside as a family shrine. This came from a book I found online, History of Harris County, page 715. I didn't note the author nor publication date.
My family moved to this area in 1974. We live less than 5 miles from Hutchinson's Monument as we locals call it. I can only provide the heresay that I've heard from the age is 7. Just prior to leaving the Asphalt on Moat Road is an old plantation house where the Hutchinsons lived. They operate a fully functional farm and the grave outside of the fencing were their servant's faces. In the 1970s there was rumor of devil worshipers using the cemetery for their rituals including the vandalism and grave robbing. It does appear on Google earth as Hutchinson's Monument. The house is now an event venue. The family was renown for their contributions to the community. Thank you for being so respectful and bringing this fine family to light.
I wish things like this could be stopped!!
So many stone fallen...seems like to many to have just happened. This must be vandalism!
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I just found Colonel Lorenzo D Hutchinson, son of Nicholas & Mary Pratt Hutchinson mentioned in the Sept. 28, 1894, issue of the Atlanta Constitution (p4, col2) on Newspapers.com - an article about the prices of cotton in Georgia says Col. Hutchinson had been a successful cotton planter in Harris County for 40 years. In 1893 his cotton crop cost him 7.08 cents a pound & he sold it for about nine cents a pound. The report quoted that "Colonel Hutchinson farms on the intensive system, rotates his crops, and takes all the short cuts to economy that intelligence and experience had taught him." I had to chuckle at the closing paragraph of the article: "When falling prices become a sign of prosperity a flock of buzzards will be a sign that there is nothing dead up the creek."
Looks like a great place to have a Hutchinson family reunion (direct line or not). Grab some yard tools, wear old clothes and bring a BIG picnic lunch to share with people you may be related too and haven't met. You could clean that place up and get those stones back in place.With a bit or research you might even find who's related to those folks locally if any and get the OK. Don't hurt to try.
What a great idea! In the South, we used to call it "Decoration Day" or " Lunch on the ground" as the families would gather to clean, decorate the graves, usually have a preacher to give a sermon, and some music played by folks coming and hear tales of the folks in the graves as the pot luck dinner eaten. Those days are gone, but it would be a great idea to do it again. It is still done in the Appellation mountains.
@@bettierusso5410 This sounds fantastic
What state is this ?
Robert, the reverence you have for these places is as awe-inspiring as the historic treasures you discover. Thank you for documenting and sharing them. Very important mission you’re on, young man.
I hope a man just like you reads my grave even after I’m dead for more than 100 years
Really enjoyed seeing this. It occurred to me that 160 years ago, the cemetery wasn't in "the woods"'.
How exciting it would be to be able to go to these old, broken down cemeteries to clean them and fix them up to as close to their original condition as possible. This would be one of those. No one, no matter how long they have been dead and buried, should be forgotten. You are an absolute wonder to find these places. Keep it up.
One of the prettiest you have ever visited. That family stone in the center, it is gorgeous! They must’ve been extremely wealthy at the time.
Which is probably why a grave robber(s) thought maybe they were wearing jewelry or something when buried and dug up at least a few of them it looked to me.
My thoughts exactly. Old southern plantation money and plenty of it. Any way you cut it, this must have been breathtakingly gorgeous in its day. Thanks for your discovery.
agree with you, obviously a wealthy family. Any house or foundation nearby? there should be a slave graveyard nearby.
You know it's not PC to say such a place must have been gorgeous,even though it was.
@@JoanneDunham I'm guessing Stephen isn't worried about PC or keeping Al Sharpton happy.
@@JoanneDunham As a liberal, I would like to know why it wouldn't be P.C. to say that this grave would have been beautiful in its heyday? Why do you think liberals care about how a grave site looked a 100 years ago? Right wingers got to bring politics into everything when it's not relevant.
@@tarag7292 Dam!!! Stupid I guess. I thought the comment was on the plantation not the grave. Ignorant Liberals! And leftist,extremists, Dems,Republican, Trump lovers, we are all human. Say and do what you feel is right in your heart.
Interesting that on the 1850 census they were listed as living at Negro Heel, Harris, Georgia, USA. Interesting name. Him and his wife Mary, their twin sons Lorenza D Hutchinson and William L Hutchinson ages 15. Son James N age 8 and daughter Mary C Hutchinson age 6.
Nicholas 1st wife died in 1858 and he remarried to Nancy Davison in the same year.
In 1860 Nicholas had 24 slaves.
On the 1860 census it says his total value in real estate was $8000 and overall personal value at a whopping $22, 800! No wonder he could afford such a massive monument.
NWFF, to add to the info you found...that 1860's dollar amt of $22,600 is worth $19,600,00.00 per Measuringwealth.com
Whoops...I got your amt wrong..tf..$26800 would be worth even more.
Amazing info. Thanks for sharing
Artist 61 That’s what I was wondering. You know it’s not standing, but there must be evidence of a deer somewhere. What a fantastic find.
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Good job young man you have a true sense of History
It's a shame that there aren't people all over Georgia , the Carolinas and elsewhere who document history the way you do!!
I was in North Carolina and Georgia for a minute. I loved stopping off at the cemeteries and churches. So many families there take their heritage for granted because they've been there a couple hundred years. I just want to see their faces and hear their stories. Pretty cool video. Thanks Robert!
Id love to see some in the midwest
That cost a lot of money back in the day. Lots of love represented right there. I'm blown away Rob.
Stupendous find Robert ! My jaw dropped to the ground as I'm sure yours did at first sight of this amazing cemetery. The second time I watched it, I was imagining myself sitting on top of the wall having a conversation with the family, asking them all kinds of questions. The obelisk looked like highly polished black marble. Can you imagine what it took to polish it with no electrical polisher ??
Very impressive. Hope that you are able to find out a little more of the history behind that cemetery. Like you said, you can tell that there must have been a foundation of money to support such an elaborate plot.
In 1860 he was worth $22,800.
So here is what Ill was able to dig up through ancestry. Nicholas Hutchinson father was Nathanial and he was born in New Jersey and he was a revolutionary war soldier. There is a picture of their house in Harris County, it was nice for those days and there are pictures of the cemetery and it was in good shape in 2007. I definitely think it was vandalism. People are just sick.
63Sonotech/US Traveler, please, if you could, can you give us the link where you found the photos of that cemetery?!?!? I'd LOVE to see how it looked before everything was knocked over.
@@lonesomedovecall822 Picture upload on 28 Aug 2007 shows at least one stone already cracked . I hope you can see it here www.findagrave.com/memorial/21230520/nicholas-hutchinson
Definitely looks like vandalism, shameful.
My mom's maddie was Hutchinson
Are you able to show the picture of the house? Maybe take a screen shot and upload it somewhere like imgur.com?
Since the time I have seen and watched your UA-cam channel I was so hooked and I just couldn’t stop watching all of your videos. I have always been interested in American History as much as I am with our own (Filipino here! 🇵🇭). I always wonder what these lands looked like in their time long forgotten..😊 Keep safe and God bless!😇
Pinoy here, been subscribed to this channel for more than a year already and I love all these old cemetery videos.
Richie Rich hello there Kababayan!🥳 I’m so happy that I’m not the only one with with this weird habit of visiting old cemeteries with Rob..😅😅😅
Thanks, y’all are awesome!
@@AdventuresIntoHistory Nah, you ARE awesome bro! =)
@@sarahtiffany5934 Weird in a good way kababayan, it makes us think of our own mortality.
I’m consistently impressed by the places you discover. This cemetery is incredible, the work that would have gone into it. Such a shame things don’t last.
What a truly peaceful place to be laid to rest. In spite of the damage, some simply from being there for approximately 200 years and some, sadly, maybe by human hands, it is still an incredible, hauntingly beautiful place. I thank you for your ongoing care and reverence of the resting places that you find, the reading of the names and the respect you consistently show. And, ya know, I’m pretty sure they do too. Soldier on, young man and Godspeed.
Very Well said, #SedoraGreen
Lorenzo Dow Hutchinson served in the 44th Georgia Infantry during the Civik War. His rank was Sgt.
Oh wow, I have been watching this channel for a long time wondering if he would ever run into someone from the Ga 44th. My 2nd great grandfather was a Sergeant-Major in the 44th Ga and his older brother was a Colonel in the 44th! Their last name is Estes - I need to find time to go to GA and find my many ancestors’ graves!
@@Azstaria I got the information from fold3.com
James served too if recall.
I really like your videos. I would love to do what you do. Thanks.
I told my husband and grandson that when I die I don't want a headstone , I only want a white wooden cross. Because I could not see anyone coming back to visit. But bless my grandson, he got upset and told me he would for sure visit my grave. He hugged me so tight as he said that. How I do love that boy (he was 24).
this is great! I do so hope that you're uploading these headstones to Find A Grave, and/or others, for people who don't know that their ancestors are buried in the woods in the middle of nowhere, or are unable to get there! You do a great work!
Hey Robert,
"I can not believe that THIS is in the woods," has got to be one of the BEST opening lines for a video I've heard so far!
First of all, the stone-wall surrounding that family cemetery is absolutely gorgeous! Very impressive, indeed, with the arch-way entrance, the wrought-iron gate, and the large round/orb corner decorations.
That family was obviously one of great wealth/prominence in the area. When I saw the large hole in the ground, my very first assumption was that some grave robbing had occurred so, yes, I definitely agree with you about that -- especially since mounds of earth were discernible. There's NO WAY the family, nor any cemetery caretakers (i.e grave diggers, slaves) would have been allowed to leave piles of dirt in the middle of the family plot like that -- it would have definitely been hauled off or, at the very least, smoothed out flat and tidied up.
I also agree with you about that large pile of field-stones behind the cemetery -- I'm sure you're 100% correct about that being the family's slave cemetery. The large pile is probably the grave of their most-trusted, prominent slave... with the other individual stones and bricks being markers for the rest of that slave's family that, do doubt, lived/worked for the Hutchinson's as well.
Absolutely INCREDIBLE find out in the woods!!!! I so wish the stones that were knocked over were at least laying face up so you could have documented more of them. I believe some were definitely vandalized... although, a couple of those markers were extremely thick and heavy, weighing TONS, which would require GREAT force to be knocked over, so perhaps some were naturally knocked over by huge trees falling or even lightning strikes. We'll never know, I guess.
Enjoyed this video IMMENSELY!!! Thank you, so much, for finding this wonderful place and bringing us along!!! Stellar video all around!!!
And now I HAVE to read all the comments to see if any further History has been uncovered by your other viewers! It's always so fascinating to read what they find out by doing a little digging themselves -- so HUGE PROPS go out to them as well!!!!
Take care... and stay healthy!
Valerie
My youngest son takes care of a cemetery that's on his property. In NW Oklahoma..he fenced it off, so his cattle wouldn't get in there, tear it up.
From what I have found with a precursory search of some online records from the time, I believe Nicholas Hutchinson was some kind of local official (i.e. Judge, Lawyer,...) as he appears as a witness in several Last Will and Testaments. That would explain the extravagant obelisk, gateway and cut stone wall (not a insignificant expense then or now).
The last Will and testaments were probably family members and even his own if he was on his death bed. That's what I've found doing my own family research.
Your channel is my favorite. I like the history that you are sharing with every body.
REGARDING THE GRAVE OUTSIDE THE WALL THAT WAS BUILT UP WITH NICE STONES. IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE GRAVE OF A HOUSE SERVANT THAT WAS LOVED BY THE FAMILY AND THEY WANTED TO SHOW HER EXTRA RESPECT. SHE COULD NOT BE IN THE FAMILY PLOT BUT THEY WANTED TO RECOGNIZE HER.
Exactly what I thought too-
You are right. That is the burial place of a house servant who was loved like family.
What a joy to see. I’ve had your channel on all day, my kids and I love/respect old cemetery’s. Thank you for honoring these historical places!
I enjoy reading the comments and enjoy our common interest of history and honoring those who have passed on...i thank you all for your research and lovely kind comments , family stories and support during these tough times .i am a RN and I live in the beautiful Mohawk Valley in Upstate NY , I work with COVID patients on ventilators, so on my day off while my children are doing their school work I pop in for some viewing...and enjoy all I see...you are all kind and respectful to each other and no swearing and just good clean history...love to you all stay safe and healthy,, Mazel Tov and many blessings to all..
I have been watching your UA-cam channel for over 1 year. love to look at. Greetings from Ålesund in Norway 👍🇧🇻😉
Thank you Robert for documenting this beautiful place.
This is so beautiful and Incredible and so sad the state it is in...You are right, how time changes things...Great video Robert!
Wow!, Wow!, Wow! It Would be nice, if this small cemetery were newly renovated, documented by the state (picking up the trees around) and thus preserved for the future. 🇺🇸🌷🕯
Too much clean up would destroy the pure charm of ages,
Tin Justus Martin I agree but cleaning it would attract vandals.
this is a good project for the scouts
and Wow Wow Wow It would be nice if they honoured the people who paid with their lives (their slaves & native americans before them) to earn them the money for such an indulgent cemetary.
@@yvellebradley2502 No! It would show that it is being watched. MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE CEMETERY RESTORERS ALSO USE TRAIL CAMERAS AND EVEN REMOTE TRIGGER CELL PHONE SYSTEMS TO LET THE PROTECTORS KNOWN CAPTURE PICTURES OF VANDALS. IT IS A MAJOR FELONY TO DESTROY BURIAL GROUNDS UNLESS YOUR ANTIFA AND DESTRUCTORS THAT GO UNPUNISHED BY LOCAL GOV CLOWNS LIKE PORTLAND AND SEATTLE MAYORS DURING THE RIOTS! Join a group and contribute as you can, financially, physically with clean-up and repairs of stones by masonary volunteers. They know that their works could also be destroyed by a SICK society so help to recruit their skills to help! Good luck!
I really have so much respect for you 🙏
How carefully you try to clean off dirt to document the 'forgotten' graves.
Thank you for that ❤
That was really beautiful at one time. Still impressive but sad with the broken stones and the destroyed gravesite. They must have been very wealthy people. Thank you ,Robert
Great great find! Thanks for taking us back in time, makes us imagine this family's lifestyle and wealth. Sad to see the family doesn't maintain its heritage, may have been lost and forgotten with time. Thanks for sharing, such beauty in history
That is AMAZING that was expansive even back when it was made way out in the middle nowhere I wonder if there used to be a house at one time near by thank you for sharing
Yes I can imagine the wealth. Just thinking about the possible history of the cemetery. I hope you can find out more about this place. Thank you. What a place.
I like your southern accent and sufficient information about old cemetery.Keep up the good work.
I think Nancy would of been happy you uncovered her as seems the family for what ever reason has forgotten them all very sad Really enjoyed this and cant belieave you found this in middle of nowhere
Rich folks graveyard...an entire family plot THE HUTCHINSON'S. Probably land owners. Good one mate. Be safe. Much love from NYC
I see where no matter slave or master all their graves are lost in the woods with no one left to honor them
@cosmyccowboy 👍
One of your best finds yet
You should travel to Highgate cemetery in UK. It’s awesome.
I love how you find these cemeteries and take us all on the journey
Beautiful! But it is so sad that someone would destroy a souls resting place. Thank you for documenting these places for historical reasons and respect for the dead.
Thank you for having such dignity and respect as you preserve remember what was forgotten and lost
What a wonderful find. I love older cemeteries. Loads of history right there.
What a set up they had. Too bad about the possible grave robbing though.
Thank you for your videos! It is nice to see someone respecting old cemeteries. So much history to be gain from that.
Thank You for the respect you show to families in these cemetaries. And Thank You for the journey. We done.
How amazing. Love the history and am curious about their plantation home too.
First time viewer, loved it! Love that you read names and dates. No one else does. Can't wait to see more!
Hi Robert & Cody, wow now that's an impressive family cemetery, beautiful stonework too. I really hope that grave wasn't robbed as that would just be so sad for the family. Thank you for sharing this amazing place. xx
This place was amazing! Just goes to show that in life we head very different paths, but in death, no matter what color we are, amounts of money we have, we are all the same.
My Mother and I use to enjoy finding old forgotten cemeteries too
No matter how much is spent on marble , granite, and wrought iron, if no one cares after everyone is gone, it's just more stone in the forest.
Somebody cares. There are photos of the plot on Findagrave.com
Hi Robert. I found Susan E. Piper grave documentation on Find A Grave. Their site has her death documented as Nov. 24, 1930 and burial location as Hutchinson Cemetery.
Thank you for this! I've done recording and reclamation work on the cemeteries in my area as well as doing websites for genealogy with them and I want to thank you for the care and respect that you give the individuals buried and cemeteries uncovered in your videos. I do it to recover and preserve history. It's a terrible thing to have it all lost. Thanks for showing such a sympathetic attitude to these burial grounds!
I was thinking that in the past folk would be buried with valuables, especially ladies. Some wanted to keep their jewelry with them. That would encourage grave robbers.
That tradition of being buried with ones jewelry made many rich funeral directors. Remember, they were the last to handle the deceased. My oh my, just think about that awhile.
@@karentate9114 did u heard a boy cough or lady cough at 15:38 !!!!
11-5-2020
@@samsungapps8042 sounded like a sigh or a breath.
Think it was Robert inhaling...
You'd think their homestead would be fairly close - any rock wall foundations near? very cool, and sadly forgotten.
JRues23 there house is right up the road from this it’s called the Hutchinson house 😅 they turned it into a wedding home for pictures and what not.
Hallucinogenics -/- this house is gorgeous, I believe it’s privately owned now. (LD Hutchinson House). From what I understand there was a house nearer to the cemetery which no longer stands. Maybe this was his parents home ? I’d love to see photos of it.
Lisa Knell it’s really pretty I’ve Been out there just to have something to do drove by and stopped and checked it out. Mainly drove on the dirt trails and avoided private property markings.
Hallucinogenics -/- I’m envious. I need to come and explore the Georgia backroads, I love the old homes and cemeteries!
G'Day Robert and clan, My Wife was watching you for the first time and I said to her that I would like a Monument like that one when I pass away and she said please die on a Thursday as the trash gets collected on Friday, Cheers to All.
norse hall Oh my...😆😆😆
After watching your video I can be almost 100 percent certain this cemetery was desecrated. Most likely by devil worshipers and thieves. The was obviously a wealthy and prominent family. Sad to see. Thank you sir for documenting these forgotten cemeteries.
Fascinating and so trerribly sad. Love your work and passion to keep this history alive. Thank you Robert & Co
I so love love seeing old cemeteries like this, what a story that could be told of the people who were buried there
There had to be a plantation near by.
Robert I enjoy your videos so much.You are sure a great caring person.I know I enjoy all the videos you share.Thank you so much.💙
That was awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Very impressive cemetery! So sad it is in just bad shape.
450th... Priceless! I can sit here and envision what once was a spectacular plantation, they indeed must have had great wealth. I agree with you Robert, the destruction was made by humans, not time itself.
Love your channel, keep up great work this is history channel. The tone of your voice so soothing. Absolutely love what doing,giving life back to the forgotten.
Amazing discovery. Beautiful and isolated. Looks as though someone tried to tidy up not too long ago.
That on 2:00 is granite, not marble. Granite do a better job in competing with time and elements., it is much more dense and harder then marble, but interesting thing, marble is more expensive then granite so I assume that people use to chose more expensive material to show their endorsment for their late loved ones. I noticed that in US, marble win over granite headstones with huge margine, newer headstones are more done from granite. Here in Europe was oposite, here on our still active comunity cemetery with first graves from 1880-is there`s only two headstones from marble, everything else is granite. Great video as always and great little cemetery in woods, realy impresive entrance and that large obelisc.
I Love seeing old cemetries its very interseting yes ..i do the same ..thank u for sharing this history ..is great ..
I love how respectful you all are ! Keep doing what you do, keep history alive one gravestone after another ❤️
For all the money that family had, they couldn't keep the headstones from being destroyed.
They were probably dead 100 years or more before the were destroyed
Apparently when trace family from this site, I would guess not too rich descendants. Still haven't found head of family links.
Kind of hard to maintain your own grave from 6 feet beneath it.😏
Financial situations probably caused loss of perpetude care...1901 last internment? Just 28 yrs later... was the Crash of Wall Street! NOT so good for anyone! TAUGHT in my genealogy GROUPS and BOOKS: you have to find the local history or regional on your area of interest, and of the time your ancestors lived and go from there on the economic times, SOCIAL Morays, Religious beliefs and the various family TREE involvements; hobbies, talents, careers, and political times too. Science for farmers, medicine, manufacturing, and crafts...all these are what MAKES up a family...Why History is SO IMPORTANT and the ERASING / Destruction of these statues monumentsn & Cities by RADICALS, JUST AS BAD AS ISIS overseas, and important and not so people, TELL the cultures, GOOD OR BAD, make up the lives of people ACCEPTABLE or not... Transportation can also develop problems or a boon of income or loss...Study all you can, document your finds, sketch your plots, no. the graves and enter names and dates on another page and their assignment no.s on your maps NAMING THE MAP/CEMETERY, LOCATION, GPS WOULD BE A GREAT THING TOO. RECORD YOUR NAMEN THE DATE CREATEDN ALONG WITH YOUR CURRENT CONTACT INFO TOO...
PHONES ARE NOT STAYINNG WITH PEOPLE LIKE LANDLINES USE TO.
ALSO LIST A MIDDLE CHILD NAMEN OVER 18, FULL NAMWS ESP. IF FEMALE TO HELP TRACE YOUR WORK FWD AND BACK. MAKE COPIES, STORE IN INDESTRUCTABLE STORAGE CONTAINERS OR BANK DEPOSIT BOXES. Make pictures back lighted style from side ON MARKERS. GENERAL WIDE SHITS TOO To show your graves general local COMPARED to surroundings. OVER KILL PICTURES OF WHAT YOU ARE RECORDING. YOU MAY NEVER BE BACK! READ WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO CLEAN STONES AND PREPARATIONS TO USE NATURAL PRODUCTS TO CLEAN & PRESERVE STONE INFO. According to NATIONAL GENEALOGY SOCIETY Websites , HAS INFO ON THAT. REMEMBER: EACH REGION HAS TREES, INDUSTRIAL Polution, AND WEATHER CHALLENGES THAT EFFECT THE WORDING ON STONES over the years. CK WITH LOCAL HISTORICAL ORG TOO. THEY MAY HAVE PEOPLE TAKING CARE OF OR RECORDING THE LOSS OF INFORMATION FROM THESE INTERNMENTS and memorials... SEEK OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY...TRESPASSING IS STILL TRESPASSING! SEEK AND YEA SHALL FIND IN LOCAL COUNTY OFFICES AND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES... I found a third great Grandmother's internment in the middle of a 450 acre farm, but sought permission to enter the property. LATELY MY RESEARCH IS BECOMING PIECEMEAL AND SCATTERED. IF THIS HAPOENS TO YOU IN YOUR ENDEVORS: STOP! FIX YOUR FILESN ALL OF THEM AND GATHER INFO INTO MAJOR FAMILY GROUPS TO START. ANCESTRY AND GENEALOGY BOOKS WILL HELP YOU FIX YOUR PROBLEMS.. SO, GATHER YOUR FAMILY INFO. FILE YOUR RESEARCH ON FAMILY SEPARATELY, INCLUDE COPIES OF LOCATIONS, OF INTERNMENTS, PAPERWORK FOUND, PROPERTIES, AND EVEN SOVENEIRS YOU'VE ACQUIRED LEGALLY! BACK UP THAT INFO IN A PLACE THAT CAN'T GET DESTROYED, FIRE PROTECTION ETC. "The Hunt IS FUN, THE Rewards are Mind Boggling! YOUR Identity is FULFILLED!" - c2020 iowaancestry.com
Appreciate ya, man! Much love from Canada.
I'm new to your channel, Robert, and have just seen this video. The cemetery is like an oasis and very beautiful. I believe the smooth dark rock of the family monument to be granite. I am enjoying your videos, both on this channel and the OBF.
Somewhere vary close should be a home site.
Thank you so much for what you do!!!! Love your channel much love from Huntington Park California L.A.
Wow. Stunning, amazing, heartbreakingly beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing it.
I think you are a respectful and compassionate man
This is fascinating, this guy has so much respect for the places he visits, so nice to see.
What a wonderful find. Thanks for evoking thoughts, helping us wonder and bringing history to us👍
Fantastic. I sense a difference in architecture between the gate, the ground grave stones and walls as one type, and the obelisk as another. Since all the people on the obelisk have separate graves on the ground too, I wonder if the obelisk was added by descendants later around the turn of the 20th Century?
Very close! 1890’s. That’s when the wall and obelisk were built.
I cannot believe how you find all of these interesting old cemeteries! Polished granite by the way.
When I seen the arc way and the size of the monument,I thought plantation money. Unfortunately, the house is long gone. Nice fine. You care to share the location... love e visit myself.
Love your videos! I wish someone in my home state would capture cemeteries, etc., like you do. Thank you for always being respectful. Stay safe!
I live in a little market town in the UK, which has its origins back in viking times. Our church is one of only 3 which had a tower and a steeple and the graveyard is still in use today. I love walking around it and reading all the headstones. I think in a couple of hundred years from now there won't be many grave markers from our times as most people choose to be cremated and then have their ashes scattered with no permanent memorial. Your videos are so interesting and informative.
It may be overgrown but it is so peaceful....no sounds undisturbed. Keep up the good work just fascinating.
Amazing! Great Rob! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Another great video...watching several of your cemetery adventures now. The large monument is polished granite. Beautiful. Granite usually preserves well like that, as opposed to marble
These are my ancestors mentioned here. Elizabeth Dennis Hutchinson is my 4x Great Aunt and her Parents my 4x Great Grandparents are listed on her headstone.
Her Brother Allen Dennis b 1835 is my 3x Great grandfather. My 3rd great grandmother was a former enslaved woman and I’m not sure of their relationship because their daughter was born post Civil War and he Allen had no other children.
Wow!
Amazing. My St have been quite "RICH". Would be great to be able to see what the house looked like. Another great find Robert 👍
I hope you take photos and upload to Billion Grave &/or Find A Grave. People like me doing family history appreciate it SO much.
someone that knew exactly how those pieces went could be put back together and it would be outlandish beautiful. the open grave upsets me. How far from any people was the cemetery?
I’m watching this video again Robert and it’s still amazing to see something like this out in the woods and the archway built for the entrance into the cemetery
Beautiful place. Interesting history. Thanks for a great adventure