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this was good but our favorite is the old cemeteries. can you tell us why no one takes care fo them? Why they are left to be lost and forgotten? So sad that someone doesnt take care of them out of respect
A burial documentary I feel Dan and the "Robert the Younger and Robert the Elder" would enjoy. Anglo Saxen, England ua-cam.com/video/2xSmITnazFE/v-deo.html Thx, Beth Tennessee, USA
Imagine all the different stories that would come from these graves. I’m sure they played an important role in building our Country. Bless them all. Thank you Dan and Robert.
What a wonderful episode. Yes, very interesting cemetery, the stamps of time reflected on a variety of markers, headstones and well kept and forgotten. Again, Dan has an unbelievable memory. Showing photos of some of these people really makes them come to life. As with all the cemeteries you visit, I am left with a reflection of time and life lessons learned even though words are not spoken. Excellent. Really enjoyed this one, definitely an Adventure Into History. I hope you both escaped becoming ill from the rain. 👍👍❣️❣️
I'm so glad Robert and Dan are making a memorial for future generations. Before nature swallows the stones completely. I just visited the Graves of 2 great aunts still born. No names or dates. Marked by stones. Breaks my heart they are not marked.
According to 1900 Harris Co Ga census Lougenia Mann was born Nov 1889 dau of Gusof and Rebecca Culpepper a black family with seven children and 1 servant Riley Culpepper. By 1920 LaGrange Co Ga census she had married Jerry Mann with 1 son Ulysee Mann age 2. Age for them says 23 which would not be accurate for her. Her death certificate says she died from tuberculosis 5-15-1921. Parents Gus Culpepper and Rebeca Holmes. She died in Troup but was buried in Waverly Hall. Listed Jerry Mann as husband and signed the death certificate. Love this show series.
I am soo impressed by Dan's knowledge of the area & people.If he hasn't written a book,he probably should,it should all be documented for the future generations.Its amazing how he retains it all!
Mr. Dan is so interesting to listen to. I really enjoy his stories . You are both so respectful of all those departed souls. The rain sounded and looked so good, we are in dire need of rain. Thank you both for what you do. God bless.
Thank you for the history. I love the stories of people from the past. The county might fill or cover that well as a safety issue if you ask them. Especially that close to a busy road. 🤗🐝❤️
Thanks Dan the Man and Sir Robert. Looks like Georgia has been a pretty wet year for y,all so far. We here have forest fires burning everywhere. Not nice on my lungs. Thanks guys for video.
I'm in such awe of the historical knowledge of Mr. Dan, I am most likely one of the last few people that actually knows our own family history, I've spent years in doing ancestry research and the best memory I have of time spent with my dad had been getting a history of our family and learning every cemetery that belongs to the family. I want to one day get to Varnell, Ga. which was supposed to have been founded by a Malachi Varnell whom is believed to actually have been Levi Varnell, my 6th great grandfather.
A town isn't streets and buildings it is all the people who ever walked the streets and lived and worked in the buildings. Hearing Dan's history told as "his story" with names and places is more alive. When you or Dan give an event a place where it happened, "You know, on the corner where the old drug store was right across from the old ... ," the event/moment lives again.
Robert, your exploration partners are always so interesting. Dan's knowledge and memories of these areas add the living components to all these folk who were buried by their loved ones. I'm sure the well was dug before the cemetery began. Perhaps this was a home area first, maybe for enslaved persons. The next pre-Mothers' Day group to come and help clear could dump the clearings in the well, adding a touch of safety to that area. Thank you!
I appreciate what you gentleman do… I guess I don’t understand why old Cemeteries are let go like this. There ought to be money allocated to maintain these.. we give money to countries all over the world but can’t maintain a cemetary.. lol you guys bring back these cemeteries to life and I appreciate it. I am from Indiana and we have them as well. Thanks for all you do!
Hearing you talk about the home with no internal stairs...Lawrence Welk grew up on a farm with a 2-story house, very small, stairs outside to the sleeping quarters for the multiple kids upstairs. No insulation. Imagine ND winters & summers. Uff da. And parents having to trust that as the kids got older, there weren't any shenanigans out of their sight!
The well did it for me! Its something I have always had a fear of, ever since I as a kid and there was an old well way back on the far side of my parents farm. I remember my dad putting a dead calf down inside of it and warning me to never come near that part of the pasture. There was a fence around it to keep our cows from stumbling in but it always haunted me and I stayed far, far away. I'm now 73 and still get very creeped out by the thought of falling into an old well. 😳
I really hope someone goes in and cleans up the cementary now that it's been found again. It would be the honorable thing to do just so sad to see their final resting place not being kept up properly and not taken care of so very sad ~
This makes me want to come to Georgia and see all these amazing graves, I'd take photos of them all.. thank you Robert and Dan.. I love your walks.... 🤗 From Wisconsin
What an interesting slice of History.The photos are wonderful brings all these people to life .The grave stones as unusual as they are really stand out and are beautiful . That well needs to be covered over before someone falls in. Really enjoyed this video .Keep Safe ❤Keep Well❤
God bless you both for standing and walking around in all that pouring rain to do this video. I hope you both got dry and warm after all this. such a shame that the county didn't ever put up a fence or even a decent cemetery sign up. to see a lot of those graves with fall trees and wild bushes all over the place and the graves junkept under all the foilage. Dan is walking history at all that he knows and has reatined form when he was little of all those that lived there...
I just subscribed, but don't know where you are. I heard you mention Alabama and the name Whitehead. In Lauderdale County, Alabama, there Whiteheads. I don't have a connection, but would you have any stories of any Kings in Lauderdale Co. Al.
Unfortunately, it was illegal during slavery to record any important personal life events of a slave. This was due to slaves not given the same rights as others, they were denied their humanity. I learned this when I moved to Texas, and learned that unmarked slave graves are found near where I live. In the old cemetery I visit, there are a few rectangular and arch rough chipped markers, no wording and no obvious plot. The rough chipped markers are the only indication they are buried there. Someone had to tell me about it, then I looked at the history articles online that explained why. I also live a couple short miles from a "Confederate Avenue". I found a report online, written in the mid 1940's as a thesis. The writer says that several black Union soldiers who had returned home were hung on that street one night on a large oak tree. Nobody was ever charged with their lynching, the street was then named Confederate after that event took place. The most sadly ironic thing is that the housing plots were created in the 1890's in that neighborhood precisely for an African American/Black American only neighborhood. It is still to this day, and Confederate ave. runs right thru it. I never had a clue about this history until I moved here from another state and started rummaging thru articles I managed to find. Not a lot of information out there.
Hi all that was a big cemetery you think after all this time the well would have been fill in or capt after all these years very intresting story and could tell a story or two all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
So interesting to listen to all the history told. It is also sad that there are thousands of unmarked and forgotten graves. I think the markers on many of the would have been wooden - maybe crosses which would have rotted away
I wonder if you all could plant cedar, cypress, yews and oak saplings to replace those that have died. That way, in future, people will continue to know and recognize the significance of these trees and, perhaps clean the leaves around a false crypt and read the deceased's names for a new generation. Just a thought.
You think they'd be able to clear out that area so you could actually see all those nice Graves thanks for making these videos really cool to see all these old Graves out in the woods
Did y'all ever flip Miss Hollis' circle off lowers on her grave, right side-up? Either way, thanks for the video. It reminded me of being in Alabama. 🙂
How far are you from White in Bartow County? I just found out I have an ancestor buried in the an old cemetery there-Goodson Cemetery. Would you be up to check it out? Would Dan know about my ancestor? He was an ironmaster: Jacob Stroup.
Have you ever seen the Lystra Primitive Baptist Cemetary? I have family there. I am also searching for graves (Isaac Meadow b 1779) have you seen graves that old?
I would like to see some of the pictures that your friend gave you before she passed and the stories. They say when we quit talking about people it’s like they never existed. Maybe you can explain why people born in the late 1800s never spoke about people after they died. I did not know about several children that my grandmother had that died from the Spanish Flu 😢
My Uncle owned an old Victorian in Ashfield Ma said the house was build on a cemetery. Wonder how often this happens? Also know of another one a few miles from his home. ( different town in Massachusetts)
I have a question about genealogy there on the cemeteries, here some of our genealogies get together and we do history on the cemetery and on the people and then we dress as they would in their style and we stand beside the grave and we tell them the story of their lives as we play the part of that person until it comes time to where they come to be at that cemetery it would be an honor to be able to see someone represent these slaves that are in the cemetery that has no name and have somebody stand up and represent their life as they were then
It is always so special to me when we can put photos with these people laid to rest, and tell a little bit of their story.
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this was good but our favorite is the old cemeteries. can you tell us why no one takes care fo them? Why they are left to be lost and forgotten? So sad that someone doesnt take care of them out of respect
A burial documentary I feel Dan and the "Robert the Younger and Robert the Elder" would enjoy.
Anglo Saxen, England
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Thx,
Beth
Tennessee, USA
Dan is just wealth of knowledge! I hope he has written everything down he knows, I would hate for it all to be lost one day.
I totally agree 100%
Dan is a real Georgia treasure. I love the stories. I treasure the times I spent in my childhood visiting with older members of the community.
Dan seems like he’s a really cool, down to earth guy and super super knowledgeable. I’d like to know his story.
Yes that would be very interesting
I could sit and listen to Dan all day talking about history in that area, and I'm a Yankee up in Michigan😊 ❤❤❤❤
Imagine all the different stories that would come from these graves. I’m sure they played an important role in building our Country. Bless them all. Thank you Dan and Robert.
I could listen to him tell these old stories for hours
What a wonderful episode. Yes, very interesting cemetery, the stamps of time reflected on a variety of markers, headstones and well kept and forgotten. Again, Dan has an unbelievable memory. Showing photos of some of these people really makes them come to life. As with all the cemeteries you visit, I am left with a reflection of time and life lessons learned even though words are not spoken. Excellent. Really enjoyed this one, definitely an Adventure Into History. I hope you both escaped becoming ill from the rain. 👍👍❣️❣️
LOVE our Dan!! Best story teller ever!! Thanku Dan and Robert!!❤❤
I'm so glad Robert and Dan are making a memorial for future generations. Before nature swallows the stones completely. I just visited the Graves of 2 great aunts still born. No names or dates. Marked by stones. Breaks my heart they are not marked.
This is why each town needs a historian. To pass on the knowledge and legacy
I enjoy listening to Dan talk about the stories he has been told and the knowledge he has
Ty Mr Dan for the stories of those passed...mom always said as long as you are remember you are not forgotten..and they are not thru you.
According to 1900 Harris Co Ga census Lougenia Mann was born Nov 1889 dau of Gusof and Rebecca Culpepper a black family with seven children and 1 servant Riley Culpepper. By 1920 LaGrange Co Ga census she had married Jerry Mann with 1 son Ulysee Mann age 2. Age for them says 23 which would not be accurate for her. Her death certificate says she died from tuberculosis 5-15-1921. Parents Gus Culpepper and Rebeca Holmes. She died in Troup but was buried in Waverly Hall. Listed Jerry Mann as husband and signed the death certificate. Love this show series.
Don’t sidestep into that well! ❤️
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Yay! What a treat to have Mr. Dan back for another history lesson!! Always enjoy when he makes an appearance on these videos!
I am soo impressed by Dan's knowledge of the area & people.If he hasn't written a book,he probably should,it should all be documented for the future generations.Its amazing how he retains it all!
Mr. Dan is so interesting to listen to. I really enjoy his stories . You are both so respectful of all those departed souls. The rain sounded and looked so good, we are in dire need of rain. Thank you both for what you do. God bless.
Amazing Dan, your memory. Love to listen to you.
Just love hearing Dan tell of the history there. I do hope he's written all his knowledge down.
Thank you for the history. I love the stories of people from the past. The county might fill or cover that well as a safety issue if you ask them. Especially that close to a busy road. 🤗🐝❤️
I hope Mr. Dan has written down all of the information about each person he knew in the cemetery and places he has visited.
Great video. Could have listened to you two all day. Thanks!
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Blessings from Michigan.
❤ the stories of the dearly departed and how they connect to each other via the cemetery. TY
Thanks Dan the Man and Sir Robert. Looks like Georgia has been a pretty wet year for y,all so far. We here have forest fires burning everywhere. Not nice on my lungs. Thanks guys for video.
THANKYOU DAN FOR THE
WALKINTO THE PAST HISTORY OF THOSE POOR SLAVES . SO SAD 😢😢 FAN FROM AUSTRALIA
How sad they have been forgotten and neglected. Yet some parts of the cemetery are well taken care.
I'm in such awe of the historical knowledge of Mr. Dan, I am most likely one of the last few people that actually knows our own family history, I've spent years in doing ancestry research and the best memory I have of time spent with my dad had been getting a history of our family and learning every cemetery that belongs to the family. I want to one day get to Varnell, Ga. which was supposed to have been founded by a Malachi Varnell whom is believed to actually have been Levi Varnell, my 6th great grandfather.
“I’ll hold the camera” gave me a chuckle!
A town isn't streets and buildings it is all the people who ever walked the streets and lived and worked in the buildings. Hearing Dan's history told as "his story" with names and places is more alive. When you or Dan give an event a place where it happened, "You know, on the corner where the old drug store was right across from the old ... ," the event/moment lives again.
How in the world do you know where graves are? I'm a new to this channel. I kinda get it, but how do you know what to look? Love your channel!
Robert and Mr. Dan,
Thank yo,
This was very moving and informative,
as always.
Rik Spector
Robert, your exploration partners are always so interesting. Dan's knowledge and memories of these areas add the living components to all these folk who were buried by their loved ones. I'm sure the well was dug before the cemetery began. Perhaps this was a home area first, maybe for enslaved persons. The next pre-Mothers' Day group to come and help clear could dump the clearings in the well, adding a touch of safety to that area. Thank you!
I appreciate what you gentleman do…
I guess I don’t understand why old Cemeteries are let go like this. There ought to be money allocated to maintain these.. we give money to countries all over the world but can’t maintain a cemetary.. lol you guys bring back these cemeteries to life and I appreciate it. I am from Indiana and we have them as well.
Thanks for all you do!
Too bad that church can’t ask for volunteers to clear up that cemetery and cover that well!!!
I love to listen to the stories Dan and you tell about the history of your part of the world. Glad the rain let up for you!
Hearing you talk about the home with no internal stairs...Lawrence Welk grew up on a farm with a 2-story house, very small, stairs outside to the sleeping quarters for the multiple kids upstairs. No insulation. Imagine ND winters & summers. Uff da. And parents having to trust that as the kids got older, there weren't any shenanigans out of their sight!
Mmm graveyard well water, whoever thought that was a good idea didn’t think it through properly. 💀 💧
Did you ever stop to think maybe they were for the dearly departed to quench their souls thirst?
The well did it for me! Its something I have always had a fear of, ever since I as a kid and there was an old well way back on the far side of my parents farm. I remember my dad putting a dead calf down inside of it and warning me to never come near that part of the pasture. There was a fence around it to keep our cows from stumbling in but it always haunted me and I stayed far, far away. I'm now 73 and still get very creeped out by the thought of falling into an old well. 😳
May the lord bless and protect you both and bringing out the past
You and Dan should do a collab with Faces of the Forgotten. That would be an awesome video!
Don is a fabulous historian. Just loved that. Please take care
I really hope someone goes in and cleans up the cementary now that it's been found again. It would be the honorable thing to do just so sad to see their final resting place not being kept up properly and not taken care of so very sad ~
It was never lost. Dan even said in the video it’s still used and still technically connected to an active church…
This makes me want to come to Georgia and see all these amazing graves, I'd take photos of them all.. thank you Robert and Dan.. I love your walks.... 🤗 From Wisconsin
Thank you as always. Love hearing from you and your knowledge 👍👍👍🧡🧡
Thanks! Very much enjoyed the history and stories.
Aloha 🌺 Robert & Amazing Dan! Thank you! 🌺
Thank you for the solemn tour today. God bless you both. ❤❤😮😮
What an interesting slice of History.The photos are wonderful brings all these people to life .The grave stones as unusual as they are really stand out and are beautiful . That well needs to be covered over before someone falls in. Really enjoyed this video .Keep Safe ❤Keep Well❤
The narrator does a superb job.
Very interesting history. I'm glad you didn't get rained out
So MUCH HISTORY ❤️👏
Cool video, love Dan's stories!😀
Thanks so much 😊to you both from the UK.
God bless you both for standing and walking around in all that pouring rain to do this video. I hope you both got dry and warm after all this. such a shame that the county didn't ever put up a fence or even a decent cemetery sign up. to see a lot of those graves with fall trees and wild bushes all over the place and the graves junkept under all the foilage. Dan is walking history at all that he knows and has reatined form when he was little of all those that lived there...
Enjoyed so love to hear anything from Dan❤
Amazing video. Love to watch you both. Love from Australia. ❤❤
So much valuable knowledge Mr.Dan! How about a book? You sir are amazing!❤
Enjoyed, Robert, Dan
Was the well dug prior to the cemetery being formed?
I just subscribed, but don't know where you are. I heard you mention Alabama and the name Whitehead. In Lauderdale County, Alabama, there Whiteheads. I don't have a connection, but would you have any stories of any Kings in Lauderdale Co. Al.
This cemetery is close to where they live in Georgia
Thank you.
Dan blows me away! He knew so many of those people and their descendants. Is there anything he doesn't know about?
Our cemeteries had well water available with pump. Capped now. It was water for the flowers/ floral tributes on graves.
My family name is "Boddie" of muscle shoals Alabama. Bennett had a son named Nathan who owned a plantation. He died in Georgia.
Unfortunately, it was illegal during slavery to record any important personal life events of a slave. This was due to slaves not given the same rights as others, they were denied their humanity. I learned this when I moved to Texas, and learned that unmarked slave graves are found near where I live. In the old cemetery I visit, there are a few rectangular and arch rough chipped markers, no wording and no obvious plot. The rough chipped markers are the only indication they are buried there. Someone had to tell me about it, then I looked at the history articles online that explained why.
I also live a couple short miles from a "Confederate Avenue". I found a report online, written in the mid 1940's as a thesis. The writer says that several black Union soldiers who had returned home were hung on that street one night on a large oak tree. Nobody was ever charged with their lynching, the street was then named Confederate after that event took place. The most sadly ironic thing is that the housing plots were created in the 1890's in that neighborhood precisely for an African American/Black American only neighborhood. It is still to this day, and Confederate ave. runs right thru it. I never had a clue about this history until I moved here from another state and started rummaging thru articles I managed to find. Not a lot of information out there.
Hi all that was a big cemetery you think after all this time the well would have been fill in or capt after all these years very intresting story and could tell a story or two all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
So interesting to listen to all the history told. It is also sad that there are thousands of unmarked and forgotten graves. I think the markers on many of the would have been wooden - maybe crosses which would have rotted away
Scary well
I would love to see a utube get in there and video a makeover cemetery omg it would get so many views probably even get it on TV.
Much 💚fellas
Mmm, that water's tangy🤢
I wonder if you all could plant cedar, cypress, yews and oak saplings to replace those that have died. That way, in future, people will continue to know and recognize the significance of these trees and, perhaps clean the leaves around a false crypt and read the deceased's names for a new generation.
Just a thought.
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Ok. You have answered my question about a river or a road.😊
You think they'd be able to clear out that area so you could actually see all those nice Graves thanks for making these videos really cool to see all these old Graves out in the woods
Do you guys think the well was for the church but later left except burials.
You guys are fun to watch
I feel like I could listen to Dan talk about ANYTHING! 🤷🏻♀️
Did y'all ever flip Miss Hollis' circle off lowers on her grave, right side-up?
Either way, thanks for the video. It reminded me of being in Alabama. 🙂
Geraldine ? Geraldine..... why I know her !!!! She was on the Flip Wilson show during the 70's !!! She was So funny !
Robert, Why did you fire Robert x 2 ? He was a good Grave locator! Robert had a lot of U tube fans, Bring back Robert!
lmao have you not seen all the previous videos are the other Robert? 🤪🤪🤪
Just ran into Robert x2 down in Ole Pineville, at the old church! Found a 2 seater outhouse !!
How far are you from White in Bartow County? I just found out I have an ancestor buried in the an old cemetery there-Goodson Cemetery. Would you be up to check it out? Would Dan know about my ancestor? He was an ironmaster: Jacob Stroup.
I appreciate the history but can you leave my family to rest please they already suffered enough
Annie is the oldest name I know, Annie Cantrell 1600s. I would have to dig up the old records.
You might have answered this question before , what was the purpose of the large slab that covers the individual plot?
There' was a "Bodie" (only one N) plantation near Yorktown, Virginia. I wonder if they were related?
Have you ever seen the Lystra Primitive Baptist Cemetary? I have family there. I am also searching for graves (Isaac Meadow b 1779) have you seen graves that old?
I would like to see some of the pictures that your friend gave you before she passed and the stories. They say when we quit talking about people it’s like they never existed. Maybe you can explain why people born in the late 1800s never spoke about people after they died. I did not know about several children that my grandmother had that died from the Spanish Flu 😢
It could've been too painful for them to talk about children, siblings and spouses that passed on.
My Uncle owned an old Victorian in Ashfield Ma said the house was build on a cemetery. Wonder how often this happens? Also know of another one a few miles from his home. ( different town in Massachusetts)
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I miss you & the other Robert being together
OMG… a drinking well in 10:58 the middle of a cemetery. I have to search for the Slave narratives that he spoke about
Dear Dan, please write a book.
Is their any hunting stories in Georgia???
Maybe the well was for use in the cemetery, to clean the graves, water the flowers, etc.
Lutheran Cemetery in front of two truck stops south of McDonough Georgia right in front of a TA in a love and a pilot I think
Has anybody heard of the Gee plantation Ruben Gee and Venus Gee the Slavs that bore him Henderson Gee first son .
I guess it’s appropriate for there to be a Cemetery on the “Body” Plantation! 😮😂
Ha!
Lol 😂
I have a question about genealogy there on the cemeteries, here some of our genealogies get together and we do history on the cemetery and on the people and then we dress as they would in their style and we stand beside the grave and we tell them the story of their lives as we play the part of that person until it comes time to where they come to be at that cemetery it would be an honor to be able to see someone represent these slaves that are in the cemetery that has no name and have somebody stand up and represent their life as they were then
Interesting to know if there were cholera outbreaks there.