Muddy Trail Leads Us To Old Family Cemetery Discovered 1 Mile Deep In The Woods! Singleton Cemetery
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- In this Adventures Into History video, Cecil and I embark on a journey down a muddy trail in Marion County, Georgia, to uncover the forgotten Singleton Cemetery. Located about a half mile deep into the woods, this historic site is surrounded by vast timberland.
Join us as we explore and document this old family cemetery. We read the graves, take in the landscape, and observe the tall planted pine trees that dominate the surrounding land. This video captures the serene beauty and historical significance of the Singleton Cemetery, hidden away from the hustle and bustle of modern life.
Part 2 of a Marion Co Georgia cemetery tour Cecil and I did.
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Cecil man of few words. But we all need folks like him because they are true super slueths and help us recover our pasts.
Great, big thanks to Cecil for sharing his hard earned knowledge. Folks like y'all and Dan are doing wonderful things 🩷
Cecil is the man! Saving history before its gone!
Yes, Cecil is a man of few words. He answers the question with your question, and doesn't add anything additional. I have a feeling he's a wealth of knowledge that people would like to hear?
We're probably fortunate that he says as much as he does because I get the feeling he's a bit camera shy. I think Cecil actually talks more on the videos than he use to, which was not at all! He's a good guy 😊.
Thank you to Cecil! And thank you, Robert and Cecil, for showing us around. I've got to say, the obelisk's engraving is not only beautiful but tough. As finely done as all of the engraved headstones we saw are, for them to still be that legible today after the weather they've been through is nothing short of amazing. The fine details are still there. The artist's handiwork has withstood the test of time.
Looked like a nice day out there.🙂
Hi Robert. I am a follower of this channel from India. I am a fan of American history. I thankyou for the work you do in exploring people's history of Georgia. Everywhere, India included, the history predominantly talks about famous and important people. However, your channel physically explores that of common people of the past, which is very refreshing. Best wishes!
Wow! That graveyard is grown-up. I surveyed it about 20 years ago if anybody wants the info . Robert Singleton was the son in law of Darling Duke and Mary Jane Stewart . This is Darling 's homestead . I suspect the rock pile is the grave of Darling's mother Nicey ( Sims ) .
Thank you! I always look forward to details like this.
The "first wife" headstone reminded me of my great/great grandfather Daniel Cason who is buried at Sweetwater Baptist outside of Thomson Ga. His fourth wife is buried with him. 1/2/&3 are buried in a line to the other side of him.
I was amazed at how many wives my great grandfather had and buried...My mammaw's mother was the fourth..
@@judysetran9198 child birth was a BIG health risk then.
Cecil needs his own TV show. Go Hollywood Cecil
Thank ya'll and a special thanks to Cecil for directing you to these all but lost cemetery and graveyards!
Interesting old forgotten cemetery. A big thanks to Cecil for using his sleuthing skills to find these long lost old burial grounds. And to Robert for his fondness for visiting them and reading the names and pointing out the burials who have no printed names on a stone, but that matter just the same.❤
Robert you’re a grand orator.
Cecil, you are one good genealogist.
I once went to Tennessee, looking for Wright ancestors. They lived just over the Alabama line in Tennessee.
Even with directions I found one cemetery but not the other.
Cecil sure is the Sherlock Holmes of cemeteries.
Cecil is da man!
Cecil Findagrave is proud of you.
You guys are awesome.
Please continue.
So thankful God knows their names.
Thanks for sharing your trip with Cecil, and showing us all the back roads.
Woods can hold many different stories.And many stories will never be known about.
It’s incredible to learn how many cemeteries there are in the woods. I live in East Tennessee and can’t help but think how many there may be in my “backyard”. Thanks for another great video!
Thank you guys for taking us on your adventures. . .I always look forward when I see a new video. . .Elijah Mackey (1847-1933), his first wife was Frances L. Duke Mackey (1850-1901). His second wife was Anna Josephine Mackey (1861- ?). Family records show Hattie married William T. Watson in 1904. Strange that she is buried next to her parents. . .these folks are cousins from my Mom's side. I so appreciate you all keeping memories alive by visiting these cemeteries and speaking their names. . .
You always find interesting things when you go to these places, and it always amazes me just hoe far out these cemeteries are in the woods. In a few more years they will all be forgotten. Thank you Robert and Cecil.
It's amazing how many of these cemeteries y'all find. Kinda makes you wonder just how many forgotten families and burial locations there are to be discovered.
Thank you both,
another cemetery remembered.
Cheers,
Rik
Thanks Cecil for your detective work on locating these lost cemeteries. Thank you Robert as always great video.
Very interesting. I love wooded areas. Thank you Cecil !!!!
Ejoyed the ride...ty Cecil Young for taking Robert so we can all see the cemetery...now on to the next one, Cecil.
Love your videos and enjoy watching them. May the lord bless and protect you Robert and bringing out the past history
🎉🎉Always appreciate your videos Robert. Thank you
Cecil the Man!! Robert, always Love you videos & Thanks to Cecil for finding with his research!! & of course knowing ppl!! That obelisk was so ornate❤ Thank goodness protected by the trees!!
Backwoods for certain. It has been years since I heard a bobwhite quail call - a peaceful "alls right with the world" sound. That is an interesting obelisk marker, mansion in heaven and lillies, restored innocence of the soul. Very thought provoking epitaph too, not the usual. I found it in an old epitaph book from a atone maker. Aa always an intetesting place. Very lovely this place, all positive feel. Love the Jeep ride-a-lomg too! Excellent! Thank you again, Cecil and Robert!! 👍👍❣️❣️
It’s been years since I’ve heard one too, so much so that I wondered if that was even what I was hearing!
That's very interesting about the mansion in heaven and the lilies. Thankyou
Thanks to both of you
Cecil has found some incredible cemeteries!
These are always so informative and respectful. You guys should write a book
Cecil is Dans equal in a different sense ❤❤
I did enjoy this and look forward to seeing more. God bless you both 🙏❤️
Robert and Cecil have made Another Great Video thanks for taking the time to make it keeping history alive. The time you guys put in to these historical sites makes them great and bring the past to life. Thank you Both
Good Tuesday morning, Robert. I really enjoy your Cemetery videos. The work that you, Dan and Cecil do in preserving and recording the cemeteries is so important for future ancestor research. We had Decoration Day Sunday at our family Cemetery. It started out as a true family cemetery as my husbands 4th Great Grandfather was the first to die and be buried the cemetery in 1824. It later became the local community cemetery and currently has 750 plus graves. My husband is now the last living linear decendent of the original "families" to live here and we will be the last to be buried here. He is also the last direct decendent to serve on the Cemetery board. He has 162 direct family members in this cemetery. I had no idea how unusual it is to actually have a cemetery that is 200 years old that is still beautifully cared for. Every headstone, box grave and slab grave is gently pressure cleaned every 10 yrs or so.They were cleaned this month and the cemetery looked wonderful. Thank you so much for all you and your friends do to make sure that history doesn't fade away. The name of this is Bryant Cemetery in Lewisburg Tenn.
I haven’t heard a Bob White in years
WTG guys Cecil needs a medal.
The woods looked so beautiful in this video.
Thank you Robert and Cecil for sharing the Video about a lost Cemetery of sorts. I'm very Glad Cecil went an surveyed the Cementery and to the ones that came out and started making the unmarked Graves. Thank you everyone.
Wow ,your advertures have gotten alot more adventuresome and amazing interesting.
You go Cecil. I have a Scion XB that has taken us many places that we were told not to go. Lol. Good job guys.
You should put a trail camera out in one of these old cemeteries just to see if you catch anything, it would be interesting to see
Beautiful land
Thanks boys have fun 4x4ing
Thank you Cecil.
Cool 😎😎😎
Always interesting
Wow! That is so intreating. What a ride
thank you for sharing the story and Jeep adventure with us-The Family History is very very special 🔍🔦👍
Wow that’s awesome. ❤
I really enjoy this channel, thanks for all the interesting content you put up on here! Cheers from Sweden!
Have y’all done a video of the Scull Shoals Mill Village? I had family that lived there. Some family members are buried there
Enjoyed tagging along! So awesome!! I love this channel ❤
Salute...Deo Vindice
Hattie Mackey was the daughter of Elijah Mackey and Frances L. (Duke) Mackey and wife of William T. Watson. Frances Duke was a daughter of Darling Duke who is also buried in this cemetery. He is a distant uncle of mine and his brother Enoch Duke, my ancestor, is buried at Mt. Nebo Primitive Baptist in Charing, Taylor, GA. They were sons of Lewis Parham Duke of Fairfield Co, SC who was the son of Green Duke of Warren Co, NC. Green Duke's tobacco farm is still standing and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Robert and I did a video on the Duke Family Cemetery in Taylor County, not far from Mt Nebo.
@@cecilyoung2440 Henry Nathan Duke is buried there and is probably related to Enoch and Darling from SC. I'm seeing some land grants in SC along the Saludy River with the Dukes and Stewarts listed on the same deeds as neighbors as early as 1755. Darling Duke was married to Mary Jane Stewart and they are buried in Singleton Cemetery. Looks like they married in Marion County, GA in 1846.
Always been impressed by the quality carvings on old standards monuments like these, partly because you know it was all handcrafted. Some what sad to see these old cemeteries that have fallen into such decay always makes me wonder if it is because their is no family left to tend them.
Amazing how much wilderness is out there but people lived there a long time ago. You wonder why that picked land so far away from everything.
6:27 - When we used to visit my grandparents' farm in Ocean County, NJ in the 70s I heard Bobwhites calling there every time. I think by the 80s they were extinct in New Jersey. But I vaguely remember hearing one once, several years ago, and I don't remember exactly where. There have been efforts to re-introduce them. I have no idea if they've been successful. 11:55 - Prickly Pear Cactus. Here in the NJ Pine Barrens it is very common in most of the old cemeteries, along with yucca plants. I know of one place in Burlington County where it's all along one short section of roadside. Just around the corner from here there is someone who has a grassy field in front of their house, which they only mow a few times each season. There are several patches of the cactus in that front field, and they always mow around it. So it's doing extremely well. Anyway, as always, I enjoyed this cemetery visit.
Very cool y'all. Good job documenting this place.
Wow did not know you have a Jeep and tractor thanks for the video
I history. Tysm .
Thanks guys, love these videos
Are you a preferred gold level customer at the Waverly Hall car wash ?
Good adventure.😊
Can we be friends? I was just driving all over from upson to Marion and back yesterday, and today, my mom introduced me to your Chanel! The video of someone walking over your head under that old homestead. What you do is so cool!
Of course!
I LOVE these videos. And both you and Cecil are amazing with your deadication to finding and documenting these places. to try and preserve what is left. Wondering, where Walker County Georgia is, and how far from where you both are? My 2nd Great Grandfather was David Abraham Cantrell, He most likely would of been buried with just the name David Cantrell. I have been trying to see if there is or ever was a headstone to make his grave. He was born November 1853 in DeKalb County Tennessee, But was Buried in Gordon Cemetery?? located in Layfayette Georgia, Walker County.
That box by the axle looks like the decorative base or top of a porch column.
Elijah Mackay's second wife was Anna Josephine W. English Mackay.
Born on November 28,1858. Died in October, 1917.
They were married in about 1903.
She is buried: in the Tazewell Cemetery in Marion County GA.
Those are dark gray skies. Omaha is getting round #(?) late tonight.
Oh no! My brother in law's family farms outside of Omaha. It's been a crazy couple of weeks for y'all. Stay safe!
Hey Robert, like you hanging out with Cecil seems like a good Ole boy. Nice jeep gets y,all around those hills good. That model t frame and the box looks like someone was moonshining haha but did look suspicious. From the 30s depression Ara. Just made me wonder. That's where they did it up in those hills. Anyway good luck with your search
Poor woman ☹️ Imagine being remembered for all entirety as just "Such & Such's first wife" and knowing you weren't even worthy of having your actual name put down only that you were some random guy's first wife. So sad because she was a real person and her life was so much more then what this stone made it out to be.
Unfortunately this seems to be the norm when it comes to spouses who die and their widow/widower goes on to remarry especially when it comes to the older days- the living spouse would continue on living their life and the deceased spouse would be left behind then eventually forgotten about.
Not putting her name down is definitely out of the ordinary tho (putting down that she was someone's wife isn't- it's on older stones a lot but weirdly isn't put on men's stones at least not that i've ever seen but then again women were seen as property in the old days so not surprising). Hopefully some nice people would be willing to make her a name stone with her actual name if y'all know of anyone who is i'd be happy to chip in 💕😊
😊This awesome thank you to & Cecil. I watch allmost all of youe video.
I also watch another channel called hillbilly files. Leo New & wife do a lot of cemetery finding . When times maybe check them out. I love watch you at Old Bird Place .keep up yhe good work.
Does Cecil have a channel
Oh they are in Williamsburg, VA, they are in Mccoy- Hatfield contry
Get you a good pair of snake boots Bud 👍
You can get a jeep stuck they're not bullet proof. A better off road tire would help. I'm glad you have it.
Putting the ole jeep to good use. I usually just poke along in mine in stuff like that in two wheel. When it starts slipping then I put it in four wheel, if it gets bad then I will gag it.
I wonder how the VA found that old cemetery in order to erect the Confederate headstone. I'm guessing that someone had to take them out there. And I'm also guessing that there was at one time, an old house to go along with that family cemetery. So much to be found in the woods of Georgia!
Thanks for sharing another interesting cemetery. Could I ask that you not pan your camera so fast, as it affects those of us with virtigo.
Did you buy the truck? You've had it for a while now.
Yes, sold a bunch of stuff
I'm impressed that the timber companies have stayed away from the cemetery trees. Is there a heavy penalty (besides karma) for damages?
I was waiting for the other marker to say 2nd wife! Rather odd given as was pointed out we'll never know their names.
send in the guy that cuts the lawn of lost cemeteries and renews/repairs them!
Careful looks like poison ivy on that fence
Robert do you have any plans to visit rosehill cemetary or coleman hill in macon i know there not abandoned and there still in use today but there full of historic graves obviously you know about barry oakely greg and duane allman but maybe you didnt know about the entire family that was murdered and eventually buried there
the killer was a family member and if remember correctly the feller got away with the crime i dont recall the family name but appalachian storyteller documented the story on his channel
if your not subbed to the guy i suggest you at least give his channel a look he is helping to preserve appalachian history as well
Census probably would say, anyway!
So is the Jeep yours or are you borrowing it?
He's buying it, I think. He said he had to sell everything that he had with wheels to get it.
(May I ask) Who was Charles Wakely Jnr? I've noticed it on a few of your videos. Kate from OZ
Great but I have to say. I follow many who clean them. It’s so upsetting seeing them and no one cleans it. Why go out there and not have even a brush to wipe it.
But thank you for sharing
We do preservation through documentation. We also clean the graves that we can, and take care of the cemeteries that we can. Have a look at previous videos. However with the large amount of sites we document that are in the wild it is not feasible for us to take care of them all. Cleaning and caring for a single cemetery is a lifetime commitment, which is what people who have never done it do not understand. We’ve shown some that were cleaned not long ago, and already grown back up. Even brushing a grave off only lasts a few weeks at most, without maintenance.
Miss the “other Robert” is he ok?
You need to learn how to dowse, two cooper rods bent in an L will identify a grave anytime, as well as show you the direction of burial. Believe me it works.
Yes, I agree. They really do work. I made a set and use them often. I have been using them for about 25 years. You can also find out how deep the grave is with them.
There is a video of Robert and Dan trying dousing in a cemetery. There only had partial success and I don't think either of them were totally convinced that it really works.
Two bent sticks works too.
YOU SHOULD CLEAN THOSE STONES
My headstone is going to read, "my sins finally caught up with me."
There are 11 graves..
Pretty woods. Not as pretty as the one that got tore up by tree poachers but pretty none the less
So ptetty
I love these videos, I really do. My favorite you tube videos are old explorations. But my own take on this is not popular, but how long will it take before the whole world is a cemetery? Ashes to ashes. Put up a memorial if need be, but the Earth has better things to do than be a graveyard. I know that this is not what is popular, but the Earth is going to take. Me? Just throw me overboard when I'm gone, I killed enough fish...
Was E.Mackey Mormon????🤔
Sidestep: Adventures Into History, Your videos always brighten my day, so I subscribed!
That’s awesome, thanks
It makes me wonder how many of those log sites have graves that have been lost to time every time I see them.