Lots of history and some very sad sights here. How I wished I could have talked to the fellow born in 1855 for a moment though. Tip Jar: www.paypal.me/rwrightphotography For more Adventures: linktr.ee/adventuresintohistory My flashlight link: www.olightstore.com/s/UPTJSG Save 10 percent: SAIH10 (not valid on sales items and X9R) Mail: Sidestep Adventures PO BOX 206 Waverly Hall, Georgia 31831
Beautiful spot!! Oh the stories they could tell! Luckily for the descendants of many Georgians, their stories can sometimes be told by reading newspaper articles via the Georgia Historical Newspapers online; totally free. I've even read articles about your Byrd family of Waverly Hall. My people were the Reynolds originally from Social Circle by way of Virginia. So many stories!! Love your content!! Thank you for all you do preserving our past!! Happy New Year!!
Mr Jackson living 100 years from 1855 to 1955 just astounds me. The changes that gentleman saw n lived through is just incredible. Thank you Robert for all you do. You have such respect for the graves n those that rest within. God bless you.
Would love to visit this cemetery. We just drove through Geneva yesterday. Nothing better than to walk a cemetery and recognize the people laid to rest.
In the language of flowers..Iris were believed to escort the spirits on to Heaven since ancient times. That may be why so many of them are used in cemeteries. Loved the video.
Beautiful location, seems like a huge place. I got totally lost on where you started out on this one, and I have plenty of AIH video experience! An open grave is always so sad to see. The Red Ribbons or straps is a symbol of protection from bad energy, spirits or the evil eye. (Evil eye is a super natural belief of a benevolent flare of malicious envy.) Some very powerful beliefs tied up in that ribbon... at least it seems probable why those have been placed in a cemetery. I assume this is former plantation land? Weird cement wall out there, I wonder at the purpose. Holy moly thick briars. Yes, instantly thought of the dense wisteria on the Baugh hunt!! Great, a revisit with Dan!! More Cecil art coming! Excellent tour! ❣️👍❣️👍
What a sad cemetery with the open grave. Thank you, Robert and Mr. Cecil, for all your hard work and sharing the history of passed Georgian citizens. Sorry about the briars.
It's fantastic that you guys find and explore these forgotten places It always breaks my heart when I see slave graves knowing what and why they lived a life of such oppression Thanks for the adventure
Thanks for doing what you do. Thanks to Cecil for his work and his love for it. I’m a long time subscriber who has loved cemetery exploring since a child (thanks to my grandmother). I also lived south of Columbus for several decades way out in the country. Watching your videos makes me nostalgic for clay roads, fields, planted pines.
Once again Thank you, Robert and Cecil,for educating us on older African Americans graveyards,it is a shame how some of them are now,but glad some people are stepping up and cleaning them up,Big Thank you for that!!
Thank you for the visit to this cemetery. I always feel sadness to see so many unmarked graves. Makes life seem insignificant when we know they were very significant.
4:18 - Those vault tops seem to be the most common type of grave here in southside Virginia. 6:08 - the most interesting grave I've seen for someone over 100 was a grave I saw where the person was born in the late 1790s, and died in the very early 1900s.
It's a really beautiful cemetery but the newer stones look aged more than they are. It looks really huge also. Thank you to you and Cecil for battling all the briars so we can see this place. well worth preserving. I hope Dan will come back with you and tell us some history of the cemetery itself and some of the people who are buried there.
That was interesting...that old oak was a sentinel for a long time. Stay warm down your way. The deep freeze is open we are expecting foul weather.🥶🐻❄❄☃ Got in some more supplies,praying the electric stays on.
Robert im surprised you havent rigged yourself a tool belt or backpack with items to do your reading and clearing off toombstones! Flashlight, hand broom, etc!
Super big place, for sure. I often wonder what makes people stop taking care of cemeteries. Is it funding? This is an awesome find! Thank you to Cecil for showing you around.🙂
That would be nice and amazing to see in cemeteries those helpful hints like the one you said about the glass vases that they’re not trash that are part of the burial, if there was some kind of plaque at like the front of each cemetery, so stuff, like this does not continue to happen that people in the past can’t defend themselves and losing their items that belong to their plots.
We are getting some bad weather across the U S so we might lose the wi fi and wont be able to watch anyone hope your not in that bad weather zone . People in Kansas are already losing power in some parts but I'll watch unless power goes out we have been pretty lucky iin the southeast corner .
can i recommend some thing for y'all, small light weight leaf blowers, we call them garage blowers. it would y'alls life easier to blow the loose stuff off the markers. some of them are less then 2 lbs and easily fit in ruck sack.
Once again, you and Cecil tour another almost forgotten africaqn american cemetery, and such a shame to see the open crypt. again would be nice to get some white crosses out there to mark all the unmarked graves, but nice to know there are graves that ARE marked as well!!but yes, I agree to come back to this one..personally i would bring a chain saw and get rid of a lot of those trees and briars!!
It is a sad fact that all of us eventually will be relegated to the annuls of history, lost in the mists of time. Ive completed 3 family trees, one is my husbands going back to the Vikings.. one is mine (apparently) going back to Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and the 3rd is a friends, going back to the intrepid folks on the Mayflower. My hubby is also related to the present King Charles lll of England and has 8 convicts in the mix. Its amazing who is in your family tree..lol. We are all residents of Australia. Have fun exploring these places, Robert, Cecil and Dan. History is a powerful thing. Joh, Bunbury, Western Australia.
Great video,so historical, interesting. I have a suggestion to make it easier, instead of hand brushing debri off gravestones, loose leaves and dirt, a small hand held leaf blower would work, ck out your local hardware store. We have one and they are very lite,small and powerful. Thank you for this great historical video.
I so much enjoy watching you videos but why do you not bring a brush on initial visit? That way you could see some of the stones info. You are doing a terrific job, interesting.
Hopefully the briars protect those graves from the ones who would vandalize them. You all need to wear long sleeves and carry gloves when your in the cemeteries.
Always like watching your videos. Im just curious when you find unmarked graves can you Flag them or put a marker on them so people know?? Or is that illegal to do?
Would be cool if you could get ahold of one of the other people who have free cemeteries head stone cleaning and free landscaping channels for A huge community cleanup project- Also wish Someone could make A Cemeteries sign- Soo Much appreciated and Respect for you both ✊👏🤲
I don't know why you don't just keep a backpack in your truck with all the s*** you need every time you go to a location just grab the backpack with everything you need already in it watching your content for years a faithful subscriber
It's too bad there aren't enough people nearby to at least cut back some the briars and overgrowth. This looks like it needs a small army of people. But then again, ya don't want a lot of inattentive people just traipsing all over the place. My brain is all over the place while watching these adventures. Trying to figure out how to make it better while watching in my recliner.
hope you were not chased after by a bull! jr bell died on my 1 year birthday. you need a suit of armor for those Georgia briers! or at least something for your arms and legs! so sad seeing all the unmarked graves.
All you have to do is watch for a few seconds until the word "skip" comes up, usually toward the bottom right, touch the word "skip" and it immediately takes you back yo the video. No big deal.
Lots of history and some very sad sights here. How I wished I could have talked to the fellow born in 1855 for a moment though.
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Sad, so many names lost to history. Thank you for speaking the ones you could find
Beautiful spot!! Oh the stories they could tell! Luckily for the descendants of many Georgians, their stories can sometimes be told by reading newspaper articles via the Georgia Historical Newspapers online; totally free. I've even read articles about your Byrd family of Waverly Hall. My people were the Reynolds originally from Social Circle by way of Virginia. So many stories!! Love your content!! Thank you for all you do preserving our past!! Happy New Year!!
Mr Jackson living 100 years from 1855 to 1955 just astounds me. The changes that gentleman saw n lived through is just incredible. Thank you Robert for all you do. You have such respect for the graves n those that rest within. God bless you.
@@RM-mm4jr i hope he was healthy and cared for till the end. To live that long i believe he would of had to be.
Thank you Robert and Cecil for visiting this cemetery. So sad to see neglect and damage. Once again thank you for listing the burials.🙏
Based upon the glimpses in prior videos, Cecil is a talented artist. It will be great to see some of his work in the store.
STM was Steward's Mate in WW2. A modern equivalent would be the CS, Culinary Specialist. STM1 was a Steward's Mate First Class or E-6.
Would love to visit this cemetery. We just drove through Geneva yesterday. Nothing better than to walk a cemetery and recognize the people laid to rest.
You guys are doing a meaningful job. It is now recorded for eternity. You work well together.
In the language of flowers..Iris were believed to escort the spirits on to Heaven since ancient times.
That may be why so many of them are used in cemeteries.
Loved the video.
Also saw some yucca there.
Thank you very interesting will be looking forward when you go back there. God bless you all and your family’s Amen.
Beautiful location, seems like a huge place. I got totally lost on where you started out on this one, and I have plenty of AIH video experience! An open grave is always so sad to see. The Red Ribbons or straps is a symbol of protection from bad energy, spirits or the evil eye. (Evil eye is a super natural belief of a benevolent flare of malicious envy.) Some very powerful beliefs tied up in that ribbon... at least it seems probable why those have been placed in a cemetery. I assume this is former plantation land? Weird cement wall out there, I wonder at the purpose. Holy moly thick briars. Yes, instantly thought of the dense wisteria on the Baugh hunt!! Great, a revisit with Dan!! More Cecil art coming! Excellent tour! ❣️👍❣️👍
Thanks you two. Looking forward to seein what happens when Dan joins you guys.
What a sad cemetery with the open grave. Thank you, Robert and Mr. Cecil, for all your hard work and sharing the history of passed Georgian citizens. Sorry about the briars.
I learn so much from your videos. Thank you Robert and Cecil.
Beautiful spot. Resting places forgotten with the passage of time.😢
It's fantastic that you guys find and explore these forgotten places
It always breaks my heart when I see slave graves knowing what and why they lived a life of such oppression
Thanks for the adventure
WOW! You make an important and strategic observation, "Imagine the things he saw during his life."
Yes, from slavery to the atomic bomb.
Thanks for doing what you do. Thanks to Cecil for his work and his love for it.
I’m a long time subscriber who has loved cemetery exploring since a child (thanks to my grandmother). I also lived south of Columbus for several decades way out in the country. Watching your videos makes me nostalgic for clay roads, fields, planted pines.
Sad so many are forgotten.
Once again Thank you, Robert and Cecil,for educating us on older African Americans graveyards,it is a shame how some of them are now,but glad some people are stepping up and cleaning them up,Big Thank you for that!!
Thank you Mr Cecil for taking Robert and us out to the site...I hope you guys truly do go back with Mr Dan...great vid...I just love cemeteries.
Thanks once again to Robert and Cecile for your dedication.
Thank you for the visit to this cemetery. I always feel sadness to see so many unmarked graves. Makes life seem insignificant when we know they were very significant.
Looking forward to Mr. Akens return. He always adds interesting historical details.
4:18 - Those vault tops seem to be the most common type of grave here in southside Virginia. 6:08 - the most interesting grave I've seen for someone over 100 was a grave I saw where the person was born in the late 1790s, and died in the very early 1900s.
Your content is always so interesting. Thanks for your efforts and dedication 👍
Love and enjoy your videos Robert. May the lord bless and protect you and Cecil and bringing out the past history
❤I love and have great respect for your channel. Keep up the great work! 😇👍
I appreciate your kindness.😀
It's a really beautiful cemetery but the newer stones look aged more than they are. It looks really huge also. Thank you to you and Cecil for battling all the briars so we can see this place. well worth preserving. I hope Dan will come back with you and tell us some history of the cemetery itself and some of the people who are buried there.
That was interesting...that old oak was a sentinel for a long time. Stay warm down your way. The deep freeze is open we are expecting foul weather.🥶🐻❄❄☃ Got in some more supplies,praying the electric stays on.
Very interesting, informative videos. After all this time I'm surprised you don't bring a brush with you; you always end up needing one.
Those look like Irises. They have tubers instead of bulbs and will keep growing for many many years!
Thank you Robert and Cecil! Very interesting!
Thanks to you both for braving the thorns and vines. It will be very interesting to hear what Dan has to say about some of the people resting there.
Good work guys! It's really strange how this cemetery is so patchy. Well maintained areas vs unmaintained. Keep on truckin'!
Robert im surprised you havent rigged yourself a tool belt or backpack with items to do your reading and clearing off toombstones! Flashlight, hand broom, etc!
Another wonderful find, except the open grave very sad
I’m originally from GA. We called them Sticker Bushes. 😊
Super big place, for sure. I often wonder what makes people stop taking care of cemeteries. Is it funding?
This is an awesome find! Thank you to Cecil for showing you around.🙂
Everyone is either old or dead, or moved away. This is out from any town so there never was funding.
That would be nice and amazing to see in cemeteries those helpful hints like the one you said about the glass vases that they’re not trash that are part of the burial, if there was some kind of plaque at like the front of each cemetery, so stuff, like this does not continue to happen that people in the past can’t defend themselves and losing their items that belong to their plots.
❤❤❤what an interesting cemetery
You both do amazing work and I appreciate and love every video you do
Thank you for sharing with us and taking us along with you very interesting part is history 😊
We are getting some bad weather across the U S so we might lose the wi fi and wont be able to watch anyone hope your not in that bad weather zone . People in Kansas are already losing power in some parts but I'll watch unless power goes out we have been pretty lucky iin the southeast corner .
Machetes!! Someone in the group needs one to make short work of vines and briars!!😂😂😊😊
Nice video. Always enjoy these😊
Fascinating!
can i recommend some thing for y'all, small light weight leaf blowers, we call them garage blowers. it would y'alls life easier to blow the loose stuff off the markers. some of them are less then 2 lbs and easily fit in ruck sack.
Ah wow, interesting cemetery but so sad ❤
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Robert, have you ever thought about going down southern Georgia? To the tifton area to see cemeteries down there ?
Once again, you and Cecil tour another almost forgotten africaqn american cemetery, and such a shame to see the open crypt. again would be nice to get some white crosses out there to mark all the unmarked graves, but nice to know there are graves that ARE marked as well!!but yes, I agree to come back to this one..personally i would bring a chain saw and get rid of a lot of those trees and briars!!
Its really sad that no one has taken care of these burials over the years, so much history lost.
What a remarkable place....🏴
It is a sad fact that all of us eventually will be relegated to the annuls of history, lost in the mists of time. Ive completed 3 family trees, one is my husbands going back to the Vikings.. one is mine (apparently) going back to Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and the 3rd is a friends, going back to the intrepid folks on the Mayflower. My hubby is also related to the present King Charles lll of England and has 8 convicts in the mix. Its amazing who is in your family tree..lol. We are all residents of Australia. Have fun exploring these places, Robert, Cecil and Dan. History is a powerful thing. Joh, Bunbury, Western Australia.
So interesting. Does the tradition still continue with the purple water vessels?
I love these discovery videos! Especially when you bring shovel and brooms and do cleaning and research.
It’s hard to not just get a chipper and saw and clean things up
Great video,so historical, interesting.
I have a suggestion to make it easier, instead of hand brushing debri off gravestones, loose leaves and dirt, a small hand held leaf blower would work, ck out your local hardware store.
We have one and they are very lite,small and powerful.
Thank you for this great historical video.
❤❤what and interesting cemetery
It amazes me how the much older concrete looks better than the newer
So sad the condition of cemetary and graves.
Saludos Roberto The cemetery is not very old but it looks like it was abandoned in a very ugly way,,,,🙏👍
Rest in peace, dear people
I so much enjoy watching you videos but why do you not bring a brush on initial visit? That way you could see some of the stones info. You are doing a terrific job, interesting.
Didn’t need it. Needed way more than a brush.
Robert love your Channel I'm wanting to do something like this in Massachusettes were I'm from the Worcester county area
Thanks, interesting
Hopefully the briars protect those graves from the ones who would vandalize them. You all need to wear long sleeves and carry gloves when your in the cemeteries.
So sad about the unmarked graves 😢
Thanks guys for braving those briars and vines. They looked nasty.
Robert it would be wise to have clippers the next time. Those thorns will tear clothes and skin alike.
Those dang Wait-A-Minute vines!
Hi cecil❤❤
Good video
I hate to be the creepy one but I know ya'll looked in that open grave. Were their remains exposed?
It's a shame how overgrown this site is.
Why don't you guys take a regular broom when you go.??? Very helpful😊
Always like watching your videos. Im just curious when you find unmarked graves can you Flag them or put a marker on them so people know?? Or is that illegal to do?
That last red thing is an attachment you put on a tree so you can hang your hammock. That’s what it looks like
You almost need a suit of armor to go into those briar patches...😎
Would be cool if you could get ahold of one of the other people who have free cemeteries head stone cleaning and free landscaping channels for A huge community cleanup project- Also wish Someone could make A Cemeteries sign- Soo Much appreciated and Respect for you both ✊👏🤲
What does Cecil mean when he says he surveyed the cemetery. It sounds like he does much more than figured out the boundary lines.
I photograph all the marked burials and record the names and dates of everyone marked. I update the info in my books and on Find-A-Grave.
How dud Cecil get into surveying the cemeteries
Did
I don't know why you don't just keep a backpack in your truck with all the s*** you need every time you go to a location just grab the backpack with everything you need already in it watching your content for years a faithful subscriber
I just don't understand WHY you never take a broom along when you spend so much time in old, overgrown cemeteries--
I like using my hands. It’s grounding and connecting. And often times way more effective at actually peeling back layers.
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Is that the sound of traffic in the background ?
You need a little wisk broom Robert 😊
I sure do miss the other Robert....how is he doing?
The briars seem to be protecting the graves of the departed. I'm amazed however how Cecil doesn't seem to be bothered by them, not one bit! 😂
Was this cemetery part of a plantation and if so what plantation? Would the unmarked graves in the woods be slave graves?
Just a suggestion, why don't u carry a backpack w/ some essentials, small shovel & brush ?
You should start carrying a small pocket broom
Is there a way to clear out this cemetery and fence it back out? It looks like someone is illegally hunting it and claiming the property.
When you show a 100 year old grave with an eastern red cedar as a grave marker, why are they never mature trees.
They grow slow. That’s why we are always amazed at large ones
It's too bad there aren't enough people nearby to at least cut back some the briars and overgrowth. This looks like it needs a small army of people. But then again, ya don't want a lot of inattentive people just traipsing all over the place. My brain is all over the place while watching these adventures. Trying to figure out how to make it better while watching in my recliner.
Include a long sleeve shirt in your supplies next time. 😉
hope you were not chased after by a bull! jr bell died on my 1 year birthday. you need a suit of
armor for those Georgia briers! or at least something for your arms and legs! so sad seeing all the unmarked graves.
The markers aren’t in good condition for being so new.
When will we unite.
Graves look very dirty to be no older than they are.
Plz go to native American graves
I really wanted to watch this, but it’s not worth the amount of ads I have to waste my time with. Sorry, but maybe cut back in them.
You tube decides about ads, not Robert. You tube is flooding a lot of channels with ads ,
All you have to do is watch for a few seconds until the word "skip" comes up, usually toward the bottom right, touch the word "skip" and it immediately takes you back yo the video. No big deal.
I’m almost finished watching, but haven’t had a single ad. I never do with these cemetery videos. Strange that someone else gets a bunch.