What started as a rained out adventure turned into a really interesting find. The 3 headstones were pretty interesting. I found out afterwards that there used to be a church at this cemetery. But there are no remains to be found. It’s amazing to think what the cemetery grounds used to look like, before people forgot... teespring.com/stores/the-sidestep-adventures-shop www.patreon.com/SidestepAdventures
Very nice job!! Very respectful. I like it that you spend time READING what you can of the headstones, letting people know that they're gone but not for gotten about. It was very interesting. When I have more time and a new pad I'll try to list by male/female ...born/death dates, then try to see when pandemics/sicknesses my have happened in their time and neck of the woods. Maybe something was going around like TB, or deaths by childbirth. Someone would maybe have a record of the Southern Soldier or soldiers. Maybe that soldier could be moved to a National Cemetary with full honnors.
I like the way you stop and read the headstones. So many cemetery videos just skim right past them and you dont get to read the info. Very interesting. Great job! 👍👍
What do you mean about history being dismantled? I feel like we are finally hearing a fuller story of history particularly related to our country’s dark colonial past.
Robert, Brian and Cody, I work the front line , 13 hour shifts, as an RN fighting this virus. I want you boys to know, nothing helps me chill like going on a Sidestep Adventure. To say you help me keep my sanity is understated. Thank you from the bottom of my weary heart. OMGosh, “Joe no shoulders!!” I love that! Just be careful of those critters, Please!! And Robert, you have an incredibly soothing voice. I really really enjoy your ability to calm my nerves. I won’t go on and on, suffice it to say, I love your series. You boys are doing an awesome job and I appreciate the Peace you bring. I’ll keep on keeping on and y’all (I’m from Montana) do the same. Blessings to you!
Even though time and nature have claimed the resting places of so many people it is a reassurance and a comfort to know that God knows where each and every body is laid to rest. The centuries have forgotten secrets and I think it is awesome that you and your Sidestep team can uncover a few of those secrets a little at a time and share them with us. Thanks Robert/Bryan and Cody!
Nathaniel and Louisa Williams were my great great grandparents. Their son Benjamin was indeed 11 years old when the civil war ended. He was known as Uncle Tobe. I would be happy to share information about him with you if you provide me a way to contact you. I am sad that you are not able to go farther down the road to the Holloman Creek Cemetary. Louisa Williams' parents are buried there.
The Bottsford family and the Bottsford town can be found at Newspapers.com also probably at Ancestry.com with articles like the Lutheran synod met there in Sumpter County in 1880’s. George W Thomas moved and died there in 1887. A history of nearby Kinchafoonie River appears in 1888. And 1977 mentions the Bottsford Baptist Church near Plains GA.
I went fishing one day and took along my dog. As I was more or less in the middle of no where I just let my dog run loose. My dog was very well trained and had always come when called. That day when I was done fishing I called her and she did not come. I went for a walk and looked for her. She didn't come. After awhile I came across an old cemetery and there was my dog. I called her she looked at me but would not come she was laying down. I thought she was hurt so I walked up to her and saw she was laying on a grave that had a tomb stone that said my name on it and the person who died there died the same day I was born . Very odd
Wow! YOur dog is amazing to have found that grave and laid beside it. It's like she knew there is some kind of connection for you and that grave. God's creatures are a wonder to this world. It's been a year since you posted this. Hope she is doing fine and you also.
WOW! Wonder what the dog was thinking. You were named after this relative and this dog seem to have known him as he’d knowing you! Puzzled for his way of thinking! That’s a, great story! Ever asked your parents of this man which lived and died on the same dates outside you’re still with us!
Fletcher, Mark Harden 1st Corporal August 17, 1863. Severely wounded at Crater near Petersburg, VA, July 10, 1864. Paroled at Farmville, VA, April 11-21, 1865.
Milatary head stones can be added to a soldiers grave anytime after death. Someone must apply to the VA for it. If the service is approved. It will shipped to the person or company on the application and placed on the grave it belongs to.
Ok Robert. great vids. The backward headstones! Think about it when the living read or honor the deceased..They wont be standing on the body. Such a smart way of burial w a headstone. Should be this way now. The old generation had it RIGHT again. God bless yall
My father was at Camp Wheeler in 1942 . He underwent US Army Ranger training and was assigned to the 1st Ranger Battalion. Darbys Rangers. I was at WRAFB in 1971 .
My guess for putting the person's information on the back of the tombstone is so you could stand and read it and not have to stand on top of the person to do it.
That seems logical. My wife and I often explore old cemeteries and have always wondered if there is a standard as to which way the graves lay in respect of their markers.
How very intresting. To think that all these people were once full of life and laugher , who lived and loved, we all will eventually end up in one of these cemetaries. The only remembrance we will have, will be our headstone. I love the respect you show for these departed souls. Cemeteries are so peaceful , I often walk through and read the headstones, and think about, the people, and the life they once lived. We have a very old Chinese cemetery, where alot of chinese are buried , who had worked on the nearby railroad, its very intresting and historical. Thank you for sharing.
There is a lady buried in this cemetery ( at 13:56 ) that died just 4 days short of her birthday :( I have so much heartfelt sympathy for all of these lovely people that once lived, raised children, grew their own food..etc, it just breaks my heart to see those sunken headstones and, in some cases, messed up graves. However, It's so interesting to see all these old graves, ones that if they could speak to us today....imagine the history they could tell us...all about the Civil War, WWI and WWII and in some cases, Revolutionary War, the sinking of the Titanic..etc. Thank You so much for this video!!
I agree they lived through so many things .my grandma passed away many years ago.She was born In about 1850 .she lived through those years and grew up In Jasper Ark .i wish I had been older to inquire about her life and how life was back then..
@@bonniejulien8505 Oh Bonnie, if you could have spoken with her or someone in you're family that also knew about her life, imagine what kind of personal family history you could have discovered? I'm sorry for you're loss as well
Advice from an Archaeologist: take a small, straw, whisk broom with you to brush debris from the stones. As long as you are soft handed, you won't damage the stones. Avoid brushing decaying, or crumbling grave stone. Enjoy.
barkingmad50 thank you so much for this advice. I was desperate to be an archaeologist or a nurse when I was young. Nursing won as I was dissuaded on archaeology as it would be hard to get a job...or so I was told.
Carrie Rogers I think it’s something inside us that pulls us down that route Carrie. We must have been good at it. My background is haematology/transplant and I wouldn’t have changed it for the world. I was medically retired a few years ago now after 35 years and I count myself privileged for every minute I spent doing something I loved so much.
Use to read worn inscriptions. By placing the paper over the stone and using a charcoal or pencil to rub on the paper many times indecipherable inscriptions become readable
Regarding the young man who died at Camp Wheeler in 1917........ The National Park Service says of Camp Wheeler during that period "Life would not have been easy in camp, particularly during the deadly measles and influenza outbreak of 1917 and 1918". It is very likely that the fellow died during the outbreak.
Most Christian cemeteries are facing with their feet towards the east. So that when Christ comes back, the dead will rise to face him in the east. Also graves used to be laid out with the grave at 7ft x3ft with a 3ft pathway. The names would face the pathway. Therefore, like a few have said here already, you're not standing on their grave when you're reading the stone. On another note, most of the stones in that cemetery are made of marble. Once cleaned up, they would be a beautiful white or grey stone. Margret Lassister is a grey granite. Marble was the most common stone material prior to the 1850s. As the railroad system expanded, more granite gravestones started appearing. Marble is around 75#/cu.ft. While granite is around 190#/cu.ft. Marble was cheaper to ship by wagon and/or river boat.
Hello from Sheridan, WY. I forwarded this to my sister and her son who are really into genealogy. They are LDS and may be able to do something to help with all the cemeteries you are finding that is not in any records if you have not had any luck getting these recorded. I find these little bits of life very interesting and wonder about how they lived and died. We had one just outside of town in one of our little bitty communities that people finally got together several years ago and cleaned up and fixed the headstones. You can see it when you are driving north on I90 towards Billings, MT. It is on the right-hand side of the road just below a rocky outcropping of a hill.
I love what you do and am very grateful that you share your findings with us. Many of these souls may have no family living and they deserve to be remembered.
Amazingly good, simple videos. You are very well spoken and very respectful. What your doing is amazing, speaking the name of those forgotten... great job!
Here in South Louisiana many of the older head stones are dated with the months written in French. Awesome videos, im new to the channel so i have some catching up to do.
Love watching your cemetery videos. It’s nice to at least mention those names that have past. It’s like bringing them back to life. Have gone but not forgotten. Thanks from Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you for recording these lost graves and places before they are gone forever still wish we could talk to them just think what we could learn same with old buildings to know their stories.
I thank you all for doing a great service in locating and bringing to light our forgotten family’s of the past had family that fought on both sides during the Civil War more on the Southern side keep up the good work and stay healthy and safe you and your family
Robert I really enjoy your sidestep adventures.I never realized that there are so many abandoned and uncared for cemeteries.A friend of mine and myself like to go to cemeteries to read the headstones.It is very interesting.I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your sidestep adventures.Thank you Robert.
I loved this video. I just discovered you and will continue watching them all. I grew up in Waycross (ware Co.), GA - Your videos feel like home!! Thank yous o much!!!
Dogs know every single detail of our lives! Past, present and future. They smell where we have been, saw and did. That's why they are man's best friend. They are here to watch and protect us💜
It’s been fascinating to watch you go through old cemeteries. My family has been here since Jamestown and Plymouth, traveling south every few generations. I’ve seen some pretty familiar names, including Lassiter(my cousins paternal family). Keep it up!
I'm so glad you had a pair of young eyes with you. Cody catches a lot you miss. Go Cody! And, since you admitted you can't see the writing on the lower part of the grave and therefore do not read it, please let Cody read it for those of us who love the personalized tributes to the deceased.
Great find...you need a little broom, the respect you give the residence of the cemeteries is greatly appreciated . .. you have to wonder where the next generations have gone to.
Thank you for sharing your video, how you and your friends are showing some people where there missing family members graveyard is please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends
I love your cemetery videos! You are so kind and respectful! The way you touch the stones is so respectful. I also like how you read the whole stone and comment so thoughtfully. You've raised Cody right by taking him with you and teaching him to love and respect everything.
Acid rain has likely turned originally marked graves into "unmarked," as it continues to do. The headstones are soft limestone, which reacts strongly and dissolves relatively quickly.
Earl W. Witt, died 1917 at Camp Wheeler. In 1917-1918 was Spanish Flu epidemic and it was unusual because it killed many young adults, not just very young and very old. Many soldiers enlisted in WWI died of the flu. I don't know if that is what happened to this young man, but possible.
New subscriber. This is the first video that I've watched. I've used the Find a Grave website for family research before. I was curious about this cemetery, so I looked it up and found it on their site. Someone had recorded the graves and posted pictures in 2012. Great video. It was nice walking and exploring with you.
Thanks for your post. I was going to check Find A Grave, too! I am so glad that the cemetery has been recorded. I wonder if they checked and posted the surrounding graves in the woods as well?
Just a thought, a lot of popele that have lost their familys just go off and leave the graves to fade into the earth, however my mother and her sisters replaced all of the old limestone grave markers and replaced them with ones of granite withe the same inscriptions on them so they will be preserved. I would like to thank you for making this and your other videos
Hello, New Subscriber here. I enjoyed your video very much. It was nice that you took your time and made the effort to record the headstones. All of your crew seemed very respectful which is nice to see. I will keep watching!!!
Are you guys having an unusually wet Spring? We sure are! This is the coolest, wettest May we've had in the 35 years I've been in Arizona. Great video! I love seeing the old graves. I wonder what those people would think of the world we live in?
@@AdventuresIntoHistory It sure looked like it was raining hard in this video! Thanks again for taking the trouble to document these old places. They're disappearing so fast. Most young people don't get interested in old things until they get a few years on the clock themselves, so to speak. We're blessed in a way no other generation in human history has been. If people like you take the trouble to document these places, when our kids [or their kids, for that matter] get old enough to care, there will a record of the places you have documented for them to look at.
Fue como una película de fantasmas, la niebla desapareció rápidamente, lo normal hubiera sido que se dispersara lentamente. Esto prueba que a los muertos les agrada Robert. Precioso lugar gracias por compartir con los que no podemos visitarlo.
I love your cemetery videos. I like the way you say their names so their names are said again. My mom used to take us as children to cemeteries so always interesting to us. My grandmother was raised Quaker and there is an old cemetery near Flushing Ohio with our family graves. They were part of the underground railroad
Ms. Pete Sidewalk Im glad I'm not the only one. I love hearing about the history & imagine how their life would have been like I live in Australia 🇦🇺🐨🦘👍
There was a US post office established in Bottsford, Sumter County, Georgia that opperated intermittently from 1852 - 1895. The records of the Post Office Department generally contain "site reports," which have fairly detailed locations of the offices. There is also usually a map provided by the postmaster. These records are available through the national archives on microfilm. Many historical societies, history departments, etc. have them in house.
You might want to do what I do when I explore graveyards, i always carry a stiff brush (preferably natural bristle)a knife and extra bottles of water, so I can clean areas and headstones I also carry small flags (you can buy packs of 5 -10 at dollar stores) to place by soldier's graves
I love your videos. I also like going through old cemeteries, but am not able to walk much now. So I do so much like viewing them in your videos. You do such a good and thorough job of it. Thank you for sharing. God bless.
BOTSFORD CHURCH - 1773 Botsford Church, Constituted in 1773 by the Rev. Edmund Botsford, was the second Baptist church in Georgia. Originally located 25 miles below Augusta, known as New Savannah Church, it was moved about 10 miles to this place after the Revolution. Rev. Botsford, born in England, a vigorous missionary, wrote: “In August, 1773, I rode 650 miles, preached 42 sermons & baptized 21 persons.”
You do a beautiful job here. God bless you. Thank you for reading them. You never know there just might be family out here. Get people interested in their family history.
What I do when going to old cemeteries is take a broom, a large container of water and an old towel, and some gardening hand tools and try and clean up some of the overgrown and dirty graves and headstones. Next time I will get some before and after pics.
Very interesting love doing this as well my mother's family has private cemetery around the lake of Ozark in Missouri it goes way back in time. Back then people had there own family cemetery it's really cool .
Hi Cindy! I'm a budding taphophile too...about eight years ago I was able to get pictures of stones in my paternal family's cemetery. If I could own that little piece of ground I would be a happy camper.
Just stumbled on this video. I will have to check out your channel a bit. I have relatives in area of Macon. Interesting history found in graveyards. I love to hunt and find and help others with finds locally.
Just think, most of those people would of never ridden in an automobile only horse drawn carriages. The first ones were built in the 1890's but you had to be wealthy to own one.
Great adventure. You always bring the human story to light. BTW, I saw someone else use plain flour to bring out the writing better. As for the writing on the back of the headstone, is it possible they didn't want anyone walking on their grave?
Maybe, that’s what Brian has suggested too. It makes sense, but also seems to be an age related thing also. I gotta find out exactly what the reason was.
I love your videos, just recently found you on utube, l am a fan, l love country, am a hillbilly myself who came from coal mining ancestors in Appalachia
Thank you for sharing this video. It just makes you remember that these people lived their lives probably right there in that vicinity or pretty close by. But then the Bible says life is but a vapor that it appears for a little while and then it's gone. I wonder is it possible to go to the courthouse and go through the old records they have there and read about these people. But I do believe that this is probably before they kept records of anything in any Courthouse because there was most likely not a courthouse at that time I can't say that for sure
That was many depressions unmarked Graves. That one died at Camp Wheeler he died of the Spanish Flu. Great video and thank you for you do. God's blessing to you all.
I really appreciate the work that y p u guys do it really means alot to me growimg up im Lake city Florida on the Florida Georgia line those could be sme of my relatives out there you dont just know how much it means to me thats a part of America history that nobody knew about i really wish you guys would go to the local media and let the people know what you guys found out there i lpve you guys you do a great service for all of us afro americans .
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What started as a rained out adventure turned into a really interesting find. The 3 headstones were pretty interesting. I found out afterwards that there used to be a church at this cemetery. But there are no remains to be found. It’s amazing to think what the cemetery grounds used to look like, before people forgot...
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Very nice job!! Very respectful. I like it that you spend time READING what you can of the headstones, letting people know that they're gone but not for gotten about.
It was very interesting. When I have more time and a new pad I'll try to list by male/female ...born/death dates, then try to see when pandemics/sicknesses my have happened in their time and neck of the woods.
Maybe something was going around like TB, or deaths by childbirth. Someone would maybe have a record of the Southern Soldier or soldiers. Maybe that soldier could be moved to a National Cemetary with full honnors.
I was going to recommend Teespring but see you already use them!!! Just start a store with them! Great video ! Would love to ride along one day!!!
Hey Yvonne! Thanks! Yeah I got an invite to join them a while back. We’ll definitely get together on a ride along!
jasonkp57 awesome! Thanks for the info!
I like the way you stop and read the headstones. So many cemetery videos just skim right past them and you dont get to read the info. Very interesting. Great job! 👍👍
Thank you for reading their names and dates. In a time where our history is being dismantled, we need people like you to keep it alive.
WeWuzzz o yes ! When Robert reads their names , it’s so pleasing to me too !
Our history and heritage dismantled by the idiot,ignorant crazies...
What do you mean about history being dismantled? I feel like we are finally hearing a fuller story of history particularly related to our country’s dark colonial past.
Exactly Lindsay. We are adding history that has previously been swept under the rug.
Robert, Brian and Cody, I work the front line , 13 hour shifts, as an RN fighting this virus. I want you boys to know, nothing helps me chill like going on a Sidestep Adventure. To say you help me keep my sanity is understated. Thank you from the bottom of my weary heart. OMGosh, “Joe no shoulders!!” I love that! Just be careful of those critters, Please!! And Robert, you have an incredibly soothing voice. I really really enjoy your ability to calm my nerves. I won’t go on and on, suffice it to say, I love your series. You boys are doing an awesome job and I appreciate the Peace you bring. I’ll keep on keeping on and y’all (I’m from Montana) do the same. Blessings to you!
Even though time and nature have claimed the resting places of so many people it is a reassurance and a comfort to know that God knows where each and every body is laid to rest. The centuries have forgotten secrets and I think it is awesome that you and your Sidestep team can uncover a few of those secrets a little at a time and share them with us. Thanks Robert/Bryan and Cody!
Thank you!
Richard Herbst.....very well put, indeed!! And another great video Sidestep Adventures!!☺️🌵☺️
It is sad when you think about it. Most of us will lay in forgotten graves one day.
It really is
It is not sad to me. I have been doing family genealogy lately and it has made me more accepting of my death.
That's why I want to be cremated...someone can throw my ashes to the sea and wind
@@ralphmacfadden2054 There's a McFadden cemetery near London, Ky. Could possibly be some of your family?
@@redlinemando From what I have researched, I don’t think so, but that is interesting.
Nathaniel and Louisa Williams were my great great grandparents. Their son Benjamin was indeed 11 years old when the civil war ended. He was known as Uncle Tobe. I would be happy to share information about him with you if you provide me a way to contact you. I am sad that you are not able to go farther down the road to the Holloman Creek Cemetary. Louisa Williams' parents are buried there.
Wow, thanks for the info! Here is my email, I would love to hear more! sidestepadventures@gmail.com
The Bottsford family and the Bottsford town can be found at Newspapers.com also probably at Ancestry.com with articles like the Lutheran synod met there in Sumpter County in 1880’s. George W Thomas moved and died there in 1887. A history of nearby Kinchafoonie River appears in 1888. And 1977 mentions the Bottsford Baptist Church near Plains GA.
So nice these people are not forgotten because of shows like this. Who wants to die and be forgotten?
again may I thank you for your respectful ways of bringing the history of the area to us. Please keep the videos coming.
Thank you so much!
I went fishing one day and took along my dog. As I was more or less in the middle of no where I just let my dog run loose. My dog was very well trained and had always come when called. That day when I was done fishing I called her and she did not come. I went for a walk and looked for her. She didn't come. After awhile I came across an old cemetery and there was my dog. I called her she looked at me but would not come she was laying down. I thought she was hurt so I walked up to her and saw she was laying on a grave that had a tomb stone that said my name on it and the person who died there died the same day I was born . Very odd
Bob Bates amazing. 🇦🇺🐨🦘👍
Might've been a relative that you were named for...
Reincarnation!
Wow! YOur dog is amazing to have found that grave and laid beside it. It's like she knew there is some kind of connection for you and that grave. God's creatures are a wonder to this world. It's been a year since you posted this. Hope she is doing fine and you also.
WOW! Wonder what the dog was thinking. You were named after this relative and this dog seem to have known him as he’d knowing you! Puzzled for his way of thinking! That’s a, great story! Ever asked your parents of this man which lived and died on the same dates outside you’re still with us!
Fletcher, Mark Harden 1st Corporal August 17, 1863. Severely wounded at Crater near
Petersburg, VA, July 10, 1864. Paroled at Farmville, VA, April 11-21, 1865.
Wow!
Milatary head stones can be added to a soldiers grave anytime after death. Someone must apply to the VA for it. If the service is approved. It will shipped to the person or company on the application and placed on the grave it belongs to.
I live within an hours drive to that area in Virginia. I’d Love to go visit a forgotten cemetery and help give it some care.
Ok Robert. great vids. The backward headstones! Think about it when the living read or honor the deceased..They wont be standing on the body. Such a smart way of burial w a headstone. Should be this way now. The old generation had it RIGHT again. God bless yall
'Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.'
hellohkitty..Great poem! Very appropriate. It was like finding a prize in the comments! Thanks!👍🙋
Tim Cantrell from Garrett Fort
Did you make that up or is it from another writer’s poem? Very good
@@stevenwolven9367 from the thirties movie ''dracula''
@@hell0hkitty ok thanks hey God bless you And your
My father was at Camp Wheeler in 1942 . He underwent US Army Ranger training and was assigned to the 1st Ranger Battalion. Darbys Rangers. I was at WRAFB in 1971 .
My guess for putting the person's information on the back of the tombstone is so you could stand and read it and not have to stand on top of the person to do it.
Jackie Pierce that's how my 3x great-grandfathers grave is. He died in 1884
This is what I've heard also.
yes im laaate with it but i aagree
That seems logical. My wife and I often explore old cemeteries and have always wondered if there is a standard as to which way the graves lay in respect of their markers.
How very intresting. To think that all these people were once full of life and laugher , who lived and loved, we all will eventually end up in one of these cemetaries. The only remembrance we will have, will be our headstone. I love the respect you show for these departed souls. Cemeteries are so peaceful , I often walk through and read the headstones, and think about, the people, and the life they once lived. We have a very old Chinese cemetery, where alot of chinese are buried , who had worked on the nearby railroad, its very intresting and historical. Thank you for sharing.
Cody always has something interesting to tell us, on those rare occasions when he speaks up.
Right
There is a lady buried in this cemetery ( at 13:56 ) that died just 4 days short of her birthday :( I have so much heartfelt sympathy for all of these lovely people that once lived, raised children, grew their own food..etc, it just breaks my heart to see those sunken headstones and, in some cases, messed up graves. However, It's so interesting to see all these old graves, ones that if they could speak to us today....imagine the history they could tell us...all about the Civil War, WWI and WWII and in some cases, Revolutionary War, the sinking of the Titanic..etc. Thank You so much for this video!!
I agree
they lived through so many things .my grandma passed away many years ago.She was born In about 1850 .she lived through those years and grew up In Jasper Ark .i wish I had been older
to inquire about her life and how life was back then..
@@bonniejulien8505 Oh Bonnie, if you could have spoken with her or someone in you're family that also knew about her life, imagine what kind of personal family history you could have discovered? I'm sorry for you're loss as well
Advice from an Archaeologist: take a small, straw, whisk broom with you to brush debris from the stones. As long as you are soft handed, you won't damage the stones. Avoid brushing decaying, or crumbling grave stone.
Enjoy.
barkingmad50 thank you so much for this advice. I was desperate to be an archaeologist or a nurse when I was young. Nursing won as I was dissuaded on archaeology as it would be hard to get a job...or so I was told.
@@bobbibuttons8730 I was of the same mindset, archaeology or nursing. Nursing won. ER RN of 28 years now.
Carrie Rogers I think it’s something inside us that pulls us down that route Carrie. We must have been good at it. My background is haematology/transplant and I wouldn’t have changed it for the world. I was medically retired a few years ago now after 35 years and I count myself privileged for every minute I spent doing something I loved so much.
I originally come from New England. We had many cemeteries dating back to the 1700s. The local genealogists would frequently bring drawing pads to
Use to read worn inscriptions. By placing the paper over the stone and using a charcoal or pencil to rub on the paper many times indecipherable inscriptions become readable
Regarding the young man who died at Camp Wheeler in 1917........ The National Park Service says of Camp Wheeler during that period "Life would not have been easy in camp, particularly during the deadly measles and influenza outbreak of 1917 and 1918". It is very likely that the fellow died during the outbreak.
Yeah definitely
History repeats.
My great uncle died in camp during this time. He had measles which was serious. At that time.
Thank y’all for this! It looked like 2 forms of mist returning to their graves. The lives of so many✌️
Most Christian cemeteries are facing with their feet towards the east. So that when Christ comes back, the dead will rise to face him in the east. Also graves used to be laid out with the grave at 7ft x3ft with a 3ft pathway. The names would face the pathway. Therefore, like a few have said here already, you're not standing on their grave when you're reading the stone.
On another note, most of the stones in that cemetery are made of marble. Once cleaned up, they would be a beautiful white or grey stone. Margret Lassister is a grey granite. Marble was the most common stone material prior to the 1850s. As the railroad system expanded, more granite gravestones started appearing. Marble is around 75#/cu.ft. While granite is around 190#/cu.ft. Marble was cheaper to ship by wagon and/or river boat.
Hello from Sheridan, WY. I forwarded this to my sister and her son who are really into genealogy. They are LDS and may be able to do something to help with all the cemeteries you are finding that is not in any records if you have not had any luck getting these recorded. I find these little bits of life very interesting and wonder about how they lived and died. We had one just outside of town in one of our little bitty communities that people finally got together several years ago and cleaned up and fixed the headstones. You can see it when you are driving north on I90 towards Billings, MT. It is on the right-hand side of the road just below a rocky outcropping of a hill.
Thanks for sharing this sad venue of the forgotten graves. God bless 😇 all their souls and may all their souls rest in PEACE IN GOD'S HANDS. AMEN.
I love what you do and am very grateful that you share your findings with us. Many of these souls may have no family living and they deserve to be remembered.
Amazingly good, simple videos. You are very well spoken and very respectful. What your doing is amazing, speaking the name of those forgotten... great job!
Thanks!
I am respectful to the people that died there. Thank you for sharing.
Here in South Louisiana many of the older head stones are dated with the months written in French. Awesome videos, im new to the channel so i have some catching up to do.
Love watching your cemetery videos. It’s nice to at least mention those names that have past. It’s like bringing them back to life. Have gone but not forgotten. Thanks from Australia 🇦🇺
Very respectful, thank you for caring. Really enjoy your travels.
so good to see how respectfull, carefull and loveable you treat those graves and call out all the names 🇳🇱👍❤😉
Life has no guarantee,nor does death. Thank You for your efforts!
Thank you for recording these lost graves and places before they are gone forever still wish we could talk to them just think what we could learn same with old buildings to know their stories.
I thank you all for doing a great service in locating and bringing to light our forgotten family’s of the past had family that fought on both sides during the Civil War more on the Southern side keep up the good work and stay healthy and safe you and your family
I love your videos on finding these old forgotten cemeteries. Please keep it up. It's very important to do.
Robert I really enjoy your sidestep adventures.I never realized that there are so many abandoned and uncared for cemeteries.A friend of mine and myself like to go to cemeteries to read the headstones.It is very interesting.I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your sidestep adventures.Thank you Robert.
I like that you read the stones, there is so much to learn from them!
I loved this video. I just discovered you and will continue watching them all. I grew up in Waycross (ware Co.), GA - Your videos feel like home!! Thank yous o much!!!
I just discovered this channel too. I really enjoyed watching the video.
Dogs know every single detail of our lives! Past, present and future. They smell where we have been, saw and did. That's why they are man's best friend. They are here to watch and protect us💜
It’s been fascinating to watch you go through old cemeteries. My family has been here since Jamestown and Plymouth, traveling south every few generations. I’ve seen some pretty familiar names, including Lassiter(my cousins paternal family). Keep it up!
Many old, many older, but that cemetery looks to be taken care of. Thanks Guys. Again, saying their names means not forgotten!
Yeah, it does, all except for back.
Really enjoying these videos! I'd love to show you guys some old slave cemeteries down here in FL.
Uh...did you capture a ghost cloud starting at 4:21?
I saw that too.
Misty day.
Sidestep Adventures I saw it too!
Peter Ward I thought it was a camp fire for a minute. Does look like mist for it being in just one place than quickly vanish. Odd !
I was wondering 🤤
I don't know if you will see this but I will like to say thank you so much I have enjoyed watching this God bless you 🙏❤️
Very interesting, thank you. The carved headstones are beautiful. The children's graves are so sad.
Wish someone in MO would do the same - always interesting to learn who was here before us. Thank you for sharing your adventures!
I'm so glad you had a pair of young eyes with you. Cody catches a lot you miss. Go Cody! And, since you admitted you can't see the writing on the lower part of the grave and therefore do not read it, please let Cody read it for those of us who love the personalized tributes to the deceased.
As always very interesting, I love your respect for the departed and their history.Thank you for your compassionate visit to their resting place.
I admire your respect for the graves in cemeteries you visit. That's how graves must be treated. Thank you for your amazing video
Thank-you for being so respectful and kind!
Welcome back Sidestep Adventure . Becareful at all times and keep safe. God bless 😇 you.
Great find...you need a little broom, the respect you give the residence of the cemeteries is greatly appreciated . .. you have to wonder where the next generations have gone to.
This cemetery looks better than the other one, thank you very much four be very respectful to the graves.
Thank you for sharing your video, how you and your friends are showing some people where there missing family members graveyard is please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends
I love your cemetery videos! You are so kind and respectful! The way you touch the stones is so respectful. I also like how you read the whole stone and comment so thoughtfully. You've raised Cody right by taking him with you and teaching him to love and respect everything.
Acid rain has likely turned originally marked graves into "unmarked," as it continues to do. The headstones are soft limestone, which reacts strongly and dissolves relatively quickly.
Very Interesting. Thank You for being respectful of the departed.
Earl W. Witt, died 1917 at Camp Wheeler. In 1917-1918 was Spanish Flu epidemic and it was unusual because it killed many young adults, not just very young and very old. Many soldiers enlisted in WWI died of the flu. I don't know if that is what happened to this young man, but possible.
Wow, very possible.
I love seeing these places that are what is left from days gone by❤
You guys do what I'd love to do and you're always very respectful to the past.
I love the country. Beautiful land scape. Another great video thank you.
Thank you so much!
New subscriber. This is the first video that I've watched. I've used the Find a Grave website for family research before. I was curious about this cemetery, so I looked it up and found it on their site. Someone had recorded the graves and posted pictures in 2012. Great video. It was nice walking and exploring with you.
Thanks for your post. I was going to check Find A Grave, too! I am so glad that the cemetery has been recorded. I wonder if they checked and posted the surrounding graves in the woods as well?
Thank you for another fantastic find x
Just a thought, a lot of popele that have lost their familys just go off and leave the graves to fade into the earth, however my mother and her sisters replaced all of the old limestone grave markers and replaced them with ones of granite withe the same inscriptions on them so they will be preserved. I would like to thank you for making this and your other videos
So interesting and such a forgotten vibe here bless your heart for finding these cemeteries thank you 😊
Hello, New Subscriber here. I enjoyed your video very much. It was nice that you took your time and made the effort to record the headstones. All of your crew seemed very respectful which is nice to see. I will keep watching!!!
I wonder if the stones were set that way so you would not stand on the actual grave to read the stone . great video loved seeing the old farms
That’s what Brian suggested to. Makes sense.
Exactly my same thoughts. Agreed
It’s really nice that y’all care so much about your community .
Are you guys having an unusually wet Spring? We sure are! This is the coolest, wettest May we've had in the 35 years I've been in Arizona. Great video! I love seeing the old graves. I wonder what those people would think of the world we live in?
Its like 75 in Mesa I was chilly riding my bike
A wet spring in southern Wisconsin, too.
We’ve had a lot stronger weather than usual this year. It’s also gotten hot, rather than a mild spring, but that’s not unusual for Georgia.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory It sure looked like it was raining hard in this video! Thanks again for taking the trouble to document these old places. They're disappearing so fast. Most young people don't get interested in old things until they get a few years on the clock themselves, so to speak. We're blessed in a way no other generation in human history has been. If people like you take the trouble to document these places, when our kids [or their kids, for that matter] get old enough to care, there will a record of the places you have documented for them to look at.
It was cold at night n very rainy here too in texas. Strong storms cold nites in May. Strange but enjoyable as its usually hot.
Fue como una película de fantasmas, la niebla desapareció rápidamente, lo normal hubiera sido que se dispersara lentamente. Esto prueba que a los muertos les agrada Robert. Precioso lugar gracias por compartir con los que no podemos visitarlo.
I love your cemetery videos. I like the way you say their names so their names are said again. My mom used to take us as children to cemeteries so always interesting to us. My grandmother was raised Quaker and there is an old cemetery near Flushing Ohio with our family graves. They were part of the underground railroad
It looks like someone has been mowing, but so many forgotten. It sure is beautiful with all the trees
Yes it is. I didn’t even notice all the birds and the frogs singing in the background while I was out there. Such a peaceful place.
Hi Robert, Thanks yet again. Most interesting. What you are doing recording this stuff for posterity is wonderful.
Love what you do. I'm a Yankee with a lot of good old friends.
4:23 That is not just mist in my opinion that looks alive. I really enjoy your videos.
I'm a new subscriber, and now I'm going to binge watch!!
Thanks!
Ms. Pete Sidewalk Im glad I'm not the only one. I love hearing about the history & imagine how their life would have been like I live in Australia 🇦🇺🐨🦘👍
There was a US post office established in Bottsford, Sumter County, Georgia that opperated intermittently from 1852 - 1895. The records of the Post Office Department generally contain "site reports," which have fairly detailed locations of the offices. There is also usually a map provided by the postmaster. These records are available through the national archives on microfilm. Many historical societies, history departments, etc. have them in house.
You might want to do what I do when I explore graveyards, i always carry a stiff brush (preferably natural bristle)a knife and extra bottles of water, so I can clean areas and headstones
I also carry small flags (you can buy packs of 5 -10 at dollar stores) to place by soldier's graves
I love your videos. I also like going through old cemeteries, but am not able to walk much now. So I do so much like viewing them in your videos. You do such a good and thorough job of it. Thank you for sharing. God bless.
Very good video,lots of history here. Kirk in Tennessee saying hello and thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
BOTSFORD CHURCH - 1773
Botsford Church, Constituted in 1773 by the Rev. Edmund Botsford, was the second Baptist church in Georgia. Originally located 25 miles below Augusta, known as New Savannah Church, it was moved about 10 miles to this place after the Revolution. Rev. Botsford, born in England, a vigorous missionary, wrote: “In August, 1773, I rode 650 miles, preached 42 sermons & baptized 21 persons.”
You do a beautiful job here. God bless you. Thank you for reading them. You never know there just might be family out here. Get people interested in their family history.
What I do when going to old cemeteries is take a broom, a large container of water and an old towel, and some gardening hand tools and try and clean up some of the overgrown and dirty graves and headstones. Next time I will get some before and after pics.
Thanks Robert I don't see well so it helps that you read the tombstones out loud to us so sad to see the babies and little children's graves 🙏😇♥️🇺🇸😢💔
Very interesting love doing this as well my mother's family has private cemetery around the lake of Ozark in Missouri it goes way back in time. Back then people had there own family cemetery it's really cool .
Hi Cindy! I'm a budding taphophile too...about eight years ago I was able to get pictures of stones in my paternal family's cemetery. If I could own that little piece of ground I would be a happy camper.
You do such a great job! I grew up in Ink Arkansas! Just love what you do.
Just curious how Ink got its name
I am in Jacksonville AR
Thank you!
This is a beautiful cemetery, Cody actually speaks. Great ❤️
The lone cloud or fog over the cemetery at 4:20 was kinda spooky!!!
Yeah it was....
My guess it was more than just fog 👻
I was just thinking that myself!
Yeah it was! I was looking for a comment to see if anyone else noticed it!
I noticed it... looks like a vape exhale.
5:19 this person died on my birthday, they would be 125 years old now
It's wonderful that you bring these videos, for I shall never get a chance to travel to it thanks
Just stumbled on this video. I will have to check out your channel a bit. I have relatives in area of Macon. Interesting history found in graveyards. I love to hunt and find and help others with finds locally.
Just think, most of those people would of never ridden in an automobile only horse drawn carriages. The first ones were built in the 1890's but you had to be wealthy to own one.
It’s amazing to think just how much daily life has changed
That was a beautiful cemetery and great looking stones.
Great adventure. You always bring the human story to light. BTW, I saw someone else use plain flour to bring out the writing better. As for the writing on the back of the headstone, is it possible they didn't want anyone walking on their grave?
P.S. As I was growing up it was considered to be desecration of someone's grave to walk on it. That was circa 1960's.
Maybe, that’s what Brian has suggested too. It makes sense, but also seems to be an age related thing also. I gotta find out exactly what the reason was.
I love your videos, just recently found you on utube, l am a fan, l love country, am a hillbilly myself who came from coal mining ancestors in Appalachia
Thank you so much!
Deborah Isaacs So is my husband n his family. Ravenswood n Richwood. ☺
Thank you for sharing this video. It just makes you remember that these people lived their lives probably right there in that vicinity or pretty close by. But then the Bible says life is but a vapor that it appears for a little while and then it's gone. I wonder is it possible to go to the courthouse and go through the old records they have there and read about these people. But I do believe that this is probably before they kept records of anything in any Courthouse because there was most likely not a courthouse at that time I can't say that for sure
There is a beauty in the fact that nature takes over everything, when all people have left.
That was many depressions unmarked Graves. That one died at Camp Wheeler he died of the Spanish Flu. Great video and thank you for you do. God's blessing to you all.
Would the info be on “the back” of the markers so the family/visitors would not have had to stand upon the actual grave when visiting???
I really appreciate the work that y p u guys do it really means alot to me growimg up im Lake city Florida on the Florida Georgia line those could be sme of my relatives out there you dont just know how much it means to me thats a part of America history that nobody knew about i really wish you guys would go to the local media and let the people know what you guys found out there i lpve you guys you do a great service for all of us afro americans .