This was a fun adventure in a different part of Georgia from where I usually film. About 80 miles south of me as a matter of fact. It’s neat to see this area’s pioneer graves, and the stones which have noted differences just in that short distance. Shoutouts to “gas fund” contributors: Syma! Darion G (incredible support!!) Dawn D Rosemarie L Tracy J Ruby M (You are all amazing!) PayPal Gas Fund: www.paypal.me/rwrightphotography Support Sidestep Adventures: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures My flashlights: US amzn.to/3dh4UDf UK amzn.to/3bDxVHY
I worked in the nursing home next door to this cemetery for years. Lived in the next town over, Georgetown...even smaller. It sits overlooking the beautiful Chattahoochie river. I spent many afternoons walking through here reading these same stones...wondering about their lives. Many of my coworkers families had been there for generations. I was told by one of them that there are many older unmarked graves, to include slaves, on the hill leading down to the water. Lovely little historical town that’s very dear to my heart. Thank you 😊
12 yrs old. 13 yrs old. 40s and 50s? That is a place of countless tears shed. Let us not forget the poor parents burying their children at that sacred site.
Robert! You missed a great story with the Prescott plot!! The13 year old girl was so cherished that her name Georgianna is a mixture of her parents names George and Ann. Also, they decided to have another child born after Georgiannas death but he, George Jr, also died young at 12 years plus some months. Very sad!!
Forgot to add that the parents George and Ann died young as well. Both were around 50 and they died only a couple of years after young George Jr. Really really sad!!!
My god how did you know that?!. The lives of these dead would be volumes of interesting reading. And how did these people die so young? This stuff gets me curious and wondering. Love it.
@Mack Vela Are you referring to monuments or cemeteries. MANY Americans do care very much about our monuments and historic buildings and we spend money on them. I was a history major and grew up in an a family of academics. We traveled to war sites regularly and museums throughout the entire eastern side of the country. These places are full of other Americans visiting these monuments/sites/museum. Now if you are referring to our politicians, well they suck and only care to preserve monuments specific to their states.
How tragic! The Prescotts lost a son at 12 and a daughter at 13 years of age. I believe the strange wording of the daughters virtues referred to her tender age , beauty and purity of a young woman.
Some damage in these cemeteries were done when trees fell on the markers. Oscar Sheppard fought and died in the Civil War. He is buried there. He was very young. Don't know why the Daughter's of the Confederacy have never acknowledged it. Enjoyed your tour.
It really astounds me that there are some from the late 1700’s. And, there is something very satisfying seeing you pull a vine from the stones It wouldn’t be long before it would be consumed. Afterwards, I noticed a very pretty flower waving in front of it. Thank you Robert. This was a lovely walk today!
Elise franks mother - love your channel thanks for another very interesting video. My great grandmother was named chloe Johnson, she was adopted, was found in the woods lost at about the age of 2 or 3 years old in southwestern Georgia. Only could say her first name.
It amazes me how these people truly loved God and their faith in God back then. You would have to hang on to your beliefs back then I guess. Life couldn't have been easy. With the loss of so many children. Very different today. Makes me wonder. Do we think we don't need God anymore? Maybe. I don't know. I just know that when you find these older cemetery's these people have left quit a legacy behind just on their tome stones for the rest of us today. Something to think about for sure. Thank you. I love these older cemeteries. The only thing these people took for granted was God. Nothing else was for sure. God bless.
Drug addictions, and thought addictions are closely related on a neurological level. Some people are more beholden to the ancient part of the brain (Meso Limbic System/emotional) rather than someone that reasons using the modern part (Frontal Cortex/rational). "The second system, known as the mesolimbic system, has its cell bodies in the ventral tegmental area, which is medial to the substantia nigra. It projects to several parts of the limbic system, including the nucleus accumbens and ventral portions of the striatum, amygdala, and hippocampus, as well as prefrontal cortex. *This system has been linked to reward-related behavior (Berridge and Kringelbach, 2015). Dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens increase in response to both natural reinforcers (such as food, drink, and sex) and drugs of abuse (such as amphetamine and cocaine). Additionally, in humans, activity in this region increases in response to more abstract rewards, such as money."* Marie T. Banich/Rebecca J. Compton, Cognitive Neuroscience, Section: Subsystems, pp. 2/3 *"Dopamine, in fact, is critical in association learning and the reward system of the brain that Skinner discovered through his process of operant conditioning, whereby any behavior that is reinforced tends to be repeated. A reinforcement is, by definition, something that is rewarding to the organism; that is to say, it makes the brain direct the body to repeat the behavior in order to get another positive reward.* ...The connection between dopamine and belief was established by experiments conducted by Peter Brugger and his colleague Christine Mohr at the University of Bristol in England. *Exploring the neurochemistry of superstition, magical thinking, and belief in the paranormal, Brugger and Mohr found that people with high levels of dopamine are more likely to find significance in coincidences and pick out meaning and patterns where there are none."* Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain, Section: 6 The Believing Neuron pp. 8-10/29 *"Genetic and behavioral factors influencing religiously motivated behavior appear related to dopamine metabolism and signaling. Inclination toward religious behavior and motivation has been associated with a polymorphism on the dopamine receptor gene DRD4 (Comings, Gonzales, Saucier, Johnson, & MacMurray, 2000;Sasaki et al., 2013). Acquired disorders of dopamine physiology also show links to religious behaviors."* www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478470/ *"Religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much the same way as love, sex, gambling, drugs and music,* report researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine." unews.utah.edu/this-is-your-brain-on-god/ "Dopamine, adrenaline, and noradrenaline are neurotransmitters that belong to the catecholamine family. Dopamine is produced in the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental regions of the brain, and *dopamine alterations are related to schizophrenia (1, 2). ...The “original dopamine hypothesis” states that hyperactive dopamine transmission results in schizophrenic symptoms."* www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4032934/ *"Dopamine In schizophrenia (SCZ), there is evidence that very high levels of dopamine in the limbic system play a major role in emergence of hallucinations and delusions. Antipsychotic medications, which block central dopamine activity, alleviate the hallucinations of psychosis. Drugs with strong dopaminergic effect, such as L-dopa, methylphenidate, bromocriptine, pramipexole and piribedil, may induce hallucinations. D-amphetamine, a direct dopamine agonist, may also induce psychosis and hallucinations."* www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996210/ *"Here, we show that administration of a drug that enhances dopaminergic function (dihydroxy-L-phenylalanine; L-DOPA) increases an optimism bias. This effect is due to L-DOPA impairing the ability to update belief in response to undesirable information about the future."* www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424419/ "Tibetan mystics have long practiced a method to create sentient beings (Tulpas) from the power of concentrated thought." Note: These (Tulpas) are not sentient beings, but a manifestation of the subconscious mind through neural plasticity via neurochemical imbalancing inducing meditation. In other words it's having a dream state while awake, and interacting with a character that's made up of one's own preformed thoughts (building blocks of ideas/concepts that are below conscious awareness) which gives the illusion of sentience. In simpler words it's self induced schizophrenia due to stresses (psychological/physical/environmental) where neurochemical traffic gets rerouted causing hallucinations to any of the five senses, also including involuntary movement, and distorted speech (glossolalia). www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_ca/article/exmqzz/tulpamancy-internet-subculture-892 Imagine the euphoria experienced by the average person for believing they won a million dollars on a scratch off ticket (it could be a joke ticket yet as long as they believe). Now imagine someone having the same sensations, but being convinced it's a paranormal contact for believing John 3:16. We evolved to seek pleasure (eating/reproduction), and avoid getting killed (tiger in the grass/competing neighbor/harsh enviroment). With our increased cognitive abilities we made up other reasons for pleasure, and survival beyond basic necessity. The Dopamine Reward System over time bridges gaps in pathways in order to form habits in order to repeat behaviors, and or thoughts. The often cited testimony of getting off an addiction thanks to a God is just a placebo replacement due to the power of the mind (an AA participant I heard of chose to worship the radiator in his room instead of an higher power, and became sober). Ancient people did not know the neurosciences. Philo of Alexandria thought that joy came from Heaven by way of God's chief archangel the "Divine Word/Right Reason (Logos)". ON DREAMS, THAT THEY ARE GOD-SENT Book 2 "XXXVII ...And *who can pour over the happy soul which proffers its own reason as the most sacred cup, the holy goblets of true joy, except the cup-bearer of God, the master of the feast, the Word* ?" ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION, III "LX ... *the soul very often, when it is delighted, is yet unable to explain what it is that has delighted it; but it is taught by the hierophant and prophet Moses, who tells it, “This is the bread, the food which God has given for the Soul, (Exo. **16:15**)” explaining that God has brought it, his own Word and his own Reason; for this bread which he has given us to eat is this Word of his* ." The High Priest's headdress had a crown made of a plant known for it's hallucinogenic properties at which a golden plate covered the forehead. On said golden plate was inscribed sacred characters for the name of God. Josephus: THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BOOK 3, CHAPTER 7 (172-178), CONCERNING THE GARMENTS ...OF THE HIGH PRIEST "6. The high priest's mitre was the same that we described before, and was wrought like that of all the other priests; above which there was another, with swathes of blue embroidered, and round it was a golden crown polished, of three rows, one above another; out of which arose a cup of gold, which resembled the herb which we call Saccharus: *but those Greeks that are skilful in botany call it Hyoscyamus. ...Now the fruit is preserved by this coat of the calyx, which fruit is like the seed of the herb Sideritis: it sends out a flower that may seem to resemble that of poppy. Of this was a crown made, as far as from the hinder part of the head to each of the temples; but this Ephielis, for so this calyx may be called, did not cover the forehead, but it was covered with a golden plate, which had inscribed upon it the name of God in sacred characters. And such were the ornaments of the high priest."* *Hyoscyamus Niger* " ...was historically used..., *as well as for its psychoactive properties in "magic brews". These psychoactive properties include visual hallucinations and a sensation of flight. ...The plant, recorded as Herba Apollinaris, was used to yield oracles by the priestesses of Apollo.* " en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoscyamus_niger Scrambled neurochemistry is insight to another realm for some people. The Holy Dopamine Ghost (Thoughts are addictive) ru-vid.com/group/PLQATeZAnm87BaJjBtM1vMIq_gHRmBq3ie Scripture is designed to keep people in the thought addiction, and shut out from the group those that question. "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction." (Prov. 1:7) "In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." "but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed." (2 Cor. 4:4, 3:16) "As for the Disbelievers, Whether thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe not. Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be an awful doom." (Quran 2.006-.007) "Fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good." (Psa. 14:1) "but whoever blasphemes against the *Holy Dopamine Ghost* can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" (Mark 3:29) i.imgflip.com/1ydvtk.jpg
I think values were practiced much more back then..people were married , no tvs....idk...I remember an old gentleman smoked a pipe walking down the street always dressed so nice tilting his hat for me when I walked by...😍 was wonderful.....this was in the 1990s....
Captain Bleirdo were here to enjoy the history of forgotten people, their heritage, faith, expressions of their lives shown in their grave stones. Were not interested in your diatribes. Go troll somewhere else. Were not interested.
Appreciate your respect. I too feel heartfallen when I see the the condition of cemetaries. Though they be quiet, lonely, and all but forgotten, they will be a noisy, raucous, and glorified place at the resurrection.
What on earth possesses people to go to a cemetery and destroy the graves!!! I will never understand it there just isn’t any rhyme or reason for it. I think you are wonderful for all you do Robert we know once you’ve found a graveyard that it will be cleaned up and those poor ppl remembered again
What's awful too is plowing over them! My gggrand mother's family cemetary was plowed under by some modern farmer.My cousins went and replaced the tombstones.
Alana Tolstad I so agree with you, it's like a chorus sing we haven't forgotten you. Can tell me whatis a "Rat Snake" are they harmless. Cheers from Victoria Australia 🇦🇺🐨🦘💙🌏
@@lynnebunning7273 Rat snakes are harmless to humans, but they can/will bite if really necessary. I'm not aware of their existence here in my part of Coastal California, but do know they can be found in rural North Dakota, where I'm from originally.
people who were lucky enough to get to adult hood still mostly had very short lives compared with today. You can only imagine how brutal life must have been for people in this era. Thanks as always Robert for these VLogs
Love seeing these historical cemeteries. The epitaphs are hauntingly beautiful. It was a time period of heavy grief when children died so young, I imagine. Thanks for the video.
So many little graveyards like this dot the Georgia landscape. There was one little overgrown one in my neighbourhood in Smyrna GA growing up in the 70s. Of course all the usual haunting stories attached. Most often concocted to keep marauding teenagers out...
Thank you again for going out of your way to film death and life in that cemetery. well done. My attention grabbed General John Dill. I did some research and came up that the Major Important Generals in the Confederate army would appoint men under their command as Generals. And there were a few I found that were listed but not like General Gill. But each important commander had underlings appointed to serve but never got recognition.
Excellent video so very rich in history! Take a moment and imagine the lives of those at Ft Gaines in the early 1800's. Additionally ... the one thing I see trending across all of these old graveyards is that the mortality rate for the very young to young adults was extremely high compared to today. Conditions, including disease, virus and "SOME" hostile Indians were ever present.
1.04 this marker has beautiful details ( flowers ), real craftmanship. Looks like the markers have been cleaned not so long ago, makes it easy to read the info; on the other hand they don't look ""old "" anymore. 13.03 if you look at the top you van see an O , P , A, R 16.39 1853 21.57 father of Mary Ann E.(1833-1837) Cemetery : Old Pioneer Cemetery a.k.a. Fort Gaines Cemetery. ; 39 memorials. Sad to see so many passed away at a young age.. Interesting explore of this cemetery with early settlers.Hope someday an explorer comes across my ancestors.They went to US with a complete town after it was completely destroyed by fire.Thanks for sharing Robert.
That was a very interesting cemetery, The gravestones were really beautiful and some surprisingly preserved. You think it would be better kept by the city since their workers park right beside. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤
I love that Georgianna's parents essentially combined their names to name her...something sweet about that. At least, when it works out well, lol. Not sure my fiancé and I could pull that off.
Love the stones in the enclosed area - the second one has the most beautiful streaking I have ever seen. There are some significant repairs that have been made on some of these as well.
@@randomvintagefilm273 doubt its even vandalism on a lot of them especially that are that old. The materials they're made with do just fall apart due to weather/water damage over the centuries & the earth/landscape taking things back over. Not to mention parents can 100% raise those drunk teens right, teens rebel & do their own thing which is no fault of any parents- its nature also. You wouldnt be able to read some headstones if they didnt end up on their face due to weather erosion & some of those that were unmarked here were proably marked at one time its just no longer visable due to weather/years causing them to fade away
@@lisaaltizer465 You and me both!! I about fell out of my chair when he touched that poison ivy at that first grave. But like they said he must be one of the lucky ones that does not break out from it. I ended up getting plastered with it on one side while mowing a tree line a few years ago. A hard lesson to learn - ended up in immediate care.
I am very allergic to it but that is not poison ivy. Poison ivy has big jagged lobes on the leaf's, which come out in 3's not 5's like the vine in this video.
Wow... folks from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island in this one. I think that's the first time I've seen any New Englanders in the cemeteries you've explored so far. Makes ya wonder about their stories and how/why they ended up in Georgia. Lots of great History in that little cemetery. Thanks for the tour, Robert! Valerie.
Thanks Robert must have been flying solo.Not really sure how people can sleep at night after damaging all those head stones. My big question is "WHY" must make them feel powerful I guess. Be safe out there.
Robert , thank you for your tours and all the love and respect you give. I'm sure you are helping out all those that do their genealogy a great deal. Especially those like me that can't travel. I enjoyed this one very much. If your ever in Jesup, Georgia their city cemetery has lots of old graves and they still try to keep it up best they can. If you go there the older graves are in the back side and you can still drive close up to it.
You are a wonderful person and I love all your beautiful adventures.. I’m sure you have made all the souls in these graveyards happy by remembering them. Keep up all these beautiful memories so that they will never be forgotten
Thank you so much for sharing the history and details of this amazing cemetery , please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends
Thank you so much Robert for editing out the snake attacking. That scared me lol 😲😲 Youre right about beautiful gravestones and the graveyard too. Such a shame of the area vandalised. A very tastefully done video. 🌹🌿🌹
Hi Robert, dang you got some big crickets over there, those snakes were cool though. A lovely historical place of rest but it's just such a shame these types of places after a while just lay forgotten. Thank you for sharing. xx
There is a cemetery a few miles from my house here in NH. There is a broken grave stone that reads "Two revolutionary soldiers". I always wondered what the story was about this grave.
Way too many small children buried there! I know life was harder back then but their numbers are kind of extreme. When so many die within a family, I start to wonder what was wrong at that home. I also noticed the number of women who died too young, too. Then I think about dying in childbirth or thereafter. Hygiene may have been the issue for a lot of them. Sad.
Such an interesting cemetery, imagine having to return again and again to bury such young members of the family. How anyone would go into a place like that and cause damage is beyond the beyonds as we say where I am from. Thank you for showing us!
If you love grave yards like I do, there's another beautiful old graveyard to checkout in Siloam, GA, on Church street. I am a huge history buff and find Georgia amazingly rich in graves and antiques of the past that tell their stories when you visit.
Very cool thanks for the tour. Such old graves! It’s cool how they would put the age, months, and days. I also love the way they worded the inscriptions and referencing biblical sayings. Very nice. New subscriber as of now.
I love the respect you bring to your adventures, even for the small creatures you come across. I do the something the same here in rural Scotland .Our graves are not so forgotten but a lot are very much older, back to 15th century sometimes so very difficult to read as our climate seems to do a lot of damage to even the 18th century stones. The Georgia stones seem on the whole to be pretty clear still.The upside is that we don't have to look out for snakes and Scorpions !
Did some research on the name Sutlive. The Sut part means south, and live comes from cliff. So, is name could be Southcliff. "The Anglo-Saxon name Sutlive comes from when the family resided in the area known as Sutcliffe which had three locations in the county of Yorkshire. The surname Sutlive is a habitation name that was originally derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. The surname originated as a means of identifying individuals from a particular area. In the Middle Ages people often assumed the name of the place that they originally lived as their surname during the course of travel. In this case the surname was originally derived from the Old English words sùd meaning south and clif meaning slope or cliff. Therefore the original bearers of the name were referred to as the dwellers by the south cliffs."
Robert you love messin with those snakes all they want is to sun themselves and chill out. Just jokin you do one heck of a job in fact you have turned me into looking for old forgotten cemeteries I found one but have to wait till somebody can come and go with me. As I'm not to steady on my feet. Keep up the GOOD WORK
@Levi Langershank no I don't think so. My head would explode if Biden won because it would surely mean they cheated and used "voters" Sidestep finds in the cemeteries 😂
Thank You Kindly Robert! A lovely cemetery. Alway sad to see the disrespect created by those who would destroy the memories of their own ancestors. Those who do such things have no respect or regard for themselves. The Love and Care that went into the stones in memory of their children and loved ones is plain to see. The hardships their deaths as well, just as today. The snakes were great too, always love to see them. Thanks again Robert and Thank You for your Honor and Respect for those who have gone before us. Love, Light, Peace and Many More Great Adventures! DaveyJO in Pa.
I have ancestors who lived in Fort Gaines. They are buried in the New Park Cemetery. I understand that the pioneer cemetery in this video is built on and around an Indian Mound.
Love this channel Hope you all are Doing good :) keep up the good work someday you should come up to new England there is lots of old cemetery up here :)
Hi Robert, very interesting cemetery, the brick work around that part of the walled cemetery looks like as if has been burnt , take care and stay safe from EVE in the uk.
I’m trying to wrap my head around the fact that Samuel Earle and Harriet Harrison were married just a week after George Washington was inaugurated for his second term as president.
Robert...just wanted to give you kudos for all you do. It is a good thing to take time to clean these forgotten graves. I am sure those resting appreciate your efforts....good job to you and your crew.
Some very interesting head stones in this cemetery, I could watch you doing this all day, makes you wonder how the children died so young, I know things were so different back then but it makes you think. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video. So interesting to see the different designs, engravings and what it written on them.
Brilliant video again thanks Robert. The inscription you couldn't quite read about the blue blossom said "Waves o'er head " . This could reflect blue of the Holy Mother Mary, perhaps suggesting this lady displayed such attributes.
So sad so many unmarked Graves. Many did not have funds in that time to have a proper headstone. But I can tell some people put precious love into the making of their final burial places even if there is no writing. 💞
If you are interested in an old cemetery in South Carolina. The Sheppard family cemetery is located on highway 25 going north toward Greenwood, S C. There is a Historical Marker on the highway near Sheppard's Cross Rd. It is back in the woods. These are my direct ancesters. I cleaned the area once.
Chaulk, scratching, transfers are all damaging to old stones. Spray bottle with plain clean water, or a mirror using the sun or a bright flashlight reflecting the light onto the stone. These are the safest ways to bring out the print. Good luck and I enjoy your videos.
Thanks so much for sharing your adventures. I’ve forwarded this to my brother who has researched our family history to see if General John Dill is related.
