Amazing and Sad! Never Before Seen Grave Markers! Hammock-Johnson Cemetery

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On a road trip through Crawford County, Georgia, I stumbled upon a roadside cemetery that piqued my curiosity. Join me in this video as I take a closer look at this fascinating burial ground, uncovering some unique and mysterious grave markers along the way.
One of the most intriguing discoveries is a cast iron plaque, a type of grave marker I've never seen before. As I explore further, I come across the impressive obelisk-style grave marker of William H. Hammock. This monument also bears the name of his wife, but with only her birth date inscribed and no death date-a mystery that leads me to further research. It turns out that William's wife, despite being memorialized on the obelisk, is actually buried in Bibb County, Georgia, 42 years after William's death, and not here in Crawford County.
Another grave that caught my attention belongs to Frances Miriam Stripling Johnson. Her double headstone, shared with her husband, also lacks a death date for her. After some digging, I discovered that Frances and her husband were last documented together in the 1910 U.S. Federal Census in Crawford County, Georgia. Her husband seems to have preceded her in death, and Frances does not appear in any records beyond 1910, adding another layer of mystery to this cemetery.
Here is a listing of the known burials in this cemetery:
Infant Bazemore
Birth and death dates unknown.
Rachel P. Johnson Bazemore
25 Apr 1840 - 9 Jan 1859
Leonidas Blewster
24 Dec 1824 - 26 Aug 1892
William H. Hammock
4 Aug 1859 - 31 Aug 1912
Frances Miriam Stripling Johnson
11 Feb 1835 - unknown
Laura Johnson
4 Sep 1863 - 3 Feb 1899
Lee Turner Johnson
2 Dec 1901 - 13 Jan 1902
Robert E. Johnson
4 Jun 1889 - 16 Sep 1891
Sarah E. Johnson
17 Feb 1832 - 29 Jan 1859
Susie Lee Johnson
17 Sep 1891 - 25 Aug 1892
William Wesley Johnson
26 May 1830 - 17 Feb 1913
Benjamin F. Kelley
20 Sep 1899 - 13 Jul 1901
Joseph J. Kelley
15 Mar 1906 - 10 Jun 1906
Mattie V. Johnson Mathews
14 Jul 1855 - 12 Jun 1888
This cemetery visit was a true journey into history, revealing more than just names and dates but stories and mysteries that span generations. Join me as I document and preserve the legacy of those who rest here in Crawford County.
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@AdventuresIntoHistory Месяц назад

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@karenwright9123 Месяц назад

Me either...very interesting. The family obviously wanted more said about their loved ones than stone markers usually do. Very thoughtful of them, and we felt it.

@ramonaklassen9280 Месяц назад

@@AdventuresIntoHistory beautiful markers as well, yes.

@luvrayn3 Месяц назад

So basically the Johnson family lost both daughters and a grand baby 19 days apart . So sad

@WoodsideWalker 29 дней назад

Just watching and wondered if he worked that out.

@joshuabeatty7406 Месяц назад

Eldora McMichael Hammock born April 21,1864-Died July 4,1954 lived 90 years buried at Sardis Primitive Baptist Church Rutland,Bibb County Georgia as found on Find a Grave

@mygrammieis Месяц назад

Thanks for sharing👍

@sandysue202 Месяц назад

Oh thank you for looking her up and then sharing with us. Possibly went to live out her life with grown children and maybe there weren't enough funds to bury her beside her husband. Or the had previously agreed that when she passed, they would just bury her in their local cemetery where they could visit more often.

@sandysue202 Месяц назад

This one about did me in for a little while. When Robert read her age and then that her 12 day old baby was also buried there with her, this old grandma's heart just broke. I have 2 daughters. One just had a baby in November of last year and my youngest is currently pregnant. Both have older children, but to think how that loss would feel to her parents just hit me hard. Plus, the loss of her sister at nearly the same time. Oh my. And, my thoughts also went to this young mothers husband. How happy they would have been to be expecting their first baby and then to have it all end so tragically. This family's story was a tough one, and I certainly shed some tears.❤ Thank you, Robert, for reading these markers and for bringing their names to life again.

@cherylschantz9893 Месяц назад

Can you imagine what she saw in her lifetime?

@celleduffel1533 Месяц назад

You gave them back their names that have not been spoken in ages. They may be gone but now not forgotten as we've heard and seen their names. Ty Robert!!

@SondraD7676 Месяц назад

Benjamin R. Kelley's Epitaph: "This lovely bud so young and fair, Called home by early doom, Just came to show how sweet a flower, In paradise would bloom." I have never seen a cast iron marker like these. Tragic indeed, I could not help but cry. Being of such promise of a happy life and then gone without having seen a full life or her child's. Imagine the husband and father, just heartbreaking. So glad you spotted this and stopped, Robert. ❣❣👍👍

@SondraD7676 Месяц назад

@@juliem.679 This is also listed in a book of epitaph verses from the 1800s, specifically for loved ones to choose from.

@peachygal4153 Месяц назад

Robert, my grandmother was killed in a car accident in her early 50's. My grandfather's name is engraved on her headstone, a double plot, but he remarried 5 years after her death and was buried by his second wife. I am sure that happened plenty of times when the person was widowed but still. had another 20 plus years of life. I know my husband had an aunt that died in her 40's from cancer. Her husband remarried, but he married a widow with whom he was married to almost 30 years and was only married to his first wife 20 years, but they agreed they would be buried by their first spouse with whom they both shared children. they had no children together. In my grandfather's case his second wife (she was like 15 years younger) was not a widow but divorced. As much as my mom and aunt hated it, she bought a double plot when he died and said she did not to be buried by her children's father but him, even though she lived another 30 years she did not marry again, and they are buried together. As his widow it was her choice, not his children's.

@lisaragle2956 Месяц назад

In the "old days" of a husband's wife died he married the next sister. Families stick together. Glad we are not living like this today. God Bless

@libertyandjustus8258 Месяц назад

Gosh, this was a tearful one🥺 Thank you Robert for bringing us along with you. If people ask why my eyes are tearful and red I'll say that " I just watch a video of people that passed away 200 years ago".❤ Glad that the sisters and little babe are together and will be Resurrected again someday❤

@parapet6094 Месяц назад

It seems pretty evident that Rachel either died in childbirth or shortly thereafter, her baby following soon after. Childbirth for women back then was a life or death decision, and for some women today still is.

@heidiw8406 Месяц назад

Probably an epidemic. Her sister died 20 days later.

@twentynineteen4687 2 дня назад

I also wonder if the baby was premature?

@Mspetuniapea Месяц назад

Babies died so fast back then. Loved the tombstone of Hammock with the city. Great find!!!!

@mistyadams-ok8cr Месяц назад

there were not alot meds back then 2 cure ppl. thank god we have these meds 2day.

@bettyboop4263 Месяц назад

Thank you for sharing this amazing little cemetery with us❤

@cindys.9688 Месяц назад

What a find! Yet another beautiful roadside cemetery out there in Georgia.😊 The iron plaques are a first for me, too. They're so pretty! I love that they tell something about the people buried there. Rachel was 16 yrs old then when she married. Died at only 18 after 2 yrs of marriage, with a 12 day old baby. Wondering if there were birth complications that neither survived, or illness that came on quickly. I'm thankful for the info on the plaque. I'm thinking that, with the size, materials, design, and structure of the headstones, they must've had money in them thar hills!😉 Thanks for taking us along on your trek to this hidden cemetery. Lots of wonderful history!🪦📜

@anitaodom5155 Месяц назад

And she was married to a doctor.

@l.m.4014 Месяц назад

Yes Cindy you are correct. > Rachel most likely from > 'Childbed fever.' ‘Childbed fever’ - 'Puerperal' sepsis due to streptococcal infection - was a common cause of death much feared by pregnant women until the end of the 19th century. > A 'Puerperal infection occurs when bacteria infect the uterus and surrounding areas, After a female gives birth. It’s also known as a postpartum infection / or / childbed fever. From the 1600s through the mid-1800s, puerperal fever, or childbed fever as it was more commonly called, affected women with severe and acute symptoms such as abdominal pain and fever. > But, why did her 12 day old baby die? > Infant mortality rate was much higher a hundred years ago than now. Back then 150 infants per 1,000 births died in the first year of life. Now it is about 8 per thousand births. Did her husband....being a Doctor, bring home a disease, after he treated one of his patients...? > We we never know just what happened...it's just SAD.

@peggyharris3301 Месяц назад

Very few people from those generations lived ripe old ages…😔😔…so many children… thanku for not letting them be forgotten…

@nancysantamarialatica1141 Месяц назад

Beautiful marker it is . Sarah’s and Rachel‘s so loved , wow . And baby . And baby

@cclyon Месяц назад

The family must have been quite well to do. I've never seen anything like those. What a beautiful cemetery and markers.

@user-cz8pu1om6y Месяц назад

It’s always sad to see the markers of the young children..but amazing little cemetery..

@clayton6499 Месяц назад

Being a former foundry worker fascinated by the cast iron markers

@sandysue202 Месяц назад

I found on Find a Grave that W. W. Johnson ( William Wesley) was a captain in the 27th GA Infantry, CSA. He was wounded at Antitam. His wife was F.M.( Francis Miriam) and her maiden name was Stripling. They had 4 children, 3 girls and 1 son. Unfortunately, even though all this is on Find A Grave, there is still no death date listed for Francis. In the 1910 census for Crawford County Georgia, she and her husband were both listed. He passed in 1913 but she is also not found listed in any more Georgia census listings. Sounds like she most likely died before the 1920 census unless she moved out of state. Whoever put her info on Find a Grave had already done this research on her, trying to locate a death date and where she was buried. If someone has already commented with this info on the Johnsons, I apologize for duplicating it. I was just very curious to see if she could be found.

@user-vy2ne5ly3b Месяц назад

Thank you, Robert for stopping to document this cemetery. And thank you that you have such a kind heart I could hear it in your voice. God bless you sir.

@peggyharris3301 Месяц назад

@@user-vy2ne5ly3b He is an amazing young man!

@Roller_Ghoster Месяц назад

Im from Ulster in the old world. I love being guided round Georgia in the new world by Robert and the other adventurers in history.

@Lorriann63 Месяц назад

This was a wonderful find! The stones are beautiful and those iron plaques are unique. Sadly, the young woman with the baby died so young. I think childbirth might have had something to do with that. A lot of young women in that time died of birth complications. It's really awesome that you found this cemetery. Thank you for sharing with us, Robert.

@scottlambert2949 Месяц назад

Life was hard back then and there was no cure for anything if they got sick also so sad story

@jimplummer4879 Месяц назад

How fragile life was back then, you could die from a simple cold.

@necessarytrouble Месяц назад

What a fascinating cemetery. Thank you for sharing this.

@cmacb55 Месяц назад

Eldora Hammock (sorry if this is a repeat) is on Findagrave. Lived until 1954. Buried in Bibb Co.

@joshuabeatty7406 Месяц назад

Found Mattie's Find A Grave her first name is Matilda Mother's last name unknown where she's buried is also unknown Mattie and her Husband John went onto have 5 children 4 boys 1 girl

@Mari-B Месяц назад

So sad to see the early passing of the young mothers and babies.😢

@JohnMarciaShackelford Месяц назад

Yeah! She was married at 16, died at 18!

@kimmyles444 Месяц назад

Absolutely beautiful headstones and very lucky they remained intact. Thanks for sharing.

@sherrie545 Месяц назад

What a beautiful small cemetery you came upon with those cast iron ornate headstones. Iv’e seen ornate fences but never those headstones. So sad to see so many young lives lost. Young mother and her newborn probably died from complications with birth. RIP

@mercedithcompala8148 Месяц назад

This sweet discovery, made me cry.

@user-qs7gx7rp7m Месяц назад

Truly enjoy visiting old forgotten ghosts with you. Mention of their names brings them alive again for a moment of thought . . . Bless them all both saints & sinners all. Life is curious. It is experienced but only ever rarely in the control of spirits living through it.

@decembergem4598 Месяц назад

Amazing cemetery. Wouldn't it be beautiful if it could be cleaned up just a bit. Those cast iron markers are a first for me also. Thanks Robert for the tour.

@stevemergy6087 Месяц назад

Another great video. Thank you for all you do! By saying their names they are remembered.❤

@teresathetreasurehunter Месяц назад

Wow. Those cast iron markers are incredible. Thank you again for sharing another special place in history and saying their names out loud. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@stanotattoo 7 дней назад

Your Flashlight is excellent and really helps you and us see the 80+ year-old engravings, I carry a good flashlight too. I luv them. 👍🏾

@helenwenzel7603 Месяц назад

What a beautiful cemetery. Great headstones, I never seen anything like that either. Nice video!

@sherrilee230 Месяц назад

That was a amazing find, but so very sad. Their sadness was shown beauty through the fineness and the respect that their family delivered them in remembrance. So sad but so beautiful. Thank you Robert for stopping and sharing

@mygrammieis Месяц назад

Very interesting- Thank you for sharing as you do🧐👍👍👍So Much Family History is there🕊️All those children 😢Your description area is so important info. shared🎉

@sharonbaulch 29 дней назад

Thanks Robert for reading the markers. Like you my heart broke for the young mum and her sweet baby who's life was over before it began. Sadly maternal and child deaths were at an all time high. May they rest in peace as they deserve. ❤

@nicoleabrahamson1883 Месяц назад

I have seen a cast iron marker in the shape of a cross in the Saint Joseph's Cemetery in Menomonie, WI! There are two there, of German inscription and way in the back.

@shelliewerner5624 Месяц назад

Wow...amazing find...

@foxywolf1777 Месяц назад

I am from Thomaston, and knew of Bazemore's in Butler. That death town you tried to pronounce is Ku Loden Ga, part of Crawford County.

@deniseoftedahl8937 29 дней назад

Thank you Robert for reading these names again. Those iron plaques are incredible!

@randomvintagefilm273 Месяц назад

These poor parents. Losing two little boys 😢 I don't know how they didn't go mad losing so many kids.

@beverlyparrott3890 Месяц назад

Probably those that never had a date (the women might of remarried and moved away.❤

@karenshepler7128 Месяц назад

So very amazing find and so very sad as the children were so young and mother and child 😢thank you for sharing such a beautiful part of history ❤

@BrianRay-mi1dr Месяц назад

I would like to go on a side step adventure with him to some old grave sites

@marywright6759 Месяц назад

Rachael was only 16 when she got married. The girls were so young and so many babies. Thank you for this.

@joannewall5499 Месяц назад

GF Bazmore was a civil war soldier

@twentynineteen4687 3 дня назад

Robert, we've talked about this before: For your safety you need to have someone who knows where you are when you go on these treks. (I had to pause the video to comment because I was too distracted by my worries to enjoy the content, which was excellent as usual.)

@MargieT6223 28 дней назад

WOW increditable Robert thank you Love and Light!

@drwforever1 Месяц назад

Thpost iron markers are so cool

@Linney321 Месяц назад

Certainly an intriguing cemetery. I've not seen grave markers like those up here in Ontario before. We do have some very old first settlers cemeteries along the lakes. That cemetery has some really quite beautiful markers. Thank you for showing us this one.

@marilyngaeta1362 Месяц назад

Thank you Robert. This was very interesting. I wonder if Mr. Dan would know. Miss you Mr. Dan. I hope you return soon.

@karencaddle7288 Месяц назад

But Robert is not near home, so Mr. Dan would not know

@marilyngaeta1362 Месяц назад

@@karencaddle7288 I know but I thought he could help with the investigation. Just a thought.

@user-randi1987 Месяц назад

Thank you, Robert. Interesting but very sad

@sailormanjames Месяц назад

Love your channel & all of the amazing history you share. I was born in Moultrie. Still have relatives living in Georgia.

@jamielieberg7053 Месяц назад

Robert another Great Video thank you for makking it

@jessiemerritt9147 Месяц назад

Amazing find sad but amazing. God bless ty

@Nikki-ru4ui 27 дней назад

So cool to see you in my neck of the woods. My grandparents were born in Crawford County, such an interesting old cemetary, (If only we could look back in time), prettey certain the road was not their at the time either. I have seen several headstones/buiral sites along the roads and highways in Crawford County throughout the years, but admittedly never stopped to view them, "oh the stories they must tell". Thank you for bringing this one to us.

@sheilam4964 Месяц назад

Thx for filming this and sharing it with us.

@gaylewilliamson9183 Месяц назад

ive never seen these markers either.A lit of young girls married so young and pregnancy just not always easy,too young usually no doctors and C Sections were not done ,so sad ❤️

@shellydehart8217 Месяц назад

Another reason why I love Georgia as it has so much history. You finding this small area of a cemetery was astonishing. The headstones, many were beautiful n ornate. Especially seeing that large memorial iron of the two was amazing. Never have I seen anything like it from that era. That one with Rebecca broke me up. I’m sure she died from child birth. Unfortunately that happened a lot. Wonderful documentation Robert. Thanks for sharing. ♥️♥️♥️😊👍👍👍🌟

@brendahogue5487 Месяц назад

Love and enjoy your videos.May the lord bless and protect you Robert and bringing out the past history

@davidtrishhope9841 Месяц назад

Thanks for taking us along. Love from New Zealand

@dinaruiz52876 Месяц назад

I can't help but wonder with it so close to the road if they didn't disrupt part of the cemetery

@redrooster1908 Месяц назад

Great content. Incredible history.

@brewer956 Месяц назад

You know robert you know a good thing for you to use would be hunt stand app or a hunting app because you can mark your location and save them and can keep up with those grave yards

@Jay08194 Месяц назад

I love your channel. Always seem to learn something new

@tomhirons7475 Месяц назад

Respect to a member of no church x

@rjake61 Месяц назад

My great great grandmother’s death date was not on her marker either. My dad added it 75 years later. She is buried there.

@HeyLisaKay Месяц назад

Sweet babies ❤ so many didn’t live nearly long enough lives

@michaelhager2846 23 дня назад

Thank you for sharing 😊

@lillypad9960 27 дней назад

Nice job, Robert. Please inform Cecil and Dan. Blessings from Michigan.

@terryanderson5947 Месяц назад

I so enjoy your videos and especially the history that goes with them. I would like to see you and Dan go back to the spooky cabin where you and Dan both heard the foot steps inside while you were under it.😂 Take care Bub.

@alanatolstad4824 Месяц назад

Amazing Sidestep.

@beverlybennett963 Месяц назад

Would love to hear more of this site.. My family hails from Pembroke, there is a familu cemetary at the church my great, great grandfather helped build which is still there and in service..

@kerrygilchrist62 Месяц назад

Wow !!! That cast iron markers are beautiful !!!! I’ve never seen anything like that

@2007cgarza Месяц назад

Everytime you read their markers they are remembered again.

@leekorten1791 Месяц назад

💞

@pats9055 Месяц назад

Beautiful. All of it. Thank you for sharing these unusual finds.

@leattaslone1800 Месяц назад

Thank you for doing these videos at these cemeteries.

@CyberviewU Месяц назад

The link between the Hammock and Johnson families is that William Wesley Johnson had a sister, Mary Ellen Johnson born 1838, who married Felix Welborn Hammock b. 1835. They married in Crawford County in 1855. Their son, William H. Hammock is buried in this cemetery and is the nephew of William Johnson. Another son of Mary Ellen Hammock was living with Wm. Johnson in the 1880 census, also named Felix Wilborn Hammock, born 1862.

@chrisito245 Месяц назад

There’s a Eldora Hammock walking trail in the Canaveral National Seashore.

@45beetle Месяц назад

Glad you found it really enjoyed

@jessiefoley4402 Месяц назад

Love these videos ! Thank you !

@mejae8829 Месяц назад

My neck of the woods!

@JohnLaRue-zp2uj Месяц назад

Makes for great research and restoration project.

@MrsSajberry3 21 день назад

I have Johnsons in my family but they intermarried with the Hardemans and Sirmans and are in Lanier County GA. Beautiful cast iron plaques. They must have had money.

@dresqueda Месяц назад

These graves are beautifully done. Disease and infection was responsible for high child mortality rates. No anti-biotics or anti-septic surgery.

@sherronbell4961 Месяц назад

Amazing incredible cemetery

@CyberviewU Месяц назад

Eldora Hammock is buried at Sardis Primitive Baptist Church in Rutland, Bibb County, GA according to Find a Grave.

@ellenlascola6858 Месяц назад

Well done Robert

@debiebrumley3104 28 дней назад

Find A Grave has 14 people there in Musella, Crawford County Ga.

@rebeccaainslie4637 Месяц назад

Children fever was rampant in those days along with failure to thrive in infants!

@BKoenning Месяц назад

One of the largest influenza epidemics occurred in 1857 -1859. Also there was the Third Cholera Pandemic (1846-1860)

@tompena7487 Месяц назад

Thanks Robert very cool cemetery what happened to the other Robert . Just wait this place will be covered with growth jam glad u showed this.

@user-rm7ye8ct6p Месяц назад

Some Larger County were reduce in size in the mid 1800's until early 1900's for administrated purposely

@anngallegos5515 Месяц назад

It appears that the girls were sisters, and am I correct they both died on the same day and year? I wonder what hapoened? An illness, an accident? Anybody know?

@sandysue202 Месяц назад

The 18 year old sister, with the baby, died on January 9th, 1859. Her sister, Sarah, died on the 29th of January, 1859. 20 days apart and how tragic for the parents. The baby was 12 days old, but it didn't say what day it died. Possibly, it was the same day as the mother, but it could have been just a day or 2 before her, too. It was all very sad. The young, very pregnant sister would probably have attended her sister's funeral, and possibly there was an illness that she contracted? I guess we will probably never know what happened, but it would have been such heartbreak for their family.

@user-sz4hz1lj5u Месяц назад

♥♥♥

@shirleygiordano7627 Месяц назад

I feel very sad that the graveyard was not upkept. That is where people are resting. They need an upkept graveyard to rest in.

@queenb9070 Месяц назад

Women sometimes remarry and are buried with the second husband

@HandsIntoHistory Месяц назад

Exactly. I'm the government appointed historian of our town, and in all my research I do for people, I've found that some people, both men and women, have two grave stones, the first was intended as to be buried with the first spouse, but then they remarried and were buried with the second spouse. It can cause confusion if one isn't careful.