Made it across the creek that time. Of course I did it the easy way. Also returned to this cemetery. It is in pretty sad condition. Not much else to say about it, but it was a neat find. I wonder where the original church stood and what happened to it.... Support Sidestep Adventures: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures My flashlights: bit.ly/2ZkatOt Wukong Magnets who provided me with a few magnets for my channels sent me a discount code to pass along to my subscribers.... The code: Sidestep16 You get 16% off using that code. www.magnetfishingwukong.com/
Sidestep Adventures I would love for you to see the old cemetery on our hunting property in south ga. You can see on the tomb stone of one it says the wife of C.H rice. It’s down by fort Benning.
Thank you for standing up the stones you could and tidying up those you couldn't. The people who are buried there can't thank you, but we do! Merry Christmas 2019, from Australia : )
Thank you for your efforts! Is there is a reason why you don’t put the name of the graveyards or churches in your title? I think it would be great for people to find your videos when they search specifically for them by name.
I'm a little late to the party but I'm bingeing on some of your videos, these are really interesting. So many people commenting on the infant graves, and yes, we don't know how lucky we are. This wasn't even really that long ago in our human history, but we can't imagine death being so common for us today as it was 150-200 years ago. A person would be seemingly healthy one day and at Death's Door the next. For babies, cholera, dyptheria, typhoid, pertussis, and any kind of random "fever" could take them very quickly. No wonder the Victorians romanticized death the way they did and such elaborate funeral and grieving protocols that included dress codes and strict social rules. Death was practically part of everyday life, much more so than now.
They sure did die young. Their graves haven't been taken care of sadly but I'm sure that God is taking care of them. Thank you for the tour. Good luck with your car.
You should see a very sad head stone of a mother of many children & so few made it to adulthood. She's burried in the back of the church in Baltimore where Egar ALLEN Poe was buried across the street from the VA. Hospital is.
So much incredible history in this small cemetery. It always saddens me to see when so many small children had died. These old cemeteries are a part of my heart and soul. People just like us who lived, loved, fed their families, worked the land, raised their children, and even fought in wars. I often wonder what they'd think of our era...or what we'd think of living in theirs. Personally, I think I'd be lost without indoor plumbing! LOL! They can keep their outhouses, too! Thank you, Robert, for recording every place you come across because all of them have historical significance, and who knows...I might have some ancestors from there, that I'll find out from you.☺
I cycle thousands of miles yearly. Much on old gravel roads , paths etc. I've run across abandoned farms houses, barns etc. But the cemetaries are interesting. Many died so young . Whole families of generations . Some from the 1700s early 1800s. Civil war plots. I stop at every one. Most are still in very peaceful natural areas. I watch for old worn down fences left to time. I'm in Ann Arbor, Mi.
What’s really bad about these abandoned grave sites , is these pioneers are being forgotten for their tremendous values and their hard work at building the country we now enjoy , it’s a dam shame no one is keeping up with these cemetery’s ,,,
Thank you Robert and taking us with who on many of your southern adventures. this morning this Saturday in March it is only 12 degrees in Northeast Wisconsin! It's amazing the mortality rate how people and particularly children in the early part of the 1800s! Thank you for your preservation! I am disabled in don't get out much I enjoy your work! Thank you 😊 ❤️ Roby~~
So sad how little ones died so young small pox and other diseases ran rampant whith out antibiotics thank you for taking us along and speaking there names showing respect love you guys
I have always held a fascination with cemeteries. We had to do a project in high school on the history of my hometown of Hornell, NY. I went to the cemetery to do my project. The teacher was a little shocked but said it was a good idea! I got an A by the way.
Besides winning, that red clay is probably good for your skin. Speaking of winning, we could never have enough gratitude for each and every hero that sacrificed for this great nation. 🇺🇸 TFS ✌🏻#NeverForget
Thank you for taking us along! Such beautiful scenery, sad to see a cemetery forgotten. I can imagine the parents 💔 broken hearts at the loss of their children.
Robert and crew, another superb video ! Thank you for taking the time to read and set the stones. I do wonder why the parishioners of the current church do not maintain this cemetery along with theirs since they are so close together.
Your videos never disappoint. I love old cemeteries but the children's graves make me so sad. How difficult life was then and how very fragile children were. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all of you
Now my Sunday is complete! The respect that you, and your explorers show is so refreshing, I subbed to you about 6 months ago, you are by far the best at showing, and reading the stones! These people have been forgotten for so long, nobody likes being forgotten, so many children...
Hi Robert & team, I wonder why the new church didn't tend to the graves in the woods that are so obviously on their property. It really makes me sad to see so ,many children's graves. Around the era they died there was so much disease that wasn't treatable before antibiotics came along. Thank you for sharing. x
R.I.P precious little ones so heartbreaking again to see all those forgotten souls again. ty.robert for calling out their names again and cleaning up some of them. keep.up the good work happy hollidays and an awesome 2020 for the whole familly and Friends!!!🇳🇱😉👍❤🎅🤶🌲
I have always wondered about graves without a death date. I have always figured they remarried and were buried elsewhere with their new spouse. Never thought that they maybe never came back to carve it in. Thanks for the visit to this neat GY!
At 22:00: the epitaph is the first line of a prayer originally written in Latin from before 1300 a.d. "In the midst of life we are in death of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased? Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death."
Thank you for the walk around of the Jeep. It looks super beefy with the lift on it. I noticed you changed from Wrangler Sahara Wheels to Rubicon wheels. They look super good on there. Those were some very old graves you found. Would love to get my Jeep out and go along exploring with Side Step some time.
Come on out! Yeah, I love the way it looks with the lift. And it drives down these dirt roads so much better with new struts up front. I like the Rubicon wheels so much better than the Sahara wheels.
This opened my eyes to why when I was doing a paper trail on my family history there no names to or listings to my grandma great grandmother mother and no name for my great grandfather same for my granddad his dad was born 1912 and his mother 1907 and the history stopped no more paper trails 😭😭😭 now I see why
The Renfroe graves are on Find-a-Grave - says this cemetery is the Green Hill Methodist Church cemetery. James Madison Renfroe, Jr., married Georgia Elizabeth Burt 17 Feb 1871 in Marion Co., GA (from Ancestry). In 1880, they lived Cobblers Hill in Chattahoochee Co., GA, & had children Mattie (age 8), John L (4) & Sallie B. (1) on the 1880 census. James's father, J.M. was born 1810 in NC, & lived with his son & family in 1880.
OK, you've got me! I didn't see the condition of that "road" on the other side of the creek in your earlier video as I was watching on my phone's little screen. Having seen it close up from the other side, I would have chickened out long before getting to the creek with my truck just going slowly as you did. I take back what I said about your driving!!
Thank you Robert and all for this terrific visit. Oh - so many young folk and babies are there? How hard those times were for the young. Still it was a beautiful and peaceful place. I'm so glad you are taking the time to turn the stones over. I get so frustrated when I see other people take walks through cemeteries and never bother to check the names and fix the stones. Anyway - I was happy to see you do it and hope you have the time to continue that in future videos. Merry Christmas to all of you and to your families and best wishes for a happy and healthy new year!
So sad all those children gone . They are now cradled in gods arms . Glad you made another video was just thinking about the channel wondering if you stopped adventuring. I wish you made some videos here in south carolina. Lots of off the grid cemeteries here .
I just found a grave yard wedged btwn a Buca di Beppo & a KinderCare, on an 8-lane main road, next to I-96. The original church in front is now some kind of small theater. I photo cemeteries all over MI frequently, don't usually see graves this old. Some folks were born in the 1700's. 1 grave, all by himself, was killed in the War of 1812. They have sayings like "Died Dec. 10, 1838 In expectation of a better life. 50 Years" & "Faith Lost in Sight The Victory Won".
So sad to see how many young people are buried there in addition to all the infants and children. I don't understand why so many cemeteries have been abandoned and vandalized. Some people really must have boring lives.
Thank you for your kindness in standing up that headstone! Heaven knows how long it's been like that. Not to tell you what to do, but I used to go graveyard hunting up North here. We bring small whisk brooms, gloves, even rakes. Just sayin' Love your videos! I'm glad I subscribed!!
That BROACH headstone probably tipped over when that tree pushed up the base so if you can determine how old that tree is then that's possibly how long ago it was tipped over.
Thank you, this was a beautiful adventure, but so sad that this cemetery and many other's you found are in disarray. Sad all those kids of families, died. Maybe back then they caught some sort of fever or virus.
A lot of people died from illnesses that can be prevented by vaccines or treated with antibiotics. One of my ancestors buried two children that had died on the same day from scarlet fever.
Thank you so much for a tour of this cemetery. Yes I do suppose vandalism caused a major part of the damage. I realize without immunizations and antibiotics people did die young during this area. All the names you read off will assist Find-A-Grave . It was kind of you to stand that one gravestone up.
This is how everybody ends up. Standing beore my Greatgrandparents grave whom I never met as they were deceased before I was born are going to be completely forgotten when I'm gone. I'm 73 and it won't be long. Even people who died in the 50's are often forgotten especially when their die as children which is always sad.
Co. G, 31st Regiment, Ga Hines, Thomas J.--Private Nov. 22, 1861. Roll dated Dec. 31, 1861, shows him present, remarks:Ómeasles, no duty. In C.S.A. General Hospital at Danville, Va. on account of debility, Aug. 6, 1862. Discharged Sept 5, 1862.
It is a shame it is not taken care of. I understand that the church doesn't have the funds but they could still get a group together twice a year for upkeep.
It seems that they don't want to clean it ,and they don't seem to have a specific church fund to hire someone else that would do it .......if someone would supply gas money for a blower and mower,get the rest with rake and limbs throw them in a far away pile....they may be generous enough to give free labor....but if people has relatives out there...GET YOUR BEHIND OUT THERE AND CLEAN YOUR PRECIOUS RELATIVES GRAVES...MAKE THEM PROUD OF YOU...!!!
Hines, W.D. - 31st Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company: G Soldier's Rank In: Brevet Second Lieutenant Soldier's Rank Out: First Lieutenant Alternate name: William D./Haynes Film Number: M226 ROLL 29 Plaque Number: Notes: General Note - Original filed under William D./Haynes
I have a 99 Cherokee I use for work (delivering mail in the Rockies), it's beat to hell but works. My real vehicle is an 02 wrangler that's in the shop right now having the back end replaced-I can't wait to get it back. :( I would love to go out with you guys.
I hate when my Jeep is down. I thought I was going to have to replace the front differential, but that may not be the case. It seems the CV joint in the front drive shaft is going out. Which means no more exploring this weekend. Sadly.
I really thankyou for finding and rediscovering history and documenting these old cemeteries in the far reaches of Georgia and Alabama I think in order to finance your trips to a much further places, you should creaTe merchandise like t-shirts with the sidestep adventures logo with the Georgia logo and a road leading off onto the sunset. I would buy your t-shirt myself to help support your rediscoveries. I can't wait for your next video to come out and I hope you can make more cash to get that jeep of yours repaired fully. I hope you can get the attention of the state to get off their butts and restore these cemeteries and headstones. I hope you will do the same with the crew you have along with you at times. Having the proper tools will help. I think national geographic should get in on this or the history channel to help bring to light in how important these abandoned and forgotten cemeteries are and restore them. I hope you can do this soon. there is online, a website showing the willow tree you have seen on stones and it means sorrow and long life.
Next dirt road day I need to go. I miss slowly easing down a old Ga back road. Me and big girl ( my f250 ) need a good easy dirt road day. Thanks for the videos Robert.
Please contact the American Legion Hall in that area. I have been told, though I’ve never confirmed it, that they will take care of military graves. If not, I’m sure they could find those who do. You need a small broom for leaves to be brushed off and a small fire extinguisher filled with water to wash off dirt. A small, soft scrub brush and water would clean them nicely.
that stone you did W J Broach that Cross on there is for the order of the knight templar a masonic order of the York Rite the cross is the Cross of Malta
In 1874 there was a small pox epidemic sweep in from Europe and it was hard on children. Often the family would purchase a joint stone and whom ever passed first, the headstone was placed. If the partner was interred elsewhere, or remarried, then the date would be blank. So its possible the spouse remarried. If there is a death date for one of the children, then it could be found out as to what went through the town. Could be whooping cough, flu, measles, typhus and even diphtheria. Also, just after the civil war passed through an area, there would be a spike of fevers carried by the passing troops. So with out vaccines, the mortality rate was very low.
There is a great old cemetery in the Talladega National Forrest. Lots of graves from the Spanish Flu epidemic a hundred years ago. I'm in England now, so, if there's any graveyard you want to see over here, let me know!
So many children.. the poor Bond family had more than their fair share. You know it amazes me that some people would want to do that to graves, it’s so disrespectful, there are some that do it here in the U.K. I’ve had crystal angels and other crystals stolen from my husband’s grave. It’s terrible. 🙏🏻x
I love these videos, Thank you Sir, for bringing them to all of us. Can't wait to see what you bring to us on the next Sidestep Adventure! Merry Christmas to you and family and Happy New Years 🎄🎁😇 Oh, You should name your Jeep *Georgia* Perfect Name, My opinion! LoL
Love your videos! Been a fan for a while now. Cemeteries are my favorite. Would LOVE to have you come explore the mountains of North Georgia! Take care and God bless you and your team. 👍🙏❤️
I agree with you, rural Georgia is beautiful. I do have one question, though. My review of the satellite photos of Georgia on GooMaps leads me to believe the entire State has been logged over, at one time or another. Do you know of any old-growth forest in Georgia? If so, where in the State would I find such original, pre-colonial forest?
Chris, There are very few old growth forests left anywhere in the South. In Georgia, you have the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, which is huge and extends into neighboring states, and Fernbank Forest (in Atlanta and only about 60 acres). Fernbank is a nature center said to be "one of the few remnants of original forest vegetation in the Georgia Piedmont".
well that jeep of yours will take to a lot of trails. take care of it, it take care of you. you will have so much fun in it. my 01 jeep wrangler takes me to a lot of back roads. have a good Christmas & happy new years. enjoy that jeep.
JR Bond was John Raford "Rafe" Bond married Martha Frances Broach. On the 1870 Stewart Co., GA census, they had children Josephine (age 8), Andrew (5) & Cornelia (3). Martha Frances Bond died 21 Jul 1925 at Pelham, Grady Co., GA - GA death certificate. She was buried in the Green Hill Cemetery on 23 Jul 1925. They are also listed on Find-a-Grave.
