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Camp Wheeler was a United States Army base near Macon, Georgia. The camp was a staging location for many US Army units during World War I and World War II. It was named for Joseph Wheeler, a general in the Confederate States of America's Army and in the U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War. Well done Robert in saying the names of these long forgotten people.
My father was stationed at Camp Wheeler during his entire army stint in WW2 which was 2years 9 months and 28 days. He was already 28 years old when drafted in 1940.
The other Robert, It is great that you fill in for Robert,, It is sad to see the grave yards that have not been taken care of. My mothers sisters had all of there familys grave markers reqlaced with granite as they dont deteorate like the old limestone. All of the graveyards in that county are maintained by the county.
Antoinette Lassiter died Sept 30, 1903, the day her infant Annie was born. This wasn't childbirth fever, for that took 7-10 days. I wonder if she hemorrhaged during the birth. Little Annie did not get her mother's antibodies that come with the colostrum, produced the first days of nursing, and that, plus whatever type of feeding she was given, probably led to her aged three-month death. There sure was a lot of tragedy all those years ago. Thanks, Robert O and your assistant, for sharing this with us.
A historical marker for Camp Wheeler is located near Riggins Mill Road in southeast Bibb County. The training camp was situated on 21,480 acres in what is now east Macon for World War I, and then on 14,394 acres during World War II.
I so enjoy listening to you, Other Robert. Your commentary is thoughtful, and full of life.....interesting considering the topic you do research on! Smile on!
i enjoyed the trip with you. I'm housebound due to illness but I used to love exploring the old forgotten places. Thank you for sharing the adventures.
Congratulations Other Robert! You found some of my kinfolks. Peter Faust’s father Samuel moved to Botsford from SC in 1825. Sadly we don’t know where he’s buried.
Thank you Robert for another lost n possibly forgotten cemetery. I have to agree that one area was possibly the older section. It’s so good of you n Robert to share this with others. In giving their names n year of their death. To me I felt some sadness seeing how they pretty much bull dozed that one area where the fence had been all squashed up yet you found the gate. The whole history of cemeteries fascinates me. 😊♥️👍👍👍👍
Hi Robert! If you have a mobile phone with you that has a torch app - you can hold that to the side of the writing ….it helps with shadowing the lettering so you can see them easier! Thankyou for a fascinating visit to this cemetery….and for reading the names out of the resident’s there. Best wishes from over the pond! 🙋♀️😘👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙋♀️💐🙏
Other Robert, thank you for sharing. Let's leave comments and likes to grow this channel. History is vital. We need to preserve the memory of those who walked before us.
Greetings to the other Robert from a cold 15 degree Morrow Co. Ohio. I had never paid much attention to graveyards/cemetery's until my husband became a supervisor at a large cemetery in which has one civil war veteran in a mausoleum. Where I live there are a few old cemetery's around that has a few graves in them. I was told that when there was a death that they couldn't travel very far with the body do to deterioration and buried them where they could. I live by an old church cemetery that was used for those that lived in the surrounding country side area. The church has been long gone. I'm guessing that give or take about 30 people are buried there. I've learned a lot from your channel. I don't think but not sure if there's any slave graves here. But I now know to look for indentions and field stones for those that couldn't afford head stones or for those poor people that experienced slavery. No one should of been treated so inhumanely that the slaves endured.Thank you for your history lessons. Keep on keeping on my Georgia friends.
Well robert you are definitely doing a good job 👏 well done Robert on finding another part of the cemetery keep safe and well Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
Thank You Mr. Robert, be careful trying to lift those heavey stones! How sad that they just came in and plow all the graves over, guess they didn't do much research first.
Thank you Robert and Miss Helper for reading and exploring this cemetery. The graves in the wooded area, could they possibly be enslaved people who were buried outside of the cemetery proper ? Just a thought.
Hi " other robert" loved your walk in the wooded grave yard... say hi to your camera girl too. Sometimes it takes a few more steps to find hidden history and thats what you guys do.
Thanks for finding these graves/graveyard of the forgotten ones. Whether by death of the family or by lost of the church. Older/disabled people unable to care for their loved ones graves.
Camp Wheeler was located in Macon, GA . It was a mobilization location and closed 1919. 8 October 1940, the second Camp Wheeler was established with construction beginning on 21 December 1940. The second camp wheeler was closed in 1946.
So sad that a cemetery can be forgotten and left..Now that you have said their names, they cant be forgotten. Ty for another great video Mr Other Robert.
That’s so sad to see the babies that were born and only lived for a few months and to see the ones that died so early in their age and read the writing on the bottom of the head stone is so heartbreaking yet for the head stones are really beautiful to be so old
Wow, great video, Other Robert! You have great eye to have noticed that stone in the distance, discovering a whole new section of the graveyard! Very exciting!
You have a sincerity which comes through in your voice as well as in your actions, I Thank you sir, for caring immensely and sincerely about all these good folks who have passed long ago, yet their lives are their stories! Robert, you put all of yourself into making these videos, the Blood, Sweat and Tears literally pour from your body: Thank You So Very Kindly for helping to keep these folks well documented! Please take GOOD Care of yourself while out and about filming and cleaning up as best you can, especially without your tools!
About 9:52, Robert reads the birth and death of a Lassiter baby and then next to the infant he reads the dates of the mother, Antoinette, who died the day the baby was born. How very sad to lose your wife and then months later your child.
Robert, you are now my favourite person ever. I could watch you explore and explain stuff all day. It's so engaging, and surprisingly relaxing. So glad I recently found this channel. I love the southern aesthetic.... Abandoned Plantation buildings, old churches, cemeteries, dirt back roads etc.
Wish you would of stood a bit longer and focused on the Grave of William Miller, since this may of been a member of my Paternal side of my family.. My great Great Grandfather was named William Miller.Robert, you could be right on the 4 or five graves right by the road that the headstones were vandalized and destroyed. shame there was no markings on the slabs. Looks like someone was there and tried to take or like you stated, Robert tried to clear things off and destroyed the markings of a family plot .Also think your correct in the boundaries of the cemetery is that the gate and the old fence, along with other graves, in the far back is the older part of the cemetery, and no one knew where the boundaries were, and really SHOULD be resurveyed, and marked as such, maybe even get ground penetrating there as well to look for other graves, that look to be unmarked. Thank you for all your work on this Robert, greatly appreciated, just wish you would of spend a bit more time on William Miller's grave. I almost was able to read it, and then you moved on..
Hey Mr Robert. I am still watching to see if you ever run across my gggg grandparents Graves out in the woods of Georgia. They lived out in that Parr of Georgia. Surname Coulter. But ggg grandparents are buried in Godwin cemetery in phenix city Alabama. Wiley Harrison Coulter. He was a civil war veteran who had a brother killed at Gettysburg and a nephew killed in that war also.
Love you guys. To bad you didn't have one them machines you push and put echoes in ground where can look on computer to see what's in the ground to see where the old graves are that didn't have markers.. could the back then have marked with wooden crosses that decomposed. Be safe in the woods love from central Florida
You guys need a probe that you can use to find buried headstone es. We took old broom ha does. Cut off the broom head. The we embedded screwdrivers, f,at headed, into the end. Glue is a good idea. Cheap. Effective. A great tool for discovery.
At 17:56 those granite markers could easily be from 1936 and 46. Granite was available back then, just not used as much, depending on the area anyway. But being the same as each other, and the fact that they don't match the slabs, they are probably newer. Anyway, that's a neat old cemetery. It's too bad they bulldozed that fence into the woods though.
Camp Wheeler was a United States Army base near Macon, Georgia. The camp was a staging location for many US Army units during World War I and World War II. It was named for Joseph Wheeler, a general in the Confederate States of America's Army and in the U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War. The camp was declared excess on January 19, 1946. Following a decontamination operation in the fall of 1946, the land was returned to the owners.
Camp Wheeler was a United States Army base near Macon, Georgia. The camp was a staging location for many US Army units during World War I and World War II. It was named for Joseph Wheeler, a general in the Confederate States of America's Army and in the U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War
So, Antoinette must have died during child birth on September 30,1903 same day as her daughter, Annie whom was born that same day, September 30, 1903 and didn't live very long, only until Jan.5, 1904. So very sad to live in those time, Antoinette had Annie when she was 43 which was very high risk, and therefore, she didn't make it during child birth. Henry, the husband died 21yrs. later, he was 8yrs. older than his wife. I wonder if he ever remarried and had any other children, probably not, he was 51 when Antoinette died. So glad they buried next to each other, and be together in the end.
I love how your videos remember people from such a long time ago. Also, please, if there's someone who knows about these people (I'm not talking only about soldiers), please tell us.
