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So many lives known only to God. Thank you for respectfully acknowledging their resting place. How awesome that you captured such a beautiful and fitting sunset. Very moving. Thank you for sharing.
So many resting places nestled in the peaceful woods. No noises just peace. And that sunset is beautiful. Such a gorgeous ending to God's gift to us. Thank you Dan and Robert for sharing
No matter how many of these videos I've watched the unnamed graves always tear at my heart strings. I cannot imagine burying a loved one with only a fieldstone to mark it. Although you can't name the people you give them a measure of respect by acknowledging their lives & deaths. It is fascinating history but so much more.
Greetings from Saskatchewan. It amazes me how quickly nature can take over a cemetery once it is forgotten and neglected. Just wondering - have you ever come across any old burial sites of First Nations (Indian) peoples in Georgia?
I lived just outside of Luray Va and next door was an old plantation. The house has kitchen slave quarters up stairs, had chains and shackles still on basement wall. Family cemetery was on hill behind the house owners graves marked next to it was a slave burial area, a few markers but not many but you could see where the ground sunk where graves were. House was scene of an Indian massacre years before. Had gun ports in attic area even pot marks in brick from where indians had shot old musket balls. Plus on attic floor blood stains (now just dark areas) was on floor. The folks that had it when I was there cleared out cemeteries fix stones and marked slave graves. They feneced it in made it look nice. The elder of the family passed and was buried in plot there. Lots of history out there that NEEDS to be taught.
@@raymonasorrow Yes indeed, a very painful history and one that must never be forgotten. Chains and shackles on the basement walls - how dreadful to treat human beings that way.
Am I getting older? These cemeteries, particularly the enslaved cemeteries, are just getting sadder and sadder. With the last grave being 60 years ago, people aren't around to remember where their loved ones might be buried. What is always so sad about these cemeteries is the number of people who died. I'm sure many, many of these are for small children. Thank you for helping us remember that many fine people in unfortunate circumstances rest here.
What a shame Robert these Graves should all be cleaned up and remarked the state that there in is terrible a lot of black history covered over and forgotten 😢
Do you add these graves to Find a Grave? I got to see my GGG Grandmother's headstone in Belgium because someone like you did this, and posted her grave.
People think I am strange but I like visiting old cemeteries and reading the names and dates on headstones. Honoring the dead who once lived on this earth as a living and breathing soul.
Hello 👋 Robert and Dan it's a good to see the field stones because you would know that anyone was buried there except for the headstones 🪦 very interesting video well done 👏 ✔ Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 🇬🇧
I AM FROM MISSISSIPPI. SOME OF THE CEMETERIES WERE PLOWED UNDER AND COTTON FIELDS WERE PLANTED. I GOT THE CHANCE TO VISIT MY GRANDMOTHER AND HER TWIN BEFORE THEY PLOWED IT UNDER. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO WITH ME.
The sunset was astounding. Finding, documenting lost and forgotten cemeteries and graveyards do keep history alive. Though, I wonder just how alone you are sometimes.
Thank you for doing this and DOCUMENTING THIS… Anytime African Americans and African slaves are documented is such an important piece of history. It’s such a hurtful past that I still feel and hear stories from my great grandmother and elder uncles and and great aunts Thank you !
That was a very interesting cemetery. Many are lost to time and memory but not to God. One day, many of those graves will open up and those folks will all receive new, forever bodies. It will be awesome to get to meet them!
It's so sad , the people who were buried used to work ,have a family and now they are completely forgotten as if they did not exist and contributed to shape the society .
So sad these cemeteries aren't preserved, by the state or county. This is family history, and the military headstone should be noted and mentioned even better! Thank you Robert for doing this.
I’m amazed at how much history Georgia has just in the areas n county you live in. Oh, how it breaks my heart to see them forgotten. Your last shot of video was a gorgeous picture of the sunset n trees.♥️😊👍👍
I'M FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA. YOU TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, WATCHING THE SUNRISE IN THE MORNING. IT'S SO PEACEFUL. THE SMELL OF FRESH GRASS WITH THE DEW ON IT. LOVE YOUR COMMENT.
Thanks for this video.So interesting. I did not know about the warerjug artifacts on enslaved graves.Very interesting, and the sunset a perfect ending to a blessing from God.
i saw an old cemetary like that in Ringwood, New Jersey, Northern NJ in the 1970s. The thing that shocked me was that i saw a headstone for Lincoln s killer, John Wilkes Booth. I never got my camera on it. It was a long. long hike to get there. That is when i did long hikes.
Hello Robert and Dan. Another interesting back road adventure. I love this stuff. A sad state for many buried there. A beautiful sunset shines down on the dearly departed. I like that.
Thank you for caring about giving these people a moment of recognition. I always hope you all do bring your gloves, flashlight, a broom, your bare hands scraping make me sad! :)
Always enjoyable to watch..but also sad that these graves have all been forgotten. Everytime I watch one of your videos..I wanna go clean up a forgotten cemetery. Such a nice thing you're doing. Trying to bring some of those names back to life.
These veterans graves are not very old.. and are forgotten in the middle of nowhere into the woods like this? So sad. 🥀 nobody can do something ? If it’s a private property why the owners don’t take care of all?
I did some research on QMC and the US Department of Veterans Affairs states that it stands for Quartermaster Clerk. I can email you the link so that you have the reference as well. I love watching your videos, here and on Watch Your Step. I’ve always been interested in old cemeteries and through you, I can see a ton of them.🇨🇦🤗❤️🙏🏻
another great find with you and Mr. Dan in finding this unmarked cemetery, and to find ANY headstones was lucky..so sad that there is nothing to remember an ancestor or a grave other than a simple field stone. so sad to see...
I’m impressed with how you see the indentions in the ground . I can’t see it. I can see you put the yellow lighting , you def have an eye for this history
Robert: You've been to so many forgotten sites. In your memory, has there been an incident that affected you, haunted you, you love to talk about or NOT?
Robert the grave you tapped on are you sure it was cement? It certainly was doubtful! That place had a very chilled and sad vibe to it. There felt like there was suffering there! I certainly would not like to be there after dark!! Some of the residents might meet and greet you!!
I felt the same thing. This Cemetery certainly had its own vibe I wonder if there are any slabs lying hidden beneath the carpet of leaves and twigs. We only see the obvious signs and markings that poke through. Perhaps a walking stick for poking, and a brush, could help on some of these Adventures?
Another beautiful but lonely place. Unusual that a vault is not underground. Dan's smooth voice with his southern lilt is aways appealing. Such a wonderful combination, his voice and his knowledge and story telling. Robert, I love your shot of the sunset. Interesting cemetery find, and the water containers, I have never heard that. Robert, I love your shot of the sunset. 👍👍❣️
@Sherri Lee exactly what you said. My Parents a 2 Brothers are buried at a small Country Church Cemetery . Which was quiet now they have built like 10 houses up around there now. I guess that's Progress :)
That's interesting. I have never seen a bronze military gravemarker that was placed standing up like that. I have also never seen a vault that was buried only deep enough that the lid was above ground like that.
