other robert visit visits the "other" new hope graveyard and finds many more abandoned graves both on the african american and white sides of the cemetery
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Thank you for your dedication to this project. I am so happy you do this and am proud of your dedication. I am 84 years old and follow both you and the other Robert and what you both do is important to showing respect for the people who have gone. Thank you.
This is so, so sad. There has got to be some way the county can come in and clear and clean these old cemeteries up. This is history and people's lives who once were. It doesn't matter if your related, they need to be remembered. If I was in Georgia I would help clear nature's litter. Thanks Other Robert for showing us this huge cemetary.
Mrs. O, Robert O is a crackup. 678 pages in the contract. 😂 New Hope II is an incredible graveyard. The storm that blew down the trees - remnants of a hurricane? A really wide tornado? Such a shame that descendants didn't come back to clean it up. Thanks for all three parts, Robert and Mrs. O.
I loved this video.. It is so sad though that the town does not keep up these little burial grounds. Do you know why these places are forgotten and no one has kept them up?? I always thought it was unlawful to not take care of and respect those who are buried in any cemetery. I am very thankful for the cemetery that my loved ones are buried in in CA. Always well taken care of.. Thank you for all you do ..
Many of these counties in rural Georgia are sparsely populated with little funding. Most of the cemeteries are surrounded by private property and, without permission, are only accessible by descendants of those buried within them.
I truly appreciate how gentle and caring you are to all these graves. I wish someone would go in and clear off the gravestones from the trees or brush that has grown over the graves. It makes me sad to see them in the shape they are in.
Thank you so very much for sharing the local historical society’s just need more volunteers to persevere history should be a national historical society volunteer day 👍👍❤️
Two "Others" (Robert and other New Hope) almost make a Wright. 😊 Very interesting. Amazingly large and yet forgotten. Enjoyed it as usual. Always great. Robert, the intro was really nice, music and sloMo. I wonder if the Other Robert is wearing his neon green camo socks?😅 👍👍❣️Now wait a minute, I thought the last few pages of the contract did not print when the printer ran out of paper at 671 pages. I think the limit of graves and markers found was UNLIMITED. Other Robert you cover them all or nothing. 🤨
I wonder how many were killed in the civil war and how many fought in the war there had to be a town close by. Thanks for sharing now this resting place needs to be helped for sure. There are a lot of souls here
Thank you for all you do. Making history come to life. You have a great respect for those people, Thank you Robert. BTW...I get tired just watching you.
There may be graves under the road. It's sad to see the graves treated that way. Did y'all say who owns the property now? Is there any way to preserve the graves?
There is some done that way in the old cemetery in my area . Plus multiple people buried in the same grave (s ) . Such as my GRT uncles who died as children ,have their mother buried with them in the same grave.
A little tip, bring shaving and smear on stone to read. It will bring out letters. Also, a backpack with all your graveyard tools in it will help. Take and carry, always ready.
I will definitely keep watching. I apologize for my attitude the other day. I love exploring old cemeteries and it was so frustrating to not be able to see the tombstones I knew were there but couldn't see because they were covered. My son and I were doing genealogy research in Putnam Co, TN and visited over 20 cemeteries. We would have gone to more but couldn't find them because the areas they were supposed to be were so over grown with brush, fallen leaves and trees (like this one you explored). One we attempted walking through was so bad after about 15 min we realized we could have walked right by it and not see it plus if we got very far from the road we might get lost so we turned back. If I lived near you (I live in Ohio) I would be in there helping you and I would even carry the tools! 😊Anyway I love the videos you do but this one just got to me but I will still be watching. Bring them on!
Y'all need one of those "DR Field and Brush Mower". It's like a walk-behind brush hog. The TV commercials show a guy mowing down thick brush, just like what that cemetery is over-run with. It's made for that. Here in NJ, down in Cumberland County there's a Presbyterian church that was founded in 1680. Their first cemetery is in the woods like that, directly behind the Methodist cemetery. Many years ago they got an army of volunteers and cleaned it up, to the point where there is no brush any more, even though it's still woods. It was in use till 1780, but the newest marked grave that I have found is from 1742. That New Hope cemetery is pretty cool. Very interesting.
You do like those prickly bushes. Who is behind the camera. Whoever it is well done in keeping up with Robert. It’s good Robert from farm has handed it over to you as he certainly doesn’t have time to do it anymore. Cheers from Victoria Australia 🇦🇺🐨👍🏻🎖
We’re doing it together, I dunno why there’s a misconception we’re not - 😅 - Robert from the farm, being me - also edits all these videos and runs the channels
Thank you Robert and production crew. It's such a shame that these are in such condition. We had a deal with the sheriff's offices in three counties each county had two crews of "volunteers " from the jail and honor farms worked very well many news paper articles commending their hard work and organizing, U N T I L Someone somewhere not even conected to any of these programs brought up the family's of the entombed needed to have advocates and representatives. So in the crapper it went three counties twenty years.
Bless you for doing this work. Some descendants may now know where their ancestor is buried. Good. Maybe the descendants can hire out work to clear the brambles and help get the place in better condition - maybe charitable organizations can help? Who knows. May not be too far gone to get it in decent shape. I know some ancestors of mine were in a cemetery not known and found on a farm field in Missouri - away from where it was always suspected to be at. So glad you did this photography and limited work as you were able. I am not affiliated in any way with these people or the burials there.
Robert, NO limit for Orobert, he's doing fantastic finding these forgotten cemeteries, and he needs a small chain saw to get thru the trees and open up these cemeteries. Great job Orobert..
There is an old graveyard we explored as children in a remote part of the woods. We discovered an older part below a timber road that nobody knew about. A Civil War hero, Rufus McComas buried there with a small wrought iron fence. Years later went back and tree had grown up in the grave and crushed the stone, fence was gone perhaps for scrap iron. A treasure trove of very old graves, and probably destroyed by trees by now. Talked to an older lady, and she said they cut a road through there way back to timber without any respect or consideration for destroying graves and cutting the cemetery in half. 💔
You came back to this cemetery again and once again didn't bring your tools. Knowing this cemetery has so many tombstones lying on the ground covered in leaves a brush or broom would have been really good to have along? I can't believe this.
Me either!!! (Tall Tales 100)We aren't always as prepared as we should be, more or less we are the impulsive less calculated part of the team; however we intend to get better, please keep watching🙄 Thurber❤ thanks for havin' our backs!
I found information on E C Higdon. He was Elijah C Higdon. He enlisted 9 Oct 1861. He was ranked Sergeant of the Forty Third Infantry, Fifth East Tenn Volunteers, Gillespies' AND Regiment.
Perhaps the service groups could take on some of the clearing and cleaning of the stones, as part of their community service badges. The amount of history they could learn!
My husband's family there. Lennard. Have you explored the 2 cemeteries in Chickasawhatchee? We found the Baptist church one. Desecrated by plowing. My husband great-grandfather in Methodist one but unable to find it.
how is that so many of these cemeteries are abandoned, with the graves being so recent? i continue to be stunned. I own books older than these cemeteries, that are in better condition. Most of my village is older than the USA historically speaking, and people still live in the houses. Our church is about 800 years old with burials in it dating back to the early days. And we still have services in it!!
A nice electric chain saw (they're light) and a machete would be your friend in the areas you go. The right tools make the experience so much easier. Pretty with all the daffodills
Robert it would be nice if you brought along some hand nippers to cut away some of those briars and a garden rake so you don’t have to stick your hand down in those leaves beings I know the snakes are probably out there
Judging how the trees had fallen in a crisscross pattern like that and the wide area of destruction it looks like tornado damage to me. a strong twister by itself could easily topple those headstones but those fallen trees sure didn't help matters.
OR,you made a great effort,good video. I think that contract must be quite a read... renegotiation may be in order...😸💕take care and have you a steak sandwich.
Well, it is Georgia, can't be riding around with your tools in the truck unless you know you need them, people tend to help themselves to unattended tools.
Also more than one video comes from one visit. So, if he forgot the tools on the first video then he forgot them on the second and third. It’s all the same spot. And, I think it gives other Robert character.😊
@@diane1390 that’s what I thought a long time ago! They could merchandise a little kit for those of us who might be interested in doing it here and keep a little kid of their own… Robert has a lot going on with the Byrd farm. Though.
