Documenting another old cemetery in a farmers field. These really fascinate me. And some interesting family history too. I know it wasn’t too uncommon back in those days for wives to die and husbands to remarry, and not even too uncommon for them to marry a relative of their deceased wife. But still interesting to know. Remember this one... because on the next upcoming video we come across the cemetery where the parents of one of WJ Oliver’s wives are buried. Support Sidestep Adventures: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures Announcing the new Patreon members only Facebook group! Visit our Patreon for more details..... 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 haven’t viewed the video yet but I must tell you; the first 18 seconds was beautifully edited. The red dirt road. The tiny fence/field flowers. I enjoy your videos since I adore history and walking in cemeteries
You do a great job. You're like a pro. I find you a very curious seeking tremendous intellectual individual. God bless you and your family. Eaglegards... From a drafted disabled Republic of Vietnam combat veteran, 68 & '74 graduate of Georgia Southern (College) University. I grew up on a Michigan farm. One of my gg grandfathers was in the 23rd Michigan Infantry. The other gg grandfather was in Baxter's Artillery Confederate Tennessee Army.
When my mum died in ‘94, my father married her sisters best friend in ‘96. Not quite the same but just as confusing because my mums sister had married my dads brother in about ‘91 lol making both her and her best friend Leanne (Last Name redacted 😆)
It was tradition in the Ukrainian side of my family that if one of the brothers died and left a wife behind that one of the single brothers would marry her. It was expected and a absolute necessity if there were children. If none of the remaining brothers were single and the deceased brother left behind children the family as a whole (grandparents, remaining brothers, their wives and sisters) would come together and figure out as a whole who had the most room to take the little family in or in some cases who would take just the children in. Then the brothers would all chip in to support the little family financially. It was the family's way of raising the children with a large support system and an abundance of love.
terrynstasha in India where the wife moves in with her husband and his family, if the husband dies and the family has enough money to support her and the children they stay living with them, but then there are so many widows who are put out on the street because the family is too poor to afford to keep them, or there’s superstition that the wife is cursed because the husband died. I wish more countries held that multi generational family unit closer. Perhaps after this is all over they will
I agree, you would think a machine etched the names in the stone, the skill required to do that is incredible, one simple mistake could cost the stone maker some serious money, so I would assume.
These little graveyards are great to see, without you guys at Sidestep they would always remain anonymous. Thanks Rob and congratulations on getting over the 50K subs!! I remember when the numbers were less than 10K 👍
My grandfather survived four wives. All were sisters, they came from the Irish orphan trains. The first one died of malaria (Florida can be unforgiving), the second two in child-bed, the fourth is my "step grandmother". ( you should carry a spray bottle of water. It makes the words stand out like they were just carved!)
@@donniebrown2896 lol, I keep saying the same thing... Being a 6th generation Floridian, I know where every single one of my relatives are buried... Exactly one eighth of a mile from where I'm standing right now. (Here in Florida, it is legal to bury a family member on your own land as long as you meet three criteria. You have to have at least one unused acre of land, you have to have a certificate of death and a certificate to transport a corpse. Bodies can be buried in coffins, plain wood boxes or in a shroud. We choose to use a shroud so that it decomposes along with the body and does not leach any chemicals into the ground. Decomposition works extremely quickly in Florida so, we literally become part of the land once we shed these mortal coils!) Because the oldest stone in our family graveyard was actually quarried in Georgia and then hauled 600 miles south on buckboard, we are extremely careful with it. Great great great great great great granddaddy would not like his headstone all mucked up! The oil from your fingertips is actually corrosive to stone and rubbing dirt off the face of a stone with your hand helps to sand the surface down. Most soil usually contains at least some sand, and sand is an abrasive. Water is always the safest and, the most dependable way to be able to read the entire stone without actually touching it.
@@ceciliag2929 I forgot to mention that there is a fourth criteria. The body cannot be embalmed because it'll chemicals leach into the soil.. because embalming cannot be done, the internment must be immediate! You remember sitting up with the dead? We still have that sort of thing going on LOL.
As a former caretaker , historian , etc of a historic cemetery in Canada I have enjoyed your videos. One part of the history of your area that is missing goes back to the American Revolution up until the Civil War. The south had a tie to Great Britain. The southern states were British strongholds and experienced two civil wars. Long story, but keep up the good work.
Agree, my wife is friends with group brothers and sisters in Pink Hill, NC. Seems like there are nine. One of the names is Mary Christmas. Bet you can't guess her birthday.
It would be nice if families could keep up the graveside but like me I am sure the family is not 8n the same state. A lot of my family is buried in Mississippi and we live 8n NC. I believe the church keeps it up.
Looked up Robert Bell. His parents are next to him, Lucretia and John Bell. Robert Bell may have been to young to fight in Civil War. Two of his uncles were of fighting age and died during Civil War so likely fought and killed.
That is a very interesting family history. I have never seen berry bushes planted around a cemetery like that. I always wonder how close these little family cemeteries were to the homestead. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤
It's more likely that the Bushes came to be on the fence from bird droppings. The birds eat the berries and some seeds pass through the digestive track unharmed. Birds perch on the fence and seeds are deposited below. That's why Oklahoma fence rows are full of cedar trees!
Hi Robert, yet another nicely kept cemetery, as you said, there were people farming that land back in the old days and it's still being farmed to this day. Thanks for sharing. x💙
The source of the tombstones is interesting. Americus and Macon aren't exactly sister cities being some 75 miles apart. But strangely they both wound up at this place.
I recently came across a couple of ancestresses who were married three times. Women couldn't very well live without a husband back then and men needed wives for housekeeping and child rearing.
For what it's worth, a good many women died in childbirth. It wasn't until the 1860s that some doctor finally figured out that, gee, if you wash up a woman after childbirth, and CHANGE THE SHEETS, women have a better chance of surviving childbirth.
That may sit out in the middle of a farmers field now, but there are some pretty big stumps that were inside of the fence, possibly the trees may have been planted at burial time? Amazing how the Cedar grew around the gatepost at the entrance, those Cedars can live through a lot, and a long time too.
this is the best💓 he certainly was a favourable man....... i,m in Australia🖐 ,,,and i used to go myself I love how now you can show me many more ,,i love the epitaph they inscribed back then..... i once seen one and its sticks in my mind ....it read....may her soul be in heaven 5 minutes before the devil knows shes dead.!!......very unusual and after seeing this i went around old towns looking at the cemeteries looking for more, it fascinates me ... but also saddens me at the same time..... thank you respectfully😊
I’m really enjoying this channel and I love what you guys are doing. These old cemeteries are historical and should be revived and cared for. The headstones in this particular cemetery are nice
The Georgia red clay. Some hot days in that part of the country. Eaglegards... P.S. J. Artope was for James Artope stone Mason from Macon, Georgia born in 1809 in Charleston, SC. He died 13 December 1883 and is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, GA. Look him up and look up 'Srories in Stones' by Douglas Keister. While at Rose Hill, look up Leroy Willey Gresham. Leroy kept a diary as a boy during the civil war in Macon. He died tragically from TB at age 17 . I find Leroy's diary fascinating because my gg grandfather fought at Chickamuga and was in Macon as a Confederate in the Tennessee Army. He was captured near Macon by Sherman and paroled by the Yankees. He was in that field hospital at Rose Hill at Macon. I always wondered if he climbed those Indian mounds along the river.
Hearing you read so respectfully the names of those people makes one stop and think of the hardships they went thru. It also kitchen at we are going thru now into perspective. Yes it's rough now but nothing compared to what our ancestors went thru
You do an excellent job on documenting the history of the people buried there. Very good tie in to the families and the pointing out of the farming history. Well done
It was a very common thing back then. Children had to be raised and who better knows the children and would love them. Their aunt. I think it was better for the children
I wonder what illness or event took both mother, Mary Lou, and young son, Ross L., just a few days apart in September 1890. There are graves of 6 children in one family all under 5 in a cemetery in Payne, Ohio where my great, great grandparents and other relatives are buried. Despite the current pandemic, we are truly blessed in this country. We shouldn't forget that in this era when complaining is so popular.
There was a third wave of the plague in 1890, as well as a flu pandemic (though that was in early 1890). I find myself curious about this as well. Poor things.
My grandmother was Carrie Bell and married a Hatcher and they all are from Albany Leesburg area Lee county I believe I stayed in n.c after school was over never went back and now all dead but was interested in knowing if that possibly could be some of my grandmother's people. They had a big farm in South Georgia ....stay safe stay well and blessings to you and your family during these strange dark times
Lovely little Cemetery. A couple of repaired headstones. Such red sand. Is it good soil for crops ? Thanks for posting Robert, you always have great posts 🌿🌹🌿
Lucretia, phonetically pronounced Loo- Cree- Sha. A very old and common name of the period. Sure wish I could put a new Confederate 1st.National Flag on the grave next to her. It's pretty faded. Thanks for another good video Robert.
I once came across a small graveyard in a field and a number of children of about one year of age from different families had died in the same year, 1851. I looked it up online and yep, a cholera epidemic had hit my area in that year.
I have always heard that in the 1800 and early 1900’s people didn’t live a very long life, ( died in their 40’s and 50’s). I am just amazed at how long some of them lived .
There is a cemetery in my home town that has about 300 marked graves. I got all the ages they were when they died and averaged them out to about 34 years old. Many babies brought that average down.
My Grandfather, (yes Grandfather 1835-1923) fought for the Confederacy and had three wives & nineteen children. . He farmed for a living...Bet he was a tired fella. LOL
@@williamyorkolepossum my mom had an uncle like that some wives dies some he divorced. I think their was 4 or 5 though and 20 some youngins not sure if they were all his or not and he wasn't very faithful either so no telling how many actually. Story has it one of his sons from one of his first wives fathered a son with one of his later wives while she was still married to his father . That's one messed up part of the family I have never met .
1 wife was to many for me..my dad's brother was on wife 6 when he passed away his first wife died of influenza his second wife in child birth his third died of cancer his forth and fifth I think died of natural causes he was 90 when he married wife 6 he died at 96
Just came across this video, It's kinda funny how the title is the man with 3 wife's. I just stopped by a Cemetery near me. In this Cemetery is laid a guy who had 5 wife's each is engraved on a large stone with smaller stones on either side with the first name of each wife, as well as a stone with his name. . But as always you do a great job here. I need one of those lights. This Cemetery is located in North West Pa. And is called Radel Cemetery.
Interesting how there were 2 stumps behind you. Trees had grown and either died and rotted and burned or grew, burned then rotted down to the ground. Both sizeable trees.Writing on the stones was clear.
What I heard from older relatives is that was was common for a man to marry his deceased wife's unmarried sister. The wife's family supposedly expected so especially if there were children involved. Enjoy your videos!!
There are a lot of comments and I thought I would mention the pronunciation of Lucretia. I knew a pastors wife with that name. It's pronounced Lu_cresh_ia and that last is e_uh So, like Lu_cresh_e_uh without pausing. I hope that's OK to mention, there may be other pronunciations around the U.S. and abroad. This woman lived in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
You need to find the old cemetery at Smoke Mont national campground. The park rangers should put you on the right path, its one of those you either know it exists or you don’t.
Robert, Lucretia is pronounced Lou Cree shah. It’s a beautiful name. I don’t know the ethnic origin. One time in western New York I discovered the grave of one of Brigham Young’s wives and in New Hampshire I found a grave that had been exercised. Graveyards are really interesting!
Lucrezia (given name): an Italian name, feminine of the Roman name Lucretius. The etymological origin of the name is debatable, but is thought to come from the Latin lucrum, meaning "profit, wealth". Other sources believe it may be of Etruscan origin, though its original meaning has been lost.
I've seen it-heard it in Spanish, where it is still quite a popular name. Lucrecia - Lou cre [like cra-yon] cia. Lucrecia. ie-> Lucrecia "Lu" Montesinos Hendrich is a character on the Netflix series Elite. The daughter of the Mexican ambassador in Spain, she is a graduate student of Las ...
This is so interesting.. I just came across your videos.. IT's very neat to see how many wives he had.. Have you ever heard any interesting ghost stories about your expeditions? I look forward to viewing more of your videos..
We have red dirt in Oklahoma too. I was just wondering why no grass in the Cemetery? It just seems odd to me but perhaps you don't have a variety of grass that will grow in the soil? Or is the grass killed on purpose? Just wondering. Love your videos. Please keep up the good work!
Found Robert Bell's Parents -John Samuel Bell (1825-1909) and Lucretia Little Bell (1829-1895). Sibling- Sarah Katherine Bell DeVane (1863-1941). I don't know if you mentioned this or not. Thank You For Mentioning The Bushes Are Blueberries, I thought they were gardenias.
The stone with the name "Leila" on it I thought was cool! That's my middle name and was my Grandma's name! I don't see it very often! But my Mom and Grandma pronounced "Lee-I-Lah"! But it could've been "Lay-Lah"! All depends on who has the name!
Ppl had farms. My grandmother s father had been married before. Had several kids. Then wife died. He then married again. My great grandma. Had a number of kids with her. Then he died. Still the farm was kept up and worked. My grandmother said one of her half syblings was named Charles. As it is with large distance families. Charles and his family group vanished. He did check on his stepmom and her family during the early years. Many years later my grandmother had dementia. She looked at my dad and called him Charles. But we think she saw her half brother in her mind. There are various small cemeteries on land there in Missouri. With the Sommers name on them.
3 wives ? 🤔🤔🤔 Im always sceptical. Exume with a little forensics...we could get to the TRUTH. AM I A LITTLE TOO LATE FOR THAT ? PLEASE ROBERT...DONT LET MY HEADSTONE SAY, " SHE WAS A SLOW LEARNER." 🙏
