This was a pretty interesting place! I can’t wait to see what kinda of history y’all can find on it! These are truly fascinating places... Not only do they hold stories of the people and individual lives lived, but also the story of an ever changing landscape. The story of a county and a country. 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/
The cemeteries you video are always interesting. It's no telling how old this cemetery is and the history of all who's buried there. Be careful out there bub.
You should take a drive up to Blue Ridge Mountains in NC sometime. Wandering around the woods, you'll run into old abandoned family cemeteries every mile or two.
During WW II the president of Coke Cola ordered that every person serving the country in uniform should be able to purchase a Coke product (Coke, Fanta,etc.) for no more that 5 cents.... no matter the cost to produce the drink or wherever the the person was based. This was to remind them of home. The drinks left on the graves could have been from a veteran making sure the person had their Coke.
I love these old cemeteries. They always seem so peaceful. Really seems strange to me when I think about these old graves that when someone died in 1920 that it was 100 years ago. I guess I still haven’t wrapped my brain around it being 2020 now. Lol. Another great video! Thanks!
Robert, maybe you're starting a new trend in Ga., people going out clearing out and cleaning up old cemetaries in Ga. which would be a good thin. Maybe people are starting to follow your example!
@8:25 Willam Davis Jr...he was 16 at the end of WWII yet is a veteran of that war. There has to be quite a story there! I know there are other cases of people joining that young, and as a Navy vet myself who joined at a young age, I’m fascinated by the memories of such young recruits. Apparently there were about 200,000 people who served in WWII underage (under 17 years old). The youngest I think was Calvin Graham at 12 years old (he’s got an incredible story).
how cool and he may be kin to me my maiden name was Davis and my dad's name was also William our family tree is full of William names and spread across the country so who knows but I always say hi cuz when I see a Davis in these videos!
My great great great grandfather was born in 1798 and fought in the war of 1812. My grandmother's brother was was born in 1898 and lied to fight in WWI then later in WWII. I have his army headstone certificate showing his actual given birth year marked out and corrected with actual birth year. He died in 1954.
It is a pleasure to see your videos of forgotten cemeteries and nice to see one that has been found before you got there. Now if anyone is looking for a loved one that passed a long time ago it will be a lot easier for them.
@ 2:59 PVT Henry Huntington, Company H, 57th Regiment Georgia Infantry. Enlisted 10 May 1862 in Milledgeville, GA, Mustered out (Captured and possibly wounded) 21 Dec 1864, Pardoned at Appomattox CH, Va on 9 Apr 1865.
Mr. Wright (and crew)..I just found your series..and I am thoroughly enjoying every adventure. I am a huge history buff and do photography as a hobby...you do awesome work...!! But I wanted to give you a enormous thank you for the care and respect you show to nature, to history and for those who have gone before us...helping them (and places)to be remembered. Well done sir...well done!!
@@Gitarzan66 That is true. It's likely he lied about his age and came in on the tail end. Also the WW2 Victory Medal was awarded to those who served in Germany and Japan up until December 31, 1946. That could make him a veteran of that type if he was part of the Army or Navy of Occupation. But a lot of guys did lie about their age during WW2.
@@johnwheeler585 Thats very interesting. How did you go about finding the VA record? I've been researching my dad (Navy WW2 Korea) for years. I never tried a VA search. Thanks.
@@RhettyforHistory I'm a military history buff too. My dad was haunted until the end of life after he saw a 17 year old kid get killed firing a mortar. My dad was a Navy Corpsman in WW2 and Korea. He said there were many many underage boys. It was a lot easier to get away with back then.
I'm so glad that this cemetery is being taken care of, they have learned from you to sweep them off , daffodils are blooming, thank you so much for sharing, please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends
Thanks Robert like me many of us can't get to our family graves anymore ! it's depressing but thank God for ppl like you who stop and read the name's of ppl long gone God Bless .💔😢♥️😇🙏🇺🇸
Thanks for the video,I don,t know if anyone else does this but when you read out the dates (born-Death) I pause video to see how old they all were. Im in B.C. Canada got some old gold rush days graves but I haven,t found to many yet.Thanks again.
The graves that get me are the babies buried with no name. I thought of making a book about it after finding some that melted my heart outside a civil war cemetery in NC. I just found your video and really enjoyed it. It is a great way to document what you find. Thank you for sharing, and inspiring.
I really enjoy what you do and your videos are fascinating. So many lost and forgotten graves...each one representing a lifetime lived long ago. It makes me kind of melancholy thinking that there is no one alive today who can remember many of these people, it makes me kind of sad. Its really nice that you are respectfully honouring the lives of the forgotten! Thank You for this...
Glad to have been brought along with you and documenting these places. Please keep up the great work. It would be grand to see with ground radar and mark all of the graves if with nothing other than they would be mark so their not destroyed in the future like others have been. We used to go visit our relatives and hold picnics, now grave yard are driven by and not visited, shunned even.
Another fascinating video. I find it so odd that there is a maintained cemetery in front of a forgotten one. So many unnamed & unmarked graves. Could they possibly be African-American or just people too impoverished to afford marked headstones. I find it amazing so many graves covered with fieldstone, brick or cement. I have never seen anything like this in upstate & western new york. A great glimpse at how different burial culture can be in different places. Thanks for taking me along. I enjoy all your videos but as a history lover the cemeteries are my favorites.
Incredible that you interest in preserving part of the past! Old graveyards have always intrigued me. These people that are buried there are watching from someplace and are grateful somebody is trying to remember them. 💗🙏
You've given me a bug. I started looking for battles or skirmishes in bama basically for two reasons, to find civil war cemeteries and for metal detecting for relics. What I found was amazing and could answer some questions about the un marked graves you're finding there. After a battle the dead were buried sometimes in mass trenches or in local cemeteries. There was no time for markers so stones would be used to mark the location of graves. The VA is actually responsible for placing headstones on CSA casualty graves, all are pointed on top to indicate the CSA grave and all are the same size and material. Thanks for your concern and respect
@@AdventuresIntoHistory after looking I found the only major battles here were south around mobile. The last "battle" took place in Munford,Al. It was also where the last two battle fatalities occurred. We have grands that live in NW georgia, and my wife wanted me to start there. Missionary ridge is covered in homes and of course the biggy,, chickamauga is off limits. There are a lot, and I mean A LOT of known civil war battle cemeteries in Georgia. Try looking for the smaller ones and metal detect around them. Good luck and stay safe
That man Mayo that fought in the revolutionary war, and next to him, his son that fought in the civil war...TOUCHED MY HEART! I think of the vermin trying to destroy America, disregarding completely the hundreds of thousands of sacrifices made for this country to remain free, so these MAGGOT can destroy America!!! imho
If you are referring to the flag with the brick on the Confederate soldier's grave, that was the National Flag of the Confederacy, or the Stars and Bars flag. It's different than any of the battle flags widely known today. The present State of Georgia flag is similar to the old Confederate Stars and Bars, so we still have our Southern heritage on our State flag, sorta hiding in plain sight, but shhhhh! Don't tell anyone! :)!
@@melaniew4354 I was told by a South Carolina native that moved up here in the North, that people fly the Dixie more than down there. It's odd, I know.
Sharon Dobbs Thank you for the information! It shows just how little of the “real” history we are taught! As you can probably tell I am not from the south...
@@janiefable well welcome & I'll be happy to educate you! What everyone calls "the Confederate Flag" today is the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, which was of course under the command of General Lee. In the late 1800s and early 1900s as aging Confederate soldiers began to have formal reunions they started to unify under the flag of Lee's army as an homage. So, that became their symbol, in parades, at memorial gatherings, etc...but in reality, there were many battle flags, mostly forgotten today. Many Georgia Confederates fought under The Bonnie Blue Flag, which was blue with a single white star. Bonnie Blue Butler in Gone With the Wind is named for this flag. Now, I'm not saying Lee's flag hasn't been used in a negative way, it was and has been, especially in 1956 when Georgia voted to add it to the State flag right after Brown vs The Board of Education. That was done to send an anti-integration message. They said at the time it was to commemorate the upcoming 100 year anniversary of The War Between the States, but that wasn't the whole story. So...our current State of Georgia flag wasnt really "changed" to remove the battle flag in 2001, as you'll hear people complaing about. It really is just a return to an earlier design. I think it is a good compromise, still Southern, but not so inflammatory. Southern history is layered, nuanced & complicated and can't be told in quick sound bites.
@@garycarraigeacha8794 I once worked with someone from Wisconsin and she said the same thing, that she saw the battle flag at home more than here in Georgia. I think for many people it is just a symbol of rebelliousness. And everyone loves a Rebel!
Awww. I wanna go on a road trip 2 Lov this ! Man Robert and crew thanks for doing the loving dedication towards these sites. The babies wow . When u say the names. Jus me chills B safe. Thanks again
I want you to know I always enjoy watching your videos I love doing this to anywhere I go I tried to look for cemeteries and specially in the south and I live in Spartanburg South Carolina we have some pretty old ones here thanks again.
From what I can find, this is the Outler family cemetery. There is a .doc form showing that there is numerous sunken wooden casket graves, graves marked with bricks and numerous unmarked ones with field stones only. It lists 38 graves with names. The other post shows photos from 2012
Yes. My grandmother had three brothers and sisters who died and I didn't think to ask her where they were buried and she is dead now. Most likely they were buried on the property where they lived at the time and no one is alive to day to know where that is. It bothers me.
Another great video of gone but not forgotten. I'm in the Omaha metro where Woodman of the World has its HQ. The video really connects with me. Thanks.
What's the story with the "Woodsman" stones/markers, are they a group like the Free Mason's???. I recently found your channel and have been glued to screen watching your videos and noticed you run across the Woodsman markers fairly often. Thank you for sharing your Sidestep adventure with us, absolutely Riveting content.🇺🇸👍✌️
great work guys , this is definitely my favorite youtube channel , i was wondering if yall ever get into wandering around fresh plowed fields for arrow heads?
Oh that was so lovely to see the graves all tidied up. It looked lovely. Would some of the unmarked graves be slaves ? The headstone that's like wood. I've never before seen anything like that. Great craftsmanship. 💟🌹💟
It is possible. If it was the site of an old plantation that could very well be the case. And their descendants continued burying in the old slave section. I have seen that many times, but without further information I could not say for sure.
You know I really wanted to come help out on Jan 18th to clean up the graves that needed cleaning badly with all the volunteers! But we had a tragedy in the family my daughter passed away early that morning!! I just wanted to let you know that we were coming to help!!!! It was the cemetery where dan Bruner and Col hutch are cleaning up!!!!!
At 15:05 to 15:16 there is a small black tree that looks like it has some surveyors tape about five feet up. It appears to be moving slightly in the breeze.
I interesting that the front cemetery is well maintained and the other one isn't, and hasn't been in a long time. Looks like someone has started to clean it all up. I hope so. Thanks Robert
This Cemetery is on the Find a Grave website, it's called "Outler Family Cemetery" and there are quite a few photos of some of the people who are buried there.
I'm trying to wrap my head around the old a bottles. I can't understand why some of those bottles are still sitting up on the graves after all the wind and rain over the years. just scratching my head over this one.
Nice cemetery. That white iris is known as the cemetery white iris. It originated in the middle east and was brought to Spain and introduced to the Americas in the 1600s. It was a Moorish tradition to plant them in cemeteries by the graves, a custom that was adopted by the Spanish which spread to the South via Florida and Texas. They were commonly planted in Southern cemeteries until the early 1950s. They are no longer commonly planted and have disappeared from highly maintained cemeteries because of the use string trimmers and the spraying of weed killers. Often you can spot old cemeteries just by their foliage. So while driving along be on the lookout for them. Also they can sometimes mark old homesites but much less than daffodils and jonquils. Speaking of jonquils those yellow ones in your vid are called campernelles. Introduced in the 1700s from England.
I stumbled across your channel a few days ago and I’m hooked! It’s sad that there are so many forgotten graves, makes me wonder how many finally resting places there are out in this world. Makes my heart sad, especially the children’s graves with all the overgrowth. Several years ago I went to my Grandmother’s grave, her headstone was damaged , my guess due too age. I emailed the owners of the cemetery and a few months later it had been repaired. Thank-you again for showing us those that may have been forgotten, they are now remembered. ❤️
This place seems HUGE ....... it is almost spooky to think what is under all the leaves. I saw a video of a fella that took a leaf blower and he and his friend spent the day blowing all the leaves. It was A MAZING to see what they found....................
It's quite common for cemeteries to be segregated. Even today there are large city cemeteries where there are the wealthy in one area, the poor in the back usually, also the Jews are buried in the Hebrew section and their are white and black sections too. In my hometown in Arkansas there's an all black cemetery that was once a slave cemetery and the cemetery owners refuse to allow white people to be buried there even today. We all live among each other until we're separated once again after death then to be together in the afterlife if you believe in it. Kinda ironic.
My late wife & I did what we called cemetary hopping . We ,stopped on long trips in the deep south . So. East Louisiana, we, came across an a old ,old - Scottish Wright cemetary .WOW !! OVER GROWN !! Tangled vines ,& grave covering slabs upended to reveal rotten coffins, & a smell of old death in the close area !! Armadillo holes throught these grave sites ! Guessing early 1800's . Most all graves had naturally collapsed due to poor installment of internment. Hands down this was the worst cemetary we ever stopped to visit !!!! To me it looked like a bomb dropped there !! We took no pictures, In 1984 ,no smart phones back then ! Now ,my wife rests in a proper cemetary in So w. Louisiana , Her grave will always be kept well in honor of our life & children together in God's name !! Thank you !!! ❤
Woohoo 1st comment! I think that was a crocus or maybe a daffodil(my spring favorites) Woodsmen of the world? I'v never heard of them Hi Cody! Somebody meant S-on (used a c instead)
On a 1973 map of that area it shows another cemetery approximately 700 meters (2300 ft) due NW of the one you're at on top of a small hill. It might be just north of the ne corner of the tire factory.
57th Regiment, Company H - Huntington, Henry-Private May 10, 1862. Wounded in leg at Baker's Creek, Miss. May 16, 1863. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863. Paroled there July 8, 1863. Exchanged Sept. 1863. Admitted to Ocmulgee Hospital at Macon, Ga. with chronic ulcers of left leg caused by old wound, Sept. 23, 1864. Union prisoner of war records, dated Provost Marshal General's Office, Hilton Head, S. C. Apr. 4, 1865, show that he came into lines at Savannah, Ga. Dec. 21, 1864, and was delivered to Provost Marshal General at New York City.
Interesting familysearch entry. Henry Huntington was born in England and came to America as a young man. His parents passed away in England. He married Louisa Stembridge of Georgia. They had one daughter, Mary (1861-1936).
I wished you had taken a peek at the fenced-in family plot. It's curious why there were so many pop bottles in the cemetery and especially on the headstones. This was an interesting place. Perhaps when history is learned about this cemetery someone could thank the caretakers for their diligence in keeping this in such good shape.
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The cemeteries you video are always interesting. It's no telling how old this cemetery is and the history of all who's buried there. Be careful out there bub.
The trees looks like they're black up to about 4 feet like there was a fire or a control burn.
thank you for this episode.... Greetings from Europe
You should take a drive up to Blue Ridge Mountains in NC sometime. Wandering around the woods, you'll run into old abandoned family cemeteries every mile or two.
@@ALAN6453 Howdy pard!!
During WW II the president of Coke Cola ordered that every person serving the country in uniform should be able to purchase a Coke product (Coke, Fanta,etc.) for no more that 5 cents.... no matter the cost to produce the drink or wherever the the person was based. This was to remind them of home. The drinks left on the graves could have been from a veteran making sure the person had their Coke.
Thank you for this info. It was very interesting.
I love these old cemeteries. They always seem so peaceful. Really seems strange to me when I think about these old graves that when someone died in 1920 that it was 100 years ago. I guess I still haven’t wrapped my brain around it being 2020 now. Lol. Another great video! Thanks!
God left them flowers. I like this.because it means they are not forgotten. Very good video and very interesting. Thank you for sharing.❤🤗
I love your channel. I had a friend who loved to do what you are doing. Believe he is watching in heaven. Great work!
Such a beautiful place Robert, great find, you do such a great job....Thank you so much!
Robert, maybe you're starting a new trend in Ga., people going out clearing out and cleaning up old cemetaries in Ga. which would be a good thin. Maybe people are starting to follow your example!
Very nice find I love old Cemetery .I'am so glad to see that are cleaning it up
Beautiful white iris. It's interesting that someone didn't take that pop bottle away. Thank you for a really interesting video.
JUST so glad we get to go along whith you on your Adventures thank you as always
@8:25 Willam Davis Jr...he was 16 at the end of WWII yet is a veteran of that war. There has to be quite a story there! I know there are other cases of people joining that young, and as a Navy vet myself who joined at a young age, I’m fascinated by the memories of such young recruits. Apparently there were about 200,000 people who served in WWII underage (under 17 years old). The youngest I think was Calvin Graham
at 12 years old (he’s got an incredible story).
Melinda Pelfrey yes, lying about age and/or gender in order to join has a long history throughout many countries and wars
how cool and he may be kin to me my maiden name was Davis and my dad's name was also William our family tree is full of William names and spread across the country so who knows but I always say hi cuz when I see a Davis in these videos!
@Melinda Pelfrey hiya cuz! our family is from the Craven County area of NC
My gpa was 16 when he joined the Navy and served in WWII
My great great great grandfather was born in 1798 and fought in the war of 1812. My grandmother's brother was was born in 1898 and lied to fight in WWI then later in WWII. I have his army headstone certificate showing his actual given birth year marked out and corrected with actual birth year. He died in 1954.
I love how you describe the gravesites and show them respect I love how you do that I think everyone should have a memorable and honorable history
Glad to see at least one cemetery being cared for. Thanks for posting.
Interesting cemetery ! Thank you for all the respect you give
It is a pleasure to see your videos of forgotten cemeteries and nice to see one that has been found before you got there. Now if anyone is looking for a loved one that passed a long time ago it will be a lot easier for them.
Makes you think one day somebody might just be exploring our 100 year graves lost in time,Great video.
Thank you Robert for sharing and even more thanks for what you do and you care about the forgotten
@ 2:59 PVT Henry Huntington, Company H, 57th Regiment Georgia Infantry. Enlisted 10 May 1862 in Milledgeville, GA, Mustered out (Captured and possibly wounded) 21 Dec 1864, Pardoned at Appomattox CH, Va on 9 Apr 1865.
Mr. Wright (and crew)..I just found your series..and I am thoroughly enjoying every adventure. I am a huge history buff and do photography as a hobby...you do awesome work...!! But I wanted to give you a enormous thank you for the care and respect you show to nature, to history and for those who have gone before us...helping them (and places)to be remembered. Well done sir...well done!!
This is a hidden treasure Robert.
Thank you as always very interesting.
Several veterans. It's interesting to see all the soda bottles left there. The S2 is Seaman 2nd Class.
It sure was! Thanks for that info too.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory He would have been 11 when the war started and 16 when it ended.
@@Gitarzan66 That is true. It's likely he lied about his age and came in on the tail end. Also the WW2 Victory Medal was awarded to those who served in Germany and Japan up until December 31, 1946. That could make him a veteran of that type if he was part of the Army or Navy of Occupation. But a lot of guys did lie about their age during WW2.
@@johnwheeler585 Thats very interesting. How did you go about finding the VA record? I've been researching my dad (Navy WW2 Korea) for years. I never tried a VA search. Thanks.
@@RhettyforHistory I'm a military history buff too. My dad was haunted until the end of life after he saw a 17 year old kid get killed firing a mortar. My dad was a Navy Corpsman in WW2 and Korea. He said there were many many underage boys. It was a lot easier to get away with back then.
I'm so glad that this cemetery is being taken care of, they have learned from you to sweep them off , daffodils are blooming, thank you so much for sharing, please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends
Thanks Robert like me many of us can't get to our family graves anymore ! it's depressing but thank God for ppl like you who stop and read the name's of ppl long gone God Bless .💔😢♥️😇🙏🇺🇸
Thanks
Love looking at old graves
Much love
Thanks for finding and showing us this.
Thanks for the video,I don,t know if anyone else does this but when you read out the dates (born-Death) I pause video to see how old they all were. Im in B.C. Canada got some old gold rush days graves but I haven,t found to many yet.Thanks again.
Steph Scovill I’m in Alberta and come to B.C. for the history. Seen the Fisherville, Sandon, New Denver, Granite City, and other graveyards
How very interesting. I love your videos! Thank you so much for caring!
That was really fantastic, what a find. It’s so good it is being cleaned up. Thanks so much for taking me along
The graves that get me are the babies buried with no name. I thought of making a book about it after finding some that melted my heart outside a civil war cemetery in NC. I just found your video and really enjoyed it. It is a great way to document what you find. Thank you for sharing, and inspiring.
That is a big Cemetery! Beautiful video
Love the video, can’t wait till the snow melts here in Minnesota, to go and explore!
Some very old cemeteries have pauper gravesites.
Thanks for sharing.
Punky Bratster or slave graves
I really enjoy what you do and your videos are fascinating. So many lost and forgotten graves...each one representing a lifetime lived long ago. It makes me kind of melancholy thinking that there is no one alive today who can remember many of these people, it makes me kind of sad. Its really nice that you are respectfully honouring the lives of the forgotten! Thank You for this...
Love love love these old cemeteries. But still makes me weep to know they are not taken care of. Wonderful that someone is doing that.
Robert i am going to check out some old cemeteries in my area once the snow melts ,you have me hooked.keep the videos coming.
Thanks, your videos fascinate me. I always stop when I see one I haven't been to.
Glad to have been brought along with you and documenting these places. Please keep up the great work. It would be grand to see with ground radar and mark all of the graves if with nothing other than they would be mark so their not destroyed in the future like others have been. We used to go visit our relatives and hold picnics, now grave yard are driven by and not visited, shunned even.
Cool thanks for sharing
Another fascinating video. I find it so odd that there is a maintained cemetery in front of a forgotten one. So many unnamed & unmarked graves. Could they possibly be African-American or just people too impoverished to afford marked headstones. I find it amazing so many graves covered with fieldstone, brick or cement. I have never seen anything like this in upstate & western new york. A great glimpse at how different burial culture can be in different places. Thanks for taking me along. I enjoy all your videos but as a history lover the cemeteries are my favorites.
Incredible that you interest in preserving part of the past! Old graveyards have always intrigued me. These people that are buried there are watching from someplace and are grateful somebody is trying to remember them. 💗🙏
You've given me a bug. I started looking for battles or skirmishes in bama basically for two reasons, to find civil war cemeteries and for metal detecting for relics. What I found was amazing and could answer some questions about the un marked graves you're finding there.
After a battle the dead were buried sometimes in mass trenches or in local cemeteries. There was no time for markers so stones would be used to mark the location of graves.
The VA is actually responsible for placing headstones on CSA casualty graves, all are pointed on top to indicate the CSA grave and all are the same size and material.
Thanks for your concern and respect
I need to find some good places to metal detect. I have barely used my AT Pro since I got it.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory after looking I found the only major battles here were south around mobile. The last "battle" took place in Munford,Al. It was also where the last two battle fatalities occurred. We have grands that live in NW georgia, and my wife wanted me to start there. Missionary ridge is covered in homes and of course the biggy,, chickamauga is off limits.
There are a lot, and I mean A LOT of known civil war battle cemeteries in Georgia. Try looking for the smaller ones and metal detect around them. Good luck and stay safe
@@AdventuresIntoHistory you may find it interesting watching 'nuggetnoggin' here on youtube. He does alot of metal detecting in the south.
It’s great to see a maintained cemetery
Im so glad to see that someone is taking the care to clear up the forgotten area of the cemetery. Very interesting. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤
These are my favourite videos on youtube🙂❤💙
Thanks.
So they aren’t forgotten after all, well done my friend
That man Mayo that fought in the revolutionary war, and next to him, his son that fought in the civil war...TOUCHED MY HEART! I think of the vermin trying to destroy America, disregarding completely the hundreds of thousands of sacrifices made for this country to remain free, so these MAGGOT can destroy America!!! imho
The little flag was a Betsy Ross flag. Love your videos!
If you are referring to the flag with the brick on the Confederate soldier's grave, that was the National Flag of the Confederacy, or the Stars and Bars flag. It's different than any of the battle flags widely known today. The present State of Georgia flag is similar to the old Confederate Stars and Bars, so we still have our Southern heritage on our State flag, sorta hiding in plain sight, but shhhhh! Don't tell anyone! :)!
@@melaniew4354 I was told by a South Carolina native that moved up here in the North, that people fly the Dixie more than down there. It's odd, I know.
Sharon Dobbs Thank you for the information! It shows just how little of the “real” history we are taught! As you can probably tell I am not from the south...
@@janiefable well welcome & I'll be happy to educate you! What everyone calls "the Confederate Flag" today is the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, which was of course under the command of General Lee. In the late 1800s and early 1900s as aging Confederate soldiers began to have formal reunions they started to unify under the flag of Lee's army as an homage. So, that became their symbol, in parades, at memorial gatherings, etc...but in reality, there were many battle flags, mostly forgotten today. Many Georgia Confederates fought under The Bonnie Blue Flag, which was blue with a single white star. Bonnie Blue Butler in Gone With the Wind is named for this flag. Now, I'm not saying Lee's flag hasn't been used in a negative way, it was and has been, especially in 1956 when Georgia voted to add it to the State flag right after Brown vs The Board of Education. That was done to send an anti-integration message. They said at the time it was to commemorate the upcoming 100 year anniversary of The War Between the States, but that wasn't the whole story. So...our current State of Georgia flag wasnt really "changed" to remove the battle flag in 2001, as you'll hear people complaing about. It really is just a return to an earlier design. I think it is a good compromise, still Southern, but not so inflammatory. Southern history is layered, nuanced & complicated and can't be told in quick sound bites.
@@garycarraigeacha8794 I once worked with someone from Wisconsin and she said the same thing, that she saw the battle flag at home more than here in Georgia. I think for many people it is just a symbol of rebelliousness. And everyone loves a Rebel!
I love what you do❤
I like this channel 👌
Awww. I wanna go on a road trip 2
Lov this ! Man Robert and crew thanks for doing the loving dedication towards these sites. The babies wow .
When u say the names. Jus me chills
B safe. Thanks again
Oh wow another great video rob
When he says indentation does that mean the casket has collapsed?
Yes, and it leaves a grave sized indention in the ground.
I love your video
Sidestep Adventures Thanks, love your videos
Another great video
Thanks for sharing
We are well-known for Daffodil's in Puyallup Washington. We have the Daffodils Parade. Thank you 😊❤️ the tour.Besafe , suzie
Thanks for your hard work.
I want you to know I always enjoy watching your videos I love doing this to anywhere I go I tried to look for cemeteries and specially in the south and I live in Spartanburg South Carolina we have some pretty old ones here thanks again.
Lost but not lost in time keep up the good work boys
I suspect that the places where daffodils have been planted are a theme among the graves
I think it's great what you do keep it up . it's nice to remember those people.😊
Another great adventure. Thanks
As always an interesting video, keep looking & hopefully people will realise they need looking after.
From what I can find, this is the Outler family cemetery. There is a .doc form showing that there is numerous sunken wooden casket graves, graves marked with bricks and numerous unmarked ones with field stones only. It lists 38 graves with names. The other post shows photos from 2012
"Bringing the cemetery back to life" you can just hear Michal Jackson's thriller music start to play!
Robert, Thanks for straightening the Confederate First National flag. Those of us who are Southerners appreciate it. Heritage, NOT hate!
Sad there are so many unmarked graves.
Yes. My grandmother had three brothers and sisters who died and I didn't think to ask her where they were buried and she is dead now. Most likely they were buried on the property where they lived at the time and no one is alive to day to know where that is. It bothers me.
Another great video of gone but not forgotten. I'm in the Omaha metro where Woodman of the World has its HQ. The video really connects with me. Thanks.
What's the story with the "Woodsman" stones/markers, are they a group like the Free Mason's???. I recently found your channel and have been glued to screen watching your videos and noticed you run across the Woodsman markers fairly often.
Thank you for sharing your Sidestep adventure with us, absolutely Riveting content.🇺🇸👍✌️
great work guys , this is definitely my favorite youtube channel , i was wondering if yall ever get into wandering around fresh plowed fields for arrow heads?
Love Watching Ya'll, and I wish I could go with ya'll on all the adventures
I saw some periwinkle by some unmarked graves, the slaves used to plant periwinkle to mark plot.
The thing flowers you showed were daffodils the yellow one the white 1 you show was an Iris
nice jeep sweet frined rob, Feb 6, 1985 my granddad passit a way in my arms i was 11
Oh that was so lovely to see the graves all tidied up. It looked lovely. Would some of the unmarked graves be slaves ? The headstone that's like wood. I've never before seen anything like that. Great craftsmanship. 💟🌹💟
It is possible. If it was the site of an old plantation that could very well be the case. And their descendants continued burying in the old slave section. I have seen that many times, but without further information I could not say for sure.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory Thank you so much. 🌺☺🌺
You know I really wanted to come help out on Jan 18th to clean up the graves that needed cleaning badly with all the volunteers! But we had a tragedy in the family my daughter passed away early that morning!! I just wanted to let you know that we were coming to help!!!! It was the cemetery where dan Bruner and Col hutch are cleaning up!!!!!
So sorry !! Prayers!
So sorry to learn of your loss-my deepest condolences
Thank you so much!!!!!
Wow, I am so very sorry to hear that.
Sidestep Adventures thank you!! It is devastating to lose a child !!!!!
At 15:05 to 15:16 there is a small black tree that looks like it has some surveyors tape about five feet up. It appears to be moving slightly in the breeze.
Awesome place love the woodsmen of the world grave stone, nice some are cared for,hopefully someone is caring and cleaning this place up awesome ❤️
I interesting that the front cemetery is well maintained and the other one isn't, and hasn't been in a long time. Looks like someone has started to clean it all up. I hope so. Thanks Robert
Can’t believe daffodils are blooming. Can’t wait to see them in my yard. They are not even thinking of breaking ground here in Pennsylvania.
It’s been so unseasonably warm this winter in SC (I’m a GA girl, originally). That usually means we are in for a wickedly blistering summer😩
@@wifeofagrumpyoldmarine428 true story
@@wifeofagrumpyoldmarine428 love the screen name
donnie brown Thank you! SEMPER FI! 🇺🇸
It looks very peaceful there..The dead need their respect too
This Cemetery is on the Find a Grave website, it's called "Outler Family Cemetery" and there are quite a few photos of some of the people who are buried there.
William Davis 8:00 born May 1929 and was a WWII vet? He was only 16 when it ended. How old could he have been when he joined up?
I'm trying to wrap my head around the old a bottles. I can't understand why some of those bottles are still sitting up on the graves after all the wind and rain over the years. just scratching my head over this one.
It really sickens me that old graves are forgotten about and it is not right. These graves should be well looked after.
You do good videos
Nice cemetery. That white iris is known as the cemetery white iris. It originated in the middle east and was brought to Spain and introduced to the Americas in the 1600s. It was a Moorish tradition to plant them in cemeteries by the graves, a custom that was adopted by the Spanish which spread to the South via Florida and Texas. They were commonly planted in Southern cemeteries until the early 1950s. They are no longer commonly planted and have disappeared from highly maintained cemeteries because of the use string trimmers and the spraying of weed killers. Often you can spot old cemeteries just by their foliage. So while driving along be on the lookout for them. Also they can sometimes mark old homesites but much less than daffodils and jonquils. Speaking of jonquils those yellow ones in your vid are called campernelles. Introduced in the 1700s from England.
I stumbled across your channel a few days ago and I’m hooked! It’s sad that there are so many forgotten graves, makes me wonder how many finally resting places there are out in this world. Makes my heart sad, especially the children’s graves with all the overgrowth.
Several years ago I went to my Grandmother’s grave, her headstone was damaged , my guess due too age. I emailed the owners of the cemetery and a few months later it had been repaired.
Thank-you again for showing us those that may have been forgotten, they are now remembered. ❤️
This place seems HUGE ....... it is almost spooky to think what is under all the leaves. I saw a video of a fella that took a leaf blower and he and his friend spent the day blowing all the leaves. It was A
MAZING to see what they found....................
Looks like a Segregated cemetery. It also looks like the family owned those people maybe on the outside and the unmarked headstone graves.
It's quite common for cemeteries to be segregated. Even today there are large city cemeteries where there are the wealthy in one area, the poor in the back usually, also the Jews are buried in the Hebrew section and their are white and black sections too. In my hometown in Arkansas there's an all black cemetery that was once a slave cemetery and the cemetery owners refuse to allow white people to be buried there even today. We all live among each other until we're separated once again after death then to be together in the afterlife if you believe in it. Kinda ironic.
My late wife & I did what we called cemetary hopping . We ,stopped on long trips in the deep south . So. East Louisiana, we, came across an a old ,old - Scottish Wright cemetary .WOW !! OVER GROWN !! Tangled vines ,& grave covering slabs upended to reveal rotten coffins, & a smell of old death in the close area !! Armadillo holes throught these grave sites ! Guessing early 1800's . Most all graves had naturally collapsed due to poor installment of internment. Hands down this was the worst cemetary we ever stopped to visit !!!!
To me it looked like a bomb dropped there !! We took no pictures, In 1984 ,no smart phones back then ! Now ,my wife rests in a proper cemetary in So w. Louisiana , Her grave will always be kept well in honor of our life & children together in God's name !! Thank you !!! ❤
Love the video.
Good to see it being cleaned up. Hope rest is done too.
Woohoo 1st comment!
I think that was a crocus or maybe a daffodil(my spring favorites)
Woodsmen of the world? I'v never heard of them
Hi Cody!
Somebody meant S-on
(used a c instead)
The are/were a fraternal insurance organization.
On a 1973 map of that area it shows another cemetery approximately 700 meters (2300 ft) due NW of the one you're at on top of a small hill. It might be just north of the ne corner of the tire factory.
Interesting! I’ll have to check that out if I ever make it back that way. I did notice the tire factory.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory I sent you an email of the map.
Hugs from Oklahoma
57th Regiment, Company H - Huntington, Henry-Private May 10, 1862. Wounded in leg at Baker's Creek, Miss. May 16, 1863. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863. Paroled there July 8, 1863. Exchanged Sept. 1863. Admitted to Ocmulgee Hospital at Macon, Ga. with chronic ulcers of left leg caused by old wound, Sept. 23, 1864. Union prisoner of war records, dated Provost Marshal General's Office, Hilton Head, S. C. Apr. 4, 1865, show that he came into lines at Savannah, Ga. Dec. 21, 1864, and was delivered to Provost Marshal General at New York City.
Interesting familysearch entry. Henry Huntington was born in England and came to America as a young man. His parents passed away in England. He married Louisa Stembridge of Georgia. They had one daughter, Mary (1861-1936).
Wow! Great information, thank you!
While visiting these cemeteries or abandoned towns, do you ever see/ experience anything weird?
No, not really. I’ve got 2 “ghost” stories I may have to tell one day on video.
Please tell us
nice piece of history....
You guys made me get my monument last year. Early
I wished you had taken a peek at the fenced-in family plot. It's curious why there were so many pop bottles in the cemetery and especially on the headstones. This was an interesting place. Perhaps when history is learned about this cemetery someone could thank the caretakers for their diligence in keeping this in such good shape.