182 YEAR OLD ALABAMA PLANTATION CEMETERY AND HOUSE | IHAGEE PLANTATION

EXPLORING THE IHAGEE PLANTATION CEMETERY

[@AdventuresIntoHistory]

TO EVERYONE NEW TO THE CHANNEL, PART 2 IS HERE - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6LIlpWFaL-tf8U Amazing cemetery here. Lots of pre-War graves. I wish I knew more about this place but didn’t find much before filming. Stay tuned for part 2. PayPal Tip Jar: www.paypal.me/rwrightphotography Follow me on my old farm: kzbin.info/door/56vh2L-M0czmoTRLhSMaxg eBay Shop: ebay.com/usr/sidestep-adventures-official Join The Official Sidestep Adventures Fan Group: facebook.com/groups/561758371276581/?ref=share_group_link Support us on Patreon: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures Mail: Sidestep Adventures PO BOX 206 Waverly Hall, Georgia 31831

[@bettyboop4263]

Cleaning up that old cemetery would make a wonderful community service project. These old cemetery's are fascinating🌸

[@lornahardin4563]

I agree, as it has so many graves that need remembered, and they are in pretty good condition.

[@iriepoetryinmotion5141]

Great idea

[@andycrocker3629]

Im in Opelika Alabama and have friends that volunteer cleaning these old cemeteries that are grown up

[@detangers]

Wow. This is Amazing. Sure would love to know what slaves they have buried there. We still looking for some of ours folks.

[@janiceud]

A chainsaw and some D2 would make world of difference. I love old cemeteries and hate to see them unkempt.

[@SondraD7676]

Very interesting trip. I was not expecting a cemetery find. Many of the tombstones are of the best quality and design. I have seen the upside down torches a few times, but never realized the degree of meaning. --- The inverted torch symbolizes life in the next realm or a life extinguished. A lit torch represents life, immortality and the everlasting life. Conversely, an inverted torch represents death or the passing of the soul into the next life. Modern life has lost such meaningful symbols. Excellent video, loved Scott and Dan along. 👍👍❣️❣️

[@marypettitt9150]

Thanks for sharing the torch insights.

[@rustyshaklefort8563]

A few months ago i found a cemetery with tombstones from 1800s. Weird thing is there is about five graves marked " UNKNOWN" from around 1800s im assuming

[@SondraD7676]

@@rustyshaklefort8563 That is weird, I wonder if they died by some accident or at the same time and were passing through the area, and no one knew their names? Mystery for sure.

[@rustyshaklefort8563]

@@SondraD7676If I recall they werent all in the same spot. They were kinda scattered but they were among the older headstones. I would have thought they would at least put the date of death. There is a movie called "The good,the bad, and the ugly". Clint Eastwood western. Its about buried civil war treasure. Not to spoil it but UNKOWN was were it was at lol

[@SondraD7676]

@@rustyshaklefort8563 LOL!! start digging!!

[@scottdawgsfan7516]

I’ve driven by that plantation numerous times and never knew the cemetery was back there. Thanks for sharing this guys.

[@ivesort9677]

Have you reported this find to the personnel at the Alabama Archives.? Very important genealogical information is included in this find. Perhaps some local person could document the information on Find A Grave too. I'm so sorry that my age keeps me from going there to document the information. Thank you for posting this find.

[@simplysoutherncooking7154]

I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed watching this episode. So much history there. It's so sad to see how many children died so young. You are doing a great thing bringing the memory of long forgotten souls back to light. I often wondered how they lived and died. When you think about it, they lived every day much as we do today; living, loving, and dying, through good times and bad. My best to you and all who help you with this channel.

[@treshaford1]

I've always been fascinated with old cemeteries. My health doesn't permit me to travel and explore anymore so it's so fun to get to explore with y'all on KZbin. Thanks for making these videos for people like me who can explore vicariously through you guys! I love all of your content on both channels.

[@mver191]

Peplor.

[@rrain3375]

I’m a senior from Toronto Canada. My travel days are gone. Thankful I can travel thru KZbin.

[@pamelaz.7659]

I agree, I can't explore anymore either. So I'm watching videos too.

[@sherryblanton2029]

Me Too! I used to Love doing stuff like this! Thanks for Sharing ❣️

[@cherylpeterson2289]

I too am in the same boat and love to view old cemeteries. Watching these videos are showing me ones I would have never seen even in my younger days

[@Diwondermum]

The beauty of that cemetery is amazing…. As Mr. Dan rightly stated it’s a shame that it’s not restored or looked after. It could be a good project if you weren’t so far away…. Great video Robert!

[@diannacatesdunn]

The State of Alabama will hopefully recognize the amazing history contained in this old family cemetery. (This from a woman in Colorado! HAH!) The special details of both history and beauty would be a handsome jewel in the Alabama State crown. Thanks to you Sidestep Adventures for capturing a bit of this amazing history.

[@jameswhite8968]

I live in dozier Alabama. Pop. 320! Lots of old churches lots of cemetery and stagecoach trails!

[@fermisparadox01]

@@jameswhite8968 ever metal detect the stagecoach trails ?

[@drhyshek]

The state doesn’t do it. Someone has to contact the historical society.

[@nelliesfarm8473]

Wouldn't count on it...the state of Alabama only cares about money.

[@barb7188]

What a wonderful find! Ralph Owens Howard is my 8th cousin 6 times removed. I didn't realize that I had any family that had immigrated to the Southern part of the Country. Another link in my family tree! Thank you for finding these graves and remembering them!

[@dbw825]

Any relatives that live closer to the cemetery that you could contact to inform them of the necessity of helping to clean some of the area? Maybe a family reunion?

[@barb7188]

@@dbw825 I sure do wish I knew of relatives who live close to the cemetery. 6th cousin 8th times removed is a long way back there! I live in Idaho, but it would be wonderful to be there to help with the care and restoration of those old cemetery's. I'm truly thankful for the dedication in helping preserve and remember these old places.

[@AnnetteTurner-b2w]

Ancestry DNA will help find those lost just spit mail & boy will you find them!!

[@bunnymomjulie6719]

Precisely why they do what they do. They read the stones aloud so they can be put in Ancestry and FindAGrave so they can be found.

[@connieo3618]

What an amazing project for a scout troop to clean up this cemetery and put it in some type of order. So interesting!

[@joielaw-montgomery7250]

I was ticked purple to see you all back doing cemetery videos !! The history of them just amazes me. Not sure if any one posted about the connection of the Howards and Calhouns. . .Ralph Owens Howard was married to Euphemia Calhoun, who is my 5th cousin. . .the family tree shows they had 10 children together. . .thanks so much for all you guys do. . .be safe and watch out for them ants. . .they don't play fair !!

[@deannespeer3477]

Robert, ants are no joke😉 carry a spray bottle of vinegar and blue dawn dish soap, to spray on you and your clothing. Will kill the ants and stop the sting from bites

[@steffl8562]

so sad...

[@jodiutley7292]

Carry a broom 🧹 and small spade to clean them off

[@richdiscoveries]

I think you ended it perfectly, extremely impressive piece of history. Would be nice if somebody bought it and maintained it, continued it's legacy. But time will tell

[@jbaker7311]

Thank you Robert and friends for your kindness in remembering these forgotten folks.. This cemetery is truly a treasure just waiting for someone to bring it back to it's former glory. In it's day it must have been beautiful.

[@sherryblanton2029]

I agree.Those stones were not cheap and were Very Well Done! A Lot of Love and treasured memories are In that place, kept alive by the occasional mention of a name or the retelling of a mostly forgotten adventure of someone who lies there, just below the roots of trees and grass.

[@jen8491]

What a beautiful house. So many cool things inside. I could just imagine this house full of all the family members that once lived there.. The cemetery was amazing too. So much history there. Hope someone (not a developer) buys this plantation and cares for the house and the cemetery. Looking forward to part 2 👍

[@doloresvelez3243]

You never fail to amaze. (Grandpa always said , bring a broom.) Thank you for what you do.

[@collins5038]

Hopefully the state of Alabama or an Alabama Historical Society will clean this cemetery up and record the information. Finding an old cemetery is an important find.

[@danakline1834]

What am amazing cemetery and plantation. Thanks so much!

[@AuntMaryNC]

That fallen Rebel soldier was most likely shipped home from Chickamauga by my Great, Great, Grandfather, W.R. Cornelius who was the undertaker for both the Union and the Confederacy. He had offices in Nashville and in North Alabama. I enjoy the history and appreciate you showing these hidden treasures.

[@bertvosburg558]

Lt. Andrew Jackson Calhoun 10/15/1836 - 10/8/1863. 26 years Young. missed his 27th b-day by one week. The battle of Chickamauga was fought in N.W. Georgia on September 18th - 20th. Lt Calhoun dying on October 8th means he lived another three weeks so he potentially could've traveled home during that three weeks.

[@clarefoskett9959]

@@AuntMaryNC I find this history fascinating. Thank you. I'm in the UK.

[@sherrilee230]

That. Civil War officer was a real find. I hope they clean up the rest of the brush and make it beautiful again. Thank you guys for sharing

[@susanbellefeuille]

How very interesting! I hope someone continues to clean it up because it is truly a historical place. Thanks for sharing.

[@morecm3322]

So important to maintain our historic sites. I sincerely hope the historical society will get funding to restore this beautiful cemetery and home. It is so important to learn from our past .

[@shardunc5187]

I absolutely love your video's keep up the good work.

[@DeadbyDaylightDUO]

Great video!!! Cemetery is fabulous! I can’t believe how well preserved those headstones are! Will you be uploading another video on the plantation house and the slave cemetery? I truly hope whomever buys that property will upkeep the house and cemeteries! History definitely needs to be preserved for future generations. ❤

[@sheraven1]

I just love old cemeteries! So much lost history. It was so sad to see the photographs at the estate sale. As a photographer, It breaks my heart when I see old photographs and no family to pass them on to….and old neglected cemeteries where no one has been to clean them up…

[@sarahgt1533]

Wow such a lovely find. I live in the UK and look after my ancestors graves. I never met most of them as they were long gone before I came along but feel the want and need to respect their memories. Once I have gone no one will look after them which I find very sad but thats how it is.

[@aprilmerdjan7829]

Well done. Yes not many people bother about the dearly departed. When you think how we grieve when they die and then with the passage of time they are forgotten.

[@dunkirchen1940]

Seriously one of my favorite channels on KZbin. I always wait with great anticipation your latest video. Keep up the great work!

[@giancolabird]

Allways interested in the history of the original family and how they survived.

[@deniseoftedahl8937]

Incredible place! Always sad to see them neglected, especially a Veterans grave. Those always get me. Thanks for the trip, can't wait for part 2!

[@bettierusso5410]

God Bless you, Robert!! Please get in touch with the local United Daughters of the Confederacy and the local Sons of Confederate Veterans to get down there and clean it up. The Confederate veterans will clean off the graves and tend to Lieutenant Andrew Jackson Calhoun and see they all get the respect they deserve. God will Bless you all for your devotion and TLC!!!

[@shellydehart8217]

26:54 You crossed over to my side of my family…. Alabama. What a expressive cemetery this was. I couldn’t get over all the beautiful monuments n how large this cemetery was. I have to agree with Mr. Dan, hopefully someone will take the interest in cleaning it up. This is part of history. It deserves to be recognized. I was also expressed with the edging that they used. Can you imagine how grand this cemetery once was with all those beautiful head stones n the wrought iron fence around it. I just don’t understand why they let them go n deteriorate to the ground. It’s so sad. The plantation home was definitely large n beautiful. It looked like parts of it is deteriorating too. Wish I was at that estate sale. I would of loved to have a few pieces of this part of history. Like always I’m a day late n dollar short. Thanks Robert, Mr. Dan n Scott for taking us along to a amazing place amazing history. ♥️♥️♥️♥️😊👍👍👍🌟

[@bettytordoff8920]

What a great road trip. Thanks for taking us along. House and cemetery were really interesting.

[@suelamkin3004]

Interesting video. I have a music box just like the one in the plantation house. It’s German or possibly Dutch in origin. It still plays the 12 airs on the cylinder and I love to crank it occasionally. It’s about 200 years old if my information is correct. It’s been in my husband’s family for generations. History is a fascinating thing. Thanks to the gang for sharing.

[@scottweeks6379]

I am from and live in South Carolina. I live about 56 miles from Abbeville South Carolina and Calhoun Falls is not far from Abbeville. It immediately caught my attention when you read the memorial marker stating that the gentleman buried there was from Abbeville.....Thanks for posting this!

[@stephenfails7128]

No doubt a relative of John C. Calhoun. Very interesting to see how people migrated and settled back then.

[@OneWayDesigns]

I too live in SC, actually not very far from Abbeville and Calhoun Falls. I'm sure they're all related in some form.

[@karenshepler7128]

What an amazing and beautiful house and cemetery. I hope someday it can be taken care of. Thank you for sharing this story with us and take care to all of you ...

[@loriweeks-norrie929]

You boys need a small broom on theses adventures. Love watching. ♥️

[@Dav3Campb3ll]

Very interesting area, great footage

[@arleeparker5036]

Happy to come along on another cemetery documentation. Not happy about the neglect and trees fallen all over. I wonder if some people think cemeteries don't need lawn and garden care. Anyway thank you for what you do. From Minnesota

[@theparrotrescuer3042]

Wow... that house is lovely...cool cemetery.. thanks Mr. Robert.

[@brendahogue5487]

Love your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on. May the Lord bless and protect you and your friends

[@donnaoglesby1278]

Amazing cemetery, that, like you Robert, I pray someone that takes over the home, will also find it in their hearts to also care for all those laying in this cemetery and clean it up and care for it as well. I have a lot of Howard in not only my own family, but on my one half brothers father's side of the family, both sides, from both family lines, coming from Kentucky. Thank you, Dan and Scott for coming here and documenting all whom lay here. Very Much appreciated.

[@andrewowens9382]

Very interesting cemetery it must have been well kept and organised the house looks great too 👍 well done Robert and Scott and Dan all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧

[@jeffplawrentz269]

What a beautiful house and cemetery. The cemetery salt glazed walkway edging is often called garden edging stones and I have heard it called "sewer tile" edging, made of glazed terra cotta. I'm looking forward to part 2 of this adventure! Thank you

[@kizzyjrjunior6520]

Love the road trips. Thank You

[@jimmieloge575]

What a Remarkable video, I Love old cemeteries and it breaks my heart to see them in disarray. This last one you 3 guys went to was not so bad; so much history to be learned from doing what you guys do for all your viewers! Thanks to each one of you for putting forth your time and physical efforts so that we might learn Valuable Lessons!

[@ricknelson576]

Probably a beautiful cemetery at one time. Thanks guys for sharing.

[@kimmyles444]

Good project for a group to do some service type project like a scouting group, high school class, church group…to help clean up the brush covering the cemetery. Many times young people need projects or some kind of civil service or good deeds to join organizations such as the National Honor Society, gets badges of some type, or receive religious sacraments. Where I am from if the local news comes out usually folks will volunteer if someone organizes the project. I have myself done cemetery clean ups from finding out from our local news.

[@janecarolhogue3140]

Some locals need to get a mulcher and scoop all that brush and send it through the machine. Then have people sweep off the stones. Cemetery isn't too bad. Robert thank you for your video always enjoyable 👍👍👍

[@barb7188]

His name was in Ancestry, that's how I found out I was related to him. I'm very thankful for them reading those names aloud so that we can find out how they fit into our family lines. I wish I lived closer so I could go and see that old plantation and cemetery. Maybe one day I'll be able to visit. Thanks again for all of your hard work in finding these old places!! I love this channel!

[@albertkaltenbach6095]

Aswome video glad to see u doing grave yards again. An I too hope they keep taking care of this place

[@doraanderson5222]

Hi this is my first time to see your Channel I am so excited about what you found I love vintage and old plantations and especially cemeteries that is so awesome and the tombs have been preserved for so many years very well that you still could read them I wish I was there with you to help you clean up the Cemetery cuz I love stuff like that well God bless you and thank you again till next video

[@janetjones7880]

beautiful historic cemetery - sure needs some care

[@lindatanner8726]

This was so neat to see. Thank you for sharing this piece of history. I wish there was a group that could go in and clean this all up out of respect for our heritage. Keep making these videos!

[@ellielizhavenofbless945]

Another great video , thanks for taking me a long. It's been helping my depression. I hope one day to get my kids and travel around in a RV just soaking in all the history of this country. And you know you have some really great and loving friends to help you swat off fire ants. Hope you didn't get bit up too bad . Those things don't tickle 🤗❤️

[@lisawilson1818]

Hopefully this cementry will get cleaned up so its preserved for many mor years.What beautiful old home.

[@whatsthedealwithdanny3913]

Great video. You guys spent some time cleaning the graves off so you could read them and hopefully , this piece of history can be cleaned up for future generations to see. Thanks for the video and for what you do.

[@donnalothes7085]

I have always wondered why these cemeteries end up like this. It is such a crying shame they end up so neglected. I winder how the people buried there would feel if they knew.

[@robertburns3014]

I think the situation of the neglected cemeteries like this old one in Alabama arises when the members of the family die off or move away, the property is eventually sold and the new owners don't have a burden for taking care of the cemetery.

[@glasshalffull2930]

My grandfather, a peanut farmer in Virginia, had our family plot on one of his farm properties. Nothing ornate like this. Poured cement markers and most had no inscription. The family ended up selling the property and I recommended having a perpetual easement recorded so the family would always be able to visit the graves.

[@suzannelacy8093]

Donna , They are probably turning in their graves to see the ancestors of their black slaves wearing shoes and nice clothes . Good luck 🍀 from the Republic of Ireland .

[@Dusk1962]

@@suzannelacy8093 highly likely. Its probable the families died off.

[@glasshalffull2930]

@@suzannelacy8093 Always nice to hear from the inventors of kneecapping, whiskey and blood feuds.

[@darlenegood]

beautiful home and land

[@user-randi1987]

Great adventure and video. Must have been a very nice cemetery when it was kept up. Looks like it was well laid out and had a lot of very nice headstones. Thank you for sharing

[@tksass9091]

O WOOOOW! This is definitely a step back n time for sure. Between the beautiful home to the beautiful old headstones-Absolutely breathtaking. Thank u Robert & boys for sharing this amazing old homestead. Love'n & appreciating these videos. Love & respect from Missouri ♥️💜

[@annemarierowe6967]

Wow thanks for bringing their forgotten souls to life and YES people having or wanting to do community service great idea

[@debbieritter1096]

Very enjoyable- thank you for sharing

[@SmellyMellyization]

Thank you for showing us this. It was so interesting!

[@dreamseer7]

as a kid, I knelt in a fire ant nest. I wasn't so calm about that. I remember screaming, shedding clothes, and rolling on the ground while I was bitten all over. Kudos Robert. ;)

[@AssinnippiJack]

Fascinating! I’ve always been interested in the social,cultural & political history of this country. We know now so much more than ever! Yet it keeps revealing new aspects in the form of long forgotten properties and documents. This former Alabama plantation; house, outbuildings & both burial grounds would make for an amazing presentation project. Book & visual documentary fascinating!. Coming from New England I’m very familiar with abandoned farms, mills & family burial grounds. Many have been saved & preserved but there are so many yet to be discovered. Some communities had a denser population then as opposed to today. Thanks again!

[@pamelaz.7659]

I would love to see this cemetery, cleaned up and restored. Thanks for the video.

[@sandysue202]

That was a great video! I always love it when you explore old cemeteries! I hope you didn't suffer too long with those fire ant bites Robert!!

[@marlenejohnson5461]

I’ve just run across your video of this very old cemetery, i have always been interested in plantation homes and old cemeteries. I hope someone will restore them both. Thank you!

[@denisehibbs9576]

Great video ! I love the old cemeteries! Robert , you should have brought the other Robert. He would have had gloves . Lol Very interesting.

[@barbararoberto1258]

Beautiful headstones glad someone found it great history thanks

[@carmenconcepcion447]

Wow incredible findings. Truly anazing the firgotten

[@patriciadeane7250]

Just imagine what a beautiful cemetery this would have been in it’s day. Very impressive stonework……..and so many were still legible. Thanks for the tour!

[@steveriggan8944]

Great video! I just did a trip like this from my home in the Pacific NW to Arkansas and Missouri and went through old cemeteries where all my family is buried there. My family were originally from Georgia and Tennessee and buried on their plantation in the 1840’s but no grave markers remain. The plantation house still stands and someone has renovated it and lives there! My 4x great grandfather built the house in the 1840’s prior to his death. They had moved from Virginia and North Carolina.

[@MsLibby]

Love! Thank you fellas for all you do! You are the best!

[@genemaverick5705]

Awesome find , really sad to see that no one has kept it up !!

[@barbaraoesterritter7318]

Thank you for revealing the memories of generations past.

[@martncortez]

These guys found a gem of a cemetery. It's fun to read years on the monument, but this cemetery has many beautiful stones and icons which has so many meanings about the decease and their family. It was amazing to me that with so many dying between 1861 to 1865, there were no Civil War monuments in the cemetery or was not part of their tour. Thanks guy for showing your trip there. You really should look into icons of cemeteries to really enhance your visit to old cemetery.

[@esterherschkovich6499]

Catching up on your fab videos...Thank you.such old graves...I imagine their lives...

[@sharonc9552]

Love your enthusiasm. ....your heartfelt respect....thank you guys 😉🌷

[@GTX1123]

The Legend of "Hard" Chichester. Back in the 70's I grew up near Mt. Vernon Virginia in a neighborhood that was at one time part of the the outer reaches of George Washington's farm (i.e. Muddy Hole Farm). An old plantation house still stood called Mount Air, just 3 miles from my neighborhood until it burned down in the 80's. Mt. Air had at one time been owned by a certain Richard Chichester who was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. Chichester was known to be a rather duplicitous fellow who feigned peity but lived like the devil. He was also very cruel to his slaves, viciously beating them so often that he became known as "Hard" Chichester. Legend has it that when he died in his house at around the age of 60, everyone present in the room saw an evil spirit that looked like a red rabbit run out from under his bed. 130 yrs after he passed something very strange happened. During a severe thunderstorm in the 1920's, a bolt lightening struck Chichester's tombstone. When the then owner of Mt. Air went over to the graveyard to investigate the damage to trees and such, she noticed that a chunk of the large rectangular slab of engraved stone that horizontally covered his grave was missing. When she looked closer at it, it read "__hard Chichester." This legend was passed on by word of mouth through the descendents of those who had lived right in that area, whose families went back generations (I actually went to highschool with one of Richard Chichester's descendents - she was a very cute girl). I heard it from a classmate around 1977. In the 1980's I finally got around to visiting his grave site to see if the story was true - the cemetery where he is buried is in the middle of a neighborhood that was once part of the Mt. Air plantation. YES, sure enough "Ric" had been broken off of his gravestone. True story...

[@josephvickers6764]

That's spooky brother!

[@GTX1123]

@@josephvickers6764 Yep. It was really amazing growing up right in this area because of the history. What was also spooky was a crypt we used to sneak into. When I was in highschool me and some other kids used to sneak into an underground mausoleum where many of George Washington's family were buried. It was in a heavily wooded area right behind Pohick church where George Washington was a member. By the time I was in highschool, the church had dumped tons of fill at the entrance to keep us out but some other kids had dug out an opening we would crawl through. We would go down there late at night to party and explore the passage ways. It was really disrespectful to the dead buried there but what can I say? We were a bunch of dumb, wild kids looking for a good time and the crypt was really spooky. We never vandalized anything down there but some other kids did. About the scariest thing I saw there was a statue that had been beheaded and had red candle wax dribbled all over it.

[@deborahjordan9688]

These cemeteries are full of history legends and beloved family. I can see some one was trying to reclaim this cemetery. It’s a time in history of great loss in the children their the mothers that may have lost their lives given birth the elderly that lived long lives but for many lost in young ages for today’s standards. I know faith in God was strong to get them through their everyday lives.😢🥰 thank you to you all the people involved finding and making these beautiful cemeteries and grave sites known blessings to you all ❤

[@mattieb7348]

Wow. Just wow. If only those walking paths could talk. Amazing. Thanks for taking us along.

[@karenwright8556]

Interesting visit. Looked like the main house was in pretty good shape,like to see more of it. ☺️From KY.

[@dorenedaniels7493]

I will like to say thank you for all of this and how beautiful it is God bless you all 🙏❤️

[@lenwenzel536]

Another interesting video. Thanks so much. Is there a reason you don't bring a brush or something similar along to clear some of the debris on the stones? Seems it would be a little easier than using your bare hands and the writing might show up better on the video also. Keep up the good work and bringing attention to so many that have been forgotten.

[@Regina0964]

Robert at the time didn't realize that a cemetery was there, watch for part 2 with more information, that's why they didn't bring a brush to wipe off the stone's .

[@aprilmerdjan7829]

I thought the same - your hands must have been raw, apart from how dirty you must have been.😔 Thank you for this very interesting video. I'm watching your video from Cape Town, South Africa where we have a lot of history too. Thankfully there are organisations here that do maintain historical places.

[@cruznbecky]

Beautiful wrought-iron fence. As you say, at one time someone cared about this family cemetery enough to line the paths with scalloped clay borders. I always enjoy your side-step adventures (with the exception of the fire ants!)

[@laurierenaud1210]

Amazing work Guys..keeping history alive!

[@sharonh.harris1924]

I love your love of history and reverence for it. I used to love going cemetery hunting and such. Now I'm disabled and have to do it through Google maps, satellite and street side. I can't touch the tombstones and read the inscriptions and picnic on the church steps like we used to. And I'm very allergic to fire ants. So even if I could physically go, I can't take the chance of stepping in a fire ant mound and ending up in the emergency room. What a curse fire ants have been! The fact you got stung so many times and kept going as though it were just a minor inconvenience... you a man! LOL! My husband is like that. The stings hurt so bad or maybe I just have a low pain tolerance. My problem lately hasn't been the pain of the sting as I have bad neuropathy and can't feel stuff much in my extremities. It's not knowing and they keep stinging and then the allergic reaction. Thanks for sharing.

[@sherronbell4961]

Amazing cemetery in history, hopefully you'll revisit to look at the slave cemetery there too.

[@celleduffel1533]

Impressive, peaceful and sad!! Maybe one day some one will take care of it..maybe. Hi Mr Scott and Mr Dan :)

[@cherylthepearl4085]

Nice thing to do and I like seeing older graves and reading dates and names. One ?, where are your gloves and tools and a broom. Didn’t go prepared but glad you went anyway.

[@cherilafleur]

One of my fav cemeteries you have taken us to…thx!

[@truewellu7700]

Wonderful

[@candykane4271]

Awsome video! I know where all my relatives from 1800s are buried and my husband. We’ve restored old cemeteries and stones. Nothing more fun exciting.

[@alanatolstad4824]

Very peaceful. (I saw a lone figure off in the distance, & wondered if Cody had tagged along with you fellas for this trip.)

[@undinehaugen9488]

Wow! I would love to go around places like that! Pure history! I loved it guys!

[@falltravels4049]

I often watch your videos and I wonder sometimes are there grants in either Georgia or Alabama that would fund clean up and restoration of these older cemetaries? Someone else mentioned it would make a great community service project. I agree. Thanks for sharing. Many of the markers were just beautiful.

[@gayleloy7111]

Another fantastic video. Love from Australia. Stay safe. Love you all. Xx

[@tm8747]

cleaning the old headstone in simple green or clorex make them show the writing come out better, . the spirits of the departed are going to bless you for your help in remembering them and cleaning the grave site? thank you for the help in the clean up,

[@lornahardin4563]

It is heartbreaking to me to see the beautiful historic plantation home as it is, and the cemetery of the early families all just being lost. The slave cabin (I'm guessing) is a piece of early history (not good, but history all the same), and the entire plantation should be preserved. Thank you for the tour, it was wonderful to see this.

[@bettyhudson979]

The only thing I can think about when I see a slave cabin is how my forefathers suffered under a chattel brute system in America. I know you’re we can’t live in the past but we need to recognize the injustices of America’s history

[@lornahardin4563]

@@bettyhudson979 I am truly sorry about all the families from those terrible times, but it is history and no history deserves to be "forgotten" as many died fighting to stop the slavery in America. I think history is meant to learn from and build a better America. Slavery still exists in other countries but not here. Be proud of who you are because of your ancestors.

[@firecracker4151]

I thought it was the outside kitchen

[@lornahardin4563]

@@firecracker4151 It could be, but it was two rooms.

[@STho205]

@@lornahardin4563 that was common for detached kitchens.

[@Debraroddy]

Very impressive. My son and I love looking at and learning about old cemeteries. Thank you so much for sharing with us.