Beyond the Month: The Historic Black & Slave Cemeteries of Rome, GA

[@danielleaurora9828]

This is well done. Your school should be proud of you and your scholarship here. Thank you. This goes beyond race and connects to the humanity of both the living, and the dead. As you honor them, you honor us all.

[@addisonhoward]

Thank you so much! That means a lot.

[@crankinfitness8567]

This is great information on our history. Mead Freeman is my great (x5) grandfather his daughter Martha Freeman Benton is my great (x4)!grandmother. My ancestors are buried in Freeman Town cemetery, Myrtle Hill, and Antioch cemeteries in Rome, GA.

[@colasil326]

My family is from Rome Georgia

[@kingben1327]

Very well put together young man.

[@kyesims2426]

I am a direct descendant of Thomas Freeman!

[@brooklynnikki478]

This was informative. Thanks!😊

[@GeorgeDean111099]

Wow! Excellent Work!! Have you seen the slave cemetery off of Jones Bend Rd. on Berry College Land, close to Mt. Berry Mall?/

[@addisonhoward]

I have heard of it, but have yet to visit! Thank you for telling me which road it’s on, I wasn’t sure where exactly it was. I’ll visit it soon!

[@cindiaker5778]

I grew up very near Jones Bend Rd. As children we roamed the woods behind our home on Old Dalton Rd. , we saw the graves off of Jones Bend....we always just thought it must have been an old family graveyard...so sad that it was so neglected. I wish it could be taken care of , restored and recognized.

[@georgeg.morgan8841]

Brilliant video! I have ancestors from Rome, Georgia, and have researched them carefully over the last 55+ years. Rome's heritage SHOULD include education about the Black contributions there. I volunteer on an "erased Black cemetery" in Tampa, Florida - Zion Cemetery - and am working to document and remember those interred there, and to reinstate the honor and respect due those people.

[@jeremyharrison6016]

There is a cemetery behind my house that has obviously been forgotten. I have reached out to many and no one seems to care. I believe it to be a historic black cemetery.

[@educationmostly1847]

If you're in Rome, get in touch with Pat Millican, a local genealogist. Also, get in touch with Berry College. They may be interested in obtaining more information. If you have additional information, send it to me and perhaps I can do some research to find out who or what may have been in that area. I care.

[@daoistdansah54]

Outstanding work! Thank you!

[@asadaniels9229]

Some great conversations in this video! I hope that volunteers return to these cemeteries soon and that we continue to learn more about our history.

[@doveflyer1636]

My father was born in Rome!

[@cavemanrob]

I have lived in NWGA for over 40 years and know of some hidden, unknown graveyards and sites in Bartow Co. One of which I am certain I am the only person who could show anybody where it is.

[@Kim-mz8co]

Greetings from Cambodia. Thank you for your video. I found that some of my maternal ancestors are from Rome. My Great-Grandmother's (I knew her) father and Grandfather were from Rome, but she never knew that. I know because I've found the information through ancestry searches. My Great-Great Grandfather Coots joined up with the Union army when they occupied Rome in 1864 when he was about 17. He moved to Indiana when he was discharged after the Civil War. His father who had been a blacksmith in Rome joined him in Indiana later. Thank you for documenting stories of Black cemeteries and enslaved-Blacks in Rome. ALL of the story must be told...especially now.

[@MrsAwal18]

There’s an old abandoned black cemetery dating back to the 1800s in Rome called Blacks Bluff Cemetery. It’s across from the Floyd County Work Release.

[@addisonhoward]

I have not heard of Blacks Bluff, thank you so much for letting me know. I will check it out!

[@toryshropshire543]

Miss Dillard is a true hero

[@debraleslie3067]

I was led to buy in Rome in 2022. Thank you for all you've done to honor this history. Debra

[@matt3024]

Isn't Rome the hometown of Marjorie Trailor-Queen?

[@davidforrest2227]

How can I get in contact with this brother?

[@addisonhoward]

Correction in credits- it is spelled Mathewson Parks. My error.

[@themattparks]

Hack

[@d.kuhlman]

First of all cemeteries as we know them were created for the living not the dead and that goes for Black, White or any ethnicity. They were created for the living as a place to mourn the loss of a loved one. The dead dont care where they are buried because they no longer exist in the physical realm. The living are the only ones who have issues regarding places of burial because in death it no longer matters. People are not restoring and cleaning up old cemeteries for the deceased, they are doing it to make themselves feel better about the loss (which is its only purpose to the living). No grave should stand as an icon or trophy nor is any grave more or less important as the other. A cemetery is simply a place to discard and isolate the remains of the once living. In reality, its just a landfill to store the dead the living have turned it into something else.

[@jamesbass9797]

CRT has no place in any school anywhere. I think you did a good job with this video.

[@doveflyer1636]

This IS CRT!! What are you even talking about? CRT is American History!

[@jamesbass9797]

@@doveflyer1636 -- You should seek psychiatric treatment.