184 Year Old Plantation Cemetery Found In The Woods! William B Copeland Cemetery

visiting the william copeland cemetery, also known as the trammel cemetery.

[@AdventuresIntoHistory]

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[@eileenbauer4601]

The iron fence around the Copeland graves is beautiful, one of the most beautiful wrought iron designs I’ve ever seen.

[@steveneighner7543]

Hey Robert. I've got a serious question for you. Why don't you wear a backpack on these adventures carrying tools with you? You could bring extra batteries so you have a spare, extra water, a small bottle of D2, some basic garden tools. We reclaimed a part of the cemetery where my family is buried over a decade ago that went back to the later 19th and early 20th century and almost everyone had a backpack to carry their tools so they wouldn't have to keep running back for them. They also brought weedeaters and bush trimmers, machete's and other things which they hung on the side of the backpacks. It just seems that on these adventures you go on that you're always unprepared. I asked the other day about getting schools and such involved as that's actually an excellent idea that would teach them respect for the past and teach a bit of history with the adults doing the big jobs and leading the way to help avoid things like snakes. I really enjoy your shows but it seems kinda like the ghost hunting shows where if they actually found a real ghost you'd expect them to stay there to investigate further instead of moving on to the next location. Maybe you and the other Robert could lead the way and bring volunteers with you who take over the location and can do updates on your later shows to show you're not just abandoning them all over again. I know you do revisit some of them but it often seems like you're doing what those ghost hunting shows do which is exploit a location and move on. You seem genuine though and I know if you stay at one location until it's reclaimed it would get kind of boring for viewers as we want to see you discovering new cemeteries rather than spending days to weeks clearing them off to reclaim them from the wilderness. I've done some minor volunteering to help people at cemeteries but none of those were abandoned, just in slightly neglected states. Maybe you could set up GoFundMe's for these cemeteries where families and relatives can donate and people like Dan maybe could provide some genealogical research so that curious people who see their last name on a tombstone you uncover can see if they are related and maybe then be more inclined to donate? You meet a lot of interesting people who have many skills and interests on your travels. Why not use these connections to found something a bit broader based on Sidestep Adventures Inc.?

[@robinm6662]

Thank You Robert. So sad these graves are not being maintained as they deserve for they are the real pioneers of our Country. ❤

[@BarbDonnelly]

Well said

[@britneywilliams537]

The descendants of these lovely souls may not even be aware of where their loved ones are…for many reasons that most likely are outside of the capacities during that time, especially if they were enslaved. I have searched going on 2 years of my ancestors past the 1870s. They were enslaved and were not even categorized as human. Just property. Sometimes undocumented. I WISH I could find my ancestors that were bought and sold during the slavery days….and some well into the 19th century. Please consider some didn’t have the means to have a headstone, let alone jot down where or when their loved ones were buried. Lastly, even when people of color were able to document their history, it was met with angry reactions that incited bombing, fires and intentional destruction.

[@desierhart7176]

I hope all of the graveyards that has been found can be restored again.

[@Mari-B]

Robert, you have a great gift to work so hard to document these old cemeteries. You help history to live on, and it is certainly greatly appreciated!! God bless you!

[@lisaknell1809]

What a cool old cemetery. It’s sad that it’s not been taken care of. I bet there’s a lot more graves under that brush and leaves! The old fences are beautiful. I hope people leave them alone !

[@winstonskinner4606]

I have visited this cemetery several times starting in the 1970s when I began researching the Trammell family. (My mother was a Trammell from Luthersville in Meriwether County.) When I first visited, I was told it was the Trammell Cemetery. I have also seen it called the Copeland Cemetery or Copeland-Trammell Cemetery. The graves of William and Elizabeth Swanson Copeland were profiled in the video. I am pretty sure Elizabeth's 1836 grave is the oldest, thought there could be someone else. William and Frances had several sons and at least two daughters, Sarah, who married Francis Moore Trammell, and Martha Copeland Muliins, whose grave (and her husband's) are seen early in the video. I am pretty sure Sarah is buried there, though I could not find her marker the last time I was there. The video shows the graves of Francis Moore Trammell and his second wife, Mary Anne Ware Trammell. Two of Sarah and Francis' sons, Augustus "Gus" and Adrion Olin Trammell, moved to White Sulphur Springs in Meriwether County in 1868. Mary Lu Trammell, mentioned in the video, was Adrion's daughter. The home mentioned in the video was the home of the Tigner family before the Trammells owned it. The other Trammell graves I remember from the video are those of Charles and Jane McGurdy Trammell. He was a son of Francis M. and Mary Ann. Charles and Jane had five children -- Dr. Stella Trammell Rice, Eugene B. Trammell, Claude Trammell, Corinne Trammell and Helen Trammell. Claude and Helen died young.

[@winstonskinner4606]

Great video. Thanks for recording and preserving this history.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Hi from Ireland, we have so many hidden forgotten graveyrds here too

[@RepublicTX]

I enjoy your videos too!

[@brendaz9222]

Cool cemetery! Sad when stones say "Gone but not Forgotten" yet they have been because no one is taking care of their final resting place.

[@loreli6103]

They are remembered again here ❤️

[@mygrammieis]

I Second That Emotion especially Children 🕊🤟💫💐We Speak Your Name

[@debrafricano1486]

Amazing cemetary and history. The neglect of the cemetary is so sad.

[@theresahaines2647]

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a group of volunteers who would join you in these adventures, s and help to clear out the dirt and weeds from these cemeteries? Stay safe and God bless. 🙏 🤗 😊

[@angelavorhees5946]

I was amazed at the fencing and the gate opened so smoothly with no creaking. Well built for sure. It will be nice to revisit it with Mr. Dan. Keep up the great work. God bless.

[@redpill5471]

That fence was gorgeous. 1st time I've seen one that ornate. The picture of the home was a great find and addition to the video. So many stories to be found in of all places cemeteries and graveyards. Amazing. Great vid.

[@elsieminter6875]

Loved this ❤ takes me back to some of your earlier videos when you first started. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@bendamichael8894]

These old cemetery's are lovlier than the ones today. There is so much beauty and thought in the headstones.

[@catheryndenton1766]

I think it's June Trammell. Not Jane. Super COOL !

[@RepublicTX]

I think this is one of my favorite cemeteries you've taken us to. Just lovely. Thought you were in danger of losing your baby-making apparatus when you went over that fence. Fence spikes and sweet briar - Yikes! I couldn't quite tell for sure, but I think the "cemetery weed" is pachysandra. Used to be very popular for shady areas with acid soil where nothing else will grow, and yes, it's quite invasive. I'd love to see it in spring when it's covered with small white flowers.

[@bentrammell4480]

Thank you for uncovering my family’s cemetery!

[@lindacasper8518]

You are such a wonderful person to be able to document these loved ones for others who maybe be searching for their families. Thank you Robert.

[@Carolbearce]

I love seeing these old cemeteries and you uncovering old stones. Sorry you got hurt by the damn prickers though

[@sue-ow6uz]

Makes me both sad and happy. Sad that these cemeteries get to these neglected states. But happy you are locating and documenting them.

[@GraveVisitations]

Thanks Robert for showing the forgotten Graves. I would suggest using a flashlight called shadow hawk to read the inscriptions. I use one here in Ireland. God bless 🇮🇪

[@ricknelson576]

Great job as always Robert, some very old grave sites there. Thanks for sharing.

[@shellydehart8217]

Wow! This cemetery was amazing. Many of the headstones were different from others you have shown n I really like them. The fences, OMG so beautiful. To see that there still standing proud n un touched is unbelievable. It tugs at my heart to see it so over grown as if there long forgotten. It would be so nice if it could be cleaned up some but not to well as someone might come along n see those fences n steal them. It would be good to at least uncover those flat stones. You know there’s many of them out there. Definitely bring Dan back n your clippers. I’m sure Mr.Dan has some great history to share. ♥️♥️😊👍👍🌟🌟

[@tdsrussia1901]

I HAVE LITERALLY WATCHED SO MANY OF YOUR VIDEOS WHILE ON REST FROM MY OPEN HEART SURGERY. 49 YEARS OLD, NEVER BEEN SICK IN MY LIFE OR IN THE HOSPITAL AND 1 DAY BAM ------ FELL TO THE GROUND, ALMOST LIKE THE PEOPLE IN THESE GRAVE YARDS TO BE 6 FEET UNDER BUT SEEMS JESUS WANTS ME HERE A LITTLE LONGER SO LOVING YOUR VIDEOS AND KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK👍.

[@sherrillcornett4212]

These are beautiful monuments...their families had some money to be able to purchase them. It is erie to find these stones hidden in the woods just forgotten! So sad! I am amazed at what you find! Just think how many graves are forgotten and lost in the backwoods of our country! (Many in urban areas also!) Your work is so interesting. You will be blessed for what you do! Keep the videos coming. Best wishes from a neighbor in Alabama! 😊

[@andrewowens9382]

Well your right about the fencing Robert surprised it's still in tack very interesting cemetery as you know I like the history of the south well done 👏 Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧

[@Roller_Ghoster]

The way towns disappear in the US is something I find really interesting. I know on this occasion this is linked to a plantation home but the whole "forgotten graveyards in the woods" is something uniquely American.

[@cdd4248]

It is really interesting - maybe because of the boom and collapse of agriculture, mining and industry with lots of open space to start over.

[@marypettitt9150]

What a nice home at 10:17. I think I hear the phrase Plantation House and I expect a Gone With the Wind mansion. I'm sure there were a few of those, but this seems more suitable for a family whose profits went into the property and farming. Touring that house would have been nice. This is a great video, Robert.

[@blasbmly]

Great job Robert👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@CharlesinGA]

In the late 1980's a hunter from Talbot County contacted my mother, a well known family researcher in Columbus, and took them to a plantation cemetery in Talbot Co. Well out in the woods. The most notable person buried there was the wife of General Henry Benning. We have a lot of Trammell's in Meriwether County.

[@katherineyanagihara2909]

Aloha 🌺 Robert! Thank you! 🥰

[@ramonaalvarez7559]

Haha it's U!! Didn't see that coming, expected to hear OR's voice😉Them ole saw briars are definitely brutal. When u go back, may b a good idea to take a pair of clippers & small garden trowel with you besides a broom. I'm thinking there's several more buried flat markers you may want to uncover. Be interesting to hear what Dan has to say about the families. Thnx for taking us along. 😊👍🏼

[@celleduffel1533]

What a great video, ty. Once again they have their names and voices..Cant wait for you to return with Mr Dan..I would love to hear more about it.

[@frankscarborough1428]

Thanks Robert will look forward to your return with Dan the historian

[@lornahardin4563]

I love seeing these old forgotten cemeteries. It is good to see the names and dates on these graves, and unburying the really lost ones.. Sort of reminds people that hey, others lived and loved before us.

[@suzietexus8620]

Beautiful and fascinating! Thanks for braving those thorns.

[@ninaellyson814]

Always enjoy the cemetery walks. I can’t wait until you and Dan calibrate once again into history! Great work!

[@annette4444]

Yes McCurdy my family most moved to settled the Pan Handle of Fla, they lived in GA, South Carolina,

[@margaretgarls153]

What a fantastic hidden treasure! Thank you for sharing with us.

[@stephaniebyard3958]

Wow! The early graves are fascinating! Thank you for dealing with thorns & such. Like a movie! Bring a machete and leather gloves when you go back!

[@barbararoberto1258]

Enjoyed the yrip into the woods, that cemetery was in very good shape, thumbs up

[@TennesseeTrio]

An amazing discovery!

[@simplydanlrene4276]

I watch your videos because I love how you act with what you are doing. I look every time hoping to hear the name of one of my ancestors who were in GA. You are such a good man and are so caring about people.

[@helencheadle5285]

Thanks

[@ricohernandez9835]

Greetings Roberto, very nice video, good history of the families and their graves are very whole, wanting to go clean the cemetery, blessings Roberto 🙏

[@sandraplonka5225]

Thank you Robert. Great to see you out there. Hope you can bring Dan back with you. And he can give more intro. Really enjoyed this.

[@susanboucher9732]

Awesome search Robert. The cemetery needs to be saved!!!!!!

[@theodoredugranrut8201]

Thanks Robert Central California watching

[@robinwatkins6775]

Amazing the patriarch Copeland, born 1777, one year after the birth of our Nation

[@ardisdoering3815]

Enjoy your videos of forgotten people and cemeteries and bringing them back to life in a sense..

[@gayleloy7111]

Another amazing video. Love from Australia. Stay safe. Love you all. ❤❤

[@debbieritter1096]

Fascinating- thank you for sharing

[@scottnyc6572]

I bet you there’s a lot more buried and overgrown stones there.

[@robinroberts2803]

❤ Thank you Robert

[@tompena7487]

Awesome find . Thanks enjoyed watching

[@paulinenigh6004]

Amazing information. Appreciate your interest Sir.

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

Robert, great video, and so cool to find some graves you didn;t know where there. Thank you so much. Appriecated.

[@daydreams.in.london]

Amazing! I enjoyed every moment of this video ❤

[@texas060]

Robert while I absolutely Love ❤️ ❤you all visiting all these Wonderful Old and Forgotten Cemetery's Why don't you all find an bag somewhere an add a small broom, a pair of cloppers flashlight maybe a small type of saw and a small shovel and a Machete ,an old duffel bag or something you can sling over your shoulders making going through these thickets and things just a little easier. Just an idea some to think about. ❤ thank you for exploring these Old Cemetery's I really enjoy them so much.

[@barbararoberto1258]

Enjoyed the tour of that beautiful place, so glad know one has damaged it.

[@JUNEYMOON9881]

Thank you ❤

[@FloGrown863]

Cool man. My family goes back generations in SW Georgia and SE Alabama.

[@dariamitchell9293]

You film another amazing episode! So mesmerizing and informative! Thank you and have a great Sunday❤

[@sonyajefferson6631]

Thanks Robert good stuff

[@chuckcorris2392]

It’s very impressive to see the efforts you go through to get us the information from the stones. Good job man…

[@annette4444]

Anyone watching from the Mc Curdy family out there, they came from Isle of Bute Scotland.

[@tonyahaley6900]

I have missed the cemetery adventures SO much!!! Thank you for spilling your blood to bring these to us! (The number of lost cemeteries around there *still* blows my mind.) Dan's great, but I prefer to hear you. Hope all is going well with you and yours! Thanks, Robert.

[@denisehibbs9576]

It's good to see you out in the cemeteries again ! Thanks for sharing !

[@ElizabethsaParish]

Love the iron work in this one…❤❤

[@SandyD2022]

Thank you Robert for finding that grave. My biggest fear is my families graves will be left to be buried by time.

[@alanatolstad4824]

Looking forward to the return trip.

[@DD-th2bd]

Looking forward to part 2

[@joistevens4454]

Bring some hand shears, loppers, because so many times you really need to cut through those thorns! I know you can’t make right all of those headstones that have fallen, or are buried but it would be so nice to have some of them corrected!

[@MargieT6223]

Wow, incredible!!!

[@danhutson3460]

Robert, thank you for telling the story of some of the people buried in this cemetery. Too bad it is in such bad shape. If family members are no longer living to clean it up, maybe a group in the county could designate a date when the clean up could begin.

[@janetrapoza3877]

Good to see you in the field again...hope you do more... Not really interested in farming😢.... More history .

[@cathyorlowski1951]

Hey, Robert, get you a small backpack or fanny pack and carry you a flashlight and small scrub brush and wet wipes for your trip.

[@dorenedaniels7493]

Thank you sir very much for this God bless you 🙏❤️. When are you going to have your tools you need to clean off a grave and to clip The Vines back.

[@cdd4248]

I think it would make a GREAT video watching The Roberts etal, clean and reset some of those stones. I know it is easy for me to say, I won't be doing all the work..Maybe a big Community Project?!

[@sallybright7172]

I think you found the cemetery I have been hoping you would find that ties John tramble too.

[@diane1390]

It seems so weird to see such beautiful headstones in the woods.

[@fifibrown13]

Amazing

[@musiknbooks]

I love your videos, but I am afraid you're gonna get a snake after you. Thank you so much for allowing us to meet the long ago residents of all these counties. History lives on because of you.

[@RepublicTX]

He already got a big rat snake after him at the Old Byrd Farm. Scared the snot out of him when he found it snoozing in a chifforobe. 😄

[@MillerMeteor74]

3:52 - Hmmm... 1797 - 1871 = 70 years? I've never seen such a glaring error. Interesting. That cemetery's amazing, and yet another candidate for a total cleanup by a boy scout troupe, or other similar group. In the 21 minute range, the thorny vines are greenbriar, which I know from experience is a nasty vine to deal with when out in the woods.

[@clayton6499]

See that a lot !

[@cherylgregory3940]

My grandmother whose forebears were from Georgia also grew cemetery vine.

[@Suzi_Missouri]

22:00 epitaph reads: Tis hard to break the tender cord, When love has bound the heart. Tis hard, so hard, to speak the words: We must forever part. Dearest loved one we must lay thee, In the peaceful grave's embrace, But thy memory will be cherished. Til we see thy heavenly face.

[@mygrammieis]

Awesome 👏 Walk Around With Y’all Thanks For Sharing-Please concoct FIND-A-GRAVE So The Location and Families Can Find Very Important History of Their Love Ones..-Please contact County Courthouse- What A Treasure You’re Sharing Guy’s 🕊✌🏻💐🤟💫🔦🔍

[@MissNCGirl]

Hopefully without the location or those beautiful fences will be stolen.

[@tomhirons7475]

why has the south got the most forgotten unkempt graveyards in America. I am asking for a reason as i am from England and it seems you good guys often find them and that great. But why are they just left there. Great job for finding them.

[@daxxydog5777]

Because they are on large plots of private land where people no longer live. We have family graveyards right next to busy streets and highways. I know there’s one grave right next to a road where they buried one person in basically the yard, and then the owner died and the county took the land for road improvements. At least they maintain it and it’s surrounded by old pecan trees from the old home place, so it could be worse. They could have dug it up and tried to move it, but they did leave it where it was. Lesson learned: don’t bury your relatives in the yard!

[@sherimcdaniel3491]

I wanted to enter comments for the things found in the cemetery. That wrought iron fence/gate around that one family is the prettiest design I’ve seen to date! And that old gate didn’t even squeak!! VERY impressive workmanship there. ❤️🐈 This graveyard was still in use through at least 1945. Is there a way to find out what the graveyards’ name is? Maybe to find out who was/is supposed to be caring for the land and how the timber company managed to buy it WITH the graveyard there!!

[@deniseoftedahl8937]

Cool beans!!!!!

[@jimmyhappysmith204]

for this video thank you for this video

[@williamsteriti2718]

God bless you guys what you do.. it's a shame how all these graveyards but just forgotten and how they've been buried over for a hundred or more years when they thank you for what you do the family all died off or they move out of state and they don't care about the dead where they don't even know that God blessed for what you do.♾️🛐✝️♥️🕊️

[@zombiemom6701]

I only see links for your patreon. Where’s the link to the plantation house?

[@agapewon]

Do you go all over the state of Ga? There is a cemetery on State art 22 8 miles out of Sparta, Ga. Arnold Cemetery in a stand of woods. Hancock County. Jerome McNeese

[@ronniebarksdale8528]

Robert you need to carry a good sharp machete for all those thorns!

[@AbbyBane.]

I didn’t see the poem written for the stone at the 22:00 mark, it is: Tis hard to break the tender cord When love has bound the heart, 'Tis hard, so hard to speak, the words, "We must forever part." Dearest loved one we have laid thee In a peaceful grave's embrace, But thy memory will be cherished 'Till we see thy heavenly face...

[@jameswasher4677]

Trammell Cemetery Also known as William Copeland Family Cemetery

[@mariewaldrep863]

Can the cemetery be cleaned up from all the overgrowth? Just wondering.