STOLEN HEADSTONES AND THE MAN WHO WAS DRAGGED TO DEATH BY A MULE | WINFREY CEMETERY

VISITING THE WINFREY CEMETERY WITH HISTORIAN DAN AKIN AND MR. SCOTT ON CAMERA AND NAVIGATION...

[@AdventuresIntoHistory]

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[@texasgina]

Just started watching

[@kizzyjrjunior6520]

I really enjoy hearing the history behind all the videos. Thank You very much.❤

[@janice1493]

I found you guys about two weeks ago and I really enjoy your videos. I love the History that you share about the grave sites and the history of the community. Great job I will continue to watch and keep up the amazing work.

[@marypettitt9150]

Thank you for sharing this cemetery with us. My husband's gggrandfather is buried in a NC family cemetery. One of the descendants told us that the cemetery used to have a number of full-length flat stones. These were stolen. The man told us that people would turn over the stones and use them for doorsteps. Frankly, I hope anyone who did this suffers from the guilt of the disrespectful and has trouble sleeping. Well ...

[@mowergal9776]

Yes thats true about headstones. Many years ago I looked at a house 4 sale that the front step was a headstone. The realtor told me the story.. Needless to say I didn't buy the house! And this is in Ohio...

[@suegoodwin8526]

My great Grandmother was a Winfrey who's father came from Madison County, Georgia and also fought in Cobb's Legion during the Civil War. He moved his family to Northern Alabama post war. This Winfrey family in Harris County could possibly be related. Thank you so much!

[@lindawilder3148]

Dan is a walking history book! Very interesting!

[@nadiabrook7871]

RIP Mr Winfrey!! I hope whoever stole those gravestones will one day face the consequences of their crimes!! I would NOT want my home built from stone that used to be someone's grave!! GREAT video, gentlemen!! XXXX 💗👍

[@Figgatella]

I just love Dan’s voice. He sounds like a Confederate soldier telling his stories from the war.

[@barbaramai7610]

He sounds like a Southern Country Gentleman to me. As for me, I could listen to Robert's voice all day!

[@RepublicTX]

Now THIS is history. I never cared much for the Big Events we were forced to memorize in school. It's the lives of everyday folks that fascinate me. It always amazes me that anyone could claw a living from some piece of wilderness and raise generations of family on it. Those are the histories I want to know.

[@forecon11]

Amen to that! How did a regular person do it? I think of that everyday I drive around Talbot and Harris County, Ga.

[@carolyndavis7476]

What a sad and devastating story about Mr. Winfrey. What a horrid act for someone to steal rocks from two gravesites. However, a great video with such historical information. Thank you!

[@reginaromsey]

I think I would have shot that mule. A horse might be spooked, but mules don’t tend that way. The critter would usually have stopped at home. Of course the man might still have been dragged to death, but that mule could never be trusted again.

[@Tricksofatrade]

When all you here every day is how bad our elected leaders are and how corrupted the Nation is and the world. The people become brainwashed and have no morals at all we start weithering away like a tree from the top down !!!! ???? ):

[@andyokus5735]

Very interesting. That was some pretty land. What a totally different time and day. When men were men and worked to the bone. Families stuck together and land was respected and treasured. What a warped and sick World only 150 years has produced. God bring us back to simpler times please.

[@annettegraff8323]

It's not just granite headstones they take ! At my family's Cemetary in CFL they took the corner of the plots initial marker ! Not once but twice ! My uncle said it was something upwardly mobile did when they built stone entryways to their private drive . If they took enough letters from old country gravesites they could spell their last name . It just blows my mind how selfish some people are . Sad .

[@smc130]

There will be retribution for defacing a grave. Their homes are cursed.

[@tonygriffin6049]

Robert M. 94, daughter Ida L. 38 and Patrick Winfree 36 show in the 1910 census. Robert is shown as a Confederate Veteran.

[@sherrilee230]

People are sick that go around stealing head stones and rocks out of can these forever homes. God will remember them. Thank you for sharing boys

[@debray7681]

Your Dad needs to write a book knows a lot of local history that could go lost

[@smc130]

Stealing from the graves of the dead is not only a crime but sacreligious. Even God won’t have mercy on their souls!

[@robertbowers9856]

Selfish lazy people.

[@robynrides]

Do the children in American schools study their local history? Dan's stories would be such a valuable asset to any teacher of local history. I live in Australia and I find his stories fascinating so I can imagine how children who live in the local area would be, too.

[@dmzabo3914]

Sadly some of our teachers and schools curriculums doesn't want anything to do with this type of important history. The history that they are teaching today incites violence and animosity between American of different races . Sad but True!

[@user-yt6hf4mp2i]

Not so much local history, but state history called civics. In Okla. It's 9th grade. In Texas, it's 7th grade. Local history is passed on by elders: grandparents, aunts uncles, cousins. Bad snowstorm christmas 1966. I wasn't quite 5. Older sister 7. Sh remembers details I don't. She and my aunt say my little sister was there, but I don't remember.

[@bethbartlett5692]

This thick growth brings to mind: there's a guy that's here on KZbin whom randomly takes it upon himself to *"mow and weed eat" yards for folks whom are elderly and/or don't have the means to afford lawn maintenance.* He occasionally uncovers concrete, stepping stones, etc, they didn't know were there. Top Notch Lawns is the Channel in case folks want to support his Channel, thus his Work. "Good People Matter" ❤

[@maryellenshock]

I've heard of him! Awesome!

[@VictoriaN72]

You all are a rare breed -- caring and compassionate. Incredible how long ago these graves were laid.

[@user-randi1987]

Great video. So sad about Mr. Winfreys manner of death and the stolen grave stones. Such a shame some people are low enough to steal markers from a grave. Thank you, Gentlemen

[@IrishAnnie]

Despicable

[@juliaferraro2599]

Thanks for another wonderful history lesson about the south. Love hearing Mr. Dan tell the tales.

[@mattieb7348]

Another great video. Thank you. There is something terribly wrong with anyone who would vandalize a grave. Nothing good can come of it. Apparently, these people never heard of Tutankhamun's curse. Thank you for including the history of your Native Indians. They are fascinating but overlooked.

[@jparker59able]

I like how the chalk helps to make the inscriptions stand out. I'll remember this trick the next time I get to stroll through an old cemetery. Thanks guys. Also Dan, You remind me of my youngest son. He loves history and is like a walking library.

[@maryellenshock]

Thanks for the info?

[@anitamorales1506]

This was very interesting to see. Thank you for taking us there. I hope that Mr. Dan writes these stories down some day.

[@dmzabo3914]

Yes I agree. This man has great stories that should be written down for future generations of school children that actually want knowledge about our American past.

[@marciocordeiro4074]

my wife's great great uncle was killed by a mule in a plowing accident on our family farm in North Carolina. he was just back from WW2, got himself caught up in the plow rigging somehow and was severely injured and eventually died. it happened right in the front pasture in front of where our house sits today. the original farmhouse was burned years ago because if it's condition. he is buried about a quarter mile away in the family plot

[@jameshickok2349]

Going through newspapers in s.e Dakota Territory 1870-1900s, I noticed a lot of deaths by horsekick. I'd say horsekicks were the #3 cause of death behind disease and accidents of all types. I never expected to make such a discovery.

[@smc130]

I’m so glad that you gentlemen visit these graveyards and appreciate the craftsmanship that went in to the more ornate but especially the plainer fieldstones. All were created and placed with love. They’ve endured longer than those who made them, giving them a form of immortality. What a beautiful gesture.

[@jothankyou2]

Thank you Robert , Dan and Scott for the history of Georgia. I enjoy watching and listening. These are the history stories that should be in history books. Thank y'all again. Look forward to the next adventure.

[@deniseoftedahl8937]

A POX on all those that desecrate any grave!!!!! Very cool about the engraving on the stones. Took a lot of time and a steady hand for sure. Thank you for taking us with you. I'll stay tuned for another episode of "Who Brought The Brush?".

[@anitamorales1506]

HAHAHAHHAHAHA!

[@alanatolstad4824]

I like Scott's notion of pay-back.

[@shellydehart8217]

Even to this day nothing is sacred. To think people would go into a graveyard n steal those headstones. I hope rather their dead or still alive that doing what they did will haunt them forever. I always enjoy listening to Mr. Dan tell stories of so much history of Harris county or Waverly Hall. So much to be proud of. ♥️😊👍👍👍👍

[@maryellenshock]

What about scrappers who steals anything that can be sold as scrap? My house was built in 1924, and all the plpes and gas lines were torn out. They didn't take the cast iron claw foot tub! Lol!

[@junniehendrix9771]

I would love to talk to Mr Dan about his family to see if by any chance he is related.My Mom was a Akin. And I see quite a few facial features to my family.

[@maryannanaya7126]

I could sit with Mr Dan Akin listening to his stories all day long.

[@the_eternal_student]

The stories make all the difference.

[@veronicakristopeit3731]

Thank you Robert, Dan and Scott. We appreciate you looking for these grave yards and sharing them.

[@SondraD7676]

Another great episode with Dan and Scott along - it is a real adventure when there are so many discoveries and stories to be shared. This one is exceptional in that all the stories that Dan shares about the people that lived and died here. It always paints such a picture in time. My imagination always conjures up images of the places and the people as Dan shares the stories. Horrible story about Mr. Winfrey though, what a tragedy. The stones are very interesting, as you said, Robert, in that the carvings are so exact in such rough stone. More theft, hauntings followed, I'd say. I noticed a lot of holly trees. Are hollies purposely planted in cemeteries or naturally occurring? Great job of filming too, clear as can be and great sound. I really enjoyed this episode, Thank you, Robert. 👍👍❣

[@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage]

Typically cedar trees were planted from what I've learned from Robert

[@SondraD7676]

@@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage yes, I recall he said that. Thank you 😊

[@bettyboop4263]

Great video. Love to hear Mr. Dan share his knowledge.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Treat, I've become quite attached to these delicious explorations of History and for this Sidestep Team's respect for the Individuals in Memorial. Have a fabulous week gentlemen.

[@suegoss8600]

Love the history! Thanks for sharing!! GODS BLESSINGS🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️😎😎😎👍👍👍🏆🏆🏆

[@yvonnesquadrilli8997]

Thank Gentlemen so love the history Dan

[@frankscarborough1428]

Imagine someone stealing a wrought iron gate, rocks from rock graves! Sure sounds like low down people to me! Sad about mr Winfrey. Thanks you guys very good history lesson

[@rubycasey2713]

Couldn't you get a controlled burn done in this cemetery I hope whoever stole the gate and rocks from there got and still gets visits from the ghost that live there.

[@karenwright8556]

Human history from the cradle to the grave,fraught with struggle,conflict and tragedy. Wish we knew more of their happy times. 😔😟 But still we learn. This not our home,we are merely travelers seeking our way back.😇 Ya'll be safe,love from KY.💞

[@mattieb7348]

Amen.

[@shardunc5187]

Love watching this and all the history on different families. Thank you.

[@wandawalters3516]

I love how knowledgeable the gentleman is about the local history, and I love his voice!

[@bonniethompson9773]

Love your stories, Mr. Dan!

[@moretoexplore6736]

Love this historical stuff, can't wait to have the time tto do some of what you're doing Robert. I miss the other Robert where is he what is he doing these days? Hope all is well with him.

[@smc130]

Mr. Dan reminds me of the author Shelby Foote! Both excellent storytellers!

[@barbaraharshman9460]

Such an interesting story thank you Mr. Dan Robert and Scott

[@glennyork6800]

Just WOW simply amazing with the carving in rock headstones

[@DD-th2bd]

Robert you really should have your own show on TV. Your videos are so fascinating and I just love all the history that Dan talks about

[@katherineyanagihara2909]

Aloha 🌺 Robert, Dan & Scott! Thank you Dan for the history lesson. Very interesting! Love your voice! Aloha!🥰

[@gayleloy7111]

Another fantastic video. Love that you bring these poor souls alive again. Love from Australia. Stay safe. Xxxx

[@marytaylor8417]

What a sad thing. Theft of the stones and grave markers. Perhaps some day you can take us to see the Indian mound.

[@forecon11]

It will have to be in the winter. I wouldn't try and make that run in the summer months.

[@crowznest438]

The chalk worked very well - like magic after you rubbed your hand over it.

[@Tricksofatrade]

I grew up on an old farm here in Piney Flats Tennessee on Boone lake and try to pass stories down but sometimes I think I’m talking to myself when I tell them

[@cchaffincc]

Don’t quit, hopefully you’ll spark an interest in some young boy or girl.

[@alanatolstad4824]

Never give up, someone, some time, will remember and be glad of it.

[@cdd4248]

Run your stories down and start your own YT channel- you will have hundreds of TN residents, plus hundreds from around the world listening to your stories!

[@mattieb7348]

I hear you. We just have to plant a seed and hope it will grow.

[@forecon11]

I've been telling them in my family for years and I thought the same, but my youngest daughter for some reason changed her major to be a history teacher. It will rub off on some of them eventually. Oh, and when they come back and ask you for the info charge them a quarter, because only the first time was a freebee.

[@bethgiesey9405]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful piece of history!! Love your videos

[@margarethaines5466]

That is the most dispicable thing I've heard of. Yes, I hope it's haunted by the sound of those rocks falling in the truck. Amen

[@apcadd80]

Love listening to Dan and the history of the area. Been thru the town many times going to visit my grandpa and family.

[@katyareads221]

What a fantastic job you are doing preserving local history and telling the stories. Wish you lived in Connecticut where I live.

[@barnabasschuler9025]

I love the sound of dry leaves. BUT I worry about the snakes?

[@tonyahaley6900]

I'm glad you're documenting these places but, damn, that's a depressing cemetery.

[@doloresvelez3243]

Grandpa said " always bring your brush" Thank you for the work you do.It is so sad seeing these forgotten cemeteries,but they are forgotten no more.

[@royals24u]

awesome ... keep up the great work gentlemen

[@mrrs8118]

Another interesting video with great narration

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thanks for the video and chat. See you on the next.

[@robinwatkins6775]

Mr. Dan has amazing stories. He builds a picture as if you were there, and sincerely felt. Keep up your endeavor for uncovering what time and people have kept covered, and yet discovered. Love your channel

[@brendahogue5487]

Love your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on. Enjoy watching the study of history

[@MurderMostSouthern]

I’d love to know if that was a horse or mule. I know most people plowed with mules back then but mules just don’t typically run off like that. It’s certainly not impossible at all. Horses on the other hand will do it in a heartbeat. I had a horse that all you had to do was turn back towards the house and there was no stopping her, there was just holding on till she got back to the coral where we fed her. I was 10 when I had her and I remember hanging on for dear life and thinking “So this is what they mean by ‘Like a horse headed for the barn’”. I’ve had donkeys and running off on you wasn’t something I ever worried about, unless something spooked them and even then they are going to run just far enough to be out of harms way and stop. They won’t run through fences and crap like that like I’ve seen horses do. It would be interesting to know what happened there. Something must have spooked it for it to just keep running like that. Or it took off and then didn’t understand the dragging of it’s owner and just kept going in total freak out mode. So strange and horrible! I’d say that story is a good reason to never wrap reins around your person.

[@jen8491]

Great video Robert 👍. I look forward to these videos every weekend. You guys do a terrific job.

[@tiffanychrusciel324]

Thank you!

[@IrishAnnie]

Wow. The chalk did the trick. Thank you both for this interesting walk. ❤️

[@brendacanter9768]

Keep up the great work. I hope the people who stole the stones and headstones are haunted to this day.

[@thelindazoo]

Dan is an amazing historian and storyteller! I love listening to him

[@kellyspann9845]

Great stories and it takes cold hearted people with no souls to steal from a grave site. God's Watching !!!

[@janetjones7880]

I use sidewalk chalk too...it sure helps

[@johannahmoran704]

Very interesting video ! I love this kind . Wondering where Cody is ?

[@markymark903]

You would have to be a depraved individual to steal a headstone

[@karenlouks3480]

Large rocks in a row they had to know it was Graves very disrespectful and course I think you said it was dark also

[@MillerMeteor74]

I have pictures I've taken of fieldstones with initials carved in them, up here in NJ, but I don't think I've seen any with dates. I would have to look through all my cemetery folders to be sure. This was very interesting though. What a sad story, though about the man being dragged by his mule. Wow.

[@heatherphillips3349]

I can't believe someone would steal the stones off a stacked stone grave...that's very bad juju!

[@barbararoberto1258]

Poor Mr Winfrey its a shame that happened to him , the vandalism is sovaweful

[@jeanneclark99]

May people who steal from and vandalize graveyards and cemeteries be haunted the rest of their lives.

[@reesedaniel5835]

Dan reminds me of country singer John Anderson, (Seminole Wind, Tequila Night), not now but when he was younger.

[@scottlambert2949]

Very interesting story thanks for sharing and watch out for snakes

[@forecon11]

Your not allowed to say the "S" word damn it!

[@andreamills5852]

Mr Dan Akin," Speaks softly and carry's a big stick".

[@Hurricaneintheroom]

No respect for the dead. These people had lives and families. Yet no one seems to take care of the dead. This makes me feel ill when people steal the rocks or tombstones to build something else. About as bad as Temple University in PA during the 50s wanted the land an old cemetery sat on. So they had the county took the land away from the people who were keeping it up and sold it to Temple University. There were 28,000 people or more buried there and it took them 4 years to move the bodies to another place. Then they took all the tombstones and used them as riprap down by the Delaware River. Disgraceful.

[@christinestrassner8166]

I just recently watch a video about that and they showed the tombstones by the river. I was so disgusted.

[@forecon11]

And they haven't had a football team sence.

[@Phil-xi1gj]

I love historical places and the people that shaped our future... Thank you so much for keeping the memories alive and well... GOD bless you...

[@junejimerson5041]

Thank you for all ,all of you do. Have a happy and prosperous new year

[@Hurricaneintheroom]

RIP to Mr. Winfrey who is walking through the fields of heaven now. Sad.

[@houseofburgesses4332]

This was so cool!! Love it!

[@joharmon2148]

The chalk was a great idea.

[@Headstoneman]

What a great place! I would love to stumble across a cemetery like this!

[@delphinabunter1469]

Another very interesting history lesson. Thank you. 👍🏻🇦🇺

[@texas6065]

Shhh Robert your making to much noise now, your liable to wake the Dead now. I'm telling you to be Quieter. Lol. ! I always enjoy going to these Old Cemetery's as the information I get durning the Cemetery's that we explore. Thanks Robert, Dan and the other Gentlemen. I really enjoyed today.

[@richardwhite7985]

My middle name is Winfrey. There was a divorce and my father wanted another middle name and my late mother said we were relative to the Winfrey family and wanted to give me a name I would be proud to display. I never knew why she gave me such a family name. Thanks for the information.

[@ameliablackshaw5912]

Just want to say thank you again for the videos and the respect you show

[@dennishill9341]

Excellent episode. Fascinating history.

[@jimmywilson1388]

Man I love hearing stories like that and he tells them so well! Great video

[@45beetle]

really interesting

[@raynonabohrer5624]

I love all these stories ❤️. Thank you all.

[@barbararoberto1258]

What an awful thing , to steal from the deceased . Great information on the history enjoyed the video

[@hy1762]

I have a question. Can a person decide to be buried with their distant family, and be allowed to be buried in a cemetery similar to this one?

[@ducaticanine]

love the videos man! especially with Dan and Scott! great stuff/content...

[@bettytordoff8920]

Interesting stories. Robert, you try so hard to find and put the pieces together. Never Give Up. It's sad the headstones are missing. Maybe the person who took them and the gate, put them in a different place of remembrance. Nice thought at least.

[@mattieb7348]

I wish I had your faith in mankind. You are a good soul.

[@thebrandib333]

There are a few field stones down my driveway that look like the one at 13.53. I had thought they might be headstones.

[@MyChannel-rf8ic]

You guys do this with a passion, it's really good work. The video and audio quality is excellent. Thanks.