The Old Ghost Town Graveyard In Georgia (Part 1)

Exploring an old ghost town graveyard in west central Georgia...

[@AdventuresIntoHistory]

New Hope cemetery... part 1. A whole forgotten community and all that is left, is the cemetery.... PayPal Tip Jar: www.paypal.me/rwrightphotography Mail: Sidestep Adventures PO BOX 206 Waverly Hall, Georgia 31831 Subscribe to the new Vlog: kzbin.info/door/56vh2L-M0czmoTRLhSMaxg Support us on Patreon: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures My flashlights: olight.idevaffiliate.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=282

[@shiolenrene826]

Great find Robert, Robert & Cody 💪🏾😊

[@mandysmith3861]

I’m really hoping the beginning of this video wasn’t from after you guys filmed this! To think they may have destroyed it knowing it was there breaks my heart! 🥺

[@jessicaknight788]

I love to think of that day when the dead in Christ shall rise and all the graves that have been disturbed, disrespected and destroyed will be needed no more!!! Thank you for bring respect to the gravesites. God bless you.

[@Infinity.....]

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." 💕

[@tacocin]

This!!!

[@valwillman185]

Amen.🇺🇸🗽🙏

[@dennisreeder754]

These grave head stones make me think how many graves are abandoned or paved over and forever forgotten. Y'all ard doing a great service.

[@ethelhoose7624]

Probably a lot

[@jnolette1030]

Especially on the east coast where some are 250+ years old

[@rebeccas79]

A blessing for those in unmarked graves. Known but to God; loved by those who placed them there. The epitaphs in this cemetery are some of the most beautiful have found so far.

[@cchaffincc]

Beautiful!

[@kathleendouglas7300]

This is so heartbreaking Rob!😪 It angers me to the max what "they" do to our old cemeteries! How disrespectful! The childs grave really broke my heart!

[@lindagreen1105]

I agree. There should be some way these companies can be held responsible and repairs be made. But when they tear up field stone markers who can ever know where they should be. I hope this gets reported.

[@eileenmurphy5718]

It’s good to see the three of you together and sharing the history and cemetery with us.

[@juliewessels4045]

I agree! The 2 Roberts and Cody are a great team!

[@kellyf754]

I failed upside down reading in school, OMG! I can't stop laughing. I just love Robert#2 and love what you guys do.

[@cynthiacronin2794]

The other Robert and Cody! People were so poetic back then from the epitaphs on the graves. To see folks buried there that lived through the Civil War still fascinates me.

[@kenbritton8227]

You mean the Robert that failed upside down reading when he was in school? ( That was funny ; ^ } ) 15:18

[@thegeorgiacreekwalker491]

It's ironic my mother's Family Cemetery where she has a plot (she's still here) is called New Hope Cemetery close to Roswell Georgia, as I was watching this video we were talking about having her birthday party there next week so we could all chip in and clean the place up, I may walk up to my great Grandparents Cemetery up the rd from me today and make a video and tour the place, there's some really old graves there, I'll let you know if I do and maybe you can check it out, Thanks For All You Do For Those Who Have Been Forgotten And Thanks For Sharing, God Bless y'all 🙏✌

[@thegeorgiacreekwalker491]

@ I've worked around douglasville alot in the past so I've probably been through New Hope at one time, it's been quite a few years since I've been out that way

@@thegeorgiacreekwalker491 we used to have a farm there.Its probably been 30 years or more since i was there.I do know our old farm is a subdivision now

[@thegeorgiacreekwalker491]

@ oh wow did you grow up on the farm? That would have been the ideal childhood and you know a majority of the places I use to play as a kid are subdivisions now and that makes me pretty sad, I grew up in a subdivision next to a few hundred acres with creeks and caves and old gold mining machines that were still there from the 1800's and I would play in these creeks and caves every single day of my childhood and have so many great memories from then, I went by my old childhood home recently and all those woods I use to play in are now gone and subdivisions now and it's the same in about 70 percent of the places I use to play as a kid, there either subdivisions or shopping complexes or apartment complexes, just to many damn people now lol, I'm 44 with no kids but still want to start a family and if I ever do I'm gonna try to migrate up into the mountains maybe around Blue Ridge so my kids can have the same experiences I did as a kid, before we know it there want be any wilderness around for our kids to play in and what a shame that is

[@darlenefraire1327]

definition of a rod is 16.5 feet ... love your channels ! can't wait for them each week

[@tacocin]

Another unit of measurement used back in the day is "chain" which 66 feet

[@vernonsanders371]

Thank u Robert for for making forgotten people remembered again

[@rogercarroll2551]

There was some degree of affluence in that community: the expensive headstones on a number of graves speak to that fact.

[@Hurricaneintheroom]

A bulldozer did all that damage to the cemetery? I hope that you guys report this damage to the city or whoever. Companies shouldn't be able to destroy cemeteries. They contain so much information.

[@cindylou6084]

It's amazing to me how what was once an entire church's, or community's, cemetery can be abandoned and forgotten. Thank you Robert, Other Robert, and Cody for revealing the people to us. You give so much respect to each grave site, each name and birth/death dates, and their epitaphs. Looking forward to learning more about New Hope Cemetery!

[@louisianapatriot5818]

I think that it is wonderful the way you are giving attention to those forgotten lives. God will surely bless you for having such huge hearts.

[@joycemetheny8338]

Take heed stranger as you walk by , as you are now so once was I , as I am now you will be , so prepare to meet in eternity " Saw that on an old , old tombstone in Crawfordsville Ark . .many years ago and have never forgotten it .

[@genevabrantner2722]

Back in those days there was a book that many undertakers and gravestone carvers used that the family could use to pick an epitaph. Thats why you see the same thing on many old graves. Many people couldn't read or write back then.

[@hol7824]

Enjoy exploring and learning about these people and places of the past with you guys! But, I really didn't expect the laugh I got out of seeing the back of Robert's shirt! 😂 Thank's guys!

[@kimberlyg5887]

Ok... I teared up at “may we meet to part no more/we have met...”. One of those things connecting a human story to a grave stone 😢. As always, TFS ✌🏻

[@kilandrayeuxdoux2804]

In looking at Findagrave cemetery notes - they have images of the place before the fencing disappeared and the trees cut down.

[@sherronbell4961]

Just an incredible video and cemetery. Cemeteries should be off limits at All times, don't care about no darn developments, etc, leave them alone, that should be written in contracts, paperwork. Just disgraceful and disrespectful.

[@karenwright9123]

Always interesting exploring with you guys...I go from curious to tears to laughter...Other Robert failed upside down reading in school...very funny.

[@teaberrywmn]

Those buried there passed so long ago there is no one left to maintain their graves. This is so sad that graveyards don't have protectors when those who remember are gone as well. Thank you Robert and Robert and Cody for letting us see such places.

[@candicehopkins2344]

There are tons of old, forgotten cemeteries in South Carolina !

[@haroldcampbell3337]

My great-great-grandmother is buried in one of them.

[@coolnic4329]

Such Compassionate Work ✨💜🔥✨ Bless Your Hearts 😊💜✨ ..

[@kimb4285]

How how can they bulldoze/log cutting over something so precious as this? so near to the graves, and this one certainly has been forgotten, so glad you all helped clean some of them and read them out, so interesting. Thank you so much for sharing this history and documenting it.

[@susanblauss1530]

Good Sunday morning! Great video to watch with my coffee.

[@chantalp5588]

Yes love your videos, I am from columbus georgia and my family is from cataula ga and harris County ❤ keep up the great work guys.

[@DD-th2bd]

I wonder if you could use ground penetrating radar to find unmarked graves. Nice find, I really enjoy your videos

[@cchaffincc]

Happy Sunday morning! Thanks for your videos, y’all always brighten my day.

[@barbaracooke1617]

Nice to see the other Robert back ..

[@brendakrieger7000]

Always appreciate you sharing this beautiful location

[@orsonboggs7753]

9:57 only Marcellus that comes to mind is the dude Ving Rhames played in Pulp Fiction

[@thickernell]

I'm wondering if the Gaylor epitaph was written that way because he died first ("May we meet...") and she died last ("We have met...). That's pretty cool.

[@gaynor3976]

Although I'm in England I find all your cemetery visits really fascinating. Its such a shame that they've haven't been upkept. Look forward to your next video xx

[@lydafrazier7764]

This is ashame that no one kept up the cemetery. So happy you gentlemen are taking note of it thank you 💕💕💕

[@mariechosgaire6984]

The three amigos. I really enjoyed this one, I can't wait for part 2. I'm rewatching all the old Sidestep videos too, I can't get enough. 😊

[@tonyfernandez3337]

Beautiful Sunday morning another great video interesting and really good about Georgia HISTORY It's really good to see both Roberts and cory together doing a great JOB like always

[@hankfacer7098]

Looking forward to Part 2

[@Diwondermum]

Can’t go to sleep yet!! Another awesome video has appeared!! Thank you Robert, Robert and Cody! So cool!! Love these videos!!

[@sandrasmith8518]

The Gaylor grave...the best of all you have shown.🧡

[@colleencrane4843]

Great video fellas!,can't wait for part 2😀👍

[@ellietobe]

So there are no laws regarding respecting the final resting places of human beings??? A cemetery can hold the bodies of past residents but when the descendants move on the land where their ancestors rest can be destroyed?? There is something wrong with that. It is so surprising that even the churches want nothing to do with preserving grave sites or moving them someplace else. It is one thing to just abandon a cemetery but it is an even worse offense to allow those graves to be totally destroyed by construction and roads that just blow over them. Such disrespect is inexcusable.

[@1755ma]

This channel has convinced me and my wife to be cremated, our ashes scattered in a mountain glade.

[@mcwatersd]

I wish they would make logging companies responsible for cleanup on any cemetery they touch. That at one time was a beautiful grave yard . So sad when a town disappears that the cemeteries suffer from lack of any care. Keep Safe ❤Keep Well ❤

[@jackiewarren2002]

I love this video so much 👍🏻 The history of this cemetery is fascinating Keep up the great work ♥️ I watch all of your videos ✌️

[@michaelely2267]

Good video. There is a New Hope in Paulding Co. Ga. Many years ago there was a terrible plane crash there that killed many people.

[@nothanks3236]

Also the site of a Civil War battle, one of the battles that led up to the major engagement at Kennesaw Mountain.

[@katherineyanagihara2909]

Aloha, Robert, Robert & Cody! Thank you for sharing! Really beautiful! Aloha nou!

[@yarnhappykim9294]

Please be safe out there and God bless you and your family and friends and thank you so much for sharing

[@cathleensteele6808]

Love all this history.. keep it up

[@steveclark4291]

It's a shame logging companies seems to not care if there is cemetery or cemeteries on the land they got for logging ! Thank you guys for sharing this with me ! Take care , stay safe and healthy with whatever you guys maybe doing next ! Doing well here in Kansas .

[@beverlyparrott3890]

Love this video Robert. Can't wait for other parts.

[@proteopathy]

Always a good day when there is a new adventure with Robert, Robert, and Cody!

[@jamiehoward3151]

I'm looking forward to the rest of this story. Thanks y'all 😊

[@raynonabohrer5624]

Thank you Roberts 1 and 2. Mr. Cody. God-bless you all. And you all Keepsafe.

[@Sister325]

OMG I am so glad to see The Other Robert, I thought maybe the Wisteria got him. Hi Cody good to see you.

[@kathrynryder9620]

Great video yet again Robert.

[@claracarter3181]

Glad the band is back together.

[@janeenhodge441]

Beautiful! Pretty sure it's all marble... Sadly desecrated by man's greed as always. Bad JuJu!! Thank you for bringing it/them to light. 🙏❤️🇺🇲

[@CC58]

That flat bulldozed area would be great to metal detect.

[@belleange590]

Good grief is that huge downed tree a Cedar tree????

[@howitzer8946]

5 Thumbs up, and thanks for taking us along.

[@bradmcewen]

Its hard to imagine the survivors personal anguish to compose fitting limited words for a marker epitaph.

[@user-randi1987]

I hope you will go back there, looks like there are some very nice headstones. Thanks, Robert, Robert and Cody

[@snowfall4052]

Thank you for all the work that you do!!!

[@cherylandersen7959]

Love your videos and all the great history!!!

[@turkeysandtiaras2623]

Wonderful spotlight on forgotten place ❤️

[@barneykennett9282]

Nice...👍.

[@Mosely2007]

Well done fellas. I found two yesterday . Oldest was 1811 died. Many in Mich in good shape tended by small churches. edAnnArbor channel . I like the veteran ones. Civil war ones especially .

[@gurinapsait8248]

I live in the PNW we don't have cemeteries this old.. I love watching your videos..

[@jeffjohnson4015]

We always enjoy your videos and I know I do repeat myself but we are always amazed how kind and wonderful you and Robert and Cody and all of sidestep are trying to bring to light what is happening to these old grave yards. It's so sad to see all the leaves and grass just growing over these graves. Thank you to all of you at Sidestep for honoring the people that came before us.

[@deniseoftedahl8937]

Wonderful. Thank you.

[@jared1870]

Thank you! I have never seen a double obelisk monument before and all those epitaphs were new to me also - not the standards usually found all across America. Also good to see Cody and the other Robert back, he must have finally got his steak sandwich.

[@MiJacFan1]

The "Other Robert "🤣 and this is my only shirt! Love a guy with a sense of humor. On another note, love the work y'all do, and looking up history. Great video as always.

[@ivanatomasovic3302]

Hallo Robert and friends i love the old historry i love this video thank you Robert i love to see you i learn so much stuff i love it big love to you and friends from croatia

[@alanatolstad4824]

Set the scene: Someone dies, no money for a headstone? Or, too quickly to produce one? Where do the stone 'markers' come from? Is the land conducive to cherry pick stones of sufficient size to mark the active grave? Do the mourners or grave diggers bring them?---The ages of the oldest headstones certainly speak to the pioneers. Imagine their lives...

[@cchaffincc]

Love this! Most of Georgia wasn’t settled when they were born, still being occupied by Native Americans. Those people were hardy and brave.

[@imanfotualii8095]

The reality of what may come for all of us someday as we age and die and a new generation is born. To think this could be our gravesites abandoned but never forgotten with time 😢. You 3 are doing an awesome job acknowledging and remembering those who have passed 💙

[@nancymcgee4776]

You boys got up with the birds this a.m.!

[@danhutson3460]

It would be wonderful if a historical group or other group or groups could take it upon themselves to make it a bi-annual clean up day. It's bad that old cemeteries are too often forgotten.

[@ChrispyMulder]

My gggrandfather was named Marcellus but they called him Shelly

[@frankscarborough1428]

So fascinating wonder what stories these people could tell about their lives and times. My grandfather was 53 when he got married. died in 1947 at the age of 60. My grandmother has spoken of him many times to my sister and me. Always loved her recollections. Take care and thanks looking forward to part 2

[@maryc7830]

Thank you for sharing. You have a mighty fine evening. 💫🌸

[@chiIinviIin]

First and a like. Thank you from Los Angeles!

[@valwillman185]

So amazing yet so sad!💔 MAY ALL FOREVER R.I.P.💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿🇺🇸🗽🙏

[@monumentstosuffering2995]

Lovely stuff. Cool outfit.

[@johnbastien3872]

The saving grace for some of those rare monuments is the isolation of the site. Keeps out the vandals.

[@terminalvelocity6398]

Hope you're - at least documenting the graves that can still be identified. The county historical association would, most likely, love to have that information.

[@robynhill6065]

LOVE old man Robert's shirt😂❤

[@kathyflorcruz552]

I've never seen that style of double obelisk stones before! Lots of Masons there - but I think most people were raised to build one way or another. Fascinating place to be sure.

[@ricknelson576]

Look forward to up coming videos. Thanks guys.

[@shiolenrene826]

Love these videos ‼️Hey Robert 🤗

[@AdventuresIntoHistory]

Hey! And thank you

[@krissarasexydiva1781]

Better they are there than under some building

[@cindyhazelton9683]

It's really nice to see the Other Robert..i miss seeing him!!

[@pmichael73]

You explore these neglected - even forgotten - cemeteries with care and reverence. It's important to know something about those who came before and did their bit to build the country.

[@shereerichmond4833]

Aww shoot it was just gettin good..😊 Waiting for the next video

[@dreamseer7]

Robert Yellow-Shirt cracks me up, his only shirt with his name on it. Thx for the chuckle.

[@pierrecabot]

keep up the good work

[@shellydehart8217]

This was quite interesting definitely want to see part 2. There was some real nice head stones. Back in that time it cost a lot to have such ornate stones ( of course to this day they still cost). I gather they came in n cut a lot of cedar trees but they sure left a mess. Just pushed the wood in a pile. They could of cleaned them up some. Show some respect to the dead. Always enjoy your adventures. ♥️♥️😊👍👍

[@dorenedaniels7493]

So very sad to see some of them like this and the family's not looking over them to take care of this. God bless all of you 🙏❤️

[@darlenemartensen8303]

New subscriber here. This was really interesting. Can't wait to see part 2. We have a really old cemetery here in Reno, Nevada. Not quite as run down as this one. People here take care of it