TO EVERYONE NEW TO THE CHANNEL, PART 2 IS HERE - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9eVmMWAmMDeeZc.html 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: kzfaq.info/love/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

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

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

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. 👍👍❣️❣️

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.

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.

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 👍

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!

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.

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 KZfaq. 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.

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 !!

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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. ❤

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 .

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

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.

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!

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...

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.

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!

What am amazing cemetery and plantation. Thanks so much!

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…

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. ♥️♥️♥️♥️😊👍👍👍🌟

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

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.

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!

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!!!

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.

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

I was interested in the grave of John L. Calhoun because John C. Calhoun was also from the Abbeville District of South Carolina. Curious about whether there was a connection, I did a search and found that John L. Calhoun's father was a first cousin to the famous John C. Calhoun.

The stone for Ella that had fallen over and you righted must have fallen after May 2006. It is one of a number of recorded in the Find-A-Grave entries for this cemetery with is given as Howard Cemetery, Seale, Russell County, Alabama and noted as being beside the Howard Plantation. Several of the stones lying on the ground are shown and not covered with debris, also recorded in May 2006

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 ...

Find A Grave had this info: Ihagee Plantation Home. "Ihagee" is interpreted as "Sandy Bottom Creek"and is based on the pictorial brook that flows through the property. Built cir. 1840-1842 by Ralph Owens Howard. The master architect was Patrick Ryan. The Howard Family Cemetery is located behind the home near a double row of pecan trees. There are four generations of Howard's and Calhoun's buried there. Permission must be granted to visit the cemetery. There are also pictures and names and dates on the stones.

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

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 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧

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

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

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

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

From a newspaper clipping I found online at "Find A Grave" : "Lt. A. J. Calhoun of the 2nd Arkansas Regiment received a wound at the Battle of Chickamauga, which terminated his existence at Atlanta, on the 8th of October last (1863). He was about 27 years of age."

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. ;)

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!

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

Very very impressive cemetery. Hopefully it can be restored before it is lost.

You bet this looks like a perfect setting for a CONURING series .Lots of memories of the family . Obviously no PIG BOY HERE!

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 👍👍👍

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

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

beautiful historic cemetery - sure needs some care

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 ♥️💜

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 🤗❤️

Very interesting area, great footage

You need to keep a push broom in the trunk of your car just in case you find a cemetery and maybe a hedge trimmer.

*(See recommended watch below.)* Hope you guys avoided any weather from the recent FL weather. NW Tennessee got a quick temp drop and snow yesterday, (really seasonally early, but better today. East Tennessee gets the snow, we get the T-nados and earth/trimmers/quakes. (Reelfoot Lake and Mississippi River merely 10 miles, as the crow flies.) Look up Reelfoot Lake history. We are on the New Madrid Fault line (Newbern, TN ground 0), yep and it is exactly where I live .... and GA looking better everyday 😊 Appreciate you guys so! Hugs all around! PS:. WATCH *"Reelfoot Lake, Tradition, Mystery, and Lore"* by: Goodwin Productions You and Dan would really enjoy this short film. It's the best one.

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.

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.

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

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!)

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

Love the road trips. Thank You

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

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!

Thank you so much for sharing this amazing cemetery with us!

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

Beautiful headstones glad someone found it great history thanks

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

So much love and care in that old cemetery. They invested so much work back then into making this a beautiful memorial garden for the ones placed there. It's such a shame to see it suffer from neglect. I guess they thought of everything but the passage of time and the lack of future care givers.

I surely do love y'all's adventures! Wish it was winter and I could go too!

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!!

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

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

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!

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

Another glimpse into this past! Very interesting history!

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

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

Wow incredible findings. Truly anazing the firgotten

Lost and forgotten loved ones buried in time. Wonder how many old cemeteries are around and have been built over. Scary and sad for the forgotten graves. Thats why old areas with history have hauntings. RIP🇺🇸🙏❤️

Thank you for revealing the memories of generations past.

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 ❤

Wow just awesome history there, I would be very excited exploring as you are! many many years ago in far eastern Ala I found and explored ancient homesteads and cemeteries, basically just river rock fireplaces left in the deep woods, and the grave markers buried but readable, no dates even close to the 1900s! Fascinating. The entire area is now a popular fishing lake flooded by a dam on the river.

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

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!

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

Amazing work Guys..keeping history alive!

Wow this is such a Wonderful piece of History. All of this the House the Cemetery which I hope someone does see their way to finish caring for the Cemetery especially because it is a real piece of the Civil War Era. Thank you for sharing your Wonderful findings

The grave of the gentleman that fought at Chickamauga should be properly noted alone not to mention the rest of the sites. Glad you did this video

Now Robert with so many years of running after graveyards you would carry a broom or hand brush!!! 👍😘🙃

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

I LOVE cemeteries!! As I grew up & walk to the store we had a short cut through a local old cemetery, I'd spend hours walking & looking at tomb stones, I would love to get in there & clean everything, so cool, so very interesting. I'm weird, I know it & don't care..🤷🏻‍♀️😁

Very enjoyable- thank you for sharing