Exploring another historic cemetery in the backwoods of Alabama. For those who have watched the previous videos - these Mitchell’s are related to our Major Mitchell - how, I’m not quite sure. The story of Henry Blake and his Mother sure is tragic....... PayPal Tip Jar: www.paypal.me/rwrightphotography Special thanks to gas fund contributors: Jonathan L Rosemarie L Colleen C Brian M David G Sandy H Jason W Syma Zachary L And huge shoutout to Robert for support! Support us on Patreon: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures My flashlights: olight.idevaffiliate.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=282

The headstone artist was absolutely amazing, to be able to read them 175 years later is magnificent

A mother really can die of a broken heart. In our own lifetime Debby Reynolds proved that to us all after her daughter, Carrie Fisher died.

Life was so uncertain that even the number of days were recorded on their headstones.

Robert, I think you were meant to tell the story of Elizabeth Blake, who died from a broken heart after her son, Henry, was murdered. Her story was meant to be remembered. I did a little research and the following was said, " Elizabeth Blake (Mother), from Mississippi, allegedly dropped dead at the grave of her son when viewing his burial site for the first time." Someone should write a book about it. Thanks for telling this story. Very well done.

I really like when they put the cause of death on their stones. The detail they used to put is amazing. I have never seen them name a murderer on one before. How unusual. That was a truly interesting cemetery documenting the Mitchell family. Very cool. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤

This was the most touching tribute to the deceased I have seen. What a sad, beautiful story of a mother's love. Thank you for all you and your friends do.

The first two Linwood carvers who signed their stones were Patrick Adams and John Madden. Adams was settled in Columbus by 1832, and with the help of contacts within the city council had established himself as a tradesman. Not only was he skilled at carving grave markers, he also applied his trade toward laying bricks in sewers and the construction of the New City Market. Some years later, in the early 1840s, Madden arrived with a posse of stonecutters, seven strong. Not long after, Adams and Madden pooled their resources together and formed a team, several monuments bearing both men's signatures shows the extent of their collaboration.

Certainly enjoyed this, but the story of Henry Blake and his mother is utterly tragic, even after all this time. Thank you.

Patrick and Benjamin, brothers and both died very young, in their 20is and 30is, that is also sad.

I am now 59yrs old. Grew up in Florida. Growing up we had horses. When I was 15, my friend's and I discovered a cemetery. We had been on that trail for YEARS and never saw it. It was so old. 1700s. How we never saw it is still a mystery to all of us. We still talk about it. It was in the woods off Bearse Ave. in Lutz FL.

This one got to me. How very sad even after all these years. I understand the mother's grief. I understand it all too well.

Robert it is hard to find the info, but this is what I found years ago. Again there is tons of history in this small community. George Lore was sent south be his family to escape legal problems in Connecticut. He was set up on a farm in the Old Spring Hill community by an uncle who was a judge in Eufaula. Most of the evidence that he murdered Henry Blake was circumstantial. He was found to possess items belonging to Blake such as money as well as Blake’s horse. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang in Clayton, Al (Barbour Co. capital). He was retried in Abbeville, Al after winning a retrial by the State Supreme Court with the same result. While being held in Clayton awaiting a 3rd trial, the citizens of Glenville took matters into their own hands. On Nov 2, 1842 a mob was formed and took George Lore from the jail in Clayton to Glenville and lynched him on a Chestnut tree. After which they took out an ad in the Barbour County News to give notice of what they had done. There is a lot more to this story, but to much to put in a short response.

Enjoy this documentation of the Mitchell family. You and Robert are a great team.

This is why I do genealogy! The stories breath life back into the dead. Thank you, good men for sharing this great stuff!!

What an amazing cemetery... all pre-civil war, I believe. That must be a rare find. Like finding a lost civilization.

Some of those stones are still truly beautiful.

How incredibly sad. The poor mother was so grief stricken that she died too. Makes me very sad.

Thanks for the good work guys ,,,,greetings from East Africa

Dissolution, The firm of Madden & Adams is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1850. John A. Madden, P. Adams. Marble Works. The business of the above firm will be continued by J.H. Madden who will keep a lot of Italian and American Marble, for gravestones, monuments, tombs tablet and table tops, and who is alone authorised to settle and collect all accounts of said firm. J.H. Madden. (Spirit of the South newspaper, Eufaula, Alabama, 21 May 1850.)

Thank You Kindly Robert and Robert! Thank You as well for honoring those who have gone before us with dignity and respect! It also shows us that little has changed. Of course travel has changed but really, little else has. People still get diseases, are still murdered and children still suffer early ends and parents still grieve. But then this is life. We grow little when little happens in our lives. We grow from failures, losses, and accidents. Those hardships can have a positive affect and help us grow into better humans. Sometime we long for those days long past but we are in those days at present. Walking through cemeteries and honoring our ancestors gives us a reason to carry on and maintain our traditions and love our dear one all the more. And truly, there is no death, just a change of worlds. Kind Thanks Again! Safe Journeys with Love, Light and Peace! DaveyJO in Pa.

These cemeteries need taking care of. This is history

Thanks so much for the tour of this old cemetary. As I watched I was struck by the overgrowth. I imagine that when the families buried thrir loved ones they never imagined that the graves would endure such neglect.

Wouldn't it be amazing if everyone got together and cleaned these old beautiful sacred places up just because their so wonderful to walk through and think about our family and friends thank you guys for finding these wonderful beautiful places to share with us

This was one of your best! I love the way you present cemeteries. So full of respect and history.

So sad about Henry Blake and his mother Happy someone repaired the tombstone. Robert I enjoyed this video thank you very much 😊

I love walking the cemetery in Virginia City Nevada. I've only seen a small portion tho' because family members don't have much tolerance for the kind of wandering I hanker after. So many children's names, in the same family, all in a row...sad. But the one that always sticks in my mind, is the headstone that boldly proclaims "MURDERED", of a young man, the stone was provided by his Sister.

Thank you for another sidestep adventure. It was very interesting. Sad about the murder and the mother. No parent should have to out live a child. I read the article that someone put on here. I'm surprised they were able to find the article after so many years. Great job.

Very interesting. Sad that continuity between generations is being lost. Without strong roots, the young become prey to scams. Really really appreciate what both you and the gentleman with you are doing. Need this reawakening and appreciation of those who came before us - to know the reality of those lives and times , not what rewriters would like us to think.. God bless.

In the South, the past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. William Faulkner

Hey Robert, I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy watching your adventures. It's fasinating how many old historic cemeteries there are in the world. Thank you for being so respectful and for reading their names out loud.

I love the way how you read those headstones you have a very lovely voice for this sort of thing...very respectful and meaningful you can hear it when you read 🤗🤗

From someone who is in the business of family cemetery preservation, I really enjoyed your presentation. I found it pretty incredible that the overgrowth has protected the stones so well that you were able to read them so well. Thank you!!

Thank you Robert, and Robert, I so enjoyed the cemetery, this was so interesting, and the Blake tombstone amazing. I have seen a couple of tombstone with the persons being murdered, and killer named, but it has been many years ago. Just very sad, and the poor Mom. Have a good one, and say safe.

So sad, I pray for all those forgotten souls. I wish I had the time and money to clean up all of those cemeterys. Thanks for your videos Robert

I'm really liking the Robert & Robert duo, you guys really work well together!

I've spent a fair amount of time in southern Al, Ga, and Ms love exploring abandoned buildings and vacant small downtowns but never thought to explore abandoned cemeteries! Thank you for this.

Someone took time at some point to plant those pretty beautyberry bushes.

Watching your videos you see so many neglected cemeteries that you would get use to it. But each one sadeness me. Wipper snipper & a bit of hard work would do wonders to this cemetery. Cheers Lynne Victoria Australia 🇦🇺🐨👍🏻💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋💙. Some beautiful epitares sorry spelling, brought tears to my eyes & heart. 😭😭❤️

This is fascinating Robert. Watching from Ireland. Don’t know how you do it with the risks of snakes though!

Thanks for this Robert & Robert. I love your respectful reading of the inscriptions to the departed and that Alabama accent. Greetings from Ballantrae, Scotland! 😁

Thanks to Robert and Robert for enlightening us regarding history of long ago, always important in the present and ALL of the tomorrows to come!

Great video!! Whenever I explore some long forgotten and overgrown cemetery, always try to read as many headstones as possible. Have discovered individuals that had accompanied historical figures on various adventures. Also, am amazed how nature takes over the cemetery by trees growing out of graves, critters (usually coyotes or badgers) digging down into the graves for food source and/or shelter, etc. Also, the craftsmanship on lots of older headstones are just amazing as well.

It blows the mind and saddens the heart to see Mother Nature reclaim this sacred ground. Lost to time, only memories left to tell a story by them few who here her voice call out. Us curious few find joy in deciphering the clues that history leaves behind to share with the world this wonderful yet haunting and beautiful place. Thank you so much for sharing this place of rest.🙂

Henry Blake and I share a birthday, April 29. Makes his story all the more eerie.

I love watching the old cemetary videos. I live in Gwinnett county Georgia. Watching your videos makes me want to go and revisit some of the old places.

The name of Henry Blake's killer appearing on his headstone was merely his family's declaring before God the condition of their son's passing. At least this is what my parents told me decades ago when we visited an old settlers graveyard and I asked why "died of the cholera (or something else)" appeared on headstones there.

Wow I really enjoyed this Cemetery Adventure. I do hope that somewhere along that you all do take the time to give the information you have found an provided for us Viewers to like someone that can help contact the Lost an Abandoned Cemetery Association. Thank you again for another wonderful adventure ❤.

Your channel is great my grandma loves cemetarys we used to have to always go to cemataries but now we can watch your videos we love your videos thanks so much for making these videos!

Thank you

This is my first video I’ve seen of yours. I love cemeteries, and this was a very good job you’ve done with sharing the info here. I subscribed. Keep up the great work. Thank you!

Oh my word that is so Heartbreaking, wow, his poor Mother so glad you told their story!👍great job Robert!

I always enjoy your old stories, Robert. Thanks for your time.

Wonderfully interesting stories that go with these stones. Close your eyes and imagine what that family went through.

Robert this is an amazing find that you can document for the future....but probably would have never been other wise......great job......you are quite the humanitarian

Your videos keep getting better and better. I live in British Columbia and I have learned more about your neck of the woods than I ever did in school. Quite frankly I'm blown away. Keep doing what you're doing!!

LOVE the stories. Adds a whole new dimension to the monuments of the folks from the past. thanks for sharing!

I love the Scriptures being on the headstones

Great thank you for allowing us to understand what their lives were like during their life time. We travel all time now & many don't understand what an undertaking it was just to travel county to county or state to state.

I’m so glad that you and Robert are into history. The history of the murdered young man we would have never known if you two didn’t do what you do. I appreciate the time and trouble you go to so we viewers can enjoy and learn. Thank God for you both!

linwoodcemetery.org/stonecarvers.php Article about the history of stone carvers and it talks about Madden and Adams. "...The first two Linwood carvers who signed their stones were Patrick Adams and John Madden. Adams was settled in Columbus by 1832, and with the help of contacts within the city council had established himself as a tradesman. Not only was he skilled at carving grave markers, he also applied his trade toward laying bricks in sewers and the construction of the New City Market. Some years later, in the early 1840s, Madden arrived with a posse of stonecutters, seven strong. Not long after, Adams and Madden pooled their resources together and formed a team, several monuments bearing both men's signatures shows the extent of their collaboration...."

This was fascinating to hear all the history in this video, wow thank you. In them days they certainly made headstones to last and still be read hundreds of years later, it's thanks to you guys for sharing all this with us or else I for certain wouldn't have know about any of this, didn't even know what a headstone/footstone was or field stone until I saw your video's. Coming from the UK we don't have these, well not that I know of. Addicted to your voice as well as your videos, working my way through your video's. Thank you for doing what your doing Robert & Robert.

Thank you for bringing this video to us. Such amazing stories, as told by merely reading these tombstones. These stone cutters, engravers were true artisans, and due to 'mechanical progress' is a lost art. These cemeteries and the history they hold are amazing assets to all who delve into the past. Thank you again for bringing these wonderful videos to we who are armchair explorers.

Henry was only 18... his poor mother. 🙏🏻❤️💔

To think these people and only knew our new Country, glad they made it to the South as mine did, God bless the South.

What a blessing you do these videos and so respect and take your time to share and clean the brush from the stones. Stay safe.

Such a tragic and heartbreaking story. God bless their dear departed Souls. 🙏

Thank you for sharing Robert. Beautiful stones I. This cemetery and such a sad past for the family.

Robert, I enjoy your channel! Also, your voice is very calming.

I definitely enjoyed this video. It breaks my heart to see a old cemetery not being maintained. This history n I love it n to me it’s sacred ground. My mother was born n raised in Alabama. Shelby county. I have or had a lot of relatives still living in Alabama. Also my brothers have homes in Blairsville Ga. Want u to know I appreciate these videos. Thanks again Roberts. ♥️♥️😊👍🎄😥

TY For Another Great Walk. Amazing History, Also Amazing How Many Young People Are Buried There

What a beautiful old cemetery. Still sad all these years later.

Here is another explanation of the term consort that I have heard from a historian ...women were not allowed to be heirs in that time .weren't allowed to own anything .so if their husbands died or abandoned them ,in order to live & take care of their children, they would have to " work for another " single man in his home .usually these women would have more children by the man they worked for without the benefit of marriage .so these women were known as consorts instead of wives

What a very interesting walk through the cemetery to find all those great headstones was very interesting. Thanks

You are doing a service to the memories of those that the current times have forsaken them for whatever reason and their spirit will reward you.

Thank you for sharing your videos with us. It is sad that these cemeteries are not taken care of.

ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO ROBERT, YOU READ THE GRAVE STONE AND EPITAPHS OUT SO RESPECTFULLY, LOOKING FOWARD TO THE NEXT ONE . FROM THE STATE OF QLD IN AUSTRALIA

Oohh such a lovely place, tragic that its been neglected and forgotten about. Some beautiful words on the headstones. One thing I thought very strange, putting the name of the murderer on that poor man's headstone. Goodness I wouldn't want that. Fascinating adventure Robert. Thank you. 🌳🌱🌳

I stand corrected George Washington Lore was from New Jersey not Connecticut (it has been a few years since I read about this on the Alabama history archives). Find a grave has him listed as buried in Cumberland, Cumberland Co. NJ. Born 1815, Death 2 Nov, 1842 Spring Hill, Barbour Co. AL (this is when he was lynched for the murder of Henry Blake). I guess his well to do family had his carcass hauled back to NJ for burial. He had a daughter who died 8 yrs later and is buried in Delaware( Emma Jane Lore 1840-1850 age 10). Nothing is know of his wife other than her name (Sarah Jane Lore). Almost his whole family (parents and siblings are buried in Townsend Delaware along with his daughter.) Most families have a black sheep, this guy seems to have been a role model for such.

Interesting small cemetery, ended with a tragic marker of Henry Blake.Cemetery has been looked after ( restored & cleaned markers).Browder - Mitchell cemetery a.k.a. Mitchell / Browder cemetery with 11 memorials.Sad to see several died at a young age. Great find for the Mitchell family.Thanks for sharing. Keep up the great work.New subsciber.

What an eerie but beautiful old cemetery. So very sad. Heartbreaking. As always a wonderful video. Thank you, Robert xx

I just wanted to say thank you for what you’re doing. It saddens me to see so many souls buried and forgotten. These were people of our nation’s past history who should be remembered. So, thank you for helping us all to remember them. Whether slave or free they were all Americans who helped forge what we are today in this 21st century. They should never be forgotten…

This is amazing. Thank you.

My family the Austons went into Dale County Alabama in 1818 from Johnston CO. NC. I found my grandparents Graves at Providence Methodist Church and my Great and great great grandparents at the Daleville, Alabama Cemetery but my third great, the original pioneer I could not find even though he was suppose to be there....Finding Graves can be difficult....Keep up the good work it is very interesting....Have a blessed day....

The young adults and children always tug at my heart strings. How sad it must have been ( and still is) to loose a loved one far to soon. God bless all their souls then, now and in the future. 🙏💔

Just an incredible video and cemetery, amazing headstones and history.

Never realised the Masonic Association has been around so long!!!My these graves are old....Great find...and to read the names again...beautiful.

Love this all the history and the that was so sad about the mather and son

I really enjoyed this. Very interesting how they word the stones. Thank you.

Such poetic language in their time showing such reverence for their loved one. "He died in the fullness of his powers & maturity", (I think you read).

Another amazing find and sad story. Thanks Robert for the video and tribute to lost souls.

Every gravestone tells a story...the last story was very tragic. The stone was repaired with the intent to last. Well done. Thank you for sharing these stories with us.

Patrick Adams and John Madden were the first two Linwood carvers to sign their stones. By 1832, Adams had settled in Columbus as a tradesman, with help from contacts within the city council. Adams was skilled at carving grave markers, but he also applied his trade laying bricks in sewers and the construction of the New City Market. In the 1840s, Madden arrived in Columbus with seven stonecutters at his side. Not long after, Adams and Madden teamed up. Several monuments bear both men’s signatures, which shows their collaboration.

You guys really have some heart felt research powers. The history you both obtain is remarkable! I love what you do. It really touches my heart.

Really interesting article on the 3 trials and eventual jail escape and lynching of George Lore. I think the headstone with the killer's name was likely put in place before his conviction and out of frustration that it was taking so long to bring Lore to justice. The article goes into the evidence and how they think the murder took place. Apparently Blake and Lore met up and were traveling together a short distance on horse back. Based on hoof prints they believe Blake and Lore were riding together, Lore shot him in the head from behind. Blake's body was found a few days later and had been scavenged by animals. Later some money and personal belongings from Blake were found in Lore's possession. Lore had a rich uncle in the town, the uncle was believed to be using his power and influence to prevent a conviction. Lore underwent two mistrials before he was convicted the third time. A fourth trial was ordered and at that point he escaped from jail and was allegedly planning to escape the country on a steamboat. Townspeople caught him and lynched him from a Chestnut tree. Later on Judge Booth who presided over parts of the case was forced to step down. www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=28114979&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjM0ODcwNjgwMywiaWF0IjoxNjAwNTEzMTI1LCJleHAiOjE2MDA1OTk1MjV9.imndG0LiD5dJuY4-KTpi1BzEM36uJbkZLwdN27fan38

Incredible. Glad to see another State ventured out. I totally enjoyed this video. Thank you

This brings history to life! Fascinating! Wonderful job!

You have such a calming voice, Robert. Kate from OZ

thanks for this video, these are my favorites to watch, my local cemetery only goes back to the 1860's so to see the older tombstones is fascinating

What a sad historical story. Your friend is very knowledgeable with interesting facts. Awesome video. The older headstones always told a story which I guess was a good thing. It is too bad they aren't still doing that.