Documenting these sites is crucial—not only to preserve their history but also to raise awareness about the vandalism and destruction that tragically occur in these sacred grounds.

Part 3 of a Marion Co Georgia cemetery tour Cecil and I did.

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I agree, sad number one, more shameful then creepy in that someone would break the crypt open and then throw trash in it. If one does not respect the dead, there is no respect for the living. Beyond the negative, the cacti blooming bring beauty to this forgotten place. I hope these people have found peace on the other side. Thank you Cecil, and always, Thank you, Robert. You bring to the world encouragement with your belief in what you do, your warm heart and caring ways. You always make the videos special and well worth the watch.  👍👍❣❣

I lived down that dirt road for years and always went up to that graveyard to try to get some of it cleared out as much as I could. The local inmates at the jail would come out maybe once every 2 years to get it cut back as much as they could. I believe the grave was busted open after an inmate tripped and dropped a weed eater on it. After that it has slowly gotten worse after storms come through and time passes. Thank you for making a video about this little forgotten cemetery and church down an old dirt road in marion county Georgia. I always called them "the stairs to nowhere". Also from time to time I would see a woman at one of thr children's graves placing teddy bears and things for them. I'm almost certain that one of the bears that woman left for a child she knew and loved was probably blown into the busted grave unintentionally by a storm. I've never seen anyone up there doing anything malicious and disrespectful. Besides the county not properly maintaining the cemetery like they should.

Tell Cecil that we sure appreciate him and what he does!  Thanks for sharing!!

Robert and Cecil, you two sure make a good team for finding, exploring and recording lost cemeteries in Marion County, GA.

This is why I want to be cremated . I don’t want to be bury and then have the land forgotten about. If I’m going to be reclaimed by nature then I’d rather be one with it when my ashes are spread.

God bless each of these souls buried 🕊️

Such a sad state for a cemetery that has graves that are not so old. The vandalism is maddening.

I hope whoever smashed that grave open has burning ears right now,shame on them!!! People can really do some strange things..there's just no purpose to such destruction. I liked the pretty cactus flowers,they add a sweet touch. Thank you,Robert and Cecil ,for your heartfelt kindness on behalf of all those who can no longer speak for themselves. ❣💯

Good to see so many that are acutally marked graves, but so sad to see that one mans grave so distroyed, and trash just thrown in it, as if the person laying there had no meaning. Such disrespect is sickening.

1:45 Wow, John Rushin died one day after I was born. We lived exactly one day together on this planet. It's like briefly meeting someone on a bus stop who is waiting for a different bus heading a different way. RIP, John

They've got the birds chirping to bring some nature to that old cemetery.

That whole section of hand-inscribed children’s graves 😭💔💔😭
It’s like you can picture the person writing the stones and their grief is being etched into the very stone 😭💔

Always amazes me how quickly things can disappear back to the forest. Would be really interesting to find out how long that church has been gone, and barely a trace.

Love your videos and enjoy watching them. May the lord bless and protect you Robert and Cecil and bringing out the past history

That top on the damaged gravesite is very thin and may have been just stepped on and broken or maybe vandals but may also be fixed quite easily  by removing the remaining of the concrete top and  remove the objects from the water and then pump or bail out the water from the grave and  refill with gravel or dirt . The headstone is in good condition, and the name is there and a relative may even be located locally just by chance ,  but not likely. That grave cover was not a good design for sure , but it has been there a very long time .

Even as a youth we hung out in our local cemeteries and never once did anyone disrespect the stones.  Our revolutionary cemetery they had open vault its creepy for sure.  I think that they planned to take over it for a development and I think that they will be in for a surprise.

Thanks, Cecil, for all your hard work.

Watching from Northern Ireland 🍀 thank you for taking an interest in these forgotten African/American graves these should be looked after to preserve history and remember these people.  Why does people from the African/American community not help look after these?  I never understood the terrible past history of racial segregation in parts of America as to determine a human life is lesser due to skin colour was not Christian, moral or righteous by those who inflicted such discrimination.  I hope this graveyard is eventually tidied up and looked after. ❤

I did find the name of this small cemetery.I did not want to publish this for fear of vandalism. What beautiful music must have once come from here.

2001?  That short time and it's grown up that bad?  I'm one of those where the previous decade should still be the 80s ha ha.  It's disgraceful people were putting trash in the open vault grave.  More props to Cecil for finding these.