Shocking Find! Grave Robbers Dug Up This Cemetery! Wright Family Cemetery
In this intriguing episode of Adventures into History, join Dan and me as we return to the John Wright family cemetery, a site previously marred by grave robbers. With a focus on uncovering more of the cemetery's history, we dive deeper into the impact and tales of grave robbing in the area.
During our exploration, Dan shares insightful stories about past incidents involving grave robbers, shedding light on this dark aspect of cemetery history. We also guide viewers on how to identify old homesites by analyzing artifacts and observing plant growth in surrounding areas, which often tell their own stories of the past.
Most notably, we make a significant discovery by locating another grave within the Wright family cemetery, expanding our understanding of the site and its historical context.
Join us as we continue to piece together the puzzle of the past, offering respect and recognition to those who rest in these sacred grounds.
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Yes, my bad, as much Castoria as my Mother forced upon me as a kid, you’d think I would remember better. But I also had to take Cherocol and Creomulsion for coughs and such, so easy to confuse! -Dan
@danthevictrolaman9830 -Creomulsion is still the only cough syrup that both works for me and doesn't gag me when I take it. I remember giving it to my girls but they don't have the same fond memories of it that I do, lol.
You mentioned Mrs. Winslow. The channel "Northern Mudlarks" in Scotland posted a really interesting video about that!
Dan I feel your pain. My Mom forced that terrible stuff on me too. It leaves an impression on you for sure. Lol 😳 Enjoy you and Robert so much.
@@danthevictrolaman9830 Oh, yes, Dan, I share memories of Fletchers Castoria with you. Well, I won’t SHARE them with you, but I have them also.
Dan is such a wealth of knowledge. Every country area needs a Dan.
Agreed!
Dido, I agree. ♥️😊👍
Dan and Robert are a real treasure!
Agreed.
amazing! i do believe you guys found my family . im Jonathan wright im related to the wrights of wrightsville, dublin, eastman soperton Ga. im related to John b wright, my great grandfather was named Clyd wright who had several sons Olin wright was my mamas father. im also related to Brig Gen Ambrose wright of Ga. so excited to see this Guys! great job
I'm here for the same reason. Paternal line's family name is Wright. They were enslaved in Georgia so I only have written documentation going back to 1870.
I have to consult my genealogy and see if I am related to this line of Wrights. One line is iffy but a big family from Georgia packed up and went to Texas.
@@wandapease-gi8yoI enjoy Robert and Dan's videos. I went to school with some Wrights in Kountze Texas and they also lived a few miles from my family.
Some Wrights from Georgia settled here in Comanche county Texas. It's where I grew up and when I retired moved back to. Another interesting fact is John Wesley Hardin and his family are from Comanche. The evening, Sherriff Webb of Brown County was killed by Hardin, it happened in Jack Wrights Saloon here in Comanche Texas
Like I said regardless of the dark or the light of history in the United States of America this is awesome that this man was able to see through the other two men that found his family's grave site. And this is all the reason why we need to do this as a country and save this information regardless of the HISTORY. And for the next couple hundreds of years of generation after us and they dig whatever is left and say what's going on here we don't have any information everything was swept under the rug even if it was good or bad so what are we looking at knowing this is American history know we need to know this now and we need to is Now! 🇺🇲
How demented does one have to be to rob a graveyard? You need to ask yourself, how did you get to such a low level of humanity?
Right
I agree I’m throwed off but not even like that eewww
Greed and lucrative black market for profit it's a very serious crime 😔
Here in Germany are a lot of vaults and crypts on old private cemeteries near castles or rich settlements. Very often disturbed, especially in the time after the war. Not only for golden teeth but rings and bracelets. In one case, they put the skulls on the fence posts.
Yes just think of all the tombs they have desecrated in Egypt. It's disgusting.
Disrupting that grave was very disrespectful to the person buried there. I guess some people just arent raised right.
Shocking to see and Dan's story of stealing gold teeth - the visual I imagined was ghastly. Hard to fathom. The lowest of the low steals from the dead and vandalizes a cemetery no matter in what form. 😢 I agree with Dan, no such thing as an abandoned cemetery. Stone lined, it amazes me the many different burial methods that you have rum across and featured. The method tells a story in itself - love, care, wealthy, poor, resources, memorial, religion, and traditions - a sign of the times. This cemetery, assume no relation to you, Robert? Enjoyed the history and the awareness. Excellent. 👍👍❤️❤️
I honestly don’t know.
So sad to see this! Cemeteries should have a special memorial laws put on them to keep them kept up and sacred!
Shame on whoever did this. Total disrespect.
OMG, Castoria!! My mother used to chase me around the house to take it!! It was absolutely disgusting!! But it wasn’t cough medicine, it was a laxative!!
Yeah! Dan corrected himself on that later and said he was thinking of another that started with a C.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory My mama gave me a dose long before I could read. I liked the taste, so I sneaked back. Next thing, Mama was demanding answers from all 5 kids " Who drank the Castoria?" Nobody admitted to it, but the next day... I didn't have to go break a switch, she felt sorry for me, my tummy hurt ALL Night and most of the day, and my " Hiney " was sore and hurting enough on its own without a switch at all !
@@AdventuresIntoHistory the cough syrup was Creomulsion, it looked, smelled and tasted just exactly like liquid tar !
Fletcher's Castoria.
He was probably thinking of Castor oil. It would turn your innards into a straight pipe @@AdventuresIntoHistory
When Dan was describing at the beginning how he knew it was an old homestead with all the different plants and trees around the house all I could think of was the Walton's house in the TV show. It would have been so amazing to live back in those days in such a simple way. It's a shame so much of that lifestyle is gone. Our lives have changed so much.
Lots of tender loving care went into making that grave. Like Dan, I thought it was brick work until he noted otherwise. I wonder if it was family/friends who made it, or "professionals".🤔 I really enjoy how you discover old homesites! You know what markers to look for. Thankfully those markers are still there and identifiable. I wish I would've grown up around there when I was a kid. I'da had a blast! We lived across from fields (in Oregon) and I liked to explore as best as I could. I played in the irrigation ditch next to our house - when it was empty and dry, of course. Great memories! Then we moved to the suburbs in California. And here I've stayed.😕 Your daughter is so fortunate to get to grow up like her dad did, in the country, lots of local history, wide open spaces, and empty roads to drive on. It's neat that you can tell from the road that this grave was nicely walled. I try to imagine what it looked like back in the day and it must've been magnificent. Especially with the other graves visible. Interesting that the cemetery isn't on record. I wonder if back then they didn't have to legally register a family plot. Wonder if there were guidelines, like if fewer than, I don't know, 10 people were buried on the family property they didn't have to register it. That wouldn't work today. It's illegal to bury just one person on property you own! Imagine trying to explain 10 people on your property..."I'm sorry, officer, but I'm simply starting a family cemetery." LOL! 😆 Sorry! Anyway, you hit the nail on the head 🎯 when you said that graverobbing has gone on since the beginning of time. Egyptian kings and queens weren't safe from it. Just makes me wonder what in the blazes made them want to steal "this" body so long ago. Did they get money for it? What was so important to them? We may never know. Thanks to you and Dan for taking us out there. It was quite enjoyable! Take care!☺️
Use to learn stuff from them. We're taken to a doctor. At least some we're, think.
Illegal? Maybe where you are at. But not in my state. We can be buried pretty much anywhere… Maybe we have very lax laws
I have witnessed my grandfathers gravesite having a concrete slab poured over it simply due to threats of his remains being stolen from our family. The remains were to be taken and moved to an unknown location nearer to his second wife’s family in Texas. I suppose there’s many reasons but it doesn’t mean it’s right to do so. If that’s where they wanted to be for eternity then they should remain there.
@@adacox - Here in Los Angeles County, California when human remains are found on someone's property, that someone is brought into the police department pretty fast. Arrested? Probably. Fined? More than likely arrested. I don't "know" the actual "law" around it or the actual "details" of that "law". I'm just saying what I've seen on the news.🤔
@@cindys.9688 … wow. That’s disturbing. We are even allowed to bring home miscarriages… and bury them on our own, where ever we choose. Just one more reason I would never go to CA
Thanks guys, love these kind of videos. It’s a pity that the people buried there have no markers and are now lost completely to time. Thank you.
Grave robbing has gone on since the pharos, but this still makes me boiling mad, let the dead rest in peace.
Love Dan's stick I recall walking through the old virgin forest in VA and collecting them. Twisted by vines, they're simply good walking sticks. I should return it was memories
I love these videos! It's sad that people do the things that they do. There's a grave outside of Lumpkin, GA that belongs to a civil war veteran's wife that has been desecrated in the past. It truly upsets me. My uncle and me went out to it when I was a teenager back in the 90's. Thanks for a great video.
I really enjoy hearing and seeing about these places. They sure do make history come alive. Thank you, Robert and Dan.
Robert needs his own fancy stick too, He held on to that stick for a long time, didn't he? 😅
Yes!😂
It’s always so sad to see this happen. I can’t imagine what’s wrong with a persons soul to make them desecrate a grave. I’ve seen so many Native American graves done this way. So sad….😔❤️🐝
My grandfather was a gravedigger and his father before him. My grandpa said that in the late 1800s my great grandpa would place grave bombs in the casket burning burial of high-profile individuals if ordered by the family to prevent grave robbing
Wow
@@AdventuresIntoHistory in fact some of the graves that you have stumbled across that appear to have been dug up very well may have exploded during a grave robbery and created a crater
Very interesting!
I stopped in and bought a t shirt today Robert. You certainly are in a pretty part of the state.
Thank you, both for what you do! I enjoy history. It is very difficult to imagine someone actually stealing gold teeth from a body. It makes me shudder. I hope the person was caught and punished. Thank you, Dan for sharing that story.
Dan makes your videos so interesting. I love when he says I really don't know much, then goes into amazing historical detail. Thank you for posting.
What a shame! Thank you for saving the history of the south.
Hi Robert and Dan 😊there's nothing sacred 😢there's seems to be a lot of vandalism 😢the dead are supposed to be ( rest in peace) all the best Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧
Wow! So sad it's been lost in time and the people with it.
Family history is important
Fletchers Castoria is a childrens laxative not a cough remedy. Thanks for a better look at that vault and poking around those other graves. The China Berry Tree info is good to learn. Thanks Dan and Robert
I knew it wasn't for a cough, because I was given Fletcher's Castoria as a child. I don't know what was in it, but it actually tasted good. The color was very dark like molasses, so it may have had some of that in it.
@maryr7800 yes! I think it had prunes in it. Prunes will get your gears moving, so to speak. I liked the taste too.
Love that walking stick 🔥🔥🔥
Such an interesting video. I enjoy learning from y'all about how to look at your surroundings and figure out all the clues that tell you how you know you are at a homesite and the different types of burial methods there are in the cemeteries. Also, learning about the plants and how you use those as clues too. Interesting about the chinaberries. Dan knows everything! That stick of his sure has come in handy! I'm sure that the folks who sometimes comment about y'all not being "professionals" will be happy to finally see you with a tool in your hand. But it's such a nice stick, would had to see the tip of it get ruined. Maybe you'll have to show up next time with a more utilitarian one, Robert, so you can really get down to business! That is so sad about the grave robbing and actually knowing that someone would do that. That really just is hard to believe. What kind of heart does a person like that have. They must have been very unhappy while they were living. I hope folks showed his grave more kindness in death than he did to others while he was living!
And where would you sell teeth with gold in them??? I would think it would raise alot of eyebrows, unless the buyer was as couthless as the seller. Maybe the robber would somehow extract the gold from the teeth so no one was the wiser.
Check that jar lid for glow with the black light! Awww you put it back down. Some glow in black light like uranium glass.
Love your videos and enjoy watching them Robert and Dan and Bringing out past history
This makes my heart sad, Love Mr Dan such a wealth of information!
My family moved on to some timber company land there in Georgia back in the 1800s and was living on it for years before the timber company realized and ended up going to court with a bunch of other families. I guess I come from old timey squatters...😂😂😂😂
Dan and Robert the both of you are passionate at what you do. I can't wait to watch more videos
I was born and raised in N.H. The area was fairly rural with old farm houses from the 1700's through the 1950's. My friend and I would saddle up and go through the old grave stitesand look at the dates on the headstones. Some were bare legible from the 1600's. (Unfortunately one of our horses would poop on or by a grave)
Sorry for my typos!
Castoria is a children's laxative. Ask me how I know! I still remember my mom coming at me with a spoon full of that stuff. BLECH!! 😆
A leaf blower and a rake could turn up interesting things. Best a plastic rake to prevent scratching tombstones.
I love Dan's hand carved hiking stick!
Related to the wright family located in oglethorpe and jasper county area , names were leodecia Dicey wright , William and Mary wright. Always intersting too see you guys and your research.
Re: that fragment of bottle with "Castoria" on it. I remember being given such a medicine when I was little if there was a constipation issue...Fletcher's Castoria was the brand. Love your videos!
Yup! Dan said later that he was thinking of another one that he had to take, along with that one - as a kid - and it was actually a laxative
Any way to tell how long ago this grave was disturbed? Okay, you just said it was a long time ago. Burying or destroying the gravestone would keep the casual observer from realizing something was amiss.
Very cool walking stick
Can you put a sign up. Put the name of the cemetery there. Maybe put orange caution tape around it. ???
Find a grave says there are 19 interments, then 43 in the slave section. If I'm looking at the right John Wright Cemetery. No pictures of any of the graves tho.
I’m not sure that would be the same one. Can you send a link though? If KZhead will let it
The thought of digging up a grave gives me the chills, reckon they would be haunting whoever it was for sure!
Robert & Dan, I really appreciate you guys. I’m am Alabama guy who lives in Cali. I do my exploring via you guys how. Thanks for your channel and your appreciation of history
Makes me want to cry. Sad😢
Soooo sad 😔 what kind of people do grave robbing 🤷♀️ I am “70” years old never heard of such a thing 😢. I agree with Dan no such thing as an abandoned cemetery or grave. 😢😢
I believe one of my Cook ancestors married into this John Wright family. Very sad to see the old cemetery in disrepair. Thanks for sharing this video.
A revisit this time with Dan. It is a shame to think that your initial suspicion of a grave robbery is probably correct.
Aloha 🌺 Robert & Dan! So sad to see the destruction. Thank you. 🌺🥰
Do you think, anyone will ever fix it up? Thank-you for taking us with you. Kate from OZ.
I honestly do not know.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory It's so sad to think, that a loved ones, last resting place was disturbed like that. You guys do an amazing service, bringing attention to these old grave yards lost in time.
Wow! Such admiration for the work y’all do! Thank you for taking us along.
It's a shame that the logging company, with supervision, couldn't clean up the cemetery while they had some equipment at the site. Just leaf and dead tree removal would make it so much easier for someone to restore the cemetery. It would be beautiful with all the stone visible again. Thank you for showing us around.
Castoria, I believe, was used as a laxative for children and sometimes adults. I had it as a child.
Dan and Robert, I seriously think that the one " Rock" you found while tapping for more rock walls, was part of an actualy headstone, cause it really didn't look like a regular rock, it was too flat and in an angle that would not be natural for just a rock..The John Wright Cemetery in Talbot County Georgia..
Robert and Dan. My heart feels for those souls who are lost to time and history. So much to think and wonder about. These were people who settled in the area. Early settlers looking to build a place to call home. Time might have forgotten them but, their legacy is intact for ever more. God bless them. Until next time. Please, take care and stay safe. Love ya 🍺🍺🌹🕊🌈👍🙏❤️🇺🇸🌞😇
I have been in the woods in Burke County, Georgia and come across a grave that was a hole in the ground. No markers or anything else. I was way back in the woods. There was one other marker a good ways away from the hole that had a Angel monument on it. The cities and counties do not keep up them. A lot of these cemeteries are on private property.
Really enjoy your videos! Thank you for all your hard work and for sharing with us♡♡♡
You two are awesome!!! Thank you Dan for telling us that grave robbing is a real and abominable thing. Keep on doing what you are doing!
What a shame and cruel....
It is sad when you run across unscrupulous people that don't respect gravesites. How low you must be to dig up a coffin looking for valuables. I guess they thinks it is like Inca and Egyptian burials where there are gold artifacts.
Dan's "stick" is called a shillelagh!
Thanks!
Thank YOU!
Enjoyed.!!!!!!!
I'm still looking for a snake stick. I haven't found one, yet. I might have to have one made.
That is another amazing find of a cemetery long forgotten
This is very interesting and so good that you were able to find these forgotten graves. History hidden in the woods.
Hello and good to see you both again and what a find it's such a shame that people disturb the people at rest. 😢thanks for sharing and take care 😊
What do you think about a crop field planted on top of an old cemetery? Very sad.
You guys do great work!
Been a while for me to venture back, very sad but interesting video and good to see Dan all the history and knowledge within is brain. one could sit and listen as he shares it. Thanks guys!
That is so disturbing to see so much disrespect. It is so very sad.
I love your videos I wish I could trace my family's burial spots I've just started getting really interested in tracing my family line
That's really a sad thing that Dan told story of I couldn't imagine what it would be like to find one of my families Graves disturb by robbers. 😊 bless you both
Good find
Love your adventures. Dan should be designated a National Historic person. Wow, he is amazing!
Dan is a wealth of knowledge n Robert you’re learning from one of the best. Quite an interesting video. I tried to visual those graves with the wall around them. They had to be a wonderful sight to see. A shame to see how grave robbers would take whatever they thought was valuable to gold teeth to possibly jewelry. So sad, so sad. ♥️♥️😊👍👍👍🌟
Robert, are you shopping vintage or finding those cool patterned shirts in a store? My papaw always sported cool cotton shirts like that in the summer and it makes me nostalgic for seeing him in his garden with his sleeves rolled up. ❤
Dan, I commented on the first episode without you there, and I mention a treasure chest of Gold & Silver from the People who lived there or after the Civil War, People used to do things like that not trusting Banks. They also made a Family Map. Remember, the other graves weren't touched! It's NOT a Coffin Shape Hole, it's Square Shape. Dan, these situations that we're seeing was from a distance past. I bet He wasn't the only one digging up these graves looking for Gold Teeth or anything of Value! It was from another Time in this World. Hell, I even heard of Silent Movie Cans in the '30s! Try the term " Graveyard " from " Cemetery " next time!
Robbing the dead and buried. Something sick and demented about this behavior. Unholy desecration.!!
Robert and Dan, This has been going on forever, but in "modern" times It would take a really sick, small mind to desecrate. This is not ancient but Archaeologists generally, no matter how old the grave, show respect for the bones they find Mr. Dan, What kind of person robs graves???? Cheers, Rik Spector
I find grave robbing/desecration..deeply disturbing...what type of individual could do such a heinous act? Very sad indeed. I appreciate what y'all do..
It amazes me how anyone could rob a grave. So disrespectful.
It's a shame that stuff like this happens. For the life of me, I can't understand why people do this except for the fact of being evil. Many years ago I use to hunt Indian artifacts and I was on my friends property where I was finding all sorts of jewelry are large spear points. On one hunt, I found 4 ceremonial spear points. Smallest was 8.5 inches long and the largest was 11.5 inches long. In the same area, I also found 3 full celtz. On one hunt my friend who owned the property found a bone sticking out of the river bed that ran through his property. He called officials and found out the bone was native American. I had been logging all my finds and where I had found them and realized that they were more than likely part of the Indian burial ground. I sat down with my friend and decided to return every artifact I had found in the areas I found them. I just didn't feel right keeping them. To this day, I still regret from even picking them up. It changed my way of hunting Indian artifacts. I still wonder at times when walking open fields and finding artifacts whether they are related to a burial ground. I no longer hunt my friends property even though he still gives me permission because it just doesn't feel right. Call me crazy but I truly believe that area is spiritual. I know I wouldn't want anyone taking things from my family who are buried. Thanks for sharing. It shows how disrespectful some people are.
Good looking walking stick Dan. Fits you well.
Ah...Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup a/k/a one of he baby killer syrups that were used back during early americana. That would make for an interesting video, Robert. You need to do a video on this syrup and maybe some others that were household items back in the mid 1800's to the early 1900's. This was a cool old cemetery but sad with regard to the grave that was dug up. Someone looking for jewelry and/or gold teeth possibly? Whatever their reason, it was not a valid one. I hope that whoever was buried there returns from time to time and disturbs the peace of the person or people who did that.
Incredible video. Glad the gods told me to watch the previous video last night. Hope the dolt who desegregated that grave got his karma in life
Why in the heck would someone want to steal from the dead? Were they buried with jewelry???
Sad to be a witness to this. Desecrating graves is such a shame. Cemeteries have often been completely lost due to the desires of others. In at least one of my family members cemeteries was covered over with a barn and cow pasture. No signs visible. Grave markers gone. This is a place where alnost my entire lineage is wiped out from gggg-grandparents on down to aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. are gone. No eay to visit, add flowers, nothing. Thanks for sharing.
Robert when you are doing records research be sure to go to...1. the nearest county seat (even if not "the" said county). 2. "The" original county way beck when. 3. The most resent county. I have located pertinent records over 100 miles from the expected county seat.
What are they wanting to steal? The casket, the clothes, what are they looking for? I would presume people did not bury jewelry.
Man I love Dans walking stick. Where did he find it?
He said someone drove from Kentucky to Georgia to bring it to him.
Sometimes gracedigging is cult related ever gear skull and bones they use rhe head fir rituals dont shoot the messenger😊
I’ve heard of that sort of thing
Me Dan, the History man! 🎖️🏆🎖️
There was a story of graving robing of women’s graves because they were buried in their best with jewelry, not necessarily precious, but antique. I know we buried my parents with their wedding rings. So very sad and infuriating that these people are as gone and unnamed as the people found by Time Team.
So sad that people can not leave loved ones to rest ❤️❤️🙏😂
I realize the robbing is part of the history. Would it be respectful for the person there to put the dirt back in the grave? Do you think the body is still buried there? If you moved the dirt from the sides in order to try to identify the grave, then put it right back where it was, would that be feasible? Just spitballing some ideas.
Prior to 1870.. 1880 a lot of graves just had wooden markers…out here in the Midwest anyway
Doesn't Cecil have a steel probe? It's time to get one of those, and just keep it in your vehicle. As far as info on that cemetery, what about your own genealogy? You might find it by going that route. Maybe? Well that was fun. I'm glad you brought Dan out there for a followup video.