Loggerhead Key Cemetery - Dry Tortugas, FL
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 24° 37.974 W 082° 55.243
17R E 305584 N 2725658
Small cemetery near the lighthouse.
Waymark Code: WMVXAB
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 06/07/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member MountainWoods
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County of cemetery: Monroe County
Location of cemetery: Loggerhead Key, Dry Torguas
>Number of graves: 5

Found this when visiting with Boy Scouts on a high adventure. Only 5 markers, and two true grave stones. A Thomas Lehay and William H. Graves.

William H. Grave was a Seaman on the Coast Guard Construction Tender ANVIL who last his life while completing construction of this pier. His work was of the sea and he died on her beaches just before sunset.

Thomas Lehay was an ordinary seaman, in the US navy and was from Massachusetts, and was buried in 1898.

City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Loggerhead Key, Dry Tortugas, Florida

Approximate number of graves: 5

Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained

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