Abbie Burgess Grant
Born: 1839
Died: 1892
Branch of Service:
United States Lighthouse Service
This keeper served at:
Matinicus Rock Light
Whitehead Light (ME)
Burial Place: Forest Lawn,
Spruce Head, Maine, United States Grave Marker placed by: Lighthouse Digest
Placed in 2015
General Notes on Abbie Burgess Grant: In one of Abbie’s final letters written from Whitehead Lighthouse to a friend, she wrote. “I think the time is not far distant when I shall climb these lighthouse stairs no more . . . I wonder if the care of the lighthouse will follow my soul after it has left this worn out body! If I ever have a gravestone, I would like it in the form of a lighthouse or beacon.”
In 1945, a half a century later, Edward Rowe Snow, one of New England’s most notable historians and prolific author and the Flying Santa to the Lighthouse keepers, along with the poet Wilbert Snow, who had coincidently been born on Whitehead Island, placed a memorial lighthouse model at her gravesite.
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