>> Click to enlarge << Descendants of lighthouse keeper Nelson Stanley ...

On a single day, this past April 13th, the Chesapeake Chapter of the U.S. Lighthouse Society placed U.S. Lighthouse Service Memorial Markers at the gravesites of six lighthouse keepers who are buried in four different cemeteries.

>> Click to enlarge << Descendants of lighthouse keeper Frank Raymond ...

>> Click to enlarge << Descendants of lighthouse keeper Levi D. Marchant ...

>> Click to enlarge << Descendants of lighthouse keeper Wesley Foster ...

>> Click to enlarge << The Thimble Shoal Lighthouse where Wesley Foster ...

>> Click to enlarge << Descendants of lighthouse keeper Isaac Foster at ...

>> Click to enlarge << The 1870 York Spit Lighthouse, at the approach to ...

>> Click to enlarge << In 1941 Nelson S. Atherton was appointed the ...

>> Click to enlarge << The New Point Comfort Lighthouse at the entrance ...

The lighthouse keepers honored and the lighthouse locations where they served:

Nelson Stanley Atherton

(March 30, 1903 – October 16, 1981)

Drum Point, Maryland 1937-1938

Ragged Point, Maryland 1938-1939

Wolf Trap, Virginia 1939-1941

Smith Point, Virginia 1941-1943 & 1946-1965

Frank Raymond Lewis

(November 23, 1894 – December 11, 1959)

Cedar Point, Maryland 1922

Great Wicomico River, Virginia 1922-1923

Ragged Point, Maryland 1932-1933

Stingray Point, Virginia 1933-1934

Pages Rock, Virginia 1939-1940

York Spit, Virginia 1940-1945

Stingray Point, Virginia 1945-1948

William James Diggs

(January 5, 1882 – January 13, 1978)

Wolf Trap, Virginia 1916-1917

York Spit, Virginia 1917-1922

Old Plantation Flats, Virginia 1922-1924

York Spit, Virginia 1924-1943

Levi D. Marchant

(April 1, 1856 – April 17, 1943)

Wolf Trap, Virginia 1892-1883

Watts Island, Virginia 1883-1889

Stingray Point, Virginia 1889-1921

Wesley Foster Ripley

(June 18, 1835 – January 2, 1916)

Wolf Trap Lighthouse 1881

New Point Comfort, Virginia 1881-1886

Stingray Point, Virginia 1886-1888

Thimble Shoals, Virginia 1888-1904

Newport News Middle Ground, VA 1904-1906

New Point Comfort, Virginia 1906-1916

Isaac Foster

(1789 – September 26, 1854)

New Point Comfort, Virginia 1846-1854

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