Buena Vista Cemetery, Port Gamble - 2

This is a well cared-for cemetery with lots of green grass, explanatory signs, and well-maintained stones.

We speculated that the so many people buried here are born elsewhere because they were sailors who decided to leave the ship here, but perhaps it because 150 years ago this was a new place to build a home and it drew many seeking room to grow.

 I find it interesting to see how it is that many markers give the age of the deceased right down to the day.

Dying at 17 suggests that she may have died in childbirth.

This is the fellow you read about on the sign yesterday - the first US Navy victim of combat in the Pacific.

Another young woman died early in this rough and tumble place.