Burgess later married a lighthouse keeper, and spent fifteen years as the keeper at the nearby Whitehead Light. After her death in 1892, a memorial in the form of an aluminum scale replica lighthouse was placed over her grave in Spruce Head Cemetery.
Burgess is the subject of the children's books, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter Roop, Connie Roop and Peter E. Hanson and Abbie Against the Storm written by Marcia Vaughan and illustrated by Bill Farnsworth. She is the subject of the folk song "Lighthouse Keeper" by Neptune's Car. There is a United States Coast Guard USCG coastal buoy tender (WLM 553) based in Rockland, Maine named for her as well.
Burgess later married a lighthouse keeper, and spent fifteen years as the keeper at the nearby Whitehead Light. After her death in 1892, a memorial in the form of an aluminum scale replica lighthouse was placed over her grave in Spruce Head Cemetery.
Burgess is the subject of the children's books, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter Roop, Connie Roop and Peter E. Hanson and Abbie Against the Storm written by Marcia Vaughan and illustrated by Bill Farnsworth. She is the subject of the folk song "Lighthouse Keeper" by Neptune's Car. There is a United States Coast Guard USCG coastal buoy tender (WLM 553) based in Rockland, Maine named for her as well.
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