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Grace Jackson Weaver being interviewed at the First Day of Issue Ceremony for the Southeastern Lighthouse Postage Stamps at Tybee Island Lighthouse, Georgia. Grace is the daughter of the last keeper of the U. S. Lighthouse Service to live in the head keeper’s house. She was born at the St. Simons Lighthouse in George where her father was the assistant keeper. They moved to Tybee Island Lighthouse in 1931 when she was five years old. As a child she didn’t think it was anything special living there saying, “It was like having a big night light.” In those days the lighthouse was in the midst of Fort Screven, a U. S. Army base. As she grew up she dated soldiers, but never wanted to marry one as they were from “up North” and she didn’t want to move. Then one day she went on a blind date with a sailor. He came to the door in his dress uniform and that was that. They were married Christmas Day 1945 and their wedding reception was held in the lighthouse keeper’s house. They moved allover for 20 years, then settled in Savannah, GA in 1965. Her sailor husband died 19 years ago.
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