Known Only to God
Grave of the Unknown Sailor, Seaside, Oregon
Horizontal image: white stone with "KNOWN ONLY TO GOD" in black lettering. In front of the stone is a field of white flowers with yellow center (daisies). Some of the daisies still have their petals, but some do not. Photo perspective is slight off to the side, so the lettering runs slightly diagonally across the frame.
There are actually 3 sailors buried here. Their bodies washed up on the beach in April 25, 1865. They had come ashore for fresh water, found it, but didn't give full names. They headed back out to their ship. No one on shore knows what happened next, but the next morning the waves deposited their corpses upon the shore, and a townsperson buried them.
Known Only to God
Grave of the Unknown Sailor, Seaside, Oregon
There are actually 3 sailors buried underneath this gravestone. Their bodies washed up on the beach in April 25, 1865, and were buried here by a local.
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