Great Grandparents
1881 – 1954
Shipwright
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Josiah crossed the Atlantic at twenty-one with a chest of tools and no address. He built shrimp boats on the Georgia coast for half a century, and every hull he laid carried his initials burned into the keel.
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“Every hull he laid carried J.W. burned into the keel, where only the water would see it.”
Samuel Whitfield· 12 September 1954
“A shrimper in Darien showed me the mark on a boat still working in 1998.”
Marisol Reyes· 19 July 2011
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