Aloy Robichaw, father of Cecil Robichaw I, served as a cabin cook on the USS Olympia from 1915 to 1918. This vessel was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. Today, Olympia is a museum at the Independence Seaport Museum, at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia. She is the sole floating survivor of the US Navy's Spanish-American War fleet. Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Midshipmen from Villanova University and the University of Pennsylvania regularly work on Olympia, functioning as maintenance crew.
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Aloy Robichaw
Birth: Dec. 8, 1880
Death: Mar. 3, 1918
Cabin cook, USN
Enlisted:, New York, NY, 6-15-1915
Died: Naval Hospital, NY 3-3-1918
Cause: Abscess of liver
Next of Kin: Maud Robichaw, 194 Johnson St., Brooklyn, NY
Inscription:
USN
Burial:
Fisher Cemetery
Portsmouth
Portsmouth City
Virginia, USA
Created by: Christina Carlton
Record added: Jul 12, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 28229312
Fishers Cemetery, where Aloy Robichaw is buried, is the right front portion of the Mt. Calvary Cemetery Complex. Aloy's headstone is tall and grey, leaning forward a bit, in front of a tree. Fisher's cemetery is one of the historic cemeteries in Portsmouth that could soon be revitalized into tourist attractions under a new city plan.
http://sacredgroundsacredhistory.wordpress.com
http://www.blackcemeteriesportsmouthva.org/
http://www.13newsnow.com/story/local/2014/11/05/14866350/
