Guests aboard the Old Town Trolley and Conch Tour Train love going by the Key West Cemetery. We’re not sure if its because the graves are above ground, or because it sits in the dead center of the island or because of the wonderful stories about the people who are buried in it. There are the graves of the sailors from the battleship USS Maine, that was stationed in Key West before it blew up in Havana Harbor in 1898 sparking the Spanish American War. There is the Otto Family plot that includes their pet Key deer. And probably the most famous, is the tombstone of Bertha Pearl Roberts whose tombstone sums it up best, “I told you I was sick.”
Whether on tour with us or just wandering around the 19 acres at the foot of Solares Hill, the Key West Cemetery is one that you won’t soon forget
