Relative of young Brit killed in U.S. service buried on Mare Island, hopes maintenance efforts succeed

Joshua Heap of England was just 18 in 1889, when he was killed while serving in the United States Navy, and buried on Mare Island.

Family member Helen Payne stumbled upon his story while researching her genealogy and contacted the Times-Herald with it after reading about the efforts of Capt.

Relative of young Brit killed in U.S. service buried on Mare Island, hopes maintenance efforts succeed