'He is important to me because I never got to know him. He died in 1928, killed by lightning on Nantucket. He was a laborer on whaling ships. He only had one child, a daughter, who is my mother, Alice. He is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Southeast Corner, Nantucket. Pictured: Boaventura Lopes. Location: Water Street.'
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