From the March 2, 2013, Guld Live.com.
There will be a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, March 8th, honoring two sailors recovered from the turret of the USS Monitor.
Andy Bryan of Holden, Maine, will be on hand with his daughter. DNA testing shows that there is a 50% likelihood that one of the Monitor's crewmen, William Bryan, is his great-great-great uncle.
Jane Rambo of Fresno, California, also will be on hand. Her mother, Jane Nicklis Rowland found out about th ceremony just one week before she died in December at age 90. Crewman Jacob Nicklis was her great uncle.
Most likely, these two will be the last Civil War Navy members to be buried at Arlington.
The ceremony is scheduled for the 151st anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads, where the USS Monitor battled the CSS Virginia on March 8, 1862.
One hundred people are expected to attend.
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