Sailor Finds War of 1812 Ancestor's Grave

From the April 9th Navy Times by Jacqueline Klimas.

Lt.j.g. Lloyd Mustin is the eighth generation of his family to serve in the Navy (quite impressive in itself) and is on the USS Stout.  His fifth great-grandfather, Arthur Sinclair, was a commodore in the Great Lakes region in 1812.

Sinclair joined the Navy at age 12 and served during the Quasi-War with France on the frigate USS Constellation during its famous fight with the French frigate L'Insurgente which ended with the first American capture of a foreign vessel.

Mustin did a web search for his ancestor's grave and found it at Cedar Grove Cemetery, just a ten-minute walk away for him.  The cemetery contains many early 19th-century gravestones, many barely legible all these years later.  He found it, though.

because of his family's commitment to the Navy, a destroyer, the USS Mustin was named for Captain Henry Mustin who flew the first aircraft to be catapulted off a ship in 1914.  Henry Mustin also designed the naval aviator insignia.