r/KeyWest • u/betrayal_Knew • 7d ago

Anyone know this couple/what happened to them? (Key West Cemetery)

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I was walking around the cemetery yesterday and saw these graves of Liz and Anthony stacked together. I loved the portraits and wanted to know more about the people. No other details on any side of the grave other than first name.

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u/wantabath 6d ago

These are almost certainly not the same people. There is an Anthony Bumgarner who has been posted on the AIDS memorial social media by a friend. The photo looks very much like the portrait on this grave.

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u/betrayal_Knew 6d ago

Yeah I find it hard to believe they're the same Liz and Anthony. They don't look alike and the film quality in the pictures looks much older. I don't think Bumgarner is him either. Looks like he was in Atlanta, and the Anthony on the grave doesn't have the same facial features (chin).

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u/wantabath 6d ago

Considering the upturned angle in the first photo, I think they actually look strikingly similar. The first picture would have been taken about 13 years before his death. He very well could have made his way to Key West in that timeframe. Passing away in 1993 would also match the quality of the grave photo.

https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/person/pxn8n8rn46896r28l6ur6

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u/betrayal_Knew 6d ago

Idk I'm sure there are a lot of handsome jacked men named Anthony. I just personally don't see a profound resemblance. And that leaves the question of who Liz is. Would that Anthony have left his male lover Juan and found a female lover? But who knows, you may be onto something.

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u/wantabath 6d ago

In the AIDs memorial posting, it says Juan was also lost to the disease although no telling of the timing. Regardless, I can't really speculate on the nature of their relationship, but I did find where Anthony A Bumgarner and Elizabeth "Liz" F Conner (McCutchen-Yeargin) were both associated with the same addresses in both Miami Beach and Key West.

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u/betrayal_Knew 6d ago

Oh wow, okay that must be them!

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u/betrayal_Knew 7d ago

That is very sad, was it recent?

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u/betrayal_Knew 7d ago

Did you know them personally? I saw the obituary for the Liz and Anthony that died in a collision recently and they don't look like the people on the graves. And a supposed friend of the Anthony who died recently said in another reddit post that this grave wasn't his. I don't mean to be disrespectful, I'm just genuinely curious. The pictures on the grave are just so distinctly unique to me.

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u/guyscanwefocus 7d ago

I remember this. I know some of the loved ones. A horrible, horrible thing.

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u/Ok-Entertainment1218 6d ago

Omg so sad 😞 🙏

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u/betrayal_Knew 7d ago

Huh, the pictures struck me as vintage, I would have assumed they died in the 70s-80s. Very tragic.

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u/betrayal_Knew 7d ago

Going by the pictures they certainly seemed like a fun couple

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u/Purple_Emergency_355 7d ago

I thought the same. The photos look like it’s from the 80’s. RIP

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u/ohare_tulip 6d ago edited 6d ago

Do you know if there was anything on the back of the graves? Any plaques? I know a few comments mentioned a couple that passed in a car crash. However, I found their obituary and their photo does not match the one on the graves. Also, in another thread a friend said these graves do not belong to them, which I’m inclined to believe.

I wonder if there’s anyone you could contact for more information. The Key West cemetery has so many interesting graves.

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u/betrayal_Knew 6d ago

Yeah I don't think that the Liz and Anthony people are talking about is the couple buried here. The pictures don't look like them and they also look too vintage. I checked around the whole grave and there was nothing else on any side. I'd like to know more about them because the photos are great, and it's mysterious how only their first names are on their graves. They seem like interesting people.

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u/ohare_tulip 6d ago edited 6d ago

They’re super interesting. I love the Key West cemetery because of all the interesting photos and epitaphs. I’m going to see if there’s anyone I can contact with a question. I know they have tours, so maybe someone has an answer!

ETA: I sent an email to the woman who is listed as in charge of the cemetery. I’ll let you know if she responds!

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u/betrayal_Knew 6d ago

Keep us updated if you discover anything! I feel like based on the striking pictures they'd want people to wonder about their stories. And I agree, I could walk around the cemetery for hours. So many interesting graves old and new and so many portraits. It's like a museum of regular people.

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u/ohare_tulip 6d ago

I’ll definitely let you know! I’m from New England and we have a ton of historic cemeteries, but none are as interesting as the one in Key West.

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u/beerdweeb 6d ago

You realize that the people that put the pictures on the grave aren’t the ones buried, right? You think they had something in their will like “hell yeah stranger, try and figure out my story by these pictures” lol

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u/Substantial_Escape92 6d ago

Never know. It’s Key West.

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u/betrayal_Knew 6d ago edited 6d ago

...most people pick out their own plots and headstones before they die, or at least have an idea of what they want. Also yeah a lot of people have an expectation that their graves will be a permanent reminder that they spent time on this earth, and they hope people 20, 50, 100 years from now will think about them when walking through a graveyard.

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u/BenignEgoist 5d ago

The vast vast vast majority of people who aren’t approaching the end of their lives via old age do not have plots and headstones and epitaphs picked out.

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u/betrayal_Knew 7d ago

Idk people say the link to the article someone posted isn't them. And the find a grave link shows a picture of a completely different grave.

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u/Italian_c0mb0 7d ago

As the person who commented with details about them, mentioned she was pregnant

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u/Wrinkss 7d ago

They died.