 Abbie Burgess died in Portland, Maine in 1892.Maritime historian Edward Rowe Snow located her grave in Forest Hills Cemetery in South Thomaston, Maine and in 1945 arranged for a memorial in the form of an aluminum scale replica lighthouse to be placed over her grave.Burgess is the subject of several books, including the children's books "Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie" by Peter Roop, Connie Roop, and Peter E. Hanson, which was featured in an episode of the children's television program "Reading Rainbow", and "Abbie Against the Storm" by Marcia Vaughan and illustrated by Bill Farnsworth.