[1] A few years after she began waving at passing sailors, she moved in with her brother, a light keeper, at his small white cottage about five miles upriver from Fort Pulaski.

From her rustic home on Elba Island, a tiny piece of land in the Savannah River near the Atlantic Ocean, Martus waved a handkerchief by day and a lantern by night.

A statue of Martus by the sculptor Felix de Weldon was erected in Morrell Park on Savannah's historic riverfront in 1972.

After a service at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, she was buried in a family plot at Laurel Grove North Cemetery.

[5] The Waving Girl historical marker was officially dedicated in 1958 and is located near the visitor center at Fort Pulaski.