Third Visit to Tombstone

After completing various tasks, after lunch we decided to make the short drive to Tombstone once again and visit Boot Hill, a must see when in the area. To view Boot Hill you walk through a building which is a small gift shop with some historic information, there is no fee charged but they do have a donation barrel set up which we contributed to of course, we were given a booklet with information on the most of the graves in Boot Hill, there are many unknown graves in Boothill, some people were found in mine shafts and no one knew who they were at the time, some got themselves shot before anyone in town knew who they were, etc. There are more than 250 graves in Boothill,
The graveyard was originally named “The Tombstone Cemetery” in 1878 and was the burial place for the town’s first pioneers. The cemetery was used until around 1884 when the present plot was opened as a burial place. For years, after the new cemetery was opened Boothill was referred to as the “old cemetery” and was neglected for many years. There has been much work done to restore the graveyard since 1923, some grave markers were even stolen by souvenir hunters! If you wish to read more details and see the names with any history that was available on the person here is a link:
http://www.interment.net/data/us/az/cochise/boothill/boothill.htm

The entrance to Boothill, the group arrived the same time we did and asked Woody to take a pic of them, then he snapped this pic with me standing to the left of the group.

There are some very interesting grave markers, a good example is this one to the right. If you cannot read it, it says:

Here lies Les Moore, four slugs from a 44,

No Less,

No More

Here lies George Johnson, hanged by mistake 1882,

He was right, we was wrong,

But we strung him up and

Now he is gone.

The five men listed on this marker were hanged for killing several people during a robbery of a store in Bisbee and were hung at the Court House gallows in Tombstone.

The lady buried here died due to an overdose of chloroform by a Doctor during childbirth.

The most famous grave site, Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, killed in the O.K. Corral gunfight with the Earps and Doc Holliday.

This fellow was believed to be the leader of the gang that robbed the store in Bisbee. He was hanged from a telegraph pole a short distance west of the Court House.

There are many buried at Boothill who died of various diseases, accidents, natural causes and those who were killed by Indians, adults, children and babies.

Emmett Nunnelley who spent the last year of his life seeking to restore this cemetary was buried here in 1946 at his request.

After visitng Boothill, we wandered around Tombstone looking at some interesting old residences that are still lived in today. There are signs stating who lived there in the 1800's and signs stating it is a private residence so we did not take any pictures.

We arrived home after dark, took puppies for a walk then settled into our usual evening routine, which now includes watching some TV, cable is included in our rent and there are two classic movie channels which we are enjoying, most of the movies we like are OLD ones, LOL! Ah life here is just sooooooooooooo good!