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Boothill Graveyard is a small graveyard of at least 250 interments located in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona. [2] Also known as the "Old City Cemetery", the graveyard was used after 1883 only to bury outlaws and a few others. It had a separate Jewish cemetery, which is nearby. [3] "Boot Hill" refers to the number of men who died with their ...
Tombstone, Arizona's Boothill Graveyard in 2009 Boot Hill , or Boothill , is the generic name of many cemeteries , chiefly in the Western United States . During the 19th and early 20th century it was a common name for the burial grounds for paupers .
Boot Hill Graveyard – The graveyard was established in 1878 as the Tombstone Cemetery and is located at 408 Arizona State Route 80. [33] The graves of Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury and Tom McLaury members of the Cochise County Cowboys who died in the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton, killed in the O.K. Corral shootout, are among those buried in the town's Boothill Graveyard. Of the number of pioneer Boot Hill cemeteries in the Old West, so named because most of those buried in them had "died with their boots on", Boothill in Tombstone is one of the best-known. [25]
Bible spends her days with “tombstone tourists” — fans of cemeteries who travel across the country and world to significant cemeteries to commune with those buried there and bask in the history.
Tombstone. Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone [24] [36] Boothill Cemetery Jewish Section [37] [21] Brunckow's Cabin (Ghost town) [10]: 107 near Tombstone – scene of 1860's–1890's shootouts and where victims were buried; Double C Family Cemetery; Hughes Ranch Cemetery; Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate Cemetery [38] Tombstone City Cemetery [39]
The grave marker for John Heath at the Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, Arizona. Dr. George E. Goodfellow, who had witnessed Heath's hanging, was County Coroner and responsible for determining the cause of death. His conclusion reflected the popular sentiment of the town.
Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone; Citizens Cemetery, Flagstaff (site of mass grave of victims of 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision) City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa; Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe; Glendale Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale; Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery; Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery, Phoenix; Hardyville Pioneer Cemetery ...