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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 ...
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 . Origin of term
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]
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 ...
But tribal members plan to ask for $7,000 in Community Preservation Act money at the fall town meeting to conduct ground-penetrating radar to learn more about who or what is buried at Burying Hill.
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The Boothill Cemetery (also known as Coulson Cemetery) is a historic cemetery in Billings, Montana. It was the burial ground for the ghost town of Coulson . It was acquired by the city of Billings in the 1920s, and a steel entrance sign was installed in 1970.