Tombstone Boothill Graveyard
If you are visiting Boot Hill, you can follow along throughout the graveyard using this website and learn about many of the "permanent" residents here at Boot Hill. Is Anyone Really Buried In Boothill Cemetery? Thank you for making us a stop on your historical adventure in …
History of Boothill Graveyard – Tombstone Boothill Graveyard
Sometime around 1929 and the towns first Helldorado Days, people started calling the "Old Cemetery" Boot Hill Graveyard. Its occupants ran the spectrum of all the cultures and nationalities of early Tombstone.
Tombstone History – Tombstone Boothill Graveyard
Founded in 1879, Boothill Graveyard was used until the new cemetery – New Tombstone City Cemetery – opened in 1884. After the new cemetery opened and began being used, Boothill Graveyard was called “The Old Cemetery.”
Boothill Graveyard - Tombstone Chamber of Commerce
Boot Hill was founded in 1878 on a slight hill just north west of the city. This historical cemetery was the burial ground, for all of Tombstones earliest pioneers. The name Boot Hill comes from the fact that many of these graves were filled with people that …
Tour The Graveyard – Tombstone Boothill Graveyard
Tour The Graveyard Learn about some of those who found the Boothill Graveyard to be their final resting place. This is a "Work in Progress" and names/photos will be added over time.
Lester Moore – Tombstone Boothill Graveyard - Tombstone …
Back to the Graveyard. Tour The Graveyard; Lester Moore worked at a Wells Fargo office in Naco, Arizona, along the Mexican border. Hank Dunston arrived one day to claim a package. The package was damaged and Dunstan disapproved, letting the lead fly at Lester. Les took four shots to the chest but managed his own special delivery to Dunston as ...
Billy Kinsman – Tombstone Boothill Graveyard - Tombstone …
Billy was buried at Boot Hill Graveyard, Cemetery, Tombstone, Pima County (now Chochise County)Arizona in February 1883. In 1885 Billy's family from California re-interred him to Greenlawn Memorial Park, Colima, San Mateo, California.
John Heath – Tombstone Boothill Graveyard
A Posse went after them but it was found out that a local Saloon keeper named John Heath was an accomplince to the crime as he tried to send the posse on a false trail. All 5 plus Heath were captured and sent to the county jail in Tombstone AZ for trial.
John Hicks – Tombstone Boothill Graveyard
The shirt was put on John Hicks and he was buried in the recently dedicated Tombstone Cemetery as its first permanent resident – July 10, 1879. That cemetery is known today as the infamous Boothill Graveyard.
George Johnson – Tombstone Boothill Graveyard - Tombstone …
It wasn’t until after his death that it was determined he had told the truth. The grave marker on the left was photographed over sixty five years ago. The grave marker on the right is the current. The epitaphs on both markers serve as an exoneration of Johnson. He is buried in the Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona.