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Last 2 from today. Tombstone's Boothill. Original town cemetery, until the new cemetery was built, then became known as the old cemetery. Once the new cemetery was open, some families wanted their loved ones moved from the old. Didn't want them resting near gunfighters, outlaws, prostitutes, etc... so some of the bodies were exhumed and moved. The old cemetery declined, people stole grave markers and by the 1920s was in poor shape. In the late 1920s people from Tombstone and Cochise County began restoration, looked for records of burials, contacted older residents and family members. Site is as correct as it could be made. There are a number of "unknowns", and markers with just a name and date. Some with short descriptions, others with details or colorful (sometimes distasteful) limericks. The late 1920s was also the time it began being called Boothill. There are multiple "Boothill" cemeteries/ graveyards throughout the US.

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