More Tombstone...........

Caching takes us to some interesting places. Old Ed Schieffelin kicked around for over 20 years prospecting and finally his travels brought him here. People told him all he would find would be his tombstone. Instead he found silver which lead to the founding of the city of Tombstone. Outside of Tombstone this 25 foot tall monument was erected in his honor. Driving by the Tombstone Graveyard and found this interesting "headstone" so had to stop and take a picture. The story goes that a bad guy wasn't hung with his buddies and the local citizens thought that he should have been. They broke him out of jail and hung him from a post. The plaque marks the spot of the hanging and the stump of the post still remain. The coroner reported the cause of his death to be "lack of oxygen". The story goes that it took 25 minutes of "hanging" before he finally expired. Guess the citizens were plenty pissed off.

No visit to Tombstone is complete without a visit to "Boot Hill". Some interesting markers............the one on George Johnson's grave is partially cut off in this photo.........it ended with: "But We Strung Him Up and Now He's Gone". The Clantons and McLaurys are buried here with a marker proclaiming that they were "murdered"..........by Holiday and the Earps. Some interesting history here; but, actually I feel that it's hard to separate myth and legends from the actual truth. Anyway, it's good fodder for the movie makers.

That's it. W&B