Here's a look at 34 famous Arizona gravestones
There are more than a few famous — and infamous — people buried in Southern Arizona. Here are some.
We will surely have missed some — including Sheriff Bob Paul and Frank Stilwell — but this is a start.
Gravestones
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Holy Hope Cemetery
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The gravesite of Joseph Bonanno at Holy Hope Cemetery, 3535 N. Oracle Road. Joseph Charles Bonanno Sr. (1905-2002) was the boss of the Bonanno crime family. Wednesday October 28, 2015. Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star
Holy Hope Cemetery
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The gravesite of John James Mitchell at Holy Hope Cemetery, 3535 N. Oracle Road. Mitchell (1846-1898) served in the Indian Campaigns and was a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Wednesday October 28, 2015. Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star
Holy Hope Cemetery
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The gravesite of John H. Behan at Holy Hope Cemetery, 3535 N. Oracle Road. Behan (1845-1912) was sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona Territory, during the famous gunfight in Tombstone. He sided with the Clantons but was not actively involved in the feud. Wednesday October 28, 2015. Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star
Louis C. Hughes
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The gravesite of Louis C. Hughes at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. L.C. Hughes (1842-1915) was a newspaper editor (of the Arizona Daily Star), lawyer, union organizer, politician and the 11th governor of the Arizona Territory. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Louis Criger
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The gravesite of Louis Criger at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Lou Criger (1872-1934) was a Major League Baseball player who played for the Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Americans/Red Sox, St. Louis Browns and New York Highlanders.
Eddie Peabody
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The gravesite of Eddie Peabody at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Edwin Ellsworth Peabody (1902-1970) was a banjo player, considered the most famous plectrum banjoist of his era. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Arthur Olaf Andersen
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The gravesite of Arthur Olaf Andersen at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Arthur Olaf Andersen (1880-1958) was a songwriter, music educator and administrator and music theorist who composed 150 choruses and songs. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
John Byrd "Button" Salmon
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The above-ground marker at the gravesite of John Byrd "Button" Salmon at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Button Salmon (d. 1926) was a football player and president of the student body of the University of Arizona. His last message from the hospital to his teammates to "Bear down" became the slogan for the Wildcats. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
John Byrd "Button" Salmon
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The gravesite of John Byrd "Button" Salmon at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Button Salmon (d. 1926) was a football player and president of the student body of the University of Arizona. His last message from the hospital to his teammates to "Bear down" became the slogan for the Wildcats. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Andrew Ellicott Douglass
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The gravesite of Andrew Ellicott Douglass at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Andrew Ellicott Douglass (1867-1962) was an astronomer and archaeologist who founded the discipline of dendrochronology. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Sam Hughes
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The gravesite of Sam Hughes at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Sam Hughes (1829-1917) was a leading citizen and businessman in Tucson. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Thomas Jonathan Jeffords
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The gravesite of Thomas J. Jeffords at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Thomas Jonathan Jeffords (1832-1914) was a frontiersman, scout and Indian agent. His friendship with Apache leader Cochise was considered instrumental in ending the Indian wars. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Larcena Ann Pennington Page
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The gravesite of Larcena Ann Pennington Page at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Larcena Page (1837-1913) was kidnapped, wounded and left for dead by Apaches. She crawled to safety over the next 16 days. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
William Milton "Billy" Breckenridge
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The gravesite of William Milton Breckenridge at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Billy Breckenridge (1846-1931) was a lawman, teamster, railroader, soldier and author. He was Assistant Tombstone deputy sheriff when the "Gunfight at the OK Corral" occurred. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Dan Edward Garvey
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The gravesite of Dan E. Garvey at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Dan Edward Garvey (1886-1974) was Arizona's ninth secretary of state and eighth governor. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Charles Alexander Shibell
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The gravesite of Charles A. Shibell at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Charles Alexander Shibell (1841-1908) was a teamster, miner, hotel owner and a Pima County Sheriff, who was also a friend to Wyatt Earp. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Walter J. Kellner
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The gravesite of Walter J. Kellner at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Walter J. Kellner (1929-2006) was a Major League Baseball player. He was a relief pitcher, and professional for eight years and played three games in the majors for the Philadelphia Athletics. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Henry E. "Hank" Leiber
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The mausoleum marker of Henry E. "Hank" Leiber at East Lawn Palms Mortuary, 5801 E. Grant Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Hank Leiber (1911-1993) was a Major League Baseball player, playing outfield for the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
William H. "Bill" Freyse
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The gravesite of William H. Freyse at East Lawn Palms Mortuary, 5801 E. Grant Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Bill Freyse (1898-1969) was a cartoonist noted for three decades of work on "Our Boarding House." Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Mitzi Mayfair
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The gravesite of Mitzi Mayfair at East Lawn Palms Mortuary, 5801 E. Grant Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Mitzi Mayfair (1914-1976) was born Juanita Emylyn Pique. She was a Broadway tap dancer and actress. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Fred Enke
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The gravesite of Fred Enke at Evergreen Cemetery, 3015 N. Oracle Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Fred Enke (1897-1985) was a football and basketball player. He was the basketball coach at the University of Arizona from 1925 to 1961, and spent one season (1931) as the head football coach at the UA. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
James Randolph "Jimmy" Dudley
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The gravesite of James Randolph Dudley at East Lawn Palms Mortuary, 5801 E. Grant Road, in Tucson, Ariz. Jimmy Dudley (1909-1999) was the play-by-play voice of the Cleveland Indians for almost two decades. Photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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Frank and Tom McLaury were killed — along with Billy Clanton — in the infamous "Gunfight at the OK Corral," which actually occurred in a alley off of Fremont Street. Some people say they were murdered by the Earps and Doc Holliday, but Holliday and the Earps were cleared of wrongdoing.
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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Dan Dowd, Red Sample, Tex Howard, Bill Delaney and Dan Kelley were legally hanged March 8, 1884. They were found guilty of killing several people during the robbery of a store in Bisbee.
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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M. R. Peel was a mining engineer who was shot one night in 1882 in his office as he worked late.
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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Lester Moore was a Wells Fargo agent who had a dispute with a man over a package. Both men died.
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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Johnny Blair died of smallpox. He was a member of the Double Dobe outlaw gang. When he died, his friends decided to avoid touching the body and tied a rope around his feet and dragged him to his grave.
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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John Heath, also spelled Heith, was lynched by a Bisbee mob in Tombstone. Accused of being a known accessory in the Bisbee Massacre, the Coroner’s report said, “We the undersigned, a jury of inquest, find that John Heith came to his death from emphysema of the lungs—a disease common in high altitudes—which might have been caused by strangulation, self-inflicted or otherwise.”
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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Jack Dunlap was one of a band of train robbers who was shot during an attempted robbery by guard Jeff Milton. Friends left him behind to die but he lived long enough to inform on them.
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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George Johnson was hanged by mistake in 1882. One story says he innocently bought a stolen horse. Another says he was hanged for shooting a man during an attempted stage robbery. The man wasn’t shot but died of a heart attack.
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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Marshall Fred White was accidentally shot as he started to take Curly Bill’s gun from him in 1880.
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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Mrs. Ah Lum, or "China Mary," was well-known for her generosity to those down on their luck. She died in 1906.
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona.
Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
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Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury were killed — along with Tom McLaury — in the infamous "Gunfight at the OK Corral," which actually occurred in a alley off of Fremont Street. Some people say they were murdered by the Earps and Doc Holliday, but Holliday and the Earps were cleared of wrongdoing.
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