The Tombstone Cemetery plot was set aside in 1878 and was where
the town’s first settlers were buried until approximately 1884
when a new burial plot was located further away from town. The
old cemetery location was naturally called the “old cemetery”,
where it lay unattended for years. Nature slowly reclaimed the
land through neglect, but in the late 1920′s, through the
diligence of Tombstone Citizens, the cemetery was restored and
the grounds have been kept ever since. Though, the possibility
remains that there might still be unmarked graves which have
long since been reclaimed by the desert brush…Boothill remains a
symbol of the old mining towns of the early 1880′s, many of
which, dotted around the southwest United States, are now ghost
towns. It is probably the most well kept graveyard from that
period of westward expansionism and the site also has great
historical value as well– much of early Tombstone’s good and bad
lies buried on the side of this hill. A visit to Tombstone,
Arizona’s “Boothill” cemeter