Wednesday, August 6, 2008

First post

In order to preserve all the work I did for my grave locations page on my website, www.oldwestlibrary.com (just in case it should go away), I'm transferring all the grave data here for posterity. Feel free to email me with new graves, corrections on old graves, or comments in general.

Last names beginning with A

E.C. 'Teddy Blue' Abbott; currently unknown
Haj Ali {Hi Jolly}; died in Quartzsite, Arizona, 16 December 1903; currently unknown
William 'Bloody Bill' Anderson; currently unknown
John Armstrong; died in 1913; currently unknown
Stephen F. Austin; died in November, 1836; buried in the Texas State Cemetery, Austin
Orvon Gene Autry; died in Los Angeles, October 2, 1998; currently unknown

Last names beginning with B

Elfego Baca; died in Albuquerque in 1945; currently unknown
Jim Baker; died in Wyoming in 1898; currently unknown
Barboncito {Navajo}; currently unknown
Captain Albert Barnitz, Seventh Cavalry; buried in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia {courtesy Charles Barnitz}
Sam Bass; buried in Williamson County, Texas {courtesy Shan}
Charlie Bassett; currently unknown
Judge Roy Bean; died in Del Rio, Texas, March 16, 1903; buried there.
Bull Bear {Cheyenne}; chief of the dog soldiers; currently unknown
Sitting Bear {Kiowa}; killed by soldiers in 1871; currently unknown
Jim Beckwourth, scout; currently unknown
Albert Bierstadt, painter; currently unknown
William H. 'Billy the Kid' Bonney; shot by Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 14 July 1881; buried at Fort Sumner, New Mexico {courtesy Bob Warren, visitor center director, Fort Reno, Oklahoma}
Daniel Boone; died in Missouri, September 26, 1820; 'buried' in Frankfort, Kentucky or Defiance, Missouri, depending. {courtesy John Aldrich, Cecil Sowers, and Outlaw Slim}
Charlie Bowdre; shot at Stinking Springs, New Mexico, 23 December 1880 by Pat Garrett ; currently unknown
James 'Jim' Bowie; died at the Alamo, 6 March 1836; cremated nearby.
Jim Bridger; currently unknown
William 'Curly Bill' Brocius; shot by Wyatt Earp; currently unknown
Sitting Bull {Hunkpapa Lakota}; killed by Red Tomahawk, 15 December 1890; currently unknown
Sitting Bull {Ogallala Lakota}; died 15 December 1890; currently unknown
Tall Bull {Cheyenne}; dog soldier; died 11 July 1869; currently unknown
'Ned Buntline', aka Edward Z.C. Judson; died 16 July 1886 in New York City; currently unknown
Martha Jane Cannary Burk, see Calamity Jane

Last names beginning with C

Calamity Jane; died in Terry, South Daktota, 1 August 1903; buried alongside her reputed (if doubtful) lover Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood.
White Calf {Piegan}; died 29 January 1903; currently unknown
California Joe; see Moses Milner
Woodrow F. Call; currently unknown
Martha Jane Cannary, see Calamity Jane
Frank Canton; in 1927; currently unknown
Christopher 'Kit' Carson; killed at Fort Lyon, Colorado; currently unknown
Butch Cassidy; currently unknown
Scarface Charley {Modoc}; died 3 December 1896; currently unknown
Jesse Chisholm; currently unknown
Ike Clanton; currently unknown
William 'Billy' Clanton; shot at the O.K. Corral, 26 October 1881; buried in Tombstone, Arizona.
Samuel Clemens, known as Mark Twain; buried in Elmira, New York. {courtesy Bruce Brackney}
Chatto {Apache}; currently unknown
Chihuahua {Apache}; died 25 July 1901; currently unknown
William Clark; currently unknown
Samuel 'Mark Twain' Clemens; currently unknown
Red Cloud {Ogallala Lakota}; died 10 December 1909; currently unknown
Cochise {Chiricahua Apache}; died 8 June 1874; currently unknown
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody; died in 1917, buried alongside his wife Louisa, at the Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum & Grave, 987 1/2 Look Out Mountain Road, Golden, Colorado. {Call for information: (303) 526-0747}
Mangas Colorado {Mimbreno Apache}; killed near Fort McLean, New Mexico, 17 January 1863; currently unknown
Samuel Colt; died 10 January 1862, in Hartford, Connecticut; currently unknown
William Averill 'Buffalo Bill' Comstock; lost a challenge match with Bill Cody over the sobriquet "Buffalo Bill", 69 bison to 49, in 1868. "Bill Comstock could take Buffalo Bill out at night and lose him. Cody was a good man, but Comstock...and I am not alone in this...was a better man"; quote by Charles Chase, an Indian fighter who knew both men. Killed, purportedly by Abner T. 'Sharp' Grover but perhaps by Cheyennes, on 27 August 1868 in Kansas; buried in the Fort Wallace (Kansas) cemetery, "third grave south of the northeast corner". {courtesy Kimberly Elliott}
Gregorio Cortez; died in Anson, Texas in 1916; currently unknown
Plenty Coups {Mountain Crow}; died 3 May 1932; currently unknown
Texas Jack Crawford; currently unknown
David 'Davy' Crockett; died at the Alamo, 6 March 1836; cremated nearby.
General George Crook; currently unknown
George 'Flatnose' Curry; shot by a posse at Castle Gate, Utah, in 1900; currently unknown
Major General George A. Custer; killed at the Little Bighorn, Montana, 25 June 1876; buried in West Point Cemetery, West Point, New York

Last names beginning with D

Bill Dalton; currently unknown
Bob Dalton; shot in Coffeyville, Kansas, 5 October 1892; buried in Coffeyville, Kansas {courtesy Bob Warren, visitor center director, Fort Reno, Oklahoma}
Emmett Dalton; in 1937; currently unknown
Frank Dalton; buried in Coffeyville, Kansas {courtesy Bob Warren, visitor center director, Fort Reno, Oklahoma}
Grat Dalton; shot in Coffeyville, Kansas, 5 October 1892; buried in Coffeyville, Kansas {courtesy Bob Warren, visitor center director, Fort Reno, Oklahoma}
Lewis Dalton; currently unknown
Littleton Dalton; currently unknown
Delshay {Apache}; died 29 July 1874; currently unknown
Henry Deringer; currently unknown
Diablo {Cibecue Apache}; died 30 August 1880; currently unknown
William 'Billy' Dixon, survivor of Adobe Walls and the Buffalo Wallow fights; Medal of Honor recipient; died of pneumonia, 9 March 1913; buried in Texline, Oklahoma; reinterred at Adobe Walls, Kansas
Grenville Dodge; currently unknown
Bill Doolin; killed in Lawton, Oklahoma, 25 August 1896; currently unknown

Last names beginning with E

White Eagle {Gros Ventre}; died 9 February 1881; currently unknown
Black Elk; died 1950; currently unknown
James Earp; buried in the East Side Cemetery in Sacramento, California {courtesy Ferguson}
Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp; died in Los Angeles in 1944; buried beside her husband.
Morgan Earp; shot in the back in Bob Hatch's Saloon, Tombstone, Arizona, 18 March 1882; buried at his parent's home in Colton, California.
Virgil Earp; died in Goldfield, Nevada, 19 October 1905, buried in River View Cemetery, 8421 SW Macadam Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97219. {Call for information: (503) 246-4251}
Warren Earp; killed in a saloon in Willcox, Arizona, 7 July 1900; currently unknown.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp; died of natural causes in Los Angeles, 13 January 1929, later reburied alongside his third wife, Sarah, in the Hills of Eternity {Jewish} cemetery in Colma, California. Photo
Charles Eastman; a Lakota {named Ohiyesa}born on the Santee Reservation in 1858; a month after graduating from medical school at Boston University, he treated the survivors of the Wounded Knee massacre at the Pine Ridge Reservation; died in Detroit, 9 January 1939; currently unknown

Last names beginning with F

Two Face {Ogallala Lakota}; hanged at Fort Laramie, May 1865; currently unknown
Henry 'Rico' Fardan; presumed dead, somewhere in Northern Mexico; currently unknown
John King Fisher; shot 11 March 1884 in San Antonio, Texas; currently unknown
Big Foot {Minniconjou Lakota chief}; killed at Wounded Knee, Dakotas, 29 December 1890; currently unknown
Black Foot (Ogallala Lakota); hanged at Fort Laramie, May, 1865; currently unknown
Bob Ford; killed in Creede, Colorado, 8 June 1892; currently unknown
Eddie Foy; currently unknown
Mickey Free; currently unknown