Their last resting place (Old West)

First post

2008-08-06T17:25:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-06T17:24:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-06T17:23:00.001-07:00

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

2008-08-06T17:23:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-06T17:22:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-06T17:21:00.001-07:00

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

2008-08-06T17:21:00.000-07:00

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

Last names beginning with G

2008-08-06T17:19:00.001-07:00

Gall {Hunkpapa Lakota}; died 5 December 1894; currently unknown
"The Three Guardsmen"; see Chris Madsen, Heck Thomas, and Bill Tilghman
Pat Garrett; shot by Wayne Brazel near Las Cruces, New Mexico, on 29 February 1908; currently unknown
Geronimo {Chiricahua Apache}; died 17 February 1909; buried in Apache Cemetery, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. (Reports are that his skull was stolen in 1917, perhaps by Prescott Bush and others, and now resides in the Skull & Bones 'tomb' at Yale University)
Crawford 'Cherokee Bill' Goldsby; hanged in Fort Smith, Arkansas, by order of Judge Issac Parker in 1896; currently unknown
Charles Goodnight; currently unknown
Zane Grey; currently unknown

Last names beginning with H

2008-08-06T17:19:00.000-07:00

Yellow Hand {Cheyenne}; died 17 July 1876; currently unknown
John Wesley Hardin; shot in El Paso, Texas by John Selman, 19 August 1895; buried in Concordia Cemetery, El Paso, Texas. {courtesy Outlaw Slim}
Captain John Coffee 'Jack' Hays, Texas Rangers; died of natural causes in Piedmont, California, buried alongside his wife at Mountain View Cemetery, 5000 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, California 94611 {Call for information: (510) 658-2588}
B. Tyler Henry; currently unknown
James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok; shot in the back by John 'Jack' McCall while holding 'aces & eights' in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, 2 August 1876; buried in Deadwood
Hi Jolly; see Haj Ali
Dr. John H. 'Doc' Holliday; died of 'consumption' in the Hotel Glenwood, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 8 November 1887; buried in the Linwood Cemetery in Glenwood Springs
Tom Horn; hanged for murdering Willie Nickell in Cheyenne, Wyoming, 20 November 1903; currently unknown
Crazy Horse {Ogallala Lakota}; died 7 September 1877; currently unknown
Sam Houston; died in Huntsville, Texas, 29 July 1863; currently unknown

Last names beginning with I

2008-08-06T17:18:00.000-07:00

Bose Ikard (prototype for Josh Deets in Lonesome Dove); died in 1928; buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Weatherford, Texas

Last names beginning with J

2008-08-06T17:17:00.000-07:00

Captain Jack {Modoc}; died 3 October 1873; currently unknown
Frank James; currently unknown
Jesse W. James; shot in the back by Robert 'Bob' Ford on 3 April 1882 in Saint Joseph, Missouri; currently unknown
Robert James; currently unknown
Jane, Calamity; see Calamity Jane
Thomas Jonathan Jeffords ["the only white man Cochise ever trusted"]; died 14 February 1914; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Tucson, Arizona. {courtesy Ken Moshier}
Joe, California; see Moses Milner
Chief Joseph {Nez Perce}; died 21 September 1904; buried on the Collville reservation near Nespelem, Washington {courtesy Dennis Filipowski}

Last names beginning with K

2008-08-06T17:16:00.000-07:00

Ned Kelly; shot in Victoria State, Australia; currently unknown

Last names beginning with L

2008-08-06T17:15:00.000-07:00

Louis L'Amour, died 10 June 1988 in Durango, Colorado; buried there.
Joe LeFors; currently unknown
Two Leggins {Crow}; died 23 April 1923; currently unknown
Meriwether Lewis; currently unknown
Loco {Mimbres Apache}; died 2 February 1905; currently unknown
Harvey 'Kid Curry' Logan; in 1904; currently unknown
Harry 'Sundance Kid' Longabaugh; shot by policia, they say, in San Vicente, Bolivia in 1907 or 1908 or 1911; currently unknown
Nat Love; currently unknown
Oliver Loving (prototype for Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove); shot in the leg and died of gangrene 25 September 1867; buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Weatherford, Texas. {courtesy Paul Colley}

Last names beginning with M

2008-08-06T17:14:00.000-07:00

Christian Madsen; died in Guthrie, Oklahoma, in 1944; buried in the Frisco Cemetery, El Reno, Oklahoma {courtesy of Bob Warren, visitor center director, Fort Reno}
Mangus {Mimbres Apache}; died 9 February 1901; currently unknown
Manuelito {Navajo}; currently unknown
Edward J. Masterson; killed on 9 April 1878 in Dodge City, Kansas; currently unknown
James Masterson; variously died of 'consumption' or was killed on 31 March 1895 in Guthrie, Oklahoma; currently unknown
William Barclay {Bertholomiew} 'Bat' Masterson; died in New York City on 25 October 1921; currently unknown
David 'Mysterious Dave' Mather; in 1886; currently unknown
Henry McCarty; see W.H. Bonney
Capt. L.H. McNelly; currently unknown
Augustus McCrae; buried in "the stand of pecan trees by the creek that he and Claire discovered while out on a buggy ride", San Antonio, Texas. {courtesy Alan Questell}
Brigadier General Thomas F. Meagher; commander of the Irish Brigade at Chancellorsville, later Territorial Governor of Montana; drowned in the Missouri River in 1867; currently unknown
Stephen Hall Meek; currently unknown
General Nelson A. Miles; currently unknown
Moses Milner, known as California Joe; survivor of Adobe Walls; shot in the back by Tom Newcomb at Fort Robinson, Nebraska in 1876; originally buried in the Fort Robinson Cemetery, but moved to the Fort McPherson National Cemetery east of North Platte, Nebraska. {courtesy John Vera}
Jeff Milton; currently unknown
Samuel Montague; currently unknown
Thomas Moran, painter; currently unknown
Two Moon {Cheyenne}; currently unknown
John Muir; currently unknown

Last names beginning with N

2008-08-06T17:13:00.000-07:00

Nana {Apache}; died 19 May 1896; currently unknown
Roman Nose {Northern Cheyenne}; killed at Beecher's Island on 17 September 1868; currently unknown

Last names beginning with O

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Annie Oakley; currently unknown
Ohiyesa; see Charles Eastman
William Olds; died 27 June 1874 at Adobe Walls, Hutchinson County, Texas; presumably buried nearby.
John B. 'Texas Jack' Omohundro; currently unknown
Captain William Owen 'Buckey' O'Neill; killed by a sniper at San Juan Hill, Cuba on 1 July 1898; buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC. {courtesy J. Michael Bickley, great-grandson of Buckey}
John Otherday {Wahpeton Lakota}; currently unknown
Ouray {Uncompaghre Ute}; died 27 August 1880; currently unknown
Bass Outlaw; shot in El Paso, Texas in 1894 by John Selman; buried in Evergreen Cemetery, El Paso. {courtesy Outlaw Slim}
Commodore Perry Owens; died in Seligman, Arizona in 1918 or 1919; currently unknown

Last names beginning with P

2008-08-06T17:09:00.000-07:00

Pah-nayo-tisha {Cibecue Apache}, "Coyote Saw Him"; currently unknown
George L. 'Butch Cassidy' Parker; shot by policia, they say, in San Vicente, Bolivia in 1907 or 1908 or 1911; currently unknown
Judge Issac C. Parker; died 17 November 1896 in Fort Smith, Arkansas; currently unknown
Quanah Parker {Comanche}; died 23 February 1911; currently unknown
Peaches; see Pah-nayo-tisha
Allan Pinkerton; currently unknown
Etta Place; currently unknown
John Wesley Powell; died in Haven, Maine on 23 September 1902; currently unknown

Last names beginning with Q

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Matthew Quigley; presumed dead, somewhere in the United States.

Last names beginning with R

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Rainbow {Nez Perce}; died 9 August 1877; currently unknown
Rain-in-the-face {Hunkpapa Lakota}; died 14 September 1905; currently unknown
Baz N. 'Bass' Reeves; currently unknown
Eliphalet Remington; died 26 December 1909; currently unknown
Frederic Remington, painter; currently unknown
Roy Rogers; died of natural causes; currently unknown
John Ringo; shot [probable suicide] in Turkey Creek Canyon, Arizona in 1882; currently unknown
Dave Rudabaugh; beheaded in a cantina in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, 18 February 1886; currently unknown
Charles M. Russell, painter; currently unknown

Last names beginning with S

2008-08-06T17:05:00.000-07:00

Satanta {Kiowa}; committed suicide, 11 October 1878; currently unknown
Gen. Antonio L. de Santa Anna; currently unknown
Maj. George W. Schofield; currently unknown
John Selman; buried in Concordia Cemetery in El Paso, Texas {courtesy Outlaw Slim}
George Scarborough; currently unknown
Christian Sharps; currently unknown
Luke L. Short; died 8 September 1893 in Geuda Springs, Kansas; currently unknown
Benjamin Singleton; currently unknown
Charles Angelo Siringo; currently unknown
Joseph A. 'Jack' Slade; City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah, (Block B, Lot 6, Grave 7) {courtesy Doug Law}
Erasmus 'Deaf' Smith; currently unknown
Horace Smith; currently unknown
Frank Stilwell; shot 20 March 1882 in Tucson by Wyatt Earp; currently unknown
Dallas Stoudenmire; currently unknown
Levi Strauss; died in San Francisco, 28 September 1902; currently unknown

Last names beginning with T

2008-08-06T17:02:00.000-07:00

Iron Tail {Lakota}; veteran of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; died 29 May 1916; currently unknown
Taza {Apache}; September 26, 1876; currently unknown
Henry A. 'Heck' Thomas; died 11 August 1912 in Lawton, Oklahoma; currently unknown
Benjamin 'Ben' Thompson; shot 11 March 1884 in San Antonio; buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, Austin
William 'Texas Billy' Thompson; shot in Laredo, Texas in 1888; currently unknown
William Mathew 'Bill' Tilghman; shot by Wiley Lynn in Cromwell, Oklahoma, 1 November 1924; currently unknown
Tom Tobin; currently unknown
Red Tomahawk; killer of {Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man} Sitting Bull; died 7 August 1931, currently unknown
William B. Travis; died at the Alamo, 6 March 1836; cremated nearby.

Last names beginning with U

2008-08-06T17:01:00.000-07:00

Ulzana {Apache}; died 21 December 1909; currently unknown
Colorado Charley Utter; buried Wild Bill Hickok; currently unknown

Last names beginning with V

2008-08-06T17:00:00.000-07:00

Victorio {Mimbres Apache}; died 14 October 1880; currently unknown

Last names beginning with W

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Capt. Samuel Walker, Texas Rangers; currently unknown
Washakie {Shoshoni}; US Army scout; currently unknown
Stand Watie {Cherokee}; died 9 September 1871; currently unknown
Ella 'Cattle Kate' Watson; currently unknown
John Wayne; died of natural causes; currently unknown
Daniel B. Wesson; currently unknown
Oliver F. Winchester; currently unknown
Charles Windolph, Seventh Cavalry; last Army survivor of the Little Big Horn, where he won the Medal of Honor; currently unknown
Chief Winnemucca {Northern Paiute}; died 21 October 1882; currently unknown
Sarah Winnemucca {Northern Paiute}; died 16 October 1891; currently unknown
Howling Wolf {Cheyenne}; died 2 June 1927; currently unknown
Long Wolf {Lakota}, survior of the Battle of the Greasy Grass {Little Big Horn}, veteran of Col. Cody's Wild West Show; died of pneumonia. 11 June 1892; buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, England; disinterred and reburied in Wolf Creek Cemetery, Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Yellow Wolf {Nez Perce}; died 21 August 1935; currently unknown
Robert M. Wright, founder of Dodge City, Kansas; currently unknown

Last names beginning with X

2008-08-06T16:57:00.000-07:00

None at this time.

Last names beginning with Y

2008-08-06T16:56:00.000-07:00

Thomas Coleman 'Cole' Younger; died of natural causes, 21 February 1916 in Lee's Summit, Missouri [his home town] in 1916; currently unknown
James Younger; committed suicide in St. Paul, Minnesota, 19 October 1902; currently unknown
John Younger; currently unknown
Robert 'Bob' Younger; died in prison in 1889; currently unknown

Last names beginning with Z

2008-08-06T16:55:00.000-07:00

None at this time.