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5 unusual facts about Tombstone


Annie Rockfellow

In 1905, She moved to Tombstone, Arizona to care for her father, Samuel, then living with his son, John A. Rockfellow.

Benson, Arizona

Benson then served as a rail junction point to obtain ore and refined metal by wagon, in turn shipping rail freight back to the mines at Tombstone, Fairbank, Contention and Bisbee.

Helldorado

Helldorado, a nickname for Tombstone, Arizona (and variation of El Dorado) created in the 1880s by a disgruntled miner who wrote a letter to the Tombstone Nugget newspaper complaining about trying to find his fortune and ending up washing dishes

HMAS Wyatt Earp

She was purchased by the American explorer and aviator, Lincoln Ellsworth, for his 1933 Antarctic expedition, refitted and sheathed with oak and armour plate, and renamed Wyatt Earp after the marshal of Dodge City and Tombstone, Arizona.

William Jefferson Hunsaker

In 1879, Hunsaker married Florence McFarland in San Diego and the couple moved to Tombstone, Arizona.


Abbey Church, Nykøbing Falster

At its southern end there is a tombstone commemorating the statesman and bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad (1811–1877) and his wife.

Al Giordino

In Trojan Odyssey Giordino reveals the epitaph he wishes inscribed on his tombstone: "It was a great party while it lasted. I trust it will continue elsewhere."

Anton Schimser

He was carving tombstone, mainly in the Lychakiv Cemetery, but also in cemeteries in and around Lviv, and also sculptural design houses and public buildings.

Ayshford Chapel

Grace's brother James Courtenay of Meshaw had married as his first wife Susanna Sanford, sister of John Sanford (d.1711) the eventual heir of Ayshford, whose tombstone can be seen in Molland Church.

Cecil Hoffman

Cecil found success on the big screen, turning in memorable performances in hit films Stargate (1993) and the Wyatt Earp biopic Tombstone (1994) with Kurt Russell.

Charles Irving Thornton

His tombstone, located in Cumberland State Forest in Cumberland County, Virginia, is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places as one of only two gravestones in the world, and the only one in the United States, known to exist with an epitaph by Charles Dickens.

Cipriano de Rore

His probable birth years (1515/1516) are known from his age at death (49, recorded on his tombstone in the cathedral in Parma), and his probable birthplace was a small town in Flanders, Ronse (Renaix), right on the boundary between the French- and Dutch-speaking areas.

Colt Buntline

Earp had received the weapon as a gift from Tombstone mayor and Tombstone Epitaph newspaper editor John Clum.

Contention City, Arizona

In the wake of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ike Clanton attempted to have Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday tried in Contention City after a grand jury refused to indict them in Tombstone in the wake of the Spicer Hearing.

Dupa Biskupa

In Polish adult animated comedy series Włatcy móch two recurring characters Marcel and The colonel (two zombies living on local graveyard) were seen playing dupa biskupa on a tombstone.

Edme-Louis Daubenton

Edmé-Louis Daubenton's tombstone is in the church of Saint-Pierre in Avon.

Frank Stilwell

The death of Stilwell is prominently featured in the 1993 film Tombstone, in which he was played by Tomas Arana.

Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany

Geoffrey was buried at Notre Dame de Paris Cathedrale, but his tombstone was destroyed in the 18th century before the French revolution.

Gora Qabaristan, Karachi

The original consecration of the Karachi Christian Cemetery was in 1845 during colonial rule but there is a tombstone set in the wall near the main gate of the cemetery bearing the date 1843.

Gundred, Countess of Surrey

In 1845, during excavations through the Priory grounds for the Brighton Lewes and Hastings Railway, the lead chests containing the remains of the Earl and his Countess were discovered and were deposited temporarily beneath Gundred's tombstone.

Haidoterminus

The specific epithet cippus, from the Latin for "tombstone or pillar", references the clypeal pads' distinct columnar appearance.

Homer Hulbert

Hulbert's tombstone reads “I would rather be buried in Korea than in Westminster Abbey.”

Katarina Vilioni

She is known through a tombstone which was discovered among the ramparts of Yangzhou in 1951 by the People's Liberation Army.

Kočerin tablet

The tombstone that the tablet that was written on top of was discovered in 1983 in Lipovci.

Los Angeles fetus disposal scandal

In May 1985, singer Pat Boone announced he recorded a song titled "Sixteen Thousand Faces" about the incident, first played at an pro-life memorial service for the fetuses at Live Oak Memorial Park in Monrovia, where a granite tombstone was left with the inscription "For all those deprived of life and human love through abortion".

Madame Moustache

Moving from place to place, she was reported to work in Bodie, California; Deadwood, South Dakota; Fort Benton, Montana; Pioche, Nevada; Tombstone, Arizona; and San Francisco, California, among other places.

Milton S. Gould

David Neagle had been the marshal in Tombstone at the time the shoot-out at the OK Corral and was acting as a Federal Marshal protecting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field when Neagle killed the sworn enemy of Field, former California Justice David S. Terry after he accosted and threatened Justice Field.

Moses ben Isaac ha-Nessiah

The tombstone of a Rabbi Moses, son of Rabbi Isaac, was found at Ludgate, London, in the time of Elizabeth; John Stow, in his "Survey of London" stated that it came from the Jewish cemetery in Jewin Street at the time of the barons' revolt against King John in 1215.

Ourense Cathedral

Artifacts include El Incunable de Monterrey, the first book published in Galicia in 1494, Enrique de Arfe's processional cross, 13th-century enamels from Limoges, the so-called Treasure of San Rosendo and the oldest Christian tombstone in Galicia from Baños de Bande.

Rich Jackson

Despite the shortened career, Sports Illustrateds football expert, Paul Zimmerman, said that Tombstone Jackson was perhaps the finest overall defensive end and pass rusher he ever saw, a surefire Hall of Famer if he would have had a longer playing career, in a bigger media market.

Samuel Finley

was torn down his body was moved, and his original tombstone was relocated and could as of 1988 be found imbedded in the wall of a lobby of a building on the North side of Rittenhouse Square.

Sarrusophone

Bruce Broughton made extensive use of a contrabass sarrusophone in his score for the film Tombstone.

Sinfonia of London

Under Peter Willison's management, the orchestra went on to record many soundtracks for major Hollywood films, including Batman, The Mummy Returns, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Lost in Space, The Lawnmower Man, Stargate, Tombstone, RoboCop and Young Sherlock Holmes.

Small beer

Thomas Thetcher's tombstone at Winchester Cathedral features a poem that blames his death on drinking small beer while hot.

Templeborough

Tombstone of a Dobunniwoman inscribed DIS M VERECVD RVFI LIA CIVES DOBVNNA ANNOR XXXV EXCINGVS CONIVX CONIVGI KARISSIMAE POSIT DE SVO

The Last Flower

On Thurber's tombstone at Green Lawn Cemetery a version of The Last Flower is etched.

Thomas Thetcher

He or she was very resourceful: I copied it from an inscription on a tombstone in the churchyard of Winchester Cathedral, and a military friend then quartered there informed me that a statement once appeared in Fraser's Magazine to the effect that the quatrain commencing "Here sleeps in peace," was written by Dr. Benjamin Hoadley, sometime Bishop of Winchester.

Thug Mentality 1999

Producer = Stephen Marley, Krayzie Bone, Romeo Antonio, Michael Seifert, Damizza, T-Mix, Leiahola Jones, Nightfiend, Tombstone, Anthony President, Brainz, Alex Marlow, Erik "E" Nordquist, DJ U-Neek, Gusto "40" Moss, Tony "C", Steve Pageot, Dewey "Duke" Sanders, KayGee, Falonte Moore, Rater, DJ Nasty

Tombstone Junction

Tombstone Junction was a small western town themed park located on Kentucky Route 90 in McCreary County, Kentucky near Cumberland Falls State Resort Park.

Three world-class magicians who "learned the ropes" of entertaining by beginning their professional careers at Tombstone Junction are Lance Burton, Mac King and Whit Haydn.

Verdú

On the left is the tombstone consecration of the church, made in 1586 by the archbishop of Tarragona Joan Terès i Borrull, son of the town.

Voree, Wisconsin

Tombstone carving, plough manufacturing, and the raising of English Fox Terriers were some of Voree's business enterprises.

Wells Spicer

The Democrat-leaning Tombstone Nugget stated that “in the eyes of many (Spicer) does not stand like Caesar’s wife ‘not only virtuous but above suspicion’”.


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