From Fairbank we continued on AZ-82, then turned right on AZ-83 to Tombstone. Just before reaching the town proper, we stopped at Boothill Graveyard. Boothill was laid out as a cemetery in 1878 and used until 1884. There are 300 graves, and the restored markers give a colorful history.
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| Graves overgrown with ocotillo and other cacti, next to an ocotillo fence |
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| Possibly Opuntia versicolor/Staghorn Cholla Cactus |
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| Row 1: Eva Waters died of scarlet fever |
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| Row 2 contains the graves of the "villians" of the OK Corral shootout in Tombstone in 1881; Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury, and Tom McLaury |
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| Row 2: Frank Bowles marker; he was thrown by his horse causing his gun to discharge and injure his knee; he was taken to the doctor only after several weeks and it was too late |
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| Row 2: Verone Gray |
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| Row 3: Two Cowboys drowned (KAH) |
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| Row 3: Teamster (1881) |
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| Row 3: Rook Shot by a Chinaman (as in background, there were several Unknowns) |
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| Row 3: John Heath (1884) (KAH) |
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| Row 4: Mrs. Stump (1884) died in childbirth from an overdose of chloroform (she had the stumpiest marker) |
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| Row 5: Seymour Dye (1882) shot at age 35 when bringing in a load of hay (KAH) |
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| Row 5: George Johnson, what an epitaph! (he innocently bought a stolen horse) (KAH) |
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| Row 6: Lester Moore, another classic epitaph; he was a Wells Fargo agent and had a dispute with a man over a package |
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| Row 6: Will DeLoge (1883) |
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