how did tombstone get its name?
 When Ed Schieffelin set out in to make his fortune in this area heavily populated with Apaches, he was told that all he would find was his tombstone. When he established his first silver mine he duly called it Tombstone, and the town that grew up around it kept the name. It was 1878 when Boothill Graveyard was laid out as the burial place for the first pioneers of Tombstone and was called The Tombstone Cemetery. It was used as the town's graveyard until 1884. 