{"id":673325,"date":"2010-02-23T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:17:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:53:37","slug":"doc-hollidays-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673325","title":{"rendered":"Doc Holliday&#8217;s Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/colorado\">Colorado<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\">US<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/memento-mori\/catacombs-crypts-cemeteries\">Catacombs, Crypts, &amp; Cemeteries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Longtime friend and famous lawman Wyatt Earp had this to say about John Henry &#8220;Doc&#8221; Holliday:<\/p>\n<p>Doc was a dentist not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun that I ever knew. <\/p>\n<p>Earp&#8217;s quote encompasses Holliday so well that little remains to be said, except that one of history&#8217;s greatest Western characters also played a pivotal role during the shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizone. <\/p>\n<p>Eventually he died of tuberculosis at the Glendale Springs sanitarium. As he laid in bed, he spoke his last words: &#8220;Well, I&#8217;ll be damned.  This is funny,&#8221; referencing his barefoot state, for no one had anticipated Doc meeting Death in such a relaxed fashion. <\/p>\n<p>Today, his headstone can be viewed in the Linwood Cemetery in which he is buried, though the exact spot of his plot remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/doc%20holliday%20grave.jpg?resize=280%2C420\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado, US | Catacombs, Crypts, &amp; Cemeteries Longtime friend and famous lawman Wyatt Earp had this to say about John Henry &#8220;Doc&#8221; Holliday: Doc was a dentist not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Pa5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774707,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673325\/revisions\/774707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}