Doc Holiday

Talk about a life lived straight out of a classic Western film. Doc Holiday is a gunslinging dentist and a famous gambler that lived during the 1850s until the late 1880s. He is considered to be an American historical figure with a notoriety of a mythmaker’s wet dream. Holiday earned his degree in Dentistry at Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and later set up his clinic at Griffin, Georgia. He was riddled with tuberculosis, causing him to move to the American Southwest, where he became a prominent gambler. There he would be close to lawman Wyatt Earp, and eventually, he would be deputized himself. He is widely famous in American history for his role in the Gunfight at OK Corral, where they battled against the members of the Cochise County Cowboys.

There is no doubt that there is a great mysticism surrounding Doc’s life story, and his gravestone does not disappoint as well. It is a gravestone stating that somewhere within Linwood Cemetery, his body is buried.