One of the icons of the old American West, John Henry ("Doc") Holliday was born August 14, 1851, in Griffin (Spalding County) His parents were Henry Burroughs Holliday and Alice Jane Holliday. The general historical consensus has been that John Henry “Doc” Holliday was buried in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The dentist-turned-gunslinger definitely died there (in 1887, from tuberculosis), and he was, at least initially, lowered into a grave. But there are a whole lot of people – his own descendants among them – who hold onto a different truth. He may be resting exactly where he was born – a world away from the Wild West in Oak Hill Cemetery in the small city of Griffin.
The claim is that he’s alongside his father, and because of his son's fame he wanted him to be placed in an unmarked grave in Oak Hill Cemetery where all the other Hollidays are buried. The theory is, despite his outlaw reputation ,as the only son of a traditional southern family they quickly and quietly made arrangements for the body to be brought back to Georgia!
Scott Barrett
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