However, that gravedigger also called her "Lillie," the name of Bernard Miller's second wife who left town with her husband in good health when the open range era began to shut down. When her body was exhumed 30 years later for reburial in the "new" cemetery, west of town, it had petrified, one of the gravediggers reported. Sarah Miller, the young wife of a local rancher, was buried with her newborn baby. Naked and unarmed, he was gunned down by a fellow cowhand traveling under the name of Woolsey, the final chapter in what began as a joke on their Negro camp cook.Ī sage said, "the West was hell on women and horses." Boot Hill records agree-though no horse burials were recorded there. Robert Webster, a drover, was shot to death August, 1875, while bathing in the North Platte River. They were three Union pacific tracklayers killed in an Indian raid a mile east of what is now Spruce Street. In May, 1867, the first bodies were buried on the hill. A hundred or more people were rolled in canvas and dropped into a shallow grave during that time, a remarkable death rate for a settlement that never exceeded 130 permanent residents. A third joined his compadres on Boot Hill later in the summer from wounds suffered that night.īoot Hill was Ogallala's only official burying ground during the "end of the trail" decade from 1874 through 1884. Another died three days later of a gutfull of shot. His shotgun felled one going out the barroom door. The listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.īoot Hill - Tombstone History of OgallalaĮven Ogallala folks' tolerance had a limit so after three days of drinking and shooting up the town, they sicced Sheriff "Buffalo Joe" Hughes on the rioting Texas cowhands. Of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact Or organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the written consent
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