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Doc Holliday Photos + DEATH CERTIFICATE Lot, Big Nose Kate Elder, Girlfriend
$ 6.27
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Historic & Amazing WILD WEST Documents & PhotographsAmazing find here folks!!!!
Big Nose Kate's DEATH CERTIFICATE
The on again off again girlfriend and lover of DOC HOLLIDAY !!
She was his "girlfriend" for many years in Tombstone AZ where she worked as a prostitute. She died in 1940 at the age of 89.
Now you can have a copy of her death certificate as issued in Prescott Arizona Document is crisp, clear and has much interesting info about Mary Katharine Elder/Cummings. Awesome for Wild West research or to show off.
PLUS
you get death certificates for 3 other figures from the life of Big Nose Kate Elder/Cummings:
John J. Howard
: In 1910, Mary Katherine Cummings (Big Nose Kate) is enumerated as having moved onto the Dos Cabezas,
Arizona
, homestead of miner John J. Howard. When Howard died in 1930, Mary Katherine was the executrix of his will and left the homestead with inheritance. WOW!
George Cummings
: After Doc Holliday's death, Mary Katherine Horony married Irish blacksmith George Cummings in
Aspen
,
Colorado
, on
March 2, 1890
. They moved to
Bisbee
,
Arizona
, where she briefly ran a bakery. After returning to
Willcox
,
Arizona
, in
Cochise
County
, Cummings became an abusive alcoholic and they separated. In 1900, Mary Katherine moved to Cochise (which is now a ghost town) and worked for John and Lulu Rath, owners of the Cochise Hotel. Cummings committed suicide in
Courtland
,
Arizona
, in 1915.
Arizona's First Governor, George Hunt
:
In 1931, Mary Katherine contacted her lifelong "acquaintance", Arizona Governor George Hunt, and applied for admittance for the Arizona Pioneer Home in
Prescott
,
Arizona
.
She was granted admittance as one of the first female residents of the home. She lived there and had become a very outspoken resident assisting other residents with living comforts. Kate wrote many letters to the
Arizona
state legislature, and when she was not satisfied she would contact the governor.
PLUS you get 3 PHOTOGRAPHS of Big Nose Kate and Doc Holliday!!! Professionally reproduced at the highest possible resolution and printed at 4 x 6 inches. Check out everything and place your bid now!
So there it is!
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Awesome death certificates and 3 photographs. Really cool stuff and have you ever seen this cool stuff on ebay???
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