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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hmmm
– source of the source???? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Not
to say that there wasn’t more than one Lester Moore, but here’s the way it currently
reads on his Boothill, Tombstone, Arizona marker:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>HERE
LIES <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>LESTER
MOORE <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>FOUR
SLUGS <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>FROM
A 44 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>NO
LES <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>NO
MORE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.clantongang.com/oldwest/boothillgraveyard_graves.htmlL">http://www.clantongang.com/oldwest/boothillgraveyard_graves.html<b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>L</span></b></a></span><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>“</span><span
style='color:windowtext'>Lester Moore was employed as a Wells, Fargo Co.
station agent in the border town of Naco. Hank Dunstan showed up to claim a
package one afternoon. He received it, but it was thoroughly mangled. An
argument ensued, and both Moore and Dunstan reached for their six shooters.
When the smoke cleared, Les Moore lay dead behind his window with four .44
slugs in his chest. Dunstan, too, lay dying, a hole blasted through his ribs by
the one shot Moore had been able to get off before he collapsed. Les <b>Moore</b>
was given a space in Boothill and an epitaph that has made him famous: ‘HERE
LIES <b>LESTER</b> <b>MOORE</b>, FOUR SLUGS FROM A 44, NO LES NO MORE.’ There
is no evidence to indicate where Dunstan was buried.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'><a
href="http://www.historynet.com/tombstones-cemetery-boothill.htm#high_1">http://www.historynet.com/tombstones-cemetery-boothill.htm#high_1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>Interestingly, Les does not appear in the
1880 census (well, Naco isn’t there at all, so who knows what district that
was) for Pima county. Nothing about him appeared in the Tombstone Epitaph
Prospector from 1880 -1890 or thereabouts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>I believe the grave marker has been changed
more than once, so there may have been something lost (or gained) in the
translation. Here are some pictures, which may or may not survive the server:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><a
href="http://www.carlmadsen.com/uploaded_images/tomb-lestermoore-750382-750613.jpg"><span
style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=104
height=101 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CA9692.5A23AEC0"
alt="http://www.carlmadsen.com/uploaded_images/tomb-lestermoore-750382-750589.jpg"></span></a><span
style='color:windowtext'><img border=0 width=80 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_2"
src="cid:image002.jpg@01CA9692.5A23AEC0"
alt="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2651/4140163436_f21a49c346_t.jpg"></span><span
style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>I do have a postcard of the marker from the
early fifties, I think. From a trip my grandparents took to Tombstone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'>Probably like this one:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:windowtext'><img border=0 width=133 height=202
id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CA9692.5A23AEC0"
alt="http://www.thepostcard.com/walt/state/az/azn82.gif"></span><span
style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>The 1880 census doesn’t have Lester, but does have Lewis
Moore, Tombstone Village, Pima County, AT, b Illinois, 1828. </span><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:white'>ester
Moore </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Anyhow
– here’s another from the same era:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here
lies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>George
Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hanged
by Mistake<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>1882<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>He
was right<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We
was Wrong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But
We strung him up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And
now he’s gone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What
do you expect from a town that had Mark Twain as a contributor (and maybe
editor) of the newspaper, the Tombstone Epitaph? I’ve always suspected his
hand in these grave markers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Pat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>
or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris
& Bill Strickland<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 15, 2010 10:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> or-roots mail list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [or-roots] Browsing Old Cemeteries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Beth Perry Johnston wrote:<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Isn't it customary to give attribution to the source?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>
In this day and age, there are some items on the internet that defy attribution
-- this would appear to be one of them. I suspect it could be said to be
in the public domain, whether or not it is, technically, is of little
importance, as factually, it is. Google has about 30,000 hits for this
poem -- possibly you could find time to research this? <span
class=moz-smiley-s3>;-) </span><br>
<br>
Perhaps one of the more factual entries could be found at the <span
style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#000800'>Clark County, Wisconsin</span><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#000800'>,</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span>ALHN
& AHGP<span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#000800'> </span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#000800'>Internet Library</span>, <span
style='color:navy'>Hosted by the WI Valley <a name=Libraries>Libraries,</a></span>
as it is a library -- <a
href="http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/cemeteries/humor.htm">http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/cemeteries/humor.htm</a>,
submitted by <strong><span style='font-weight:normal'><a
href="mailto:eldolken@potc.net">Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon</a></span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-weight:normal'><a href="mailto:eldolken@potc.net"><eldolken@potc.net></a></span></strong><br>
<br>
<strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>I immediately recognized this as an
accurate source, as it included the last stanza:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:45.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Here lies Lester Moore <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:45.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Shot to death with a 44 <o:p></o:p></p>
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Alas! No
Les, No Moore<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>Bill Strickland</span></strong><br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:45.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:45.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:45.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
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