Tombstone Tuesday: a Buffalo Hunter named McGill

Boot Hill, Dodge City, Kansas

McGill's first name is unknown. He was a buffalo hunter and desperado who amused himself by shooting into every house he passed by. Members of the Vigilante Committee including James Hanrahan of the Occident Saloon and John (Scotty) Scott of the Peacock's Billard Saloon ran him out of town.
McGill opened fire on them and they responded.

The report from the Marion County, Kansas Record read:
On Tuesday night, an unmitigated scoundrel and desperado named McGill was shot and killed at Dodge City.  This is the same scoundrel who shot and killed a sixteen year-old boy on New's Years Day last, without the slightest provocation.
-March 29th, 1873

I used to play in this graveyard.  My family had summer passes so Boot hill became a place they could drop us off for the day and we would let our imaginations lead us into great stories of Cowboys and Indians.
As a teenager, I worked up on Boot Hill...and it freaked me out to be there at night, closing up the museum which had the bones of a Native American Indian inside under glass and a Buffalo Head on the wall whose eyes seemed to follow you where ever you walked. The place is definitely haunted, maybe even by the Buffalo Hunter named McGill!

Tombstone Tuesday- Duesing

Headstone for Joseph John Duesing and Caroline Agatha Nau Duesing

located at Holy Cross Cemetery in Windthorst, Kansas.

There are seven source citations, including Joseph's passport application which he filled out in his own hand that state his date of birth was June 16th, 1881.  The only place it shows as June 29th is here on his headstone.  There is a bit of a mystery here as to how the incorrect date of his birth ended up on his final monument.  Perhaps over time, no one could remember the exact date or documents weren't checked and verified before the stone was ordered.  Whatever the reason, it will remain a family mystery unless someone else out there knows a story behind the date.