Tip Top Cemetery

Yavapai County, Arizona

Ghost Town of Tip Top, Arizona

There are three known burial sites at Tip Top. 1). 3 miners graves are at the SE end of town as you enter. 2). A man, a Child and a woman are on the hill on the road up to the mine. 3). The Tip Top Cemetery lies upstream from the Ghost Town - and approx .5 miles below (SE) the Seventy-Six Mine on the S. bank of Cottonwood Creek. The main Tip Top Cemetery has more than 20 graves, with several young children.
 
Latitude N34 03.069, Longitude W112 15.294 - (13' accurate) (Elevation 2,589)
Burials = 21 2/11/2007
MARKER SURNAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
N Wager Oscar   10/20/1877   Unmarked interment
N DOE Jane       Unmarked interment
N DOE Jane       Unmarked interment
N DOE Jane       Unmarked interment
N DOE Jane       Unmarked interment
N DOE Jane       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment - Killed in Gun Fight
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment - Killed in Gun Fight
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment - Struck by lightning
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment --
bit by centipede while
putting on boots.
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
N DOE John       Unmarked interment
 
3 MINERS GRAVES
Latitude N34 02.92, Longitude W 112 14.806 (Elevation 2,497)
Burials = 3 
MARKER SURNAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
Y DOE John       Killed in mine accident
N DOE John       Killed in mine accident
N DOE John       Killed in mine accident
 
MAN, CHILD AND WOMAN GRAVES
(NOT VERIFIED) Latitude N34 02.938, Longitude W112 14.660 (Elevation 2,655)
Burials = 3  
MARKER SURNAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
N DOE John       Man
N DOE ?       Child
N DOE Jane       Woman
 
Research by: Neal Du Shane
 
Contributor: Neal Du Shane: 3/31/06 Research of the general area found all male interments. No headstones were found. Some rock stacking indicating burials.

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