| John Henry"Doc." Holliday Facts |
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| From the Movie Tombstone The Latin Duel In vino veritas. In wine there is truth. Age quod agis. Do what you do. Credat judaeus Apella, non ego. Let Apello the Jew believe, I not. Iuventus stultorum magister. Youth is the teacher of fools. In pace requiescat. Rest in peace. |
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| John Henry Holliday"Doc." Born: O a Thursday August 14, 1851 Griffin Georgia. Baptised, March 21,1852 at the First Presbyterian Church in Griffin Georgia. Died : On a Tuesday November 8, 1887 in the Hotel Glenfield, Glenfield Springs, Colorado at the age of "36years, 2 months and 25 days old" of tuberculosis. Mother: Alice Jane McKay, who died at the age of 37.(tuberculosis) Father: Henry Burroughs Holliday, who died at the age of 37. StepMother: Rachel Martin. Brothers: Francisco Hidalgo Adopted, died around 1866.(tuberculosis) Sisters: Martha Eleanor Holliday. Died at the age of 6 months old. He was fourth cousin once removed of John Wesley Hardin. He recieved his degree from The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery on March 1,1872. He was a very close friend of Wyatt Earp. Doc. very seldom wore black suits favoring gray or blue instead. He carried a 10 ga. shotgun with him to the O.K. Corral. He was not married to Mary Katherine Haroney"Big Nose Kate" and She was not at his bedside when He died as some people say. He was fluent in Latin and played the piano, taught to him by his Mother. He was a skillful Gambler and the Nerviest, Deadliest man with a six gun that I've ever seen.( Quoted by Wyatt Earp) He was not a drunkard as some people would lead you to believe. He always had a bottle with him and would take a drink, but He new his limits. Later on toward the end of his life Doc. did drink quite a bit but it was for the pain that He was experiencing. Doc. did in fact have a death wish He did not want to die from tuberculosis. He often said that He would be shot or hung but wouldn't die in bed. Holiday was given six months to two years to live if he moved out West, He lived for 15 years after he was diagnosed with the disease. Doc. sometime's carried two pistols as did many other men. One was a 1851 Navy Colt single action conversion, modified to fire .38 cal. cartridges and a Later model 41 cal. Colt Thunderer. It was quoted in the paper that Doc. used a self cocker during the shooting of Milt Joyce in the Oriental Saloon which would be the Thunderer. Doc. Holliday's last words were "Ain't this funny." He has a Monument and Head Stone at the Pioneer Cemetery in Glenwood Springs Colorado, but really no one knows for sure where Doc. is buried. His head stone reads simply" He Died In Bed" Valdosta was the boyhood home of Holliday from 1866-1872. The actual house was purchased and restored in 1981 for use as a residence. John attended and completed school at the Valdosta Institute in Georgia. |