Image courtesy Mike Mihaljevich & Michael Paul PhotoWorks of Scottsdale, Arizona Tombstone's Ed Schieffelin Statue.
1877/78 - IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN THAT TOMBSTONE DISCOVERER EDWARD SCHIEFFELIN WAS TOLD BY "ARMY SOLDIERS" THE ONLY THING HE WOULD FIND WOULD BE HIS TOMBSTONE.
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In 1921, Bertha "Bauer" Strinker, daughter of Tombstone pioneers Apolinar and Maria Bauer, wrote the following regarding her parents traveling with Ed Schieffelin to Arizona during the late 1870s...
"I cannot remember where they (parents) said they met Ed Schieffelin, the discoverer of Tombstone, but somewhere in this state, and he traveled overland with them. One night they made camp where Schieffelin lies buried now, and it was early one morning after breakfast, while camped there, that he said to them that he thought he would take a stroll and see what he could find. Father told him he would find his "tombstone." When he came back he told the folks he found a better camping place, so they packed up and moved on. Thus Tombstone was discovered."
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Author Shillingberg writes in TOMBSTONE, A.T. "Gird arranged for more provisions from butcher Apollinar Bauer, another of the Signal crowd who later showed up in Tombstone, then bought a mule named Mollie and added it to one Ed already owned." They left Signal Feb. 14, 1878.
Apollinar & Maria Bauer's also named their third child "Mollie" in 1878.
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Thank you Jerry "JB" Prather for providing the final nail in the coffin regarding Ed Schieffelin and the Bauer's traveling together in 1878. Special thanks to Bauer relatives Valerie "Bauer" Snavely and Gigi "Bauer" Acker.
Gary S. McLelland 9.11.22...RIP 9-1-1 VICTIMS...
Daughter Bertha also wrote the following about how hard her mother, Maria Bauer, worked shortly after arriving in Tombstone during the late 1870s...
"My mother cleared the sagebrush with her hands and they erected the first building in Tombstone. They built the entire block on Fourth Street."
Gary S. McLelland 9.9.2022