Owner of the Can Can Restaurant in the 1880s. Quong Kee died in Bisbee, Arizona, and was buried the same day at the Evergreen Cemetery in January 1938. Friends had him moved from his pauper's grave and laid to rest in Boothill beside the friends he knew in life. Here is a link to an article about him, his wife, and other Chinese and their lives in Tombstone, Arizona. http://arizonasonoranewsservice.com/chinese-in-arizona/
"Monument For Quong Kee To Be Dedicated" (1938)
Tombstone - A petrified log will be placed over the grave of Quong Kee in Boothill cemetery Saturday and will be dedicated on Sunday, April 17, at 6:15 p.m. by Columbus Giragi, newspaperman of Northern Arizona; the program of dedication being broadcast between 6:15 and 7:00 o'clock over the Arizona network.
Friends of Quong Kee, Tombstone's last pioneer Chinaman buried in Boothill cemetery in January, have prepared the foundation for the monument this week. On Saturday, Quong's friend, Columbus Giragi, will arrive to superintend its installation.
The final touch will be the placing of a bronze plaque that bears the inscription, "Quong Kee, 1851-1938, A Friend To All."
Appearing on the Easter Sunday service at Boothill with Columbus Giragi will be George Chambers (?) of the Arizona Daily Star, also a boy who did some growing up in Tombstone. He, too, will pay tribute to the old Chinaman who was his pal.
The Sundown broadcast, being arranged by the people of Tombstone in cooperation with the Arizona network, will be appropriate to Easter and Boothill cemetery. The announcer will be Jack Williams of KOY, a Phoenix radio station.
On the forty-five-minute broadcast will be heard Colonel and Mrs. Jeff D. Milton, Mayor Brooks, Mrs. (__?) Robertson Macia, Rev. Rupert G. Witt, Wild Horse Shorty, western instrumentalist and singer, and others.
One of the most colorful features for those present in person will be the presence of Boothill Booster boys, who will fire a salute over Quong Kee's grave.
Other visitors who come here to see the world's largest rosebush in bloom are invited to remain for the Sundown service at Boothill, said by many to be the best-known point on the Broadway of America between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.
(Arizona Silver Belt, April 15, 1938; courtesy Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum, Miami, Az.)
Contributor: LA Powers (47900440)
"Monument For Quong Kee To Be Dedicated" (1938)
Tombstone - A petrified log will be placed over the grave of Quong Kee in Boothill cemetery Saturday and will be dedicated on Sunday, April 17, at 6:15 p.m. by Columbus Giragi, newspaperman of Northern Arizona; the program of dedication being broadcast between 6:15 and 7:00 o'clock over the Arizona network.
Friends of Quong Kee, Tombstone's last pioneer Chinaman buried in Boothill cemetery in January, have prepared the foundation for the monument this week. On Saturday, Quong's friend, Columbus Giragi, will arrive to superintend its installation.
The final touch will be the placing of a bronze plaque that bears the inscription, "Quong Kee, 1851-1938, A Friend To All."
Appearing on the Easter Sunday service at Boothill with Columbus Giragi will be George Chambers (?) of the Arizona Daily Star, also a boy who did some growing up in Tombstone. He, too, will pay tribute to the old Chinaman who was his pal.
The Sundown broadcast, being arranged by the people of Tombstone in cooperation with the Arizona network, will be appropriate to Easter and Boothill cemetery. The announcer will be Jack Williams of KOY, a Phoenix radio station.
On the forty-five-minute broadcast will be heard Colonel and Mrs. Jeff D. Milton, Mayor Brooks, Mrs. (__?) Robertson Macia, Rev. Rupert G. Witt, Wild Horse Shorty, western instrumentalist and singer, and others.
One of the most colorful features for those present in person will be the presence of Boothill Booster boys, who will fire a salute over Quong Kee's grave.
Other visitors who come here to see the world's largest rosebush in bloom are invited to remain for the Sundown service at Boothill, said by many to be the best-known point on the Broadway of America between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.
(Arizona Silver Belt, April 15, 1938; courtesy Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum, Miami, Az.)
Contributor: LA Powers (47900440)
Owner of the Can Can Restaurant in the 1880s. Quong Kee died in Bisbee, Arizona, and was buried the same day at the Evergreen Cemetery in January 1938. Friends had him moved from his pauper's grave and laid to rest in Boothill beside the friends he knew in life. Here is a link to an article about him, his wife, and other Chinese and their lives in Tombstone, Arizona. http://arizonasonoranewsservice.com/chinese-in-arizona/
"Monument For Quong Kee To Be Dedicated" (1938)
Tombstone - A petrified log will be placed over the grave of Quong Kee in Boothill cemetery Saturday and will be dedicated on Sunday, April 17, at 6:15 p.m. by Columbus Giragi, newspaperman of Northern Arizona; the program of dedication being broadcast between 6:15 and 7:00 o'clock over the Arizona network.
Friends of Quong Kee, Tombstone's last pioneer Chinaman buried in Boothill cemetery in January, have prepared the foundation for the monument this week. On Saturday, Quong's friend, Columbus Giragi, will arrive to superintend its installation.
The final touch will be the placing of a bronze plaque that bears the inscription, "Quong Kee, 1851-1938, A Friend To All."
Appearing on the Easter Sunday service at Boothill with Columbus Giragi will be George Chambers (?) of the Arizona Daily Star, also a boy who did some growing up in Tombstone. He, too, will pay tribute to the old Chinaman who was his pal.
The Sundown broadcast, being arranged by the people of Tombstone in cooperation with the Arizona network, will be appropriate to Easter and Boothill cemetery. The announcer will be Jack Williams of KOY, a Phoenix radio station.
On the forty-five-minute broadcast will be heard Colonel and Mrs. Jeff D. Milton, Mayor Brooks, Mrs. (__?) Robertson Macia, Rev. Rupert G. Witt, Wild Horse Shorty, western instrumentalist and singer, and others.
One of the most colorful features for those present in person will be the presence of Boothill Booster boys, who will fire a salute over Quong Kee's grave.
Other visitors who come here to see the world's largest rosebush in bloom are invited to remain for the Sundown service at Boothill, said by many to be the best-known point on the Broadway of America between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.
(Arizona Silver Belt, April 15, 1938; courtesy Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum, Miami, Az.)
Contributor: LA Powers (47900440)
"Monument For Quong Kee To Be Dedicated" (1938)
Tombstone - A petrified log will be placed over the grave of Quong Kee in Boothill cemetery Saturday and will be dedicated on Sunday, April 17, at 6:15 p.m. by Columbus Giragi, newspaperman of Northern Arizona; the program of dedication being broadcast between 6:15 and 7:00 o'clock over the Arizona network.
Friends of Quong Kee, Tombstone's last pioneer Chinaman buried in Boothill cemetery in January, have prepared the foundation for the monument this week. On Saturday, Quong's friend, Columbus Giragi, will arrive to superintend its installation.
The final touch will be the placing of a bronze plaque that bears the inscription, "Quong Kee, 1851-1938, A Friend To All."
Appearing on the Easter Sunday service at Boothill with Columbus Giragi will be George Chambers (?) of the Arizona Daily Star, also a boy who did some growing up in Tombstone. He, too, will pay tribute to the old Chinaman who was his pal.
The Sundown broadcast, being arranged by the people of Tombstone in cooperation with the Arizona network, will be appropriate to Easter and Boothill cemetery. The announcer will be Jack Williams of KOY, a Phoenix radio station.
On the forty-five-minute broadcast will be heard Colonel and Mrs. Jeff D. Milton, Mayor Brooks, Mrs. (__?) Robertson Macia, Rev. Rupert G. Witt, Wild Horse Shorty, western instrumentalist and singer, and others.
One of the most colorful features for those present in person will be the presence of Boothill Booster boys, who will fire a salute over Quong Kee's grave.
Other visitors who come here to see the world's largest rosebush in bloom are invited to remain for the Sundown service at Boothill, said by many to be the best-known point on the Broadway of America between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.
(Arizona Silver Belt, April 15, 1938; courtesy Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum, Miami, Az.)
Contributor: LA Powers (47900440)
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