Navajo Indian Boy - Holbrook, AZ
N 34° 54.593 W 110° 09.462
12S E 576946 N 3863373
A homemade grave marker is at the final resting place of a Navajo boy in Holbrook Cemetery, Holbrook, AZ.
Waymark Code: WM15M3W
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 01/19/2022
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There's nothing to be found about this boy, and anything is speculation: Perhaps he was found somewhere and buried here. Perhaps he was buried here long before later settlers arrived, and found when the cemetery did work or created a grave. Perhaps his grave was found somewhere in town and he was re-interred here. Perhaps ...
This small town cemetery is exceptionally well-maintained, and this is one of quite a few such markers that have been created either as a replacement for an original headstone, or where there was none. The headstone is about three feet tall, a piece of tile attached to a stone that has been shaped. Near the bottom is a steel plaque reading "Holbrook Old West Cemetery". Multiple symbols complement "Navajo Indian Boy", including a storm cloud, crossed arrows, a desert tortoise, the Zuni sun face, a bird, and in the lower right, something that's hard to interpret, maybe a dog or another animal. The inscription was incised by hand and filled in with black paint, and it reads:
We do not know
his name or his age ...
where he lived ...
when or how he died
Honoring those who
forever remain
unknown
Burial Location: Holbrook Cemetery
Available Times for Viewing: Daylight hours
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