John Clum is best known for his time in Tombstone as mayor and founding editor of The Tombstone Epitaph. But that period was also one of personal tragedy.
In December 1880, he and wife Mary had a daughter named Bessie. It must have been a difficult birth; Mary died a week later, not long before John was elected town mayor. She is buried in Boot Hill Cemetery. The baby was sickly from the st
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