HE DIED FROM EATING TOO MUCH PASTE | Strange Graves in the Nevada Desert | Goldfield Cemetery

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A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον 'sleeping place') implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard.[

Usually, when you think of tombstone inscriptions, they run along the lines of “Dear, Departed Mother,” or “Faithful, Loving Husband.” Less expected is a very matter-of-fact epitaph such as “Gunshot,” or “Man Died Eating Library Paste.” But expectations and reality often clashed in the Wild West and, sure enough, that’s the sort of grim humor you’ll find on the grave markers of the permanent residents of Esmerelda County’s Goldfield Cemetery.

So, what goes along with a serious boomtown? An endlessly interesting cemetery, of course. Goldfield’s cemetery was originally located in the center of town, but as the population and infrastructure swelled to accommodate 20,000 people and the railroad came to town, they needed to relocate the local burial ground. The railroad company didn’t want passengers stepping off the train and onto graves, and the city didn’t want graves near its largest hotel, so a group of men assembled to relocate the remains. Known as the “Official Ghouls,” this group of men unearthed the remains in the middle of the night, moving them to the modern day site on the edge of town.