Western Figure. Born in Troy Grove, near Ottawa, Illinois, he took part in the Kansas struggle preceding the Civil War, was a driver of the Butterfield stage line, and gained fame as a gunfighter. He was an assistant station tender for the Pony Express at the Rock Creek, Nebraska station. He served as a Union scout in the Civil War. After the war he became deputy United States Marshal at Fort Riley (1866), Marshal of Hays, Kansas (1869), and Marshal of Abilene (1871). His reputation as a marksman in desperate encounters with outlaws made him a frontier legend. Hickok once shot and killed his own deputy in error, which was the downfall of his career as a lawman. After a tour of the East with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show(1872 to 1873), he went to Deadwood, South Dakota where he was murdered by Jack McCall while playing cards at the #10 Saloon. The hand Hickok had held, a pair of Aces and a pair of Eights, thereafter became known as "The Dead Man's Hand."
Gravesite Details
Stone topped with sculpture of head
Family Members
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William Alonzo Hickok
1801–1852
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Pamelia Butler Hickok
1804–1878
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Agnes Mersman Thatcher
1826–1907 (m. 1876)
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Anna Wilson
1847–1885
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Oliver Cromwell Hickok
1830–1898
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Lorenzo Butler Hickok
1832–1913
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Horace Dewey Hickok
1834–1916
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Mary Celinda Hickok Smith
1839–1916
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Lydia M Hickok Barnes
1842–1916
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Willie Wilson
1867–1878
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Jean H. Hickok McCormick
1873–1951
Flowers
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