"Our cemetery, the historic Jewish cemetery at Boothill, was recently come upon by Judge C. Lawrence Huerta when Tombstone author Al Turner showed the site to him and his Jewish visitors from Maryland, Israel Rubin and his family. Defined only by a crumbling adobe brick wall, now only about four-feet high, the approximately 2,500-square foot burial ground was generally unnoticed for more than 100 years.

Huerta, a full-blooded Yaqui Indian from Tucson, was spiritually affected when Israel Rubin recited the traditional Kaddish prayer at the abandoned site. He was moved to restore the now-desolate graveyard in memory of those who lay there and all the departed who are now forgotten. "I'm an American Indian who spent many years in Washington, D.C., working on behalf of my people," he says. "There the Rubin family made me a part of them. The state of the Jewish cemetery at Boothill moved me deeply. A burial place is sacred to my people, and I wanted this place to be treated with the respect it once had. In honoring my Jewish brothers I feel I am also honoring the lost and forgotten bones of my own people who lay where they fell when the west was being settled."  -Leona G. and David A. Bloom: Southwest Jewish Archives at  http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/bloom/boothill.htm