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According to Tippie's family, "He was the bartender at Saloon No. 10 when Wild Bill Hickok was shot," said Jim Wilson director of Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission.
Through the program, historic preservation will purchase a basic grave marker for $400 from Deadwood Granite for an unmarked grave.
In exchange for the tombstone the family of the person whose grave it is must provide the City of Deadwood with historical information pertaining to the person in the grave, Wilson said.
"At this time there is no minimum amount of information the family must provide," Wilson said. "We just ask that they provide some reasonable amount of information."
The information provided is then entered into the Mount Moriah Management Information System (MIS) which is then linked to the Deadwood Geographic Information System (GIS).
When a person accesses the MIS they are able to find the location of the grave, Wilson explained. At the time they access the system hot links become available. The links reach the information provided by the family and will vary from grave to grave. By clicking on those links, in the case of Tippie, they will find a picture and a genealogy.
The Deadwood GIS system can be accessed at cityofdeadwood.com.
