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I was at the Firestone on St. Francis Drive and checked out the Our Lady of Guadalupe Cemetery, which is behind the Dunkin Doughnuts. Find a Grave has 192 memorials of people buried there.

There is a man named Thomas "Tom Johnson" Bishop who is buried in an unmarked grave in the unblessed portion of the cemetery. His story is tragic.

Thomas Bishop (legal surname) was born on September 29, 1899 in the coastal region of South Carolina. He joined the U.S. Navy in Charleston in 1916 (pending request for NARA records). More details need to be added about how Bishop never gave up moving from place to place--West Virginia, Ohio, Detroit, Kansas, New Mexico-- in search of employment and a better way of life. His parents were Thomas Bishop, Sr. and Magdalene Bishop (family records pending research). [I find his mother's name spelled "Madoline" on his draft card from 1917.]

Thomas later used the surname "Johnson" to avoid bringing shame to his family.

The State of New Mexico electrocuted Bishop on July 21, 1933, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first execution by electric chair. Bishop's crime was the alleged murder of Angelina Jaramillo. It was well known in the city that her uncle had raped and murdered her and escaped to Canada to avoid prosecution. Her mother, Cleofas Jaramillo, lied about the clothing of the murderer in order to match what Bishop wore that night. Even though Bishop had an alibi, a lynch-mob mentality prevailed and city leaders chose to accuse, try, and sentence him to death. The State used him as a guinea pig for their first use of the electric chair.

Bishop is buried in an unmarked grave in the unblessed section of Our Lady of Guadalupe Cemetery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Rising Roberts Mortuary signed Bishop's death certificate (see attached, however the details are inaccurate). Memorial Chapel Funeral Home oversaw his burial, his grave dug by prisoners from the State Penitentiary. Exact location of his unmarked grave pending research.

A profile for Bishop that includes scant details about his parents, brother and sister can be found here: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/209200165/person/112756747612/facts

Reference Ralph Melnick's book, JUSTIC BETRAYED: A DOUBLE KILLING IN OLD SANTA FE, for citations that support these facts. 

At the end of his book, Melnick wrote, "I could not help but dream of how much might be gained if we could but redress the wrongs committed in our own names--and of how much more was still to be lost to us if we failed."