Explore This Article Contents Georgia Years Western Career Film Legacy Georgia native Doc Holliday, a noted gambler and gunman of the Old West, or Wild West, became famous for his role at the O.K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881, and for his lifelong friendship with Wyatt Earp. Holliday, an icon of American folk history, has been immortalized in numerous film and television productions. Georgia Years John John Henry "Doc" Holliday Henry "Doc" Holliday was born on August 14, 1851, in Griffin, in Spalding County, to Alice Jane McKey and Henry Burroughs Holliday. His father served in the Civil War (1861-65) as a major in the Twenty-seventh Georgia Infantry, and the well-known physician Crawford Long was a cousin of Holliday's. His uncle, John Stiles Holliday, built a Gre

JOHN HENRY "DOC" HOLLIDAY