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Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Earp (née Marcus; 1861 – December 19, 1944) [1] was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, a famed Old West lawman and gambler.She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier boom town of Tombstone in Arizona Territory, when she was living with Johnny Behan, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona.
One inconsistency noted by other researchers is the account of Warren Earp's death. Josephine allegedly wrote in I Married Wyatt Earp how Wyatt returned to Arizona to avenge Warren Earp's July 6, 1900 killing.
Following Wyatt's return to San Francisco, Josephine began using the name "Josephine Earp". [154] Josephine was Earp's common-law wife for 46 years until his death. [55]: 29 Wyatt and Josie remained in San Francisco for about nine months until early 1883, when they left for Silverton, Colorado, where silver and gold mining were flourishing.
Based on the information Sadie provided the Earp cousins with, when correlated with other sources, Josephine may have left San Francisco for Prescott as early as October 1874, [16] when she was 13 or 14 years old. [30] Author Roger Ray thoroughly researched Josephine's story about joining the theater company and found many inconsistencies.
Earp at about age 39 [1]: 104 Wyatt Earp's fame and reputation has varied through the years. While alive, he had many admirers and detractors. Among his peers near the time of his death, Wyatt Earp was respected. His deputy Jimmy Cairns described Earp's work as a police officer in Wichita, Kansas. "Wyatt Earp was a wonderful officer.
Here’s the real story on what we know about Josephine’s death. How did Josephine Bonaparte die? Apple. Josephine died of pneumonia in the town of Rueil-Malmaison in France on May 29, 1814.
Knowledge of her place in Wyatt's life was concealed by Josephine Earp, his later common-law wife, who worked ceaselessly to protect her and Wyatt's reputation in their later years. Blaylock's relationship with Earp was rediscovered by Earp researcher John Gilchriese and author Frank Waters in the 1950s, when they uncovered a coroner's report ...
She's stoned to death, leaving the heroine with riches and the audience to question who the tricksy werewolf of the story really is: the grandmother, or the ambitious young girl. It's likely that any 21st century writer working in the genre was influenced by Carter, and Amber Sparks – whose new collection The Unfinished World has been ...