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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.
Celia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock (January 1850 – July 3, 1888) was a prostitute who became the romantic companion and common-law wife of Old West lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp for about six years. 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 ...
Wyatt Earp was the last surviving Earp brother and the last surviving participant of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral when he died at home in the Earps' small rented bungalow at 4004 W 17th Street, [144] in Los Angeles, of chronic cystitis on January 13, 1929, at the age of 80.
Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 – October 19, 1905) was an American lawman. He was both deputy U.S. Marshal and City Marshal of Tombstone, Arizona, when he led his younger brothers Wyatt and Morgan, and Doc Holliday, in a confrontation with outlaw Cowboys at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881.
Earp was interviewed in 1888 by an agent of California historian Hubert H. Bancroft, and in 1932, Frank Lockwood, who authored Pioneer Days in Arizona, wrote that Earp told both of them that he killed Ringo as he left Arizona in March 1882 – almost four months before Ringo died. He included other details that do not match what is known about ...
The Earp Vendetta Ride was a deadly search by a federal posse led by Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp for a loose confederation of outlaw "Cowboys" they believed had ambushed his brothers Virgil and Morgan Earp, maiming the former and killing the latter.
Two days after the artist born Anthony Leonard Platt died at age 43, as confirmed by his wife Sherkita Long-Platt via a Facebook announcement, his spouse has since shared his cause of death with TMZ.
Among the improvements made in 2009, to the cemetery, after it became known that Wyatt Earp's second “wife,” was interred there, was the addition of a fence and signage with the added phrase "Historical". [3] Noteworthy graves include: Celia Ann “Mattie” Blaylock Earp (1850–1888) – Mattie was Wyatt Earp's common law wife. Wyatt ...