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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 ... (about $4,500 today) ... On July 7, 1957, grave robbers dug 5 feet (1.5 m) into the Earp's grave in an apparent attempt to ...
Two of the more notable shootings involved Warren Earp in 1900 and Bill Downing in 1908. [7] [8] Warren Baxter Earp, the youngest of the Earp brothers, was ill-tempered. He wasn't in town during the OK Corral gunfight, but he did participate in Wyatt Earp's revenge where many cowboys were murdered. Earp lived in Willcox.
The grave of Wyatt and Josephine Earp in Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, Colma, California. Date: 23 May 2010: Source: Own work: Author: BrokenSphere: Permission
On July 7, 1957, grave-robbers dug into the Earp's grave in an apparent attempt to steal the urn containing his ashes, but unable to find them, stole the 300-pound (140 kg) grave stone. [114] Actor Hugh O'Brian , who was playing Earp in the 1955–61 television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp , offered a reward for the stone’s return.
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Wyatt and Josephine Earp grave at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park. Emanu-El Hart (or the "Old Jewish Cemetery") was built in 1847 at Gough Street and Vallejo Street in San Francisco; by 1860 the graves were relocated to an area that is now Mission Dolores Park and this served as a cemetery for both the Congregation Emanu-El and the Congregation Sherith Israel.
Clanton reported in his testimony afterward that Wyatt Earp cursed him. He said Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp offered him his rifle and to fight him right there in the courthouse, which Clanton declined. Clanton also denied ever threatening the Earps. [13] Clanton was fined $25 plus court costs and after paying the fine left unarmed.
On screen Billy has been portrayed by James Ferrara in Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942), John Ireland in My Darling Clementine (1946), Dennis Hopper in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Ralph Reed and Gary Gray in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1957–1960), David Cole in the Doctor Who episode The Gunfighters (1966), Bruce M ...