[19], Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was married three times. [23], Nicholas Earp died at The Soldier's Home in Sawtelle, California, on February 12, 1907, shortly after he was elected to the Los Angeles County court. There are no further records of Rosella or their marriage. Newton was a Mason and died in 1928. Four months later, he named his newborn son after his company's captain, whom he admired and respected.[5]. In 1871 he moved to Kansas, near the town of Stearling, Rice County where he was a farmer and pioneer settler, and thence to Garden City, in which town he rose quickly, becoming marshal for some time. Newton and Virgil fought several battles in the east before returning home. J[onathan] D. EARP. [17], The group arrived in San Bernardino, California on December 17, 1864. Local constables in Peoria, Illinois, likely considered him to be a pimp as they arrested him three times during 1872 for being found in a brothel. [1] The first Earp immigrant to the American colonies was Thomas Earp Jr., who arrived in Anne Arundel County on July 6, 1674, as an indentured servant from Ireland. He married Jennie (last name unknown) in 1854. [13], Their new farm consisted of 160 acres (0.65 km2), and was 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Pella, Iowa. [6] Newton Earp, and half-brothers James and Virgil, were close for their entire lives. Wynonna Earp Series Finale; ... she served as a Greek Orthodox nun as part of the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, until coming to live with Philip. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series 1955–1961) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. [5] They were never married but remained together the remainder of his life. Corral. Wyatt held a variety of jobs during his life. Office Hours: Monday-Friday 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM Closed: New Years Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving + Friday, Christmas Eve + Christmas Day During the war, her father told Ellen that Virgil had been killed. Some time prior to 1880, Nicholas and Virginia Earp moved back to California, settling in San Bernardino County. She is a strong willed but knowledgable woman. He was the half-brother of Old West lawmen Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp.. There, Newton worked as a saloon manager. He had outlived six of his ten children.[24]. Morgan Seth Earp joined his brothers Virgil and Wyatt in Tombstone, Arizona Territory on December 1, 1879. He decided to move to San Bernardino County in the southern part of the state. The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. He is such an uncouth and foul-mouthed person I think we made a terrible mistake engaging him and furnishing him horses and provisions to lead this wagon train west. The Earps may have hoped to keep the job in the family one way or another. C'est en 1985 que Megan Follows fille de Ted Follows et Dawn Greenhalgh aussi acteurs, connut la célébrité à travers son rôle d'Anne Shirley dans Anne... la maison aux pignons verts. He returned to Monmouth and his pregnant wife, Ginny. Morgan was struck in the right side and the bullet shattered his spine, passed through his left side, and lodged in the thigh of mining foreman George A.B. He was the eldest child of Nicholas Porter Earp and Abigail Storm. They became embroiled in a conflict with outlaw Cowboys that led to a confrontation and shootout on October 26, 1881, later known as the Gunfight at the O.K. He served briefly as a deputy marshal in Dodge City, Kansas under Marshal Charlie Bassett. [11] The newlyweds then joined his father and siblings in San Bernardino, California in southern California, where most of the family had relocated. Newton Earp served with Company F of the Fourth Cavalry, Iowa Volunteers. [5] He had also migrated to Wyoming and Nevada,[3] probably settling in the towns of Casper and Paradise before moving to California. [37]:115[38], Wyatt developed a reputation as a sportsman as well as a gambler. He was playing a late round of billiards at the Campbell & Hatch Billiard Parlor against owner Bob Hatch. Corral on October 26, 1881. "Memoirs of Martha Earp, "Earps Were Shooting Long Before the OK Corral", Long before O.K. [40]:38 The assailant shot Morgan through a window in a door that opened onto an alley between Allen and Fremont Streets. He used very profane language and he could hardly be appeased. [17], According to the diaries of Utah emigrants in the wagon train, Nicholas was an irascible and difficult man to deal with. He was the eldest child of Nicholas Porter Earp and Abigail Storm. [15], On May 12, 1864, Nicholas Earp was hired to lead a wagon train to California. They had two children: On July 30, 1840, Nicholas married Virginia Ann Cooksey in Hartford, Kentucky. James Kevin Earp James Kevin Earp, 61 of Milford Center, died peacefully March 10, 2021 at the James Cancer hospital after an extended battle with cancer. [6], In 1845, Nicholas Earp, his wife Ginny, with their sons James, Virgil, and Newton, and their daughter Martha, relocated from Kentucky to the fertile farmland of western Illinois and settled in Monmouth, Illinois. [19] His father, Justice of the Peace Nicholas Earp, married them. Wyatt won by 137 votes to Newton's 108, but their father Nicholas lost the election for justice of the peace in a very close four-way race.[8]. William Edwards died on May 3, 1919, in San Bernardino County, California. Seven more wagons joined them during the trip. I had the privilege and the pleasure of working with Martha during her tenure as Head of Contracts, not an easy job in the NNSY environment. She is a strong willed but knowledgable woman. Daughter Effie May and wife Jennie both died on March 29, 1898 in Paradise Hill, Nevada, also known as Paradise Valley. His sons Newton, James, and Virgil enlisted in the Union Army on November 11, 1861. [18], In spring 1868, Nick, Ginnie, Morgan, Warren, and Adelia returned to the mid-west and Lamar, Missouri, where Nicholas became the local constable. Marshal Crawley Dake appointed Virgil as Deputy U.S. ISBN 0-944383-50-5. Corral, Wyatt Earp's first shootout was in Beardstown, "Wild West Personalities Produce Bang-Up Pedigree", "Wyatt Earp: Timeline – Childhood to Wichita", ‘Mother Earp,’ a pipe-smoking mother of 9, was a role model and a companion, Inventing Wyatt Earp His Life and Many Legends, "Another Assassination Frank Stilwell Found Dead this Morning Being Another Chapter in the Earp-Clanton Tragedy", "Testimony of Virgil Earp in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp Case", "Luciano: Wyatt Earp's Peoria days anything but lawful", "Old West: Wyatt Earp – Was Wyatt a Pimp? Virgil and Newton, however, served the entire war. They remained together for a year in spite of her parents' (Gerrit Rysdam and Magdalena Catrina Van Velzen) disapproval of her choice. Nicholas' father Walter Earp was born in Montgomery County, Maryland in 1787, a fifth-generation Marylander who later became a school teacher, Justice of the Peace in Monmouth, Illinois[4] and a Methodist Episcopal preacher. Virgil eloped at age sixteen with 16-year-old Dutch immigrant Magdalena C. "Ellen" Rysdam (born November 25, 1842 in Utrecht, Netherlands – died May 3, 1910 in Cornelius, Oregon). On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, eight men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. They had five children. California Department of Health and Welfare, "[EARP, Martha]. He was discharged in March, 1863. He was also a cooper and sheriff. 1960 - 1964 OBITUARY INDEX LAST NAME FIRST NAME Death Date Obit Date Page Also Known As Type ECKERMAN Arthur Velie 6-Dec-1963 6-Dec-1963 3 O ECKERMAN Mary (Porter) 2 … [8] They had eight children: In March 1849,[12] Nicholas Earp joined about one hundred others from Monmouth County, Illinois for a trip to California, where he planned to look for good farm land, not gold. [9], On December 28, 1881, his brother Virgil Earp was ambushed and gravely wounded. [3] Nicholas was named for a circuit-riding judge in Kentucky. He was born March 13, 1959 in Fairmont, West Virginia, the son of the late Shirley Mae (Burnett) Shaffer and James Francy Earp. [5], Nicholas originally intended to become a lawyer like his father, before moving his law practice and his family from North Carolina to Kentucky, where he took up farming. [7], Following another relocation to California, Newton became a carpenter, building homes in northern California and northwestern Nevada. While his father was busy recruiting and drilling local companies, Wyatt, along with his two younger brothers, Morgan and Warren, were left in charge of tending the 80-acre (32 ha) corn crop. Corral gunfight, the city council suspended Virgil as city marshal pending outcome of the preliminary hearing. James then lived for a short time in Shoshone County, Idaho, until settling permanently by 1890 in California. Virgil was discharged from the military on June 26, 1865 and returned to Iowa, but he could not locate Ellen. He was the half-brother of Old West lawmen Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp. [28]:50 Wyatt was dismayed about the controversy that continually followed him. Martha Elizabeth Earp (September 25, 1845 in Monmouth, Illinois – May 26, 1856 in Monmouth, Illinois) Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois – January 13, 1929 in Los Angeles, California) Morgan Seth Earp (April 24, 1851 in Pella, Iowa – March 18, 1882 in Tombstone, Arizona) The Real Wyatt Earp: A Documentary Biography. James was severely wounded in Fredericktown, Missouri, and returned home in the summer of 1863. After Virginia's death on January 14, 1893 in San Bernardino, 80 year old Nicholas married Annie Elizabeth Cadd on October 14 of the same year. His mother died when he was two. His new wife, the widow of Ambrose Peck Alexander (1825–1884), was 50 years old. [13] Nicholas returned to Illinois and the family left for California but their daughter Martha, became ill and died. [7] In December 1847, Nicholas was a 33-year-old dragoon sergeant when he was kicked by a mule and seriously injured. Corral. Three of Nicholas' sons—Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan—became well-known lawmen as a result of their part in the Gunfight at the O.K. Rest In Peace. Two days later, the Earps left Monmouth and returned to Pella. He was a justice of the peace, a farmer, cooper, constable, bootlegger, wagon-master, and teacher. The Earps had five children: Effie May, Wyatt Clyde, Mary Elizabeth, Alice Abigail, and Virgil Edwin. Not long after their brothers Jim and Morgan left the family in San Bernardino and headed for the mining towns of Montana. He wrote a letter to John Hays Hammond on May 21, 1925, telling him "notoriety had been the bane of my life".[39]. [12] Newton died at age 91 in Sacramento, California on December 18, 1928. She died before 1887. Marshal for the eastern portion of Pima County. Mariée en 1991 à Christopher Porter, chef éclairagiste rencontré sur le tournage du film Deep Sleep, elle a avec lui deux enfants : Lyla Ann née en 1991 et Russell né en 1994. Nicholas was unable to pay the court-imposed fines following his trial, and a lien was levied against the Earp's property. Unable to find work, Nicholas was elected as the town constable, which he served as for about three years. Each time his father found him and brought him home. [19] By November 17, 1869, Nicholas resigned to become Justice of the Peace. Only his brother Wyatt survived him, with Wyatt dying almost a month later on January 13, 1929. Newton Jasper Earp (October 7, 1837 – December 18, 1928) was an American pioneer born in Kentucky in 1837.. Newton mustered out of the Army on June 26, 1865, in Louisville, Kentucky. [9] He married former prostitute Nellie "Bessie" Ketchum, in April 1873. Wyatt Earp (1994) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Earp enlisted in the Union Army (along with both James and Virgil) in 1861. Martha Corinne Walton is the widowed wife of Grandpa Zeb Walton's brother, Henry. [41] He died within the hour. Biographie. He is buried in St. Anne's Parish in Annapolis. [10] Newton and Virgil served until the end of the war. Newton married Nancy Jane (Jennie) Adam sometime between 1865 and 1868. He was mostly on call helping county and city officials.[28]:113. Nursys QuickConfirm License Verification. They named their first-born son (born on August 25, 1872) after his not-yet-famous younger brother, Wyatt; and their second son (born April 19, 1880) after his younger brother, Virgil. He later testified that when he saw the Cowboys, he immediately commanded them to "Throw up your hands, I want your guns! Silver City: High – Lonesome Books. He was in the Union army during the Civil War, serving as a part of the 4th Iowa Cavalry, and eventually mustered out with the rank of corporal. [33][34][35][36] He arrived with his brothers Virgil and Morgan in Tombstone, Arizona Territory on December 1, 1879. On March 18, 1882, his brother Morgan Earp was assassinated in a billiard parlor. Three days after the O.K. She remarried a Dutch man and moved to the Oregon Territory.[5]. [14] Eight years later, on March 4, 1856, Nicholas sold his Pella, Iowa, farm to Aquillin Waters Noe (who resold it on the same day to Hiram Zenas Webster) and the family returned to Monmouth, Illinois, where Nicholas found that nobody needed his services as cooper or farmer.[6]. Virgil worked as a teamster and Wyatt manned a pick and shovel. Five years later, he married Rosella Dragoo (b. January 3, 1845, France) on August 28, 1870 in Lamar, Missouri. [5], Newton was born in Ohio County, Kentucky, to Nicholas Earp and his first wife, Abigail Storm. Nicholas was also one of the founders of the San Bernardino Society of California Pioneers. [31] He was seriously wounded and Dr. George E. Goodfellow was forced to remove 4 inches (100 mm) of shattered humerus bone from Virgil's left arm, leaving his arm permanently crippled. "[17], This evening Mr. Earp had another rippet [sic] with his son Warren [for] fighting [with] Jimmy Hatten. [10][7], After Earp's return from the American Civil War, he married Nancy Jane Adam in Marion County, Missouri on 12 Sep 1865. On December 22, 1836, in Hartford, Nicholas Porter married Abigail Storm, the daughter of Peter and Anna Maria (Lehman) Sturm (born September 21, 1813 Ohio County, Kentucky – died October 8, 1839 Ohio County, Kentucky). He is interred there at the Mountain View Cemetery. Nicholas was recorded as a farmer. On December 28, 1881, three men hidden in the upper story of an unfinished building across Allen street from the hotel ambushed Virgil from behind as he walked from the Oriental Saloon to his room. He and the other Earp brothers had received death threats earlier in the day. Witnesses were conflicted about who fired first. On November 11, 1859, the property was sold at auction. Late Saturday night, March 18, 1882, Morgan was ambushed and killed after returning from a musical at Schieffelin Hall. He was wounded on October 31, 1861 in a battle near Fredericktown, Missouri, and lost the use of his left arm.