Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848 - 1929)

Born 19 Mar 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Aurilla (Sutherland) Earp — married 10 Jan 1870 (to before 1871) in Lamar, MissourI, USA

Died 13 Jan 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA

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Biography

In his new (2017) book, DODGE CITY, Tom Clavin says that Wyatt's first wife was Aurilla Sutherland. He says that she was born 10 JAN 1850 in Illinois. She was the sixth child, second daughter of parents William and Permelia Sutherland, city people from New York. Born in Illinois, her family moved south to Lamar, Missouri, when she was ten years old. The Sutherlands owned and operated William's Exchange Hotel in the Lamar town square, which was three doors from a shop where Nicholas sold baked goods and oysters. Justice of the Peace, Nicholas Earp married Wyatt & Aurilla on 16 JAN 1870, six days after her 20th birthday. Aurilla was soon pregnant, and Wyatt was elected constable. In August, 1870, Wyatt bought a house next door to his parents and their two youngest and also next to Newton.

Everything was going so well for Wyatt and Aurilla!!! Then Aurilla died and the infant did not survive.

Wyatt fell apart and hit a downward spiral. He became a horse thief. He paid bail. He was never convicted. He became a buffalo hunter. He had several brushes with the law. Then Wyatt went to Wichita and found redemption.

Sources

• Wild West Personalities Produce Bang-Up Pedigree By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG
• Wikipedia article on Wyatt Earp
• Wikipedia article on Earp family
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ4N-7NC : 9 November 2014), Wyatt B Earp in household of N P Earp, Lake Prairie, Marion, Iowa, United States; citing family 156, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8L7-4VP : 30 December 2015), Wyatt S Earp in entry for Nicolas P Earp, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4X7-R6M : 17 October 2014), Wyatt Earp, Missouri, United States; citing p. 28, family 214, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,256.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH2H-MS3 : 11 August 2016), Wyatt S Earp in household of Virgil W Earp, Tombstone Village, Pima, Arizona, United States; citing enumeration district ED 2, sheet 163C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0036; FHL microfilm 1,254,036.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3FF-3TV : accessed 10 January 2017), W S Earp, The territoryfrom & including Port Clarence to Cape Darby., Northern District, Alaska Territory, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 3, sheet 392B, family , NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,829.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV2T-V84 : accessed 10 January 2017), Wyatt S Earp, Los Angeles Assembly District 71, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 154, sheet 5B, family 145, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 81; FHL microfilm 1,374,094.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQD-4Y6 : accessed 10 January 2017), Wyatt S Earp, Los Angeles Assembly District 61, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing ED 109, sheet 12B, line 65, family 313, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 105; FHL microfilm 1,820,105.
• http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/20518178/person/28878363353
• FindAGrave.com memorial #311 in Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA
• DODGE CITY, Copyright 2017, by Tom Clavin. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Kitty Smith for starting this profile.

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