And you have no business risking money that way. The charges against her reported that "one set of German table spoons were stolen from the store of H. Asher and Company in the village of Prescott, Yavapai, A.T." Sheriff Ed Burnes searched Mansfield's residence and confiscated the spoons. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp, by Ann Kirschner", "Testimony of Wyatt S. Earp in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "The Earps, Doc Holliday, & The Blonger Bros", "Long Green's Bodyguard Swears he is a Poor Man", "San Diego Walking Tour: Gaslamp Quarter", "Wyatt Earp: The Missing Years, San Diego In The 1880s", "Shady Ladies in the "Stingaree District" When The Red Lights Went Out in San Diego", "The Story of New San Diego and of its Founder Alonzo E. Horton", "Seattle newspaper reports on November 25, 1899, that Wyatt Earp will open a gambling house in the city", "1900 United States Federal Census for Mrs W S Earp", "Earp Historical Timeline San Francisco and Alaska", "Earp Historical Timeline Page 12 The Final Years", "Cemetery of the Week #116: Wyatt Earp's gravesite", Rare Original Letters: Josephine "Sadie" Earp, 1914 "Kaloma" valse hesitante by "Gire Goulineaux", a pseudonym of Johann C. Schmid (19701951), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josephine_Earp&oldid=1152582421, Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, Colma, California, frontier adventurer; gambler; possibly prostitute, This page was last edited on 1 May 2023, at 03:08. There they met Virgil and Allie. 1880; Tip Top, Yavapai, Arizona Territory; roll 37, page 413A,, enumeration district 22. Three days later, Sieber and Sgt. "[19], As late as 1936, Josephine took legal action to suppress certain details of her and Wyatt's life in Tombstone. He met another woman, Josephine Sadie Marcus, around 1882 and spent the rest of his life with her. It is a very good read and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to know more about the life and times of Wyatt Earp. She met a gambler from Arizona who asked her to marry him. Corral and the March 18, 1882, assassination of Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp, his youngest brother Warren, and a posse of other deputies began a vendetta. [27]:117[61] In Josephine's version of her life story, she left San Francisco to join Behan to Tombstone in October 1880,[62] and was hoping he would fulfill his promises to marry her. There were few employment possibilities for young girls. Blaylock left Tombstone with other Earp family members for Colton, California. [95] In February 1902, they arrived in Tonopah, Nevada, known as the "Queen of the Silver Camps," where silver and gold had been discovered in 1900 and a boom was under way. [26], Josephine began using the name Sadie after she arrived in Arizona. He was reputed to own a six-horse stable in San Francisco,[74] although it was learned later that the horses were leased. [citation needed]. This was a most enjoyable movie, and perhaps the best cowboy movie in quite some time. Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday Weren't That Close It's true that Holliday and Earp were friends. C. S. Fly/Wikimedia Commons A portrait of Wyatt Earp's wife, Josephine Earp, in 1881, the year they met. 5. Mattie believed that her husband would soon grow tired of his new fling, but in reality, he was growing tired of her. [39] Josephine wrote that Dora was hired as a singer, and she was hired as a dancer. Levine says another gun in the collection was owned by Wyatt's . J. Levine Auction & Appraisal in Scottsdale, Ariz., is auctioning the guns, which owner Josh Levine believes belonged to Wyatt Earp. From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. [6] They traveled via ship to Panama, went over the Isthmus of Panama, and caught a steamship to San Francisco. Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, died in 1944, and her remains now rest with his. [19] The Yuma Arizona Sentinel reported on October 25, 1879, "Tuesday arrived a Pinafore Company for Tucson, composed of Misses Pauline Markham, Mary Bell, Belle Howard, and Mrs. Pring, and Messrs. Borabeck and McMahon. This family lived only a few blocks from where Josephine lived with her family. [5]:47[5]:65, Blaylock suffered from severe headaches and while in Tombstone, Arizona she became addicted to laudanum, a then-common opiate and pain killer. [2] He began campaigning and the Prescott Miner reported on October 6, 1874, that "J.H. Josephine Earp's story was shrouded in mystery throughout her life, but modern historians posit that she lied about her early years in an effort to conceal her unsavory past. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. She often appeared on stage and in publicity photos wearing a corset and pink tights: shocking attire for the 1870s. The rest struggled to get by or gambled their fortunes away while destitute women like Blaylock relied on prostitution and cowboys terrorized towns. [21], Josephine loved to play poker[104] and developed a serious gambling habit,[11] losing heavily at times. Meet Mattie Blaylock, The Abandoned Common-Law Wife Of Wyatt Earp By Marco Margaritoff | Edited By Erik Hawkins Published March 24, 2022 In the mid-19th century, Mattie Blaylock left her farm life in Iowa behind and eloped with Wyatt Earp, but ended up abandoned by the lawman after the Gunfight at the O.K. [38][58][59], Josephine wrote much later that her family wanted to keep her "escapades from the public." I thought constantly of my mother and how great must be her grief and worry over me. [19] Josephine could be controlling. Today, you can travel to the ghost town of Pinal, near the town of Superior, Arizona and visit Matties marked grave in the historic cemetery. [43], Sadie, traveling as either Mrs. J. C. Earp or Mrs. Wyatt Earp, left Tombstone for her family in San Francisco via Los Angeles on March 24, 1882. She would marry Earp long before his gunfight at the O.K. [48] The couple moved back to Prescott, Arizona Territory, where John had been working, and four months later, on June 15, 1869, she had her first child, Henrietta. Actors Kurt Russell, as Wyatt Earp, and Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday were both very good. [21] Mattie resumed life as a prostitute and committed "suicide by opium poisoning" on July 3, 1888. She became addicted to laudanum. Many wives of the prosperous mining engineers, merchants, and business owners lived in better class cities where they didn't have to contend with being confused for a prostitute. [83] Josephine frequently griped about Wyatts lack of work and financial success and even his character and personality. She likely enjoyed the social life and independence that accompanied her role. Much of what is known about Blaylock and her life is legend, and after her early death, she became a secret piece of Earps past and one of Wyatt Earps four wives. Earp had married a woman named Urilla (sometimes spelled Aurilla) Sutherland in 1870, but she passed away of typhoid fever before the couple could celebrate their first anniversary. She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier boom town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, when she was living with Johnny Behan, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona. "[2] She apparently resented treatment by her teachers in the San Francisco schools, describing them as "inconsistent of a tolerant and gay populous acting as merciless and self-righteous as a New England village in bringing up its children." But Josephine said that her parents hid her activities, and they may have been covering for her when the census taker appeared on their doorstep. Josephine and Wyatt went to great lengths to keep her name out of Lake's book, and she threatened litigation to keep it that way. Grace recalled that Josie, who had never had many domestic skills, did very little housekeeping or cooking for Wyatt. The Sacramento Daily Record reported on October 20, 1882, that Virgil had arrived in town from Tombstone to greet his brother Wyatt arriving from the east, although Virgil was living in Colton at the time. [1] Henry moved the family to San Francisco in 1868 when Josephine was 7. Earp named a mining claim he filed on February 16, 1880 "Mattie Blaylock. [6] Henry Marcus initially made enough money to send Josephine and her sister Hattie to music and dance classes at McCarty's Dancing Academy, a family-owned business on Eddy St. that taught both children and adults. She went to San Francisco in March 1882 and was joined that fall by Wyatt, with whom she remained as his life companion for 46 years until his death. Later that year, Josephine's half-sister Rebecca Levy married Aaron Wiener,[7] an insurance salesman born in Prussia, as her parents were. Josephine eventually sold virtually all of her jewelry to Baldwin. )[43], In September 1880, Behan and Sadie left Tip Top for Tombstone. The first known record of Mattie's presence is a picture taken in Fort Scott in 1871. The name Sadie Mansfield was also recorded in Tombstone. After Wyatt died, Josephine spent her last years in Los Angeles. [14]:101 Lake corresponded with Josephine over several years, and he claimed she attempted to influence what he wrote and hamper him in every way possible, including consulting lawyers. Descendants of Josie's half-sister Rebecca allowed a Southern California group in 199899 to erect the stone currently in place. Generally accepted to be a picture of Earp in Prescott, Arizona Territory, in 1880. Wyatt took a job managing a horse stable in Santa Rosa. He reportedly worked on a floating brothel thereafter and married teenage prostitute Sally Heckell, who was busted alongside him on Sept. 10, 1872, and identified herself as his wife. Eventually, she ended up in Dodge City, Kansas. I don't think she was that devastated when he died. Josephine ran away, possibly as early as age 14, and traveled to Arizona, where she said she went "looking for adventure". Wyatt Earp had a total of three wives. Josie had two miscarriages during her life and was apparently unable to have children. In I Married Wyatt Earp, author Glen Boyer states that Josephine took dance lessons and had a maid. Billy Clanton (Thomas Haden Church) Billy Clanton, Ike's younger brother, played here by Thomas Haden Church, isn't so lucky and isn't afforded the opportunity to throw down his red sash. What did Wyatt Earps wife drink? She said Weiner used a connection he had in Prescott to help Josephine get home. The case was tried the same day with only one witness for the defense, Jennie Andrews. In between, they had crossed paths, but it's not as if they went everywhere together. Kate was a prostitute and Holliday a gambler. [1] Celia had no desire to live on a farm for the rest of her life. Cason says she and her sister "finally abandoned work on the manuscript because she [Josie] would not clear up the Tombstone sequence where it pertained to her and Wyatt. Legend states she never heard from Wyatt again. In 1884, Wyatt and his wife Josie, his brothers Warren and James, and James' wife Bessie arrived in Eagle City, Idaho, another new boomtown that was created as a result of the discovery of gold, silver, and lead in the Coeur d'Alene area. [27], Josephine is quoted in I Married Wyatt Earp that she received a letter and $300 from her father, urging her to return to San Francisco. [2] The 1880 census places the family in the 9th Ward, between San Francisco Bay, Channel, Harrison and Seventh streets. Heartbroken and addicted, Blaylock tried her best to prevail. Her poor lifestyle would see her age out of favor, while her laudanum addiction saw her die of suicide by opium poisoning on July 3, 1888. [56], On May 22, 1875, Behan's wife Victoria filed for divorce. While Sarah would turn back within months after life on the road proved difficult, Blaylock forged ahead and adopted the name Mattie.. Doc Holliday saved Wyatt's life in Dodge City. She continued to work as a prostitute during their early years together. (It's now a ghost town in Shoshone County). Wyatt Earp After the legendary gunfight in Tombstone that lasted only 30 seconds, but would up defining Earp for the rest of his life, Earp and his new common law wife Sadie (a.k.a Josie) traveled around the west, scoring money in the gold rush and by investing in properties. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp was the first adult Western on television and became a top-ten-rated series, reports the LA Times. [26]:49, On June 2, 1880, the U.S. census had recorded Sadie Mansfield, whose occupation was "courtesan", as living in Tip Top. [2][32] Some modern researchers question the likelihood that her father, a Reform Jew, would approve his daughter's union with Behan, a man 14 years older than his daughter, an unemployed office-seeker, Gentile, and divorced father. Corral icon. There is no legal record of a marriage between the two. Josephine Sarah Marcus was born in 1861 in New York City, the second of three children of immigrants Carl-Hyman Marcuse (later Henry Marcus) and Sophie Lewis. He was known to disappear for days at a time "to see property", the family euphemism for a drinking binge, and Earp was his regular partner. He lost an election for Mohave County deputy sheriff in Gillet in 1879, but was elected as Mohave's representative to the Tenth Territorial Legislature. I finally finished reading this book about the life and times of Wyatt Earp. She also told the Earp cousins that Pauline Markham had a maid named Julia. Actor Kevin Costner, who played Earp in the 1994 movie Wyatt Earp, offered to buy a new, larger stone, but the Marcus family thought his offer was self-serving and declined. A staff writer for All Thats Interesting, Marco Margaritoff has also published work at outlets including People, VICE, and Complex, covering everything from film to finance to technology. Role: Allie Earp, Virgil's wife Also known for: Played the wife of the title character in Showtime's "Ray Donovan" series (2013-2017) and prostitute Trixie on HBO's "Deadwood". It was around this time that she met Wyatt Earp. But, in April 1881, less than eight months after Behan and Sadie built the house, she rented it to Dr. George Emory Goodfellow. [21], Wyatt died on January 13, 1929. Jaffa was also Jewish. Corral in Tombstone, a man becomes a myth in this thrilling journey of romance, adventure, and desperate heroic action. [55] The paper also reported on April 9, 1875, that a letter was waiting for her in the post office. [42]:p275-198[77], After the Coeur d'Alene mining venture died out, Earp and Josie briefly went to El Paso, Texas before moving in 1887 to San Diego where the railroad was about to arrive and a real estate boom was underway. On the inside were the German Jews and on the outside were the Polish Jews. It was discovered in a backyard in Fresno, California. Mattie was considered Earps common-law wife and in the 1880 census, the 30-year-old was listed as Mattie Earp, wife of Wyatt Earp. [54] In 1874, 14-year-old Sadie Mansfield worked under the watchful eye of Madam Josie Roland as a prostitute in a brothel on Granite Street, between Gurley and Alarcon streets, and near the Yavapai County Courthouse where Sheriff Behan worked. The Earps returned briefly to San Francisco in April 1900, but they returned to Seattle before boarding the steamer SS Alliance. Tombstone diarist George W. Parsons never mentioned seeing Earp and his next common-law wife, Josephine "Sadie" Marcus, together and neither did John Clum in his memoirs. Her real name was Leah Hirschberg, whose mother was a music teacher. Mattie Blaylocks grave at the Pinal City Cemetery in Superior, Arizona. Now after this I'm not going to redeem any more of your jewelry." [26] He was furious about her gambling habit, during which she lost considerable sums of money. [19] Wyatt had a mischievous sense of humor. Instead, Earp left Colorado in late 1882 and arrived in San Francisco where Virgil was seeking treatment for his arm. The Tragic Story Of Henry Duke Of Cornwall, Henry VIII's Son Who Died At Just Seven Weeks Old, 32 Disturbing Photos Of Life Inside Soviet Gulag Prisons, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch. By David Cranmer. The moment came between March and October of 1868, when the two adult sisters left town without money or permission from their parents. While in Los Angeles, Wyatt and Josephine became friends with many celebrities, including Cecil B. DeMille and Gary Cooper. Death of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, widow of Wyatt December 19, 1944 Josephine Sarah Marcus, born to German Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, NY, in 1861, grew up in San Francisco. As an unmarried woman in frontier Tombstone, vastly outnumbered by men, she was likely regarded by some as a prostitute, regardless of her true status. [18]:93, Behan and his wife were divorced in less than a month, in June 1875. She then made her way to Kansas where she first worked as a prostitute in Scott City before moving on to Dodge City. Josephine or Sadie Marcuss name was never included among those on the Markham troupes rolls in 1879. The horse was a frequent winner and sometimes Wyatt bought Josephine some jewelry with the proceeds. To her the women appeared not as "soiled doves" but nicely dressed women living a life of leisure. Corral, he left Tombstone. [120], The book has become an example of how supposedly factual works can trip up researchers, historians, and librarians. Previous researchers of Matties life state there are court records of her prostitution during this time that name her as Celie or Sally. [19] Josephine sought to get her own life story published and gained the assistance of Wyatt's cousins Mabel Earp Cason and Cason's sister Vinolia Earp Ackerman. Some say he spent a lot of time hunting, others argue he occupied his time in houses of ill-repute and other less than desirable establishments of the time. [79] Between 1887 and around 1896 he bought four saloons and gambling halls, one on Fourth Street and two near Sixth and E, all in the "respectable" part of town. On June 1 or 2, 1880, William V. Carroll, the census enumerator for the 9th ward in San Francisco, visited the Marcus home. [26]:49 In a set of extraordinary coincidences, Sadie Mansfield and Sadie Marcus had very similar names and initials and were known by their friends as "Sadie." Earp moved to Wichita, Kansas, and worked as a shotgun guard for Wells Fargo. Raised by devout parents on Iowa farmland, she yearned for freedom and a life of adventure. [71] Josephine was addicted to gambling on horse racing and her wagering increased until Wyatt gave her an ultimatum. Virgil married his third and last wife, Alvira "Allie" Packingham Sullivan, between 1871 and 1872. The book I Married Wyatt Earp (1967), based on a manuscript allegedly written in part by her, describes events she witnessed in Arizona that occurred before 1879, the year she claimed at other times to have first arrived in Tombstone. I can remember shedding many tears in out-of the way-corners. [26]:54, In November 1899, they left Alaska for a period and went to Seattle, Washington, with a plan to open a saloon and gambling room. florida liquidation pallets,