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Wyatt Earp

10th Cousin

4 times removed

Common Ancestor

Father: Thomas A. Roby
Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England
1501 - 1552

Mother: Elizabeth Swaine
Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England
1503 - 1565

Born: Died:
19 March 1848 29 January 13, 1929
Monmouth, Illinois Los Angeles, California

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13,
1929) was an Old West lawman and gambler
in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, and a deputy
marshal in Tombstone. He worked in a wide variety of
trades throughout his life and took part in the
famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which
lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys.
He's often erroneously regarded as the central figure
in the shootout, although his brother Virgil was the
Tombstone City and Deputy U.S. Marshal that day and had far more experience in combat as a sheriff,
constable, marshal, and soldier.

Earp had many other interests besides being a professional gambler, teamster, and buffalo hunter. As an
entrepreneur he owned several saloons, maintained a brothel, mined for silver and gold, and refereed
boxing matches. He spent his early life in Pella, Iowa. In 1870, he married Urilla Sutherland, who
contracted typhoid fever and died in childbirth. During the next two years, Earp was arrested for stealing
a horse, escaped from jail, and was sued twice. He was arrested and fined three times in 1872 for
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"keeping and being found in a house of ill-fame". His third arrest was described at length in the Daily
Transcript, which referred to him as an "old offender" and nicknamed him the "Peoria Bummer,"
another name for loafer or vagrant.
By 1874, he arrived in the boomtown of Wichita, Kansas, where his reputed wife opened a brothel. On
April 21, 1875, he was appointed to the Wichita police force and developed a solid reputation as a
lawman, but he was fined and dismissed from the force after getting into a fistfight with a political

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