[19] Josephine could be controlling. [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. Later that year, Josephine's half-sister Rebecca Levy married Aaron Wiener,[7] an insurance salesman born in Prussia, as her parents were. Josephine Earp - Wikipedia In 1998, a series of articles by Tony Ortega in the Phoenix New Times, including interviews with Glenn Boyer, argued that Boyer invented large portions of the book. Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Lake, Stuart 9780671885373 | eBay [71] Josephine got pregnant at the same time, and she thought she could persuade Earp from heading to Alaska. [44][52][53] The area in which Behan campaigned was also near Cave Creek, where Al Sieber was looking for Indians. Childhood & Early Life. On November 25, 1899, the Seattle Star reported Earp's arrival. [43] Rather than leave Tombstone, Josephine later wrote that Behan convinced her to use the money to build a house for them[32] and continued their relationship. She may have arrived in Prescott, Arizona as early as 1874. Of those three, there's a "maybe" around Marcus, but it should come as no surprise that Mattie Blaylock, the woman usually described as the "second Mrs. Wyatt Earp," had a history of prostitution. After a time however I very much improved in health so that within two years after my experience I was once more a normal healthy girl." But, no other corroborating evidence has been found supporting the thesis that Josephine used May Bell as a stage name, and she never claimed so. [26]:45, After Wyatt's death, Josephine collaborated with two of her husband's cousins, Mabel Earp Cason and her sister Vinolia Earp Ackerman, to document her life. His first was Urilla Sutherland who died early in his marriage. In the summer of 1879 he moved back to Prescott, the territorial capital. [2] Josephine said that she matured early and developed large breasts. When he delayed, she was ready to leave him. But they'd met only four years earlier, while passing through Texas. (It's now a ghost town in Shoshone County). 1880; Tip Top, Yavapai, Arizona Territory; roll 37, page 413A,, enumeration district 22. [57] Nineteen-year-old Sadie Mansfield, the same person his former wife Victoria had named in their divorce five years earlier, was also living in Tip Top. While the town already had five saloons with five courtesans, Johnny's new saloon had none. [2], Josephine's father Henry was a baker. Wyatt Earp is the most recognizable face of the Earp family. With the provision that Wyatt's name be removed from the title, the movie was released as Frontier Marshal. She wrote that the famous Indian fighter Al Sieber was tracking the escaped Apache. During a month-long preliminary hearing, Judge Wells Spicer heard testimony from a large number of witnesses. Earp was apparently heavily affected by his first wife's death and started acting out. In 1939 Josephine sued 20th Century Fox for $50,000 in an attempt to keep them from making the film titled Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. . Corral on October 26, 1881. Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp (1860 - December 19, 1944) was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, a famed Old West lawman and gambler. [25] She would not even talk about the key events of 188182, their key years in Tombstone. She was not recorded in the 1870 census but in 1871 she posed for a photo in Fort Scott, Kansas. What Famous People Attended Wyatt Earps Funeral? She earned a certificate in genealogical research from Boston University and a certificate in antiques, collectibles, and appraising from Asheford Institute of Antiques.