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5 unusual facts about Earp family


Earp family

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).

The Earp family included a number of lawmen, including patriarch and justice of the peace Nicholas Porter Earp (September 6, 1813 – February 12, 1907), whose sons James, Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan, and to a lesser extent Warren Earp became legendary figures in the American Old West.

His company was ordered to guard the prisoners taken at the surrender, who were housed at Fredericktown.

Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 Hartford, Kentucky – October 19, 1905 Goldfield, Nevada)

Afterward they took jobs with the Union Pacific, which was building the Transcontinental Railroad west from Omaha, Nebraska.



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