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).
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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.
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Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 Hartford, Kentucky – October 19, 1905 Goldfield, Nevada)
Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp assisted by his brother Wyatt and Sheriff's posse led by Behan attempted to track the Bisbee stage robbers.
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He is best known for being a member of group of outlaw Cowboys that had ongoing conflicts with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp.
While escorting Virgil Earp and his wife Allie to the train bound for California, Wyatt killed Frank Stilwell who had been named as a suspect in Morgan's murder.
Following the war, Holt returned to films, appearing as Virgil Earp to Henry Fonda's Wyatt Earp in the John Ford western My Darling Clementine (1946).