Wyatt Earp
1848 - 1929 History
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Welcome to the Wyatt Earp History Page The Largest and Most Informative Wyatt Earp Site on the Net! WWW.WYATTEARP.NET Marriage
to Urilla Sutherland
On
January 10, 1870, Wyatt Earp married Urilla Sutherland. The ceremony was
conducted by Nicholas Earp, Wyatt's father. Nicholas later filed the
following document with the Barton County Clerk's Officer:
Urilla
was the daughter of William and Permelia Sutherland, owners of the Lamar
Hotel. It is likely that Wyatt and Urilla lived at the Lamar Hotel
for a time. Wyatt Earp purchased a lot with a home on it for $50 in August 1870 and the couple probably moved the home at that time. However, Urilla apparently died sometime in 1870. One claim suggests that she may have died during child birth. Another account states that she died of Typhus. The exact cause or date she died is unknown. However, it was likely that Urilla died shortly before November 1870, as Wyatt sold for $75 the home he had purchased in August during this month. Your host is Steve Gatto, author of The Real Wyatt Earp (Edited by Neil Carmony) (2000), Johnny Ringo (2002), Curly Bill, Tombstone's Most Famous Outlaw (2003). Steve's latest work, Hurled Into Eternity, The Story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is expected to be released July 2006. Portions of the text appearing on this site come from the above books. |
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