The Complete List of Old West Lawmen - Last Name Starts with "E"

Old West Lawmen - Last Name Starts With "E"

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Earp Family

Though the Earps traveled widely from Illinois to California, they kept in touch, at a time when communication was difficult. Nicholas Porter Earp and Virginia Ann Cooksey had six children including James C., Virgil W, Wyatt B., Morgan, Warren B., Virginia and Adelia. All four boys would act as lawmen at some point in their lives.

James C. Earp (1841-1926) - The oldest brother of the Earps, James was badly wounded in the Civil War in 1861, but this did not hinder him from later serving as a lawman in Dodge City, Kansas. Though James moved with his brothers to Tombstone, Arizona, he was not involved in the events of the O.K. Corral. When Morgan was killed, he traveled with Virgil and the Earp women to Colton, California for Morgan's burial. Later he lived in Shoshone County, Idaho before settling permanently in California in 1890. James Earp died on January 25, 1926 and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, in San Bernardino, California.

The Earps were a clannish bunch, consistently standing

by their family and their friends. This graphic portrays just

three of them, along with Doc Holliday, adapted from

the popular movie Tombstone.

Morgan Earp was shot and killed by Ike Clanton while playing pool in Tombstone, Arizona on March 18, 1882.

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Morgan Earp (1851-1882) – Born in Iowa on April 24, 1851, he moved with his family to San Bernardino, California in 1864. He joined brother Wyatt in Dodge City, Kansas where he married Luisa Houston. The pair soon moved to Butte, Montana, where he served as marshal. By 1879, he had headed to Arizona, where he was appointed as a sheriff in Pima County. The next year, he was in Tombstone with the rest of his brothers and went to work for Virgil as a police officer.

In the battle with the Clantons at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881, he was shot in the side by Tom McLaury. Doc Holliday instantly countered, blowing McLaury away with blasts from both barrels of his shotgun.

Morgan survived the wounds, but on March 18, 1882, Ike Clanton and four henchmen took revenge. While Earp was playing pool at Campbell and Hatch's Saloon in Tombstone, Clanton and four of his henchmen shot and killed him. Morgan’s body was brought back to California where he is buried at Hermosa Cemetery in Colton, California

Virgil W. Earp (1843-1905) – Born in Hartford, Kentucky on July 18, 1843, his father later moved the family to Monmouth, Illinois. Virgil married Ellen Rysdam in February, 1860, before joining the Union Army during the American Civil War. However, as Virgil continued to serve, he was mistakenly reported as having been killed and his wife and daughter moved to Walla Walla, Washington , where she remarried.

After the war Virgil joined his younger brother, Wyatt Earp, as a freighter-teamster between Wilmington, California to Prescott, Arizona. The two brothers also worked on railroad construction in Wyoming. In 1870, Virgil remarried to Allie Sullivan and ran a sawmill in Prescott for a time. He then became the deputy marshal at Tucson before moving to Tombstone, where he was appointed city marshal in 1880. Appointed as city marshal of Tombstone, Arizona in 1880.

He quickly gathered his brothers, who joined him in the frontier town. Ambushed by the Clanton Gang, Virgil was shot in the arm in December 1881, which crippled him for life. Virgil was taken to the family homestead in Colton, California where he recovered from his wounds. Later he prospected with his wife and, still later, was elected city marshal of Colton. He then returned to prospecting with his wife Allie and died of pneumonia in Goldfield, Nevada in 1905. Virgil is buried in the Riverview Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.

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Virgil Earp was instrumental in shutting down the illegal activities of the Clanton Gang.

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Warren Earp (1855-1900) - The younger brother of Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, Warren was born in Pella, Iowa on March 9, 1855. Warren joined his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 and worked for Virgil as a deputy. However, he was not involved in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, some saying he wasn't even in Tombstone at the time. Afterwards, however; he participated in the revenge taken by the Earps against those that had killed Morgan and tried to kill Virgil. He was with his brother Wyatt and Doc Holliday when Frank Stillwell was killed in Tucson on March 20, 1882. Though he and the others were indicted for the murder, they were not convicted. After the whole Tombstone episode was finally over, Warren left Arizona but returned in 1891 where he worked as a mail stage driver on the road between Willcox and Fort Grant. On July 6, 1900, he argued with a man named Johnnie Boyett in Brown's Saloon in Willcox. The two had a history of not liking each other due to their mutual affection for the same woman. As the argument progressed, Boyett shot and killed Warren. Warren Earp was buried in Willcox, at the Pioneer Cemetery. Boyett was never charged with a crime.

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848-1929) -- A lawman and gunfighter from Missouri, Wyatt served as a Lamar, Missouri constable before moving on to Ellsworth, Kansas in 1873, where he was appointed marshal. A year later he was in Wichita before moving on to Dodge City, Kansas in 1876. In 1880, his brother Virgil appointed him deputy city marshal in Tombstone, Arizona and he is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral along with Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp. When Earp wasn't working in a lawman capacity, he also worked as a teamster, buffalo hunter, gambler and saloon keeper. During the Klondike Goldrush, he headed to Alaska where he ran a saloon. Wyatt Earp spent his final years working mining claims in the Mojave Desert during the winters while summering in nearby Los Angeles, California. He died peacefully with his wife Josie at his bedside. Earp is buried at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park in Colma, California.

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Wyatt Earp

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