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View the grave of Wyatt Earp, the American frontier law officer and gunfighter, in Colma, California. See his birth and death dates, biography, photos and flowers on Find a Grave.
7 de fev. de 2014 · Learn about the final resting place of the legendary lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp in a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California. Find out how he died, how his wife mourned him, and why he is buried there.
On July 7, 1957, grave-robbers dug 5 feet (1.5 m) into the Earp's grave in an apparent attempt to steal the urn containing his ashes. Unable to find his cremains, they stole the 500-pound (230 kg) grave stone. [231]
- Early Life
- Tombstone, Arizona
- OK Corral
- Later Life and Legend
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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. The third of five sons born to Nicholas and Virginia Ann Earp, he spent his early life in Illinois and Iowa. As a young teenager, Wyatt repeatedly tried to run away and join his brothers James and Virgil and his half-brother Newton, who fought for the Union during the Civil War; each ti...
During this period, Earp frequented the saloons, gambling houses and brothels that proliferated on the frontier, and had several run-ins with law enforcement. But after helping a police officer in Wichita track down a wagon thief, Earp joined that city’s police force in 1875 and later became deputy town marshal of Dodge City. It was in Dodge City t...
In March 1881, while pursuing a group of cowboys who had robbed a stagecoach, Wyatt struck a deal with local rancher Ike Clanton, who had ties to the cowboys. Clanton soon turned against him, however, and began threatening the Earp brothers. The feud escalated, and on October 26, 1881, it finally exploded into violence in a gunfight at the OK Corra...
After leaving Tombstone, Wyatt Earp moved around the West, eventually settling in Californiawith Josephine Marcus, with whom he would spend the next 40 years. Over the years, he made an itinerant living by gambling, saloon-keeping, mining and real estate speculation. He also worked with a personal secretary, John H. Flood, to write his memoirs, whi...
Who Was Wyatt Earp? American Heritage. The Life of Wyatt Earp. PBS: American Experience. Wyatt Earp. West Adams Heritage Association.
Learn about Wyatt Earp, a legendary gunslinger and lawman of the American West, who fought in the famous OK Corral shootout in 1881. Find out where he is buried and how his life story was mythologized.
Wyatt and Josephine Earp grave at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park.
Earp’s grave is the most visited place in Colma, California. PLOT D. SECTION 2. LOT 12. GRAVE 2. Drive slowly up Main Road, counting the sidewalks as you go. (Some are wider than others) Park on Main Road at the 6 th sidewalk. There is a family mausoleum with the name C. MEYER on it.
1301 El Camino Real. Colma, California, 94014. USA. North America. Grave Location: Center of cemetery to the right. Grave Location Description. Wyatt Earp’s headstone is located straight up from the entrance and slightly to the right about half way through the cemetery.
