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A shot from the darkness shattered his spine. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

Morgan Earp.

Billy Claiborne and Ike Clanton ran. Ike stalked off, muttering he would be “after you all in the morning.” He ended up at the Occidental Saloon, engaging in a poker game with Tom McLaury and Johnny Behan but also, curiously, Virgil and possibly Morgan.The next morning, the 26th, Ike was back spouting threats and drunkenly walking the streets with a six-gun and a Winchester rifle.

He served in that capacity until March 10, 1880, perhaps the date of his last paycheck, as evidence suggests he had left Butte a week or so earlier. Legend suggests their identities were scrambled during the move, but the current cemetery staff insists it knows exactly which grave is Morgan’s. Morgan was still doing that when the Cowboys assassinated him on Saturday, March 18, 1882.On Sunday, the 19th, James Earp took Morgan’s body to Colton, Calif, for burial. Lieutenant J.H. He was born in Pella, Iowa, on April 24, 1851, the next-to-last son of irascible patriarch Nicholas Earp. This biography profiles his childhood, family, personal life, legend, cause of death, etc. He married Luisa Houston in Dodge City in 1875. In a January 31, 1882, letter to her sister, Lou wrote that husband Morgan “was shot through the shoulder, both blades were broken and the spinal column slightly injured.” It is believed Morgan rose partially to his feet after being hit and fired the last shot of the gunfight—hitting Frank McLaury in the right side of the head, killing him instantly.Morgan recovered from his wounds and continued to serve as a field deputy for Virgil despite further Cowboy threats. Virgil and James Earp took Morgan's body to the home of his parents in Colton, California, for burial. But Virgil buffaloed him and, with Morgan’s help, hauled the ornery Clanton off to court.

Wyatt Earp was also convinced that the Clanton brothers had stolen one of his horses. Oops, some error occurred while uploading your photo(s).


Marshal Crawley Dake commissioned Wyatt as a deputy U.S. marshal, and Morgan continued to ride as a field-commissioned deputy for Wyatt. Soon afterwards he recruited Wyatt and Morgan as special deputy policemen. The Tombstone trouble wasn’t over.So it was against Wyatt’s better judgment that he was sitting in a chair against the wall at Campbell & Hatch’s, watching Morgan play pool, when shortly before midnight two bullets blasted through an upper window pane of the rear door. No official record has been found to prove Morgan ever served as a Wichita policeman.Wyatt moved in May 1876 to Dodge City, where he was a policeman and later deputy city marshal. Marshal Virgil Earp and brothers Wyatt and Morgan, tracked the stolen mules to the McLaury ranch, 15 miles west of Tombstone. The original burial site was destroyed by mining operations at Slover Mountain in Colton.Western Lawman. Hurst and a mixed posse of four soldiers and four civilians, including Deputy U.S.

Deputy U.S. The next morning’s A wounded Virgil and wife Allie left town on Monday, March 20, also bound for Colton, leaving just Wyatt and Warren in Tombstone. Caught red-handed, the thieves made a deal with Hurst: They would turn over the mules to him only if he first ordered the Earps back to Tombstone.

The brother of Western figure Wyatt Earp, he is best known for the gunfight with Ike Clanton's gang at the O.K. Virgil and Morgan were not shot on the same night as shown here.

His brothers and father occasionally joined him there.

Pro-Earp historians believe Wyatt sent for Doc so he could confirm to Ike that Wyatt hadn’t told him anything. Wallace slapped Clanton with a $25 fine for carrying a gun within city limits and confiscated his weapons. His body was originally buried at Slover Mountain Cemetery, and was moved when that cemetery was closed.

In reality, Louisa was staying with Morgan Earp's mother and father in Colton, California at the time Morgan was killed, He felt that she would be safer with his folks than being in Tombstone. A system error has occurred. Since he left no diaries, exactly what motivated him in his short life will forever remain a mystery. To add a flower, click the “Leave a Flower” button.Family members linked to this person will appear here.Use the links under “See more…” to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc.Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. In fact Virgil was ambushed and wounded December 28th 1881, and warrants were issued for Ike and Phin Clanton and Pony Diehl's arrest but charges were dropped due to a lack of evidence. Now, as he died, Morgan whispered to Wyatt, “I can’t see a damn thing.” Although much of Morgan’s life remains shrouded in mystery, he was reputedly Wyatt’s favorite brother. Western Lawman. On the night of March 18, 1882, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Wyatt and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday attended a play at Schieffelin Hall.

After Morgan's death Louisa stayed in Southern California where in 1885 she re-married a longshoreman in Long Beach by the name of Gustav Peters. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer.Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in our various magazines. The Earp brothers believed that some of these animals had been stolen from farmers in Mexico.
A bullet passed through Virgil’s right calf, another bullet grazed Doc’s right hip, and Morgan took a bullet crossways from the right shoulder through his left shoulder. Shortly afterward, Wyatt, James, Virgil and Morgan got into what witnesses described as a “20-minute street fight” with Urilla’s brothers and other relatives over the alleged bootlegging activities of both families. Born in Marian County, Iowa, he was the youngest of "Fighting Earps."