Tombstone Arizona The Truth is Stranger than Fiction This is the layout of Tombstone, Arizona. At the bottom of the page is 6th Street. . . . . .and on the left is the Birdcage Saloon (and brothel). Now, going up Allen Street to 5th Street, on the right is the Oriental Saloon. At 5th and Freemont is the Schiefflin Theatre. Now, across Allen Street from the Oriental Saloon was the Bloody Bucket Saloon. Across 5th Street from the Oriental Saloon is the Crystal Palace Saloon At the time of Wyatt Earp it was called the Golden Eagle Brewery Saloon Further down Allen Street is the Campbell and Hatch Saloon This is where Morgan Earp was shot through the back door. On Freemont between 4th and 5th Street is where the Tombstone Epithath was and next to it is where the Earp trial was after the O.K Correl shoot out. Between 4th and 3rd on Allen is the entrance to the O.K. Correl over on Freemont is the back entrance to the Correl further down Freemont is Flys Boarding House and Photography The gun fight took place where the X's are. Next is ex Mayor Harwoods house The gun fight took place partly in the street of Freemont and in the Alley between Fly Photography, our Boarding House and the Hayward Home On November the 27th 1879 Virgil Earp was appointed U. S. Deputy Marshall by U. S Marshal Crawley Drake Virgil was assigned the eastern part of Pima County Arizona territory His orders where to move to the future Pima County seat of Tombstone and assist the local law with keeping the peace and controlling the lawlessness of eastern Arizona As Federal Marshall he had more authority and wider range But the county sheriffs And town marshalls actually made more money Now, being a close-knit family Virgil notifies his brothers of his appointment And also stated that there were good business opportunities. Virgil will meet with two of his brothers Wyatt and James They will arrive at December the first 1879 Along with their wives Their two younger brothers Morgan and Warren will arrive a few months later Now Virgil first met Ellen Rysdam when he was seventeen and she was sixteen They eloped Her family was completely against the marriage and when Virgil went to go fight in the Civil War her family told Ellen that Virgil had been killed in battle. And when he got out, he was told that she had died in Oregon with her family. Years later, Virgil will learn that he and Ellen were lied to. He will meet his grown daughter, Nellie Jane years later, along with her mother Now actually, Virgil had been wounded during the war and will lose the use of one of his arms. His second wife was Rosella Dragoo Now what happened to her is not known. Virgil seldom spoke of her and in 1879 Virgil will marry Allie Sullivan a reformed prostitute They will remain together over 40 years the rest of their lives And Allie will come with him to Tombstone Wyatt Earp will marry Urilla Sutherland his childhood sweetheart in 1870 Wyatt's father, who was justice of the peace in Lamar, Missouri will perform the ceremony Urilla would die later that year from typhoid fever along with their child In 1873 in Dodge City, Kansas where Wyatt was serving serving as a lawman he meets Mattie Blaylock a reformed prostitute. She will accompany Wyatt to Tombstone as his common-law wife. Morgan Earp had left his wife, Louisa with his parents in California while he met his brothers in Tombstone Louisa will come to Morgan in Tombstone some five months later. James had been a deputy marshal in Dodge City and after hearing from Virgil James and his wife, Nellie Ketchum, They called her Bessie a reformed madam left Dodge for Tombstone Warren, the youngest will leave his parents home in California and follow his older brothers to Tombstone. He will move in with Virgil and Allie The Earp brothers had intended on starting a stage line, but quickly discovered there was two stage lines there already Including Wells Fargo, which Wyatt goes to work for as a stage guard. On January the 6th, 1880 Fred White will be elected first town marshal of Tombstone. He was non-political and was respected by both the cowboy faction and the town's folks. Five months after Marshal White is elected
