William Earp Connection Born in Fairfax Co State of Service

Rank Pension Unit

Spouse_Name Nicholas, Priscilla Father_Name Joshua Joseph Earp Mother_Name Mary Budd

DoB 1729 PoB Stafford Co** DoD 1778 PoD Frederick Co MD

References Earp, OWT Birth: 1729 Anne Arundel County Maryland, USA Death: 1778 Frederick County Maryland, USA

William would be my 6th Great Grandfather.

"In 1776 William Earp of Baltimore Co., MD, sold a 100 acre tract there known as "Organ's Forest" for his mother, Mary (Budd) Earp, who is listed in the land deed as a resident of Fairfax County, Virginia.""Other early Earp records of interest include the names of the signers of the 1778 Oath of Fidelity to the newly formed government during the Revolutionary War. They were Edward Earp, Thomas Earp, Peddicord Earp and two William Earps, all of Anne Arundel Co. (later Howard) Maryland; and and William Earp of Montgomery Co., MD.It is worthy to note that not a single Earp name is found on the list of those persons who refused to take the oath of fidelity."

"Josiah Earp and Erasmus Earp, who were also Maryland Revolutionary Revolutionary War Soldiers, lived in Montgomery Co., MD.," (these were sons of William)" and were descendants of John Earp."

From "Amos Earp Senior of Howard County, MD.," by Charles Albert Earp, Jr. 1956.

"William Earp and at least three of his sons served in the American Revolution. They were Philip, Josiah and Erasmus. William Earp (Harp) signed the Patriots Oath of Fidelity & support to the State in Montgomery County, Maryland, 2 March, 1778."

"Brumbaugh's Maryland Records, Volume 1, Census of 1776; Frederick County, Maryland, Lower Potomac Hundred: "A list of the number of souls taken and given unto the committee of observation. The sex and age of white and black."

Males on page 183: Harp, William 47 yrs., Harp, Philip 21 yrs., Harp, William Jr. 17 yrs., Harp, Josiah 14 yrs., Harp,Erasmus 11 yrs., Harp, Samuel 6 yrs., Females on page 189: Harp, Pricilla 48 yrs., Harp, Esther 19 yrs., Harp, Anne 10 yrs, Harp, Sarah 1 yr.

No other family of Harp, Earp or other spellings found in the county.

For the complete article on the Earp Family go to: http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/Earp/index.html?cj=1&o_xid=0001177077& o_lid=0001177077

Family links: Spouse: Priscilla Nichols Earp (1728 - 1776)*

Children: Josiah Earp (1761 - 1844)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown

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Created by: Mark Record added: Nov 29, 2015 Find A Grave Memorial# 155513328

Earp History

Wild West Personalities Produce Bang-Up Pedigree By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG The Wild West was chock-full of colorful characters and it was natural as ticks to a hound dog that Hollywood would fall in love with them. Of course, in certain instances some were actually just creations of the silver screen, while in others, there were embellishments of the historical facts pertaining to various heroes and heroines – not unlike some of our own family legends. Many families have stories about being connected to or descended from renowned Wild West personalities. My Uncle Teck went to his reward believing his father had once encountered Jesse James hiding train robbery loot in the Cookson Hills of eastern Oklahoma – even though I pointed out that the notorious outlaw-folk hero was killed in 1882 when his father was a nine-year-old boy living in Georgia. Some family legends are hard to kill. The genealogist often has to spend a great deal of time sorting conflicting facts from obvious fiction before the genealogical research can be conducted. Even biographies and autobiographies of the famous and infamous may contain inaccuracies and discrepancies. Nevertheless, it is fun to research the possible links to a historical figure, and even if you disprove the family legend, you learn a lot of American history along the way. For example, the movie, "" and the video "Tombstone" created renewed interest in the legendary sometime-lawman. While Wyatt Earp may appear in your family tree, you can't be a direct descendant for although he had three wives, he did not have any offspring. Tracing Wyatt Earp and his family as they zigzagged across the heart of America back and forth to California and other Western states in the 19th and 20th centuries provides a fairly representative illustration of the migration trails that many of our ancestors took. Wyatt Earp was born in Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois in 1848. However, his family moved to Pella, Marion County, Iowa, when he was about two years old. He appears with his parents (Nicholas Porter Earp and Virginia Ann Cooksey) and his four older siblings in the 1850 census of that county.1 The 1860 census of Marion County, Iowa shows this Earp family consisting of the parents and six children and a 17-year-old female (Lucinda Davis) whose relationship to the Earps has not been established. The Earp children at that time were: James C., Virgil W., Wyatt B., Morgan, Warren B. and Virginia. The youngest child, a daughter named Adelia, was born in June of 1861 in Pella, Iowa2. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was named for his father's commanding officer under whom Nicholas Earp served during the Mexican War. Wyatt was too young for Civil War service, but his father and brothers, James and Virgil, and half brother, Newton, served – all on the Union side. The 13-year-old Wyatt was left in charge of bringing in an 80-acre corn crop, with the help of younger brothers Morgan and Warren.3 Nicholas Earp, Wyatt's father, went to California in the 1850s – not for gold – but to find agricultural land with an ample water supply, and decided to settle in San Bernardino County.4 He returned to the Midwest to move the family to California, but his daughter, Martha, became ill and died. Then the Civil War started, delaying the move. In 1864-65, according to family accounts, Wyatt drove one of the wagons when the family removed to the vicinity of Colton, San Bernardino County, California. However, somewhat later Nicholas Earp decided to go back and dispose of his land in the Midwest (apparently the real estate market was depressed at the end of the Civil War) and then to return to California to settle permanently. So, in 1868 they went back to the Midwest – this time to Lamar, Mo. (Whether Nicholas Earp owned property in both Iowa and Missouri at this time has not yet been ascertained.) In 1870, the Earp family was enumerated in Lamar Township of Barton County, Missouri,5with Nicholas listed as a grocer. The then 22-year-old Wyatt Earp is shown with his wife, "Rilla," whose real name was Urilla Sutherland.6 They were married 10 January 1870 in Barton County, Missouri, according to marriage records there. Urilla died later that year in childbirth, along with the infant. Wyatt got into a serious quarrel with her brothers, left town and drifted into Kansas.7 In May, 1871, Wyatt Earp was arrested and charged with larceny – horse stealing in the Indian Nation – he skipped bail and was never tried.8 From 1871-75 he tried buffalo hunting in Kansas and roamed around various towns in that state, and during this time met Bat Masterson. In 1875 he was appointed city policeman of Wichita ($60 a month), but on April 19, 1876, he was dismissed from the position and his final salary was withheld until "all collected fines are submitted."9 On May 16, 1876, he was hired as assistant marshal of Dodge City, Kansas at a salary of $100 a month and $2.50 per arrest.10 Ever restless, in 1878 he went to Texas to check out ranching possibilities. While in Fort Griffin, Texas Earp met John Henry "Doc" Holliday and "Big Nose" Kate (Doc's companion) for the first time. When Wyatt Earp returned to Dodge City in 1878, after learning that Marshal Ed Masterson had been killed, he was accompanied by Celila Ann "Mattie" Blaylock,11 a friend of "Big Nose" Kate. No marriage record has been found for Wyatt and "Mattie," leading to speculation that she was his common-law wife – a not uncommon occurrence in the West at that time. Wyatt was appointed assistant marshal of Dodge City again. However, his stay was brief – he left Dodge City for good in June of 1879, along with Mattie and . They, and some of Wyatt's brothers, all eventually wound up in Tombstone, Arizona.12 The gunfight at OK Corral, which made the name of Earp famous in Western lore, took place Oct. 26, 1881. It was in Tombstone that Wyatt met Josephine "Sadie" Marcus, a theatrical performer for whom he abandoned . Mattie committed suicide July 17, 1888 in Pinal County, Arizona, and her belongings were shipped to Mrs. Sarah Blaylock (her sister) in Fairfax, Linn County, Iowa.13 Wyatt and Josephine spent their lives traveling, gambling, mining and living the "sporting" life. Whether they were legally married is open to speculation.14 They lived in Idaho, California, Alaska and Nevada. In 1900 they were enumerated on a ship in Nome, Alaska. In 1910 and 1920 they were living in Los Angeles. Wyatt died in 192915 – Josephine in 1944.16 Allie Earp, the widow of Virgil, outlived them all and told her versions of their adventures inThe Earp Brothers of Tombstone.17 No marriage record has been found for Allie and Virgil either, and it is assumed she was his common-law wife, particularly since evidently she did not apply for his Civil War pension after his death. 's first wife was Magdalena C. "Ellen" Rysdam. They supposedly were married in 1860 at Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa.18 The young couple – Virgil was about 17 and Ellen was 16 – eloped. Ellen's father and Nicholas Earp (Virgil's dad) were furious with them, managed to scare the young couple half to death and supposedly had the marriage annulled, though this has not been proven. Virgil then ran off and enlisted in the Union Army to fight in the Civil War and Ellen's father took the family to Oregon, later telling Ellen that Virgil had been killed in the war. Virgil was told that Ellen had died. But, in the meanwhile Ellen had Virgil's child – a daughter, named Nellie Jane, who eventually made contact with her father after reading newspaper accounts of his escapades in Tombstone, Ariz. Virgil Earp married secondly Rosella Dragoo in 1870 in Lamar, Barton County, Mo.19 – a fact evidently his third wife, Allie, did not know. What happened to her is one of the mysteries yet to be solved for this family history. He met his last wife, Alvira Packingham "Allie" Sullivan – an orphan of Irish immigrants – in Council Bluffs, Iowa about 1874. She died 14 Nov. 1947 in California. Allie's brief obituary appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1947, noting she was 98 years old. The Earp Family Roots The gateway ancestor of the renowned Earp family is said to be a Scotch-Irishman named Thomas Earp Jr., who was born 1656 in Ireland and came to America before 1680. According to Jean Whitten Edwards, compiler of the Earp Family Genealogy,20 Thomas Earp Jr. probably came to this country – like many of our ancestors – as an indentured servant. Earp is not an Irish surname. A British surname expert lists only one reference for it – spelled Erpe in 1561 – and claims its origins are unknown. However, American sources note that references to Earp can be found under the spelling of Harp. Being aware of the British's propensity to drop their "H's," genealogists must consider this possibility when researching a surname beginning with a vowel. Wyatt Earp's great-great-grandfather appears on a 1776 Maryland enumeration as William Harp.21 William Earp, born 1729 in Maryland, along with three of his sons – Philip, Joshua and Josiah – participated in the Revolutionary War. William's wife was Priscilla Nichols. William was the son of Joshua Earp and Mary Budd. Joshua Earp, born ca 1705, died ca 1760 in Fairfax County, Virginia was the son of John Earp and Rebecca [-?-]. John Earp, born 1680 in Maryland, was the son of the gateway ancestor. Philip Earp, a son of William Earp and Priscilla Nichols, was born in 1755 in Frederick County, Md., and was a great-grandfather of Wyatt Earp. Philip Earp died in Caswell County, North Carolina in 1810 – he was the father of Walter Earp (1787-1853). Walter Earp was a teacher, lawyer, judge of Illinois Circuit Court, justice of the peace and a licensed preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1808 he married Martha Ann Early in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. They removed first to Tennessee and then in 1813 to Kentucky, living in Logan, Butler and Ohio counties. In 1847 they made a final move to Warren County, Illinois. Nicholas Porter Earp was the third child and second son of Walter Earp and Martha Ann Early, and father of the famed Tombstone Earp brothers. Nicholas Earp was almost as colorful as his well-known sons and just as restless. As a deputy sheriff of Warren County, Illinois, he established a precedent for fearless efficiency which might well have motivated his sons. Nicholas was involved in the Black Hawk War of 1831, was a sergeant in the Mexican War, and during the Civil War served the Union army in Iowa as a provost marshal for recruiting. Born in Lincoln County, North Carolina in 1813, Nicholas grew up in Ohio County, Kentucky, where he married first Abigail Storm in 1836. By her he had a son, Newton Jasper, and a daughter, Mariah Ann. Abigail and the baby girl died, and in 1840 Nicholas married Virginia Ann Cooksey. They had five sons and three daughters. Of their eight children – James Cooksey, Virgil Walter, Martha Elizabeth, Wyatt Berry Stapp, Morgan S., Baxter Morgan, Virginia A., and Adelia Douglas – only three, perhaps only two,22 of them had children. Virgil had a daughter by his first wife, Magdalena C. "Ellen" Rysdam; and Adelia married William Thomas Edward and had a son and daughter. Two were killed – Morgan and Warren – and two daughters, Martha and Virginia, died in childhood. Newton Jasper Earp, Nicholasí eldest child, was born 7 October 1837 in Ohio County, Kentucky. He enlisted 11 November 1861 in Co. F., Fourth Cavalry, Iowa Volunteers; was promoted to fourth corporal on 1 Jan. 1865, and mustered out 26 June 1865 in Louisville, Ky. Newton married Nancy Jane Adams (born ca 1845) the daughter of John A. Adams and Christina Nancy [–?–] 12 Sept. 1865 in Marion County, Missouri. Nancy died 29 March 1898 in Paradise, Nevada [possibly this location is Paradise Valley in Humbolt County]; Newton died 18 December 1928 and is buried in East Lawn Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif. Newton Jasper Earp and Nancy Jane Adams had five children: Effie May, born 6 May 1870 in Missouri; Wyatt Clyde, born 25 Aug. 1872 in Kansas; Mary Elizabeth, born 25 Aug. 1875 in Kansas, but died before 1885; Alice Abigail, born 18 Dec. 1878 in Kansas (she married John E. Wells); and Virgil Edwin Earp, who was born 19 April 1880 in Kansas (he married Grace J. Scott and died in Sacramento, Calif. after 1959) This preliminary search clears up a few discrepancies in the Western Earps' saga, but it also throws glaring lights on some of the family skeletons. Additionally, it raises nagging questions pertaining to the conflicting versions of the family's history. And, like most genealogies, it has some holes.