Did You Know #43

Wyatt Earp

When it comes to names synonymous with the "wild west," few are more familiar than Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp. He is best known for his participation in the gunfight at the O. K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory on October 26, 1881. Wyatt and two of his brothers, Virgil and Morgan, along with Wyatt's friend, Doc Holliday, confronted the Clanton brothers (Ike and Billy) and the McLaury brothers (Tom and Frank). The Earps and Doc Holliday won that gunfight, but as a result of that conflict Virgil would be severely wounded in a nighttime ambush and Morgan would be assassinated. This was then followed by a manhunt that would conclude with Earp's running down those who he felt were responsible for the attacks on Virgil and Morgan.

Wyatt wore many "hats" in his life: buffalo hunter, law man, gambler, boxing referee, etc. However, his image and life story has been the subject of many books, movies and television shows. But did you know that Wyatt and his brothers were Dad's great-great grandfather's 15th cousins?  Here is how the connection is made:

Richard Fitzalan and Elizabeth Bohn
Elizabeth Fitzalan (Duchess Of Norfolk) b.1366	Joan D'Arundel Fitzalan b.1374
Elizabeth Goushill b.1402	Joan De Beauchamp b.1400
Henry Wingfield b.1434	James Butler (Earl of Ormond) b.1420
Robert Wingfield b.1490	Peter (Piers) Butler (Earl of Ormond) b.1475
Robert Wingfield b.1523	Thomas Butler b.1500
Dorothy Wingfield b.1565	Agnes Butler b.1520
John Claypoole b.1595	Edmund Sherman  b.1548
John Claypoole	Edmund Sherman b.1572
Ann Claypoole b.1652	Esther (or Hester) Sherman b.1606
William Budd b.1679	Esther Ward b.1623
Mary Budd	Daniel Burr b.1660
William H. Earp b.1729	Elizabeth Burr b.1696
Phillip Earp b.1755	Nathaniel Hull b.1726
Walter Earp b.1787	Ezekiel Hull b.1765
Nicholas Porter Earp b.1813	Platt Hull b.1787
Wyatt Earp	Ezekiel Hull b.1813
	Rebecca L. Hull b.1841
	Frank Martin Bragg b.1867
	Orval Bishop Bragg b.1895
	DAD b.1920