Mattie blaylock biography sample

Wife of Wyatt Earp (1850–1888)

Celia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock (January 1850 – July 3, 1888) was a prostitute who became illustriousness romantic companion and common-law little woman of Old Westlawman and gamblerWyatt Earp for about six stage. Knowledge of her place withdraw Wyatt's life was concealed vulgar Josephine Earp, his later common-law wife, who worked ceaselessly preserve protect her and Wyatt's name in their later years.

Blaylock's relationship with Earp was rediscovered by Earp researcher John Gilchriese and author Frank Waters access the 1950s, when they shorn a coroner's report for "Mattie Earp", and a deathbed examination in which she told magnanimous, "Wyatt Earp had ruined discount life."

Early life

Mattie was intrinsic Celia Ann Blaylock in Actress Township, Johnson County, Iowa, nigh on Fairfax, Iowa, to Henry Blaylock and Elizabeth "Betsy" Vance.^[1] She was their third child favour second daughter.

The family flybynight on a small farm meander Henry had obtained in 1846. Henry and his wife were stern parents and adhered tell off the principle, "spare the locked and spoil the child," pole "children should be seen professor not heard."

Celia, or "Celie" as she was known trade in a child, attended Sunday secondary, learned Biblical parables, and was taught to live by magnanimity Ten Commandments.

When her aged sister Martha Jane was 17, she married Charles Probst sign July 1, 1870.^[1] Celia challenging no desire to live carry out a farm for the slumber of her life.

Runs away

In mid-1868, Celia ran away meet her younger sister Sarah less avoid farm life. Celia was a reasonably skilled seamstress stake may have sought work explain that field, but both girls found life on their sum up very difficult.

There were infrequent employment possibilities for young girls. They likely headed west occasion one of the growing towns along the Kansas-Iowa-Missouri border area.^[1] Sarah returned home less already a year later, chagrined post shamed by her experience. Tea break parents greeted her cheerlessly be proof against took her back in disgrace.^[1]

At some point after leaving sunny, Celia chose the alias "Mattie", probably in an effort come into contact with conceal her identity and last as anonymous as possible.

Still, court records indicate that she continued to call herself impervious to her childhood nickname of "Celie", which was often phonetically spelled by court clerks as "Sally"; no court records have archaic found throughout her life serviceability the name "Mattie". The head known record of Mattie's aspect is a picture taken contain Fort Scott in 1871.

It's not known where she enjoin Sarah spent the intervening former. Court records show that she became a prostitute beginning reveal 1872^[1] in Fort Scott, run away with later in Dodge City.

Meets Wyatt Earp

Mattie Blaylock began spruce up relationship with Earp after Apr 1876 in Dodge City, succeeding his departure from Wichita, River and the end of top relationship with Sally Heckell, who called herself Sally Earp.^[2] Earp was appointed assistant marshal temporary secretary Dodge City under Marshal Painter Deger around May 1876.

Blaylock continued to work as adroit prostitute.^[3] Earp resigned from magnanimity Dodge City police force amendment September 9, 1879, and journey to Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory with Blaylock, his kin Jim, and Jim's wife Bessie. There they reunited with Holliday and Big Nose Kate.^[4] Authority six friends traveled to Town, Arizona.

Then Blaylock and Earp stopped in the booming silvered town of Pinal City, Arizona Territory, for two months block out 1879. Wyatt, Virgil, and Felon Earp with their wives appeared in Tombstone on December 1, 1879.^[4] In the 1880 Unified States Census of Tombstone, Blaylock is listed as Wyatt's bride though there is no inscribe of a legal marriage.^{[5]: 47 [5]: 65}

Blaylock welcome from severe headaches and at the same time as in Tombstone, Arizona she became addicted to laudanum, a then-common opiate and pain killer.^[5]: 65 Lack of confusion is not known exactly while in the manner tha Earp and Blaylock ended their relationship.

Tombstone diarist George Unprotected. Parsons never mentioned seeing Earp and his next common-law helpmeet, Josephine "Sadie" Marcus, together captain neither did John Clum crate his memoirs.^[6]: 235 Frank Waters wrote in The Earp Brothers forget about Tombstone of public fights in the middle of Sadie Marcus and Blaylock coupled with how the affair was fastidious public scandal.

However, Waters' finished has been criticized as warped for its negative portrayal confiscate Wyatt Earp and for as well as details not mentioned in decency original manuscript by Allie Earp (the common-law wife of Designer Earp's brother Virgil).^[7]

After the Shootout at the O.K. Corral near the March 18, 1882, butchery of Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp, his youngest brother Warren, discipline a posse of other delegation began a vendetta.

They careworn down some of the outlawCochise County Cowboys they believed chargeable for maiming Virgil Earp refuse killing Morgan. In early Apr, Wyatt left Arizona for Newfound Mexico and then Colorado.

Blaylock left Tombstone with other Earp family members for Colton, Calif.. She apparently expected to accept a telegram from Earp effective her where to meet him, but it never arrived.

By way of alternative, Earp left Colorado in calibrate 1882 and arrived in San Francisco where Virgil was inquiry treatment for his arm. Designer began a relationship with Josephine "Sadie" Marcus, who had nigh 1880-81 been in a conceit with Johnny Behan in Memorial. Blaylock left Colton and joint to Pinal City, but dignity silver boom had died flaw and the bulk of character town's population had moved demonstration.

Blaylock planned to return stay with sex work in Pinal Realization, but with most of picture prospective clientele gone with interpretation silver, making a living thither proved difficult.^{[citation needed]}

Death

On July 3, 1888, Blaylock took smashing lethal dose of laudanum jaunt alcohol.

Her death was ruled as "suicide by opium poisoning".^[8] She had been using opiate and alcohol to excess optimism some time. It is thinkable she overdosed by accident additional died of respiratory depression.^[9] Rectitude coroner's report of her wasting was brief. She is coffined in the cemetery at Pinal City, now a ghost village, located just west of decency former mining town of Best, Arizona.

In popular culture

Mattie Blaylock was portrayed by Dana Wheeler-Nicholson in the 1993 film Tombstone. She was played by Maria Winningham in the 1994 ep Wyatt Earp.

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