Celia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock was a prostitute who became the romantic companion and common-law wife of Old West lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp for about six years.
14 Facts About Mattie Blaylock
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Mattie Blaylock's parents greeted her cheerlessly and took her back in disgrace.
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The first known record of Mattie Blaylock's presence is a picture taken in Fort Scott in 1871.
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Mattie Blaylock began a relationship with Earp after April 1876 in Dodge City, following his departure from Wichita, Kansas and the end of his relationship with Sally Heckell, who called herself Sally Earp.
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Frank Waters wrote in The Earp Brothers of Tombstone of public fights between Sadie Marcus and Mattie Blaylock and how the affair was a public scandal.
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Mattie Blaylock left Tombstone with other Earp family members for Colton, California.
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Mattie Blaylock apparently expected to receive a telegram from Earp telling her where to meet him, but it never arrived.
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Mattie Blaylock left Colton and returned to Pinal City, but the silver boom had died out and the bulk of the town's population had moved on.
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On July 3,1888, Mattie Blaylock took a lethal dose of laudanum and alcohol.
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Mattie Blaylock's death was ruled as "suicide by opium poisoning".
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Mattie Blaylock had been using laudanum and alcohol to excess for some time.
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Mattie Blaylock is buried in the cemetery at Pinal City, now a ghost town, located just west of the former mining town of Superior, Arizona.
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Mattie Blaylock was portrayed by Dana Wheeler-Nicholson in the 1993 film Tombstone.
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Mattie Blaylock was played by Mare Winningham in the 1994 film Wyatt Earp.