Morgan Seth Earp was an American sheriff and lawman.
32 Facts About Morgan Earp
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Morgan Earp served as Tombstone, Arizona's Special Policeman when he helped his brothers Virgil and Wyatt, as well as Doc Holliday, confront the outlaw Cochise County Cowboys in the Gunfight at the OK.
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Two and a half months later, on March 18,1882, they ambushed Morgan Earp, shooting him at night through the window of a door while he was playing billiards and killed him.
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Wyatt Morgan Earp felt he could not rely on the criminal justice system and decided to take matters into his own hands.
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Morgan Earp concluded the only way to get justice for his murdered brother was to avenge his death.
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Wyatt assembled a posse that included their brother Warren Morgan Earp and set out on a vendetta to kill those they felt were responsible.
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Morgan Earp was born in Pella, Iowa, to Nicholas Porter Earp, a cooper and farmer, and his second wife Virginia Ann Cooksey.
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When elder brothers Newton, James, and Virgil went off to the American Civil War, they left their young teenage brothers Wyatt and Morgan Earp to tend the family farm.
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James and Morgan Earp grew up close, with a shared wish for adventure and a dislike of farming.
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Shortly afterward, Wyatt, James, Virgil, and Morgan Earp got into what witnesses described as a "20-minute street fight" with Urilla's brothers and other relatives over the alleged bootlegging activities of both families.
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Sometime between 1871 and 1877, Morgan met Louisa Alice Houston, the daughter of H Samuel Houston and Elizabeth Waughtal.
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In 1875, Morgan Earp left Wichita, Kansas and became a deputy marshal under Charlie Bassett at Dodge City.
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Morgan Earp apparently didn't think the wild mining town of Tombstone was suitable for Louisa, who was a petite woman and suffered from rheumatoid arthritis.
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Morgan Earp took her instead to stay with his parents in Colton, California, in March 1880.
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Morgan Earp set out to meet his older brothers in Tombstone on July 20,1880.
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Some accounts say Morgan Earp killed Brooks, and that Morgan Earp was wounded.
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Morgan Earp served for only three months, until March 10,1880.
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Tombstone town Marshal Virgil Morgan Earp learned that the Cowboys were armed in violation of a city ordinance and had gathered near the OK.
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Morgan Earp was a deputy to his brother Virgil and on October 26,1881, responded with Virgil and Wyatt to reports that Cowboys were armed on the streets of Tombstone.
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Morgan Earp was clipped by a shot across his back that nicked both shoulder blades and a vertebra, although he was able to continue firing his weapon.
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The Morgan Earp brothers moved into the Cosmopolitan Hotel for safety and hired several men to help protect the family.
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Corral, in December 1881, Virgil Morgan Earp was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt that left him with a permanently crippled left arm.
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Goodfellow, who would earn recognition in the United States as the nation's leading expert at treating abdominal gunshot wounds, concluded that Morgan Earp's wounds were fatal.
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Morgan Earp was in a state of collapse resulting from a gunshot, or pistol wound, entering the body just to the left of the spinal column in the region of the left kidney emerging on the right side of the body in the region of the gall bladder.
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Morgan's wife Louisa was in Colton with his parents, and Warren Earp was out of town.
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Morgan Earp was first buried in the old city cemetery of Colton, near Mount Slover.
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Morgan Earp implicated her husband and four other men in Morgan's murder.
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Morgan Earp testified that the day before, her husband and Indian Charlie were on the front porch, when they saw Morgan Earp walk by.
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Morgan Earp said Pete Spence told Indian Charlie; "That's him; that's him," and the Indian walked ahead of Earp to get a good look at him.
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Wyatt Morgan Earp finally concluded that he could not rely on the court system for justice and decided to take matters into his own hands.
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Morgan Earp concluded that the only way to deal with Virgil's shooters and Morgan's murderers was to find and kill the Cowboys he believed were responsible.
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Morgan Earp gathered a band of loyal men and deputized them.