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Top 50 American Jews Join our mailing list Support JVL Donate Earp was born in Brooklyn, New York, to German-Jewish immigrant parents. At age seven she moved with her family to San Francisco. She left home first at age 17 to follow a theatre company; in 1880 she followed a bankrupt politico to Arizona. Soon after, she fell for Wyatt Earp.
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When Josephine Marcus Earp died in Los Angeles on December 19, 1944, her small memorial attracted little attention and few visitors. The woman who spent more than 45 years with "The Lion of Tombstone" faded into history penniless, alone and shrouded in the mystery of her own half-truths.
EARP, JOSEPHINE SARAH MARCUS (18611944) Southwest Jewish Archives
Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp fancied herself an actress. In later life, she told folks about her adventures in a drama troupe that traveled the wilds of territorial Arizona, presenting Gilbert and Sullivan theatricals to crowds in the dusty frontier and mining towns. But the lady's greatest acting job—arguably—was her own life.
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Josephine Sarah Marcus, born to German Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, NY, in 1861, grew up in San Francisco. Enchanted by a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, she ran away from home at age 18 to join the theatre.
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Sometime in the winter of 1882-83 Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Marcus crossed Market Street and stole into San Francisco's Chinatown to reunite with her lover and hoped-to-be husband, Wyatt Earp.
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Yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. In this fascinating biography, Ann Kirschner, author of the acclaimed Sala's Gift, brings Josephine out of the shadows of history to tell her tale: a spirited and colorful tale of ambition, adventure, self-invention, and devotion. Reflective of America itself, her story.
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Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, died in 1944, and her remains now rest with his. But the collision of Jewish and cowboy cultures that epitomized their union goes on. Wyatt Earp enthusiasts have made the gravesite the most visited in that Jewish cemetery and once even stole the tombstone. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Earp (née Marcus; 1861 - December 19, 1944) [1] was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, a famed Old West lawman and gambler. She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier boom town of Tombstone in Arizona Territory, when she was living with Johnny Behan, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona .
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Wyatt Earp, on the other hand, was married, and had just arrived in Tombstone from Dodge City, Kansas in time for the town's silver boom. Despite having a common-law wife, he was interested in Josephine, and she in him. By early 1881, Josephine caught Johnny cheating on her and kicked him out.
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Impulsive, adventurous, and outspoken, Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp ran away from home when she was seventeen years old. Two years later, she joined destinies with western lawman, gambler, and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp. For forty-seven years, they roamed the West, mingling with well-known westerners on both sides of the law.
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Josephine Sarah Marcus was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family, the third of four children. At 18, she ran away to join a touring theatre company, which in 1879 was considered a brazen move for a.
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Josephine Sarah Marcus was the second of three children born in Brooklyn, NY in 1860-61 to German-Jewish immigrants Carl Hyman Marcuse (later Henry Marcus) and Sophie Lewis. When they married, Sophie was 8 years older than her husband and a widow with a 3-year-old daughter named Rebecca.
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Josephine Sarah Marcus (born ca. 1861 - died December 19, 1944) was an American actress and professional dancer who became best known as the wife of famed Old West lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp.
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The third of four children, Josephine Sarah (Marcus) Earp was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1861 to German-Jewish immigrants Sophie and Hyman (Henry) Marcus. When she was seven years old, the family moved to San Francisco. In 1879 the Pauline Markham Theater Company came to town, and Josephine slipped away with the troupe.
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The Jewish Women's Archive describes Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp as "impulsive, adventurous, and outspoken." The daughter of German-Jewish immigrants, she was born in New York in 1861 and moved to San Francisco with her folks at age seven. Allegedly a runaway, she's said to have left town with the Pauline Markham Theater Company at age 17.