Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. He was one of 5 sons to Nicholas and Virginia Earp. As a teenager, he always tried to run away to join his 2 brothers, James and Virgil, who were fighting for the union during the civil war. When he was 17, he left and found him a job for the Union Pacific Railroad. In early 1870, Earp married his first wife names Urilla Sutherland, but she ended up dieing due to typhoid within a year of getting married (history.com). Devastated from his wife's death, he left Lamar and in Arkansas he was caught and taken to jail for stealing a horse. Although he was taken to jail, he escaped before being punished for being a theft. He roamed the the frontier, making his home mostly in saloons.
