Celia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock (January 1850 – July 3, 1888) was a prostitute who became the romantic companion and common-law wife of Old West lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp for about six years.

Jul 1, 2024 · While working as a prostitute in the Old West, Mattie Blaylock became the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, then later died tragically at 38. Mattie Blaylock lived a short and tragic life — and she claimed that Wyatt Earp made it even worse.

Feb 2, 2023 · Wyatt is generally tied to three women: Urilla Sutherland, Cecilia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock, and Josephine Marcus. Of those three, there's a "maybe" around Marcus, but it should come as no surprise that Mattie Blaylock, the woman usually described as the "second Mrs. Wyatt Earp," had a history of prostitution.

Jan 25, 2024 · Mattie Blaylock was a woman who lived a turbulent and short life in the Wild West. She was the common-law wife of the famous lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp for about six years, but she was abandoned by him after the notorious Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. She died of a suspected suicide by opium poisoning at the age of 38.

Celia Ann “Mattie” Blaylock was involved with Wyatt Earp after the death of his first wife, and is often termed as Wyatt’s “common law” wife. Born in Wisconsin in 1850, Mattie was raised in Fairfax, Iowa until she ran away from home at the age of 16.

Jan 23, 2019 · On a lonely windswept hilltop a couple of miles east of Superior, Arizona, we came across the grave of one of the Old West’s more tragic figures, a scorned woman named Mattie Blaylock Earp. Born Celia Ann Blaylock in Wisconsin in 1850, and raised on a farm in Iowa, accounts of the day describe Mattie as having “large bones and a fine face.”

Aug 29, 2024 · On July 3, 1888, Mattie Blaylock, the third Mrs. Wyatt Earp, took a lethal dose of laudanum, washed down with alcohol. The coroner ruled her death a suicide, but her supporters contend it was an accidental overdose.

Nov 30, 2016 · She was a simple farm girl who, on a lark, took off with her sister for adventure. Her name was Celia Ann Blaylock. Everyone would call her Mattie. He was a sometime lawman, itinerate gambler and...

Nov 22, 2021 · Celia Ann “Mattie” Blaylock was Wyatt Earp’s common-law wife from about 1873 until mid-1881. After Wyatt left her for another woman, she later moved to Pinal City, Arizona Territory, where she apparently overdosed on laudanum and alcohol.

Jun 28, 2017 · In Wyatt's case, a prostitute-turned full-time companion named Celia Ann “Mattie” Blaylock, whom he met in the early 1870s while working as assistant sheriff in Dodge City, Kan.