Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes

Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes
Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes

Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes

Three tintypes each about 3.25 x 2.25 inches a portrait of doc, kate, and then what should become an iconic image of the two holding hand together seated in portrait. Recently acquired from Pennsylvania dealer a large cache spanning over decades of Doc Holliday his common law wife Kate Horony and her younger sister Wilhelmina. The identification was extremely easy for the collection to be found in a cache supports the identification. I encourage you to utilize an art app and perform a transparency overlay comparison to known photos and you can see for yourself. I believe these tintypes and many others i recently acquired from the same dealer come from a cache being of the James Earp family brothel.

I have gone on to acquire tintypes of wyatt earp with his first wife Urilla, Urilla and josephine who would marry Wyatt after Urilla passed away. I also acquired a tintype of the earp brothers parents Virgina and Prescott. So i will provide transparency overlay comparisons. Mary Katherine Horony (also spelled Harony, Haroney, and Horoney[1][2]) was born on November 9, 1849, in Nové Zámky Slovakia in what was then the Érsekújvár, Kingdom of Hungary. Immigration to the United States[edit].

Kate Horony (left) and younger sister Wilhelmina c. 1865, near the time they were orphaned. Kate is about 15 years old. The Horony family settled in a predominantly German area of Davenport, Iowa in 1862. Horony and his wife died within a month of one another in 1865.

Mary Katherine and her younger siblings were placed in the home of her brother-in-law, Gustav Susemihl, and in 1870 they were left in the care of attorney Otto Smith. [5] The 1870 United States Census records for Davenport show Kate's younger sister, 15-year-old Wilhelmina (Wilma), living with and working as a domestic for Austrian-born David Palter and his Hungarian wife Bettina. Louis and Dodge City[edit].

At age 16, Kate ran away from her foster home and stowed away on a riverboat bound for St. [6] Kate later claimed that while she lived in St. Louis she married a dentist named Silas Melvin with whom she had a son, and that both died of yellow fever. [7] The United States Census records report that a Silas Melvin lived in St. Louis in the mid 1860s but that he was married to a steamship captain's daughter named Mary Bust. The census also shows that another Melvin was employed by a St. Since Kate met Doc Holliday in the early 1870s, she may have confused the two and their occupations when recalling the facts later in her life. Researcher Jan Collins states that Kate entered the Ursuline Convent but did not remain long. In 1869, she is recorded as working as a prostitute for madam Blanch Tribole in St. [2] In 1874, Kate was fined for working as a "sporting woman" (prostitute) in a "sporting house" (brothel) in Dodge City, Kansas, run by Nellie "Bessie" (Ketchum) Earp, [9] James Earp's wife.

Kate's saloon in Tombstone originally called the "Grand Hotel" was built in 1880. The McLaury brothers stayed there the night before the gunfight at the O. In 1876, Kate moved to Fort Griffin, Texas, where in 1877 she met Doc Holliday.

Doc said at one point that he considered Kate his intellectual equal. [citation needed][13] The couple went with Earp to Dodge City and registered as Mr.

Holliday at Deacon Cox's boarding house. Doc opened a dental practice by day but spent most of his time gambling and drinking. The two fought regularly and sometimes violently, but made up after fights despite the volatile relationship. According to Kate, the couple later married in Valdosta, Georgia. They traveled to Trinidad, Colorado, and then to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where they lived for about two years.

Holliday worked as a dentist by day and ran a saloon on Center Street by night. Kate also occasionally worked at a dance hall in Santa Fe, New Mexico. By her own account, Doc and Kate met up again with Wyatt Earp and his brothers on their way to the Arizona Territory.

Virgil Earp had already been in Prescott, Arizona and persuaded his brothers to move to Tombstone. In 1880, he and Kate parted ways when Kate left for Globe, Arizona, but she rejoined Holliday soon after he arrived in Tombstone. [15] Cochise County Cowboy Bill Leonard, a former watchmaker from New York City, was one of three men implicated in the robbery, and he and Holliday had become good friends. [16] When Kate and Holliday had a fight, County Sheriff Johnny Behan and Milt Joyce, a county supervisor and owner of the Oriental Saloon, decided to exploit the situation. Both were members of the Tombstone Ten Percent Ring. Behan and Joyce plied Kate with alcohol and suggested to her a way to get even with Holliday. She signed an affidavit implicating Holliday in the murders and attempted robbery. Judge Wells Spicer issued an arrest warrant for Holliday.

The Earps found witnesses who could attest to Holliday's whereabouts elsewhere at the time of the murders. Kate said that Behan and Joyce had influenced her to sign a document she didn't understand.

With the Cowboy plot revealed, Judge Spicer freed Holliday. The district attorney threw out the charges, labeling them "ridiculous".

Main article: Gunfight at the O. In a 1939 letter to her niece Lillian Rafferty, Kate claimed that she was in the Tombstone area with Holliday during the days before the shootout. According to Kate, she was with Holliday in Tucson, Arizona when they attended the San Augustin Feast and Fair in Levin Park during October 1881. On October 20, 1881, Morgan Earp rode to Tucson to request Holliday's assistance with dealing with Cochise County Cowboys who had threatened to kill the Earps.

She wrote that Holliday asked her to remain in Tucson for her safety, but she refused, and traveled with Holliday and Earp. [18] Kate reminisced in the letter about her stay with Holliday at C. Fly's Boarding House which bordered the alley where the Gunfight at the O. Kate accurately described minor details of the shootout, writing that on the day of the gunfight a man entered Fly's Boarding House with a "bandaged head" and a rifle.

He was looking for Holliday, who was still in bed after a night of gambling. Kate recalled that the man who was turned away by Mrs. Fly was later identified as Ike Clanton, whom city marshal Virgil Earp had pistol-whipped earlier that day when he found Clanton carrying a rifle and pistol in violation of city ordinances. [19] Clanton's head was bandaged afterward.

Virgil Earp had disarmed him earlier that day and told Ike he would leave Ike's confiscated rifle and revolver at the Grand Hotel, which was favored by cowboys when they were in town. [20] Clanton was unarmed at the time of the shootout later that afternoon. [5][8] Ike testified that he picked up the weapons from William Soule, the jailer, a couple of days later. Author Glenn Boyer disputes that Kate saw the gunfight through the window of the boarding house. "That was awful, " Kate claims he said. [5][8] Boyer's work, however, has been rejected by serious scholars. Corral and later life[edit]. To have made trips to Tombstone to see Holliday until he left for Colorado in April 1882.

[citation needed] In 1887, Kate traveled to Redstone, Colorado, close to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, to visit with her brother Alexander. Have tried to connect Kate and Doc to possible reconciliation attempts between the two.

Marriage to George Cummings[edit]. After Doc Holliday died in 1887, Kate married Irish blacksmith George Cummings in Aspen, Colorado, on March 2, 1890. After working several mining camps throughout Colorado, they moved to Bisbee, Arizona, where she briefly ran a bakery. After returning to Willcox, Arizona, in Cochise County, Cummings became an abusive alcoholic and they separated. In 1900, Kate moved to Dos Cabezas or Cochise and worked for John and Lulu Rath, owners of the Cochise Hotel.

Cummings committed suicide in Courtland, Arizona, in July 1915. Kate is enumerated in the 1910 U. Census in Dos Cabezas, Arizona, as a member of the home of miner John J. When Howard died in 1930, Kate was the executrix of his estate.

She contacted his only daughter, who lived in Tempe, Arizona, and settled the inheritance. In 1931 the 80-year-old Kate contacted her longtime friend Arizona Governor George Hunt, and applied for admittance to the Arizona Pioneers' Home in Prescott, Arizona. The home had been established in 1910 by the State of Arizona for destitute and ailing miners and male pioneers of the Arizona Territory.

It took Kate six months to be admitted because the home had a requirement that residents must be American citizens. She was admitted as one of the first female residents of the home.

She lived there and became an outspoken resident, assisting other residents with living comforts. Kate wrote many letters to the Arizona state legislature, often contacting the governor when she was not satisfied with their response. [25] Near the end of her life, several reporters tried to record Kate's life story, her relationship with Doc Holliday and her time in Tombstone. She only talked to Anton Mazzonovich and Prescott historian A. Death and discrepancies in records[edit].

Grave-site of Big Nose Kate in Prescott, Arizona. Kate's grave marker under the name Mary Cummings.

Kate died on November 2, 1940, seven days before her 91st birthday, of acute myocardial insufficiency, a condition she started showing symptoms of the day before her death. Her death certificate states that she also suffered from coronary artery disease and advanced arteriosclerosis. Kate's death certificate contained significant discrepancies regarding her parents' names and her birthplace. Although she was born in Hungary, her death certificate states she was born in Davenport, Iowa to father Marchal H. Michael and mother Catherine Baldwin.

The birthplace of both her parents is shown on the certificate as "unknown". [26] The superintendent of the Pioneer Home is named as the informant on the death certificate. Kate was buried on November 6, 1940, [26] in the Arizona Pioneers' Home Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona. Thanks for looking feel free to ask questions and check out my other curiosities and rare finds for sale. If you have any packing requests by all means let me know and i will accommodate them best i can.

Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Kate Horony Tintypes Ferrotypes Old West. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Photographic Images\Photographs". The seller is "jresin" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.


Rare Antique Top Lot of Doc Holliday & Common Law Wife Kate Tintypes Ferrotypes


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