Wyatt Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois 1848.  Circa 1868, Wyatt moved to Lamar, Missouri where he met and married Urilla Sutherland, who died of Typhoid soon after the marriage.
 
In 1876, he moved to Dodge City, Kansas where he became Assistant Marshall.  It was here that he earned his reputation as an excellent lawman with the ability to out shoot and apprehend the villains.  It was also here where he met and began living with Celia Ann “Mattie” Blaylock who considered herself Mrs. Wyatt Earp.
 
In 1879, Wyatt, along with Mattie, Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday and his wife, “Big Nose” Kate Elder, arrived in Tombstone, where Wyatt’s brothers and their wives were settled.  Wyatt’s first job in Tombstone was as a shotgun guard for Wells Fargo, and soon thereafter was made Civil Deputy Sheriff of Pima County.
 
Virgil Earp, Tombstone’s Town Marshall, deputized his brothers Wyatt and Morgan.  On October 26, 1881, Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp, along with Doc Holliday went after the “bad guys” at the OK Corral.  According to the records, the actual location of this very famous gunfight was in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral.  The Shooting lasted only 30 seconds.  Morgan was hit in the left shoulder and Virgil in the leg.
 
Friends of those who were slain took matters into their own hands.  Virgil Earp was ambushed and wounded.  Morgan Earp was shot and killed as he played pool.  Wyatt, who had become a Federal Marshall, deputized Doc Holiday, Turkey Creek Jack Johnson and Texas Jack Vermillion and then left Tombstone in search of his brothers’ attackers.  He left behind his wife, Mattie Blaylock, and Wyatt never resumed this liaison.
 
Mattie Blaylock moved to the small, but famous, boomtown of Pinal City, Arizona (located near what is now Superior).  Mattie’s habits of alcohol and “laudanum”, an opium-derived drug, caused her deterioration and she was found dead on July 4, 1888 at age 38.

 
Mattie Blaylock Earp is buried about a mile slightly west and north of Superior. The Exact GPS* location is: N33 17.292 W 111 08.067.

For those without GPS, the following are directions to her grave site:
 
• On Highway #60, just west of Superior, turn north on Silver King Mine Road, which is about 1/10 mile west of milepost #225.  This road is an unimproved road but is passable by automobile except when it is wet.
 
• Follow this road past Harborlite Corporation and over a covered railroad.
 
• At a Y (GPS*: N33 17.524 W 111 07.428)  at .6 of a mile from Highway #60, stay to the left.
 
• At 1.1 miles form #60, watch for a Qwest “Laser Light Source, Fibre Optic Cable” metal post on the right side of the road.
 
• Continue about 90 feet and turn left.  At a Y at 90 to 100 feet, stay to the right.  At a Y at .5 mile from the Qwest post, at a wash area, stay left.
 
• At the next Y, stay left.  At approximately .8 mile from the Qwest post is the graveyard.  Mattie Earp’s grave will be clearly visible.

* DISCLAIMER: Your trusty webmaster plotted these GPS positions with a new instrument (using four satellites) said to be accurate within 22 feet. However this was the first time I used GPS technology so if you end up somewhere else without food or water surrounded by coyotes and diamondbacks I renounce all responsibilities. You've been warned.