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William Asbury Earp

Birth: 3 Apr 1856
Centre, Cherokee County, Alabama, USA
Death: 27 Apr 1924 (aged 68)
Stroud, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial: Stroud Cemetery

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Memorial ID: 5944716 View Source

William Asbury Earp was born Apr. 3, 1856 in Cherokee Co., AL to Caswell Earp and Mary Jane Deal Earp. He married Mary Francis Wright on Jan 1, 1884 in Iowa. In the fall of 1892 Mary and William came to Oklahoma Territory with a team of horses and a covered wagon with five small children aboard. Six more children were born to them on the farm they homesteaded in N. Keokuk Twp. Lincoln Co. Will was a successful farmer as well as a prominent churchman. He was an elder in the Church of God in Stroud and also served as a district officer for many years in this denomination. In June of 1926 oil was discovered on the Earp farm. This was one of the earliest oil field's in that area and there are still wells pumping in that field today. Will also raised Percheron horses and won many prizes for his horses at the county fairs.

William Asbury Earp was born Apr. 3, 1856 in Cherokee Co., AL to Caswell Earp and Mary Jane Deal Earp. He married Mary Francis Wright on Jan 1, 1884 in Iowa. In the fall of 1892 Mary and William came to Oklahoma Territory with a team of horses and a covered wagon with five small children aboard. Six more children were born to them on the farm they homesteaded in N. Keokuk Twp. Lincoln Co. Will was a successful farmer as well as a prominent churchman. He was an elder in the Church of God in Stroud and also served as a district officer for many years in this denomination. In June of 1926 oil was discovered on the Earp farm. This was one of the earliest oil field's in that area and there are still wells pumping in that field today. Will also raised Percheron horses and won many prizes for his horses at the county fairs.

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4th cousin to Marshall Wyatt Earp

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Maintained by: Gerry Pounds Robideaux
Originally Created by: Patti Oakley - McFarlin
Added: Nov 10, 2001
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5944716/william_asbury-earp: accessed ), memorial page for William Asbury Earp (3 Apr 1856–27 Apr 1924), Find a Grave Memorial ID 5944716, citing Stroud Cemetery, Stroud, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA; Maintained by Gerry Pounds Robideaux (contributor 46960605).

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