| Nine Hundred TwentyEigth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Mattie Blaylock |
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Born Celia Ann Blaylock in Wisconsin in 1850, Mattie worked as a dance hall girl in Dodge City, among the wildest towns known to man. It was here that she met Wyatt Earp.
Mattie and Wyatt are not believed to have ever been officially married, but by 1879 everyone accepted Mattie as Wyatt’s common law wife.
Mattie probably met Wyatt Earp sometime between 1871 and 1873, by the 1880 census she appears in government documents as his wife. Earp led a wandering life and by 1879 was headed to Tombstone, Arizona where Mattie joined him. Sometime between 1876 and 1879 Mattie began to suffer from severe headaches for which she took laudanum, a medication to which she was soon addicted.
After the Gunfight at the OK Corral Mattie left Tombstone, believing that Wyatt would contact her at some point to arrange a place and time for them to be reunited.
No word ever came from Wyatt. Mattie drifted to Colton California and from thence to Pinal City Arizona, attempting to make a living from prostitution in mining towns where the mines had stopped producing and the miners had moved on. 
With few potential customers and those few having little money, making a living was nearly impossible. In 1888 Mattie died, the coroner’s report designated her death a suicide by laudanum poisoning. She was buried in Pinal City.
Unlike Mattie Blaylock, Little Mattie had very little chance to make a good life for herself. Visit her marker here in the Lone Oak Cemetery, established in 1879, a year coincidentaly referenced several times in our story.
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| North Coordinates |
| How many years from when Lone Oak Cemetery was established, was Little Mattie born? |
| If the answer is 15 |
N32° 59.934 |
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| If the answer is 16 |
N32° 59.936 |
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| If the answer is February |
Just go home |
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| West Coordinates |
| Little Mattie only got to live how long? |
| If the answer is 3 Months |
W095° 56.670 |
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| If the answer is 2 Months |
W095° 56.655 |
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| If the answer is 12 Months |
W095° 56.663 |
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| If the answer is 15 Months |
W095° 56.654 |
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| Final |
| Where did you wind up? |
| OK Corral |
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| Tombstone |
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FP cemetery caches are always placed with regards to the location, so please be mindful of your presence here, watch where you step and be respectful of the residents interred here. Please carefully re-hide the container better to maintain the integrity of the cache.
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GPSr Accuracy 6.0' @ Final |
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