Descendants
Only James, Virgil, and Adelia had children. Newton married Nancy Jane (Jennie) Adam sometime between 1865 and 1868. They had five children:
- Effie May (May 6, 1870, Philadelphia, Missouri–March 29, 1898 Paradise Valley, Nevada)
- Wyatt Clyde (August 25, 1872 Kansas–between 1920 and 1930 Utah)
- Mary Elizabeth (August 25, 1875 in Kansas–1885, Kansas)
- Alice Abigail (December 18, 1878 Kansas–1928, Vallejo, California)
- Virgil Edwin (April 19, 1879, Garden City, Kansas–November 20, 1959 Sacramento, California)
At age sixteen Virgil eloped with 16 year old Dutch immigrant, Magdalena C. "Ellen" Rysdam. They remained together for a year in spite of her parents' (Gerrit Rysdam and Magdalena Catrina Van Velzen) disapproval of her choice. When Virgil enlisted to serve the Union forces in the Civil War, it was the last time they saw each other as husband and wife. Virgil and Ellen had a daughter, Nellie Jane Earp (January 7, 1862–June 17, 1930), born after Virgil left to serve in the Civil War. During the war, Ellen received news that Virgil had died and left Illinois. When Virgil returned from the war, he could not locate Ellen and he remarried. On August 28, 1870, at the age of 27, he married Rosella Dragoo (b. January 3, 1845, France) in Lamar, Missouri. His father, Nicholas Earp, married them. It is unknown what happened to Rosella and their marriage.
Adelia married William Thomas Edwards in Rice County, Kansas in 1877. William Edwards died on May 3, 1919, in San Bernardino County, California. Adelia and William had three children:
- Nicholas Edwards
- Estelle Josphine Edwards
- Mary Virginia Edwards (c. 1880–1935).
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