Background
Newton was born in Ohio County, Kentucky, to Nicholas Earp and his first wife, Abigail Storm.
Newton was born in Ohio County, Kentucky, to Nicholas Earp and his first wife, Abigail Storm.
He was the half-brother of Old West lawmen Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp. Newton Earp, and half-brothers James and Virgil, were close for their entire lives. She died before 1887.
He ran against his younger half-brother Wyatt for the office of constable.
The Earps may have hoped to keep the job in the family one way or another. Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Earp enlisted in the Union Army (along with both James and Virgil) on November 11, 1861.
Earp served with Company F of the Fourth Cavalry, Iowa Volunteers. He was promoted to fourth sergeant on January 1, 1865.
Virgil and Newton, however, served the entire war.
Newton mustered out of the Army on June 26, 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky. There, Newton worked as a saloon manager. Earp and family returned to the Midwest in 1868, first settling in Lamar, Missouri, where Earp took up farming.
The family later relocated to Kansas.
The Earps had five children: Effie May, Wyatt Clyde, Mary Elizabeth, Alice Abigail, and Virgil Edwin. Following another relocation to California, Newton became a carpenter, building homes in northern California and northwestern Nevada.
Newton died at age 91 in Sacramento, California on December 18, 1928. He is buried in Sacramento"s East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
