How did John Clum’s first wife die? In the movie Tombstone, Morgan Earp tells his brother Wyatt, “They hit Clum’s house too. They shot up his wife.” Did that really happen? John Crawley Salem, Oregon My trusty sidekick editor Mark Boardman beat me to this one: “John Clum’s first wife (of three) was Mary Ware Clum, called Mollie, whom he married in Ohio on November 8, 1876. She died in Tombstone on December 18, 1880, about a week after giving birth to a daughter named Bes


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