![]() She was fined for working as "sporting women" in a sporting house run by Nellie "Bessie" (Ketchum) Earp, James Earp's wife. Since Kate met Doc Holliday the early 1870s, there is speculation that she may have confused the two and their occupations when recalling the facts later in her life.īy 1874, Kate left St. The census also shows that another Melvin employed by a St. Louis in the mid-1860s but was married to a steamship captain's daughter named Mary Bust. United States Census records report that a Silas Melvin lived in St. No record currently proves the marriage, birth of a child, or the deaths of either Melvin or the child. Subsequently, husband and son were said to have died of yellow fever. Louis, Kate claimed she married a dentist named "Silas Melvin" and that the two had a son. The 1870 United States Census records for Davenport, Iowa show Kate's younger sister, 15 year old Wilhemina (Wilma), living with and working as a domestic for Austrian-born David Palter and his Hungarian wife Betty.Īt age 16, Kate ran away from her foster home and is reported to have stowed away on a riverboat bound for St. Mary Katherine and her younger siblings were placed in the home of her brother-in-law, Gustav Susemihl, and in 1870, they were left in the care of attorney Otto Smith. Horony and his wife died in 1865 within a month of one another. The Horony family settled in a predominantly German area of Davenport, Iowa in 1862. Many authors have stated, without proof, that Horony left Mexico in 1863 with his family long before Maximilian's rule crumbled. Horony is said to have accepted a position as personal physician to Austrian-born Emperor, Maximilian I of Mexico. Although no conclusive evidence or records exist, Dr. Horony, his second wife Katharina, and his children left Hungary for the United States, ultimately reaching New York on the German ship Bremen in September 1860. Immigration to the United States of America Mary Katherine Horony (also spelled Harony, Haroney, and Horoney) was born on November 7, 1850, in Pest, Hungary, the second-oldest daughter of a Hungarian physician, Dr. Mary Katherine Horony Cummings (Novem-November 2, 1940), known as Big Nose Kate, was a Hungarian-born prostitute and later long-time companion and common-law wife of Doc Holliday in the American Old West. Wilma Westchall, Buffalo, Ia., and a niece, Mrs. She went to Tombstone when that town was booming, and remained in Cochise county until 1931. Cummings came to Arizona in 1876 and settled at Prescott. She died Saturday night in the Arizona Pioneers Home, where she had been a guest since 1931. ![]() Cummings, pioneer Arizonian who would have been 90 years old Thursday. ![]() 4: Funeral services were being arranged today for Mrs. Biography of Big Nose Kate - Mary Katherine Horony Cummings in Yavapai County, Arizona ![]()
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