Josephine Casey [SEP] date of death
Josephine Casey
Josephine Casey (1 January 1878(?) – 27 January 1950) was a labor organizer and leader, and a women's rights advocate.
Early life.
Casey, the youngest of four children, was born in Memphis, Tennessee in [1978?] and raised in Chicago. Her Catholic parents, Cornelius and Bridget Stephens Casey, were Irish immigrants.
Career.
While working as a Chicago streetcar ticket agent in 1904 she persuaded the women she worked with to form a union.
the young woman are not from the 1880s time frame, but from the early 20th Century. If the 1914 copyright date is the year the picture was taken, Josephine Earp would have been 53 in 1914. Casey Terfertiller's book "Wyatt Earp The Life Behind the Legend" contains a picture of an elderly Josephine Marcus Earp on page 225. The photo is from the Robert G. McCubbin Collection and has been verified as authentic. The date of the photograph is estimated at about 1921. Josephine is elderly and very plump.