On March 15, 1870, at age nine, she was admitted to the Darke County Infirmary along with her sister Sarah Ellen. Her mother later married Daniel Brumbaugh, had another daughter, Emily (1868–1937), and was widowed once again.īecause of poverty following her father's death, Annie did not regularly attend school as a child, although she did attend later in childhood and in adulthood. Annie's father, who had fought in the War of 1812, was 61 years old at the time of Annie's birth and became invalid from hypothermia during a blizzard in late 1865 and died of pneumonia in early 1866 at age 66. They moved to a rented farm (later purchased with a mortgage) in Patterson Township, Darke County, Ohio, sometime around 1855.īorn in 1860, Annie was the sixth of Jacob and Susan's nine children, and the fifth of the seven surviving. There is a stone-mounted plaque in the vicinity of the site, which was placed by the Annie Oakley Committee in 1981, 121 years after her birth.Īnnie's parents were Quakers of English descent from Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania: Susan Wise, born 1830, and Jacob Mosey, born 1799, married in 1848. Her birthplace is about five miles (8 km) east of North Star. 10 Depictions in arts and entertainmentĪnnie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann (Annie) Mosey on August 13, 1860, in a log cabin less than two miles (3.2 km) northwest of Woodland, now Willowdell, in Darke County, Ohio, a rural county along the state's border with Indiana.4 The Little Sure Shot of the Wild West (Annie Oakley).Since her death, her story has been adapted for stage musicals and films, including Annie Get Your Gun. Her stage acts were filmed for one of Thomas Edison's earliest Kinetoscopes in 1894. She also instructed women in marksmanship, believing strongly in female self-defense. She earned more than anyone except Buffalo Bill himself.Īfter a bad rail accident in 1901, she had to settle for a less taxing routine, and toured in a play written about her career. Audiences were astounded to see her shooting out a cigar from her husband's lips or splitting a playing-card edge-on at 30 paces. The pair joined Buffalo Bill in 1885, performing in Europe before royalty and other heads of state. At 15, she won a shooting contest against experienced marksman Frank E. Oakley developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio. Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey Aug– November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
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