Original sentence: He also had a second source of income from the selling of alcoholic beverages, which made him the target of the local Temperance movement.Nicholas Earp named Wyatt after his commanding officer during the Mexican-American War, Captain Wyatt Berry Stapp of the Illinois Mounted Volunteers.On July 30, 1840, widower Nicholas Porter Earp wed Virginia Ann Cooksey in Hartford, Kentucky.Only thirteen years old, Wyatt was too young but later tried on several occasions to run away and join the army, only to have his father find him and bring him home.Wyatt Earp had an elder half-brother, as well as a half-sister who died at the age of ten months.Wyatt Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois, on March 19, 1848
Edited sentence: He also had a second source of income from the selling of alcoholic beverages, which made him the target of the local temperance movement.Nicholas named Wyatt after his commanding officer during the Mexican-American War, Captain Wyatt Berry Stapp of the Illinois Mounted Volunteers.Wyatt Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois, on March 19, 1848, to widower Nicholas Porter Earp and Virginia Ann Cooksey (who were wed on July 30, 1840 in Hartford, Kentucky).Wyatt had an elder half-brother, as well as a half-sister who died at the age of ten months.Wyatt was too young (he was only thirteen years old), but he later tried on several occasions to run away and join the army, only to have his father find him and bring him home