Joseph Isaac (Ike) Clanton (1847 - June 1, 1887) was born in Callaway County, Missouri, and grew up to be one of the pivotal players in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, one of the most famous events of the American Old West.Ike Clanton was one of seven children born to Newman Haynes Clanton (known as Old Man Clanton, 1816-1881) and his wife Maria Sexton (Kelso) Clanton. His father worked at times as a day laborer, a gold miner, a farmer, and by the late 1870s, a cattleman in Arizona Territory.Clanton's mother died in 1866. Ike stayed with the family when they moved to Tombstone, Arizona Territory, about 1877 (before Tombstone became a town or even a mining center). At that time, Newman Clanton was living with his sons Phineas ( Fin ), Ike, and Billy. By 1878 Ike was running a small lunch counter at the Tombstone Mill site (now Millville on the San Pedro Rivernot in modern Tombstone). By 1881, however, he was working on his father's ranch at Lewis Springs, about 12 miles (19 km) west of Tombstone and 5 miles (8 km) from Charleston. [1]The Clantons and their ranch hands and associates were known as the Cow-boys , and they had a reputation for reckless behavior. They were accused of cattle rustling from across the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as other acts of banditry and murder.