Hmmmmmmm this is really interesting. I wonder if there was more than one saber. I'm told that is unlikely tho. Both my brother & I remember seeing it hanging on the wall in our house. We also recall seeing it in our grandparent's home when we were children. I'm trying to figure out when it was in our house. My grandmother died in '71 and it was in the mid 70's that my father made a trip to AZ & visited relatives in Wilcox, etc - then on to CA to visit the son of Edward Cary's 2nd marriage. This is where we get really confused, since we didn't know of this second family until this year. We were told Dad gave Josephine the saber. We were also told it ended up with this son from the 2nd marriage. What was your father's name? My dad was born in 1907 - the eldest of Lilly Grace's children. He dropped out of highschool too, because his parents couldn't afford to have all 6 children in school at the same time. He went back & completed HS at the age of 21.I'm guessing he worked in the mines in the early to mid 30's. He married my mom in 1939 after going back to NE to help his father on the ranch so his younger brother could serve in WWll. That's how I'm arriving at a guess when he was in AZ. Perhaps it would be easier to write via regular email. My email is
alyceegaylmanly20022002@yahoo.com - if you'd like to communicate that way. How old are you? I'm 67. Gayl