I was wondering...but will not venture to guess...

by Lee J. , hagerman,NM, Monday, February 17, 2014, 23:01 (3874 days ago) @ Rob Leahy

The story around Prescott from a number of sources was that, Fred was a school bus driver and Rachel was the last house on the route, way out. as 15 y.o. she came up pregnant. Fred being the Gentleman that he was did the only reasonable thing. When I first met the Son, I thought he was her younger brother?. She told me she was just a housekeeper and clean up girl and ran errands. Started her engraving on pocket knives, Zippo lighters and an occasional set of spurs. When she did my Howdah it was like the 8-10th gun she had worked on. Was $100. seemed fair to me. I don't know how Fred treated he in later years, but it wasn't very nice for 20 or so years.