Some History about the items on the last post..............I have posted a picture of the gun on the wall before and probably have posted some of the story behind it? Even so I might as well do so again and perhaps this time it will be a little different. I don't want to forget some of these things and hope to have the blogs printed up "one of these days". The gun is, as shown made by J.Stevens and was made in 1894. I found some similar guns on the Internet once. The gun is a 22 caliber single shot. My dad said it was sort of a family gun and that his older brothers and perhaps his day had used it over several years. He didn't say it was actually his personal gun but that he did use it. How the gun came to be in my home office is an interesting story. Sometime around 1970 I was working at Keeleys wholesale in Salt Lake. I was just out of collage and had been given the job as manager of this small company that had been bought by the company I worked my way through collage at. I had hired a cousin of mine that lived in Salt Lake to work on the night crew. He was a few years older than I was. I had not known him very well growing up but he needed a job and it helped him to get one at that time. My cousin, Michael Aylworth, and I probably had never had one on one time together growing up as he was several years older than me. One day he came to work and gave me this gun. It was his mother who had our grandmother live with them in her final years. That access probably enabled him to get the gun or maybe he got it from the farm in Malad over the years. He felt that the gun was my Dad's gun and felt that I should have it. I was surprised and never expected to have it happen. The gun has been in my office on my wall ever since.
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Another incident is interesting in comparison. I have an old typewriter in my office that has been there since around the year 2000. It was my Mothers dad's typewriter. We saw him type on it as we grew up. Many letters were typed. Grandfather Warren was a writer and all the many grandkids would have identified him with that typewriter. In the case of this grandfather as well as my fathers dad I was not a grandson who was close to them. I was working for a large wholesaler in about 2000 and my cousin Jim Warren was out of work. I reached out to him and tried to help. I had the business look at him but was not able to hire him. Jim and I knew each other. We never spent a lot of time with each other growing up but that was something that I think we both would have liked to have not happened. Jim just brought me the typewriter one day saying he knew I was interested in writing and wanted me to have it.
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Both events brought things to me that have been life long treasures.