I have come to agree with the position that Absalom laid out just above. When I first looked at the Draft Reg. card, the only signature I trusted to be Cater's was the one at the bottom. The more I look at it, the more it seems he might have filled out all the front side of the card. That doesn't mean I am blind to some odd variety in letter forms on Side 1, but I think they may not be significant enough to let us conclude two different people worked on that side.

I still haven't figured out whether the closest relative -- Mrs. W.B. Petrick of Dover, OK -- is a sister, remarried mother, or sister-in-law. Given the age of his older son, Cater would have been married and a father by the time he bought the gun in Goldfield.

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David Wilson