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Timeframe 1915 - 1930 made by:
G. W. Graves Saddle Company Plainview Texas
Asking $1250.00 OBO
The leather is actually in a little better shape than it looks in the picture. It is pretty solid. The seat is 14"
 
 Restorable - will restore for display Add $1,000
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G. W. Graves Saddle Company Plainview Texas
Need a little History with your saddle.  I am going to do a little more research in Plainview, but as of now, this is what I think .     The Family     -------->>
 

PLAINVIEW, TEXAS (Hale County). Plainview, the county seat of  Hale County, forty-seven miles north of Lubbock and  seventy-six miles south of Amarillo in the northeast section of the county. (More)

 CHILDREN OF GEORGE GRAVES AND CHARLOTTE 
Balam  Graves was born about 1804, probably in VA. He married Elizabeth Gilbert, daughter of Elbert Gilbert and 
Lucinda ------, on 26 Sept. 1829 in Wilson Co., TN. Elizabeth was born about 1814 in Wilson Co., TN, died in 1890 in Decatur Co., TN, and was buried in Mt. Tabor Cem., Decatur Co., TN. He was listed in the 1837 tax list for Perry Co., TN, owning 70 
acres of land. 

Graves family legend (from Orene Wilkins Henry) is that Balam was killed by a man named Martin Lewis Fisher, and he then threw the body off a cliff into the Tennessee River near the bridge at Perryville. His body was never recovered. The youngest son of Balam, William Carrol Graves, loaded his family and possessions into a wagon and started them on their way to Texas. William Carrol went looking for Martin Lewis Fisher, shot him on the street of Decaturville, got on his horse and caught up with his family and they came  to Texas. 
Carrol lived the rest of his life in Texas. 

John C. Graves was born about 1820 or 1821 in NC, and died after 1880 in TN. He first married Mary A. ------ before 1846.She was born about 1820 in KY, and apparently died before 1860 (probably about 1854), since she wasn't shown in the 1860 census. John appears to have secondly married Terissa ------, perhaps about 1855, since she was listed with John in the 1860
census. She was born about 1833 in TN. John was listed in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses for Decatur Co., TN. All his children were born in TN, at least the first 3 in Decatur Co., TN.    He was a saddle maker. 

Wiley Graves (4) was born 7 May 1808 in NC, and died 11 Dec. 1867. He married Sarah Graham on 23 Oct. 1839, probably in Perry Co., TN, as her second husband. Her first husband was William C. Bowman, who died 27 Jan. 1828. She had one child by this first marriage: James Newton Bowman, born 7 Jan. 1826 in TN, married Mary Tennessee Texas Graham (his first cousin), who was born 31 March 1831 in Perry Co., TN. 

This Mary Tennessee Texas Graham and James Newton Bowman are supposedly direct ancestors of H. Ross Perot (the Texas billionaire and presidential candidate). See Marie Hill Perot-Miller's Memoirs of Maple Hill Perot Miller. Part of this 200-page book appeared in the feature section of the Dallas Morning News as "On Horseback from Tenn. to Texas" on April 17, 1927. 
  
George W. Graves, born  March 1896, m. Effie Hays, 21 March 1917. 

A  real cowboy working $40.00 saddle with a little history behind it.  
This would be my guess...Tom Stevens
PLAINVIEW, TEXAS (Hale County). Plainview, the county seat of
                           Hale County, forty-seven miles north of Lubbock and
                           seventy-six miles south of Amarillo in the northeast section of the county.
                           The Burlington Northern and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads
                           serve the city. In 1886 Z. T.  Maxwell moved with his family and 2,000 sheep
                           and established a farm in what is now northeast Hale County. About the same
                           time Edwin Lowden Lowe from Tennessee took up residence north of
                           the Maxwell homestead. Enticed by the possibility of founding a town,
                           Maxwell and Lowe secured a post office on March 18, 1887.
                           Plainview (Lowe's choice), since a vast treeless plain surrounded the post
                           office. The town received a charter on July 3, 1888. Plainview became
                           the county seat when Hale County was organized in August of 1888,
                           despite moderate competition from Hale Center. The first courthouse
                           was soon completed, at a cost of $2,500. Within a year the town grew to
                           a population of seventy-five and had a hotel, a Methodist church, and
                           Thornton Jones's store. The first newspaper in the county was the Hale
                           County Hesperian, established in Plainview by John Davidson and D. B.
                           Hill in October 1889. The first public school opened the same year.
                           Located on a cattle trail in an area of abundant water, good ranchland,
                           and excellent soil, the new town grew dramatically. By 1892 Plainview
                           had four churches, two hotels, a seminary, a newspaper, stagecoach
                           service, numerous businesses, and a population of 250. In 1906 the
                           Pecos and Northern Texas Railway reached the town. The line was
                           dedicated the next day, January 1, 1907. The coming of the railroad
                           brought an agricultural boom for Plainview and the surrounding area. The
                           growing city incorporated in 1907. The population reached almost 3,000
                           before1910, when the economic district housed ninety businesses, including
                           G.W. Graves Saddle Company.

                           The Hale County Historical Commission was founded in Plainview in
                           1963. On July 4, 1976, the Llano Estacadoqv Museum was opened on the
                           campus of Wayland Baptist University to further the study of the South
                           Plains. Of numerous newspapers established in early Plainview, only the
                           Plainview Daily Herald remains.