Photo: Elizabeth Servaty…..Frontier Partisans She was born Elizabeth Servaty in New Haven, Connecticut in 1882, the daughter of German immigrants. Three years after she began working for the Winchester gun company, Elizabeth went to a vaudeville circus shooting act and it featuring a young man from Boerne, Texas, Adolph “Ad” Toepperwein. Photo: Adolph ” Ad”Continue reading “Remembering sharpshooter Elizabeth “Plinky” Toepperwein”
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Memories of San Antonio 