For Christmas my father gave me a Colt SAA that originally belonged to my GGG grandfather. This man was a Methodist circuit rider in South Texas in the 1850s. One of his sons was killed in an Indian raid near San Antonio in about 1859 and in grief, the family moved back to Tennessee. Along about 1876, my GGG came back to Texas packing this Colt. He founded the Methodist Church  in LaVernia, Tx South of San Antonio.

The serial number dates the Colt to 1876. It was handed down through the family.... My gg uncle carried it as sheriff of Guadalupe county around turn of the century. He had the barrel cut down to 5". When dad got it in 1960, my mother had the gun re-blued and a modern smokeless barrel and cylinder installed. I have the original black powder parts together with the gun today. I'll post a picture when I get back to my home computer.