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machines to be had what can you buy him a new OX-5 motor for?*
Yours very truly,
(Signed) C. R. Sinclair
Detroit, Mich.

October 31, 1922.
In the fall of 1922 Clayt wanted to learn to fly. Buck taught him each evening after the day's work when weather would permit and Clayt one day went "solo". Clayt was not a pilot in addition to being bookkeeper, caretaker and seamstress for repairs for Sam and a canny buyer of supplies. Upon the arrival of winter Buck
despondently wrote home to his mother for "Billetting" of his family. Sam said the company was worse off than ever and there was no need of repeating what he always called "The Starvation Days of Lorain". Within the next year, 1923, Buck received notice of a dissolution and surrender of the charter of the Weaver Aircraft Company executed on the 14th day of February, 1923. Down went Buck's castle of dreams. At the meet in St. Louis, 1923, Buck took up the Waco and as usual with thousands of spectators and all those active in aviation stood on the ground and looked on in awe and admiration while Buck did his 'stuff' with the Waco which then belonged "In toto" to Sam and Clayt. (Buck was flying Mr. Dickinson's Breguet in which he had built a ply wood cabin capable of carrying four passengers)(This ship is still at Ashburn Field)
 In the spring of 1924 Buck was the first to put an OX-5 motor in a Thomas Morse Scout which eliminated the hazard of the radial, old type of fire throwing motor. In May 1924 Buck was finally forced to go to bed due to a pain in his back which had been torturing him for nearly six months. On the morning of July 31st, after three months of terrible illness, Buck died. The Aero Clubs instigated by Sam who had paid several hospital bills for Buck took up a fund for Hattie and little Buck. Buck's ashes rest in the authors personal cemetery in [[?]], Ohio. During the services many notable flyers dropped flowers over the chapel as little Buck ran hither and thither to gather them. Little Buck was five and one-half years old and due to poor health Hattie accepted the