Determined to continue with the show, Sonora performed the diving horse act until 1942. This condition was caused during one of her dives when she hit the water off balance with her eyes open. It was in 1931 that Sonora's life dramatically changed when she became legally blind as the result of retinal detachment. That same year Sonora's sister Arnette Webster French joined the show. Sonora Webster married Albert Carver in 1928. After Carver's death in 1927, his son Albert (Al) Floyd Carver assumed responsibility for the show. Carver eventually settling in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She and other female performers traveled the country with Dr. Carver, an act that required her to mount a running horse as it reached the top of a forty-foot tower and lie on the horse's back as it plunged into an eleven-foot-deep pool of water. By 1924, Sonora began performing a stunt created by Dr. Carver, a trained dentist, acquired target shooting and horseback riding skills that lead to his success as a world-class marksman. William Frank "Doc" Carver's carnival act. Sonora Webster was born on February 2, 1904, one of six children, in Waycross, Georgia.
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