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Note: More..... b.19 Aug 1891 at Silver Creek, Idaho, in the Boise Valley. Tom was born along the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon, while the family was en route to Oregon. He married Lottie Owens (daughter of Orlando and Luella Miller Owens), on 9 December 1914, in Jefferson Co., Kansas. They lived on a farm where they raised 3 sons, all born in Kansas: Wendel W., born 1916-17... Minford T., born 1922-23... and Calvin H., born 1924-25. Tom died October 1982 in Winchester, Jefferson, KS, and Lottie died 20 March 1986. They were buried at Ozawkie Cemetery.
One autumn, in about 1969-70, Mom (Loree Metzger Davies), my brother Evan and I went with Grandma and Granddad Metzger to Kansas to bring great-Grandma Hattie Nickel back to Wisconsin to live, as she was getting old, and was no longer able to live alone. We met Uncle Tom and Aunt Lottie, and I was impressed by what a nice, and friendly man Uncle Tom was, with his smiling eyes and cheerful disposition. Aunt Lottie prepared a wonderful dinner for us, and afterwards, while the grown-ups talked, Evan and I watched the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” on TV. Somehow, the gentleness, the soft, autumn feel, the story of a family in the south in times gone by, seemed to parallel the place and time where we were...It was the first time I had seen the movie, and ever since it has been one of my all-time favorites.
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