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Note: regon Trail when she was 10 years oldShe delivered mail by herself when she was a teenager, in the 1890s, by horse and cart from Bassett, Nebraska to Hammond, a distance of 35 miles round trip, stopping at other post offices on the way. She made three trips a week and was paid $1.50 a week. She moved to Kansas with her parents and married William Metzger with whom she had 3 children: Claude Leon Metzger, Elsie Metzger, Howard Metzger. her husband died near Lamar Colorado when he was crushed by a wagon that he was tring to repair. httie--all 100 pounds of her lifted the heavy wagon and pulled William from beneath, but he died. She then returned to Kansas where she managed a cafe while trying to raise 3 children alone. A few years later she married Orlie "Whitey" Allen, whom she loved, but who was a bit of a scoundrel--as he made and sold moonshine during the Depression and fenced stolen goods, which he resold in Missouri and nearby states.
d: 8 July 1980 in Waunakee, Wisconsin (1 month short of her 100th birthday)
Burial: Osawatamie, Kansas
Married three times:
1) William Jackson Metzger m. 5 Apr. 1899 in Ozawkie Kansas; Son of Eli Metzger and Huldah Taylor, born April 5, 1875, Ozawkie Kansas; d: 24 March, 1913 in wagon accident on the Oregon Trail, Swink County, Nebraska
2) Orlie Allen
3) Peter Nickel Hattie and Grandpa Pete shared a home in Loveland Colorado. until his death in about 1969 in Loveland, Colorado.
Children of Hattie Sales and William Metzger:
1) Elsie Malinda Metzger b. 29 June, 1900 Meridien Kansas; married Kelsey Miller 15 June 1918, Ozawkie KS; died 6 June 1975, Osawatomie, KS
2) Howard Edwin Metzger b. 20 April 1904, Rock Creek Kansas; died October 1936
3)***Claude Leon Metzger (my grandfather)
b: December 18, 1901 in Ozawkie, Kansas
Married Ina Mae Purinton, daughter of Maude Ophelia Moore and Henry Archer Purinton, b. 14 September 1904, in Osawatomie KS, married in 1926, Osawatomie Kansas.
died on September __1980 in Park Falls, Wisconsin .
Note: Hattie May Sales was a True Pioneer and a colorful woman of the west. She travelled on the O
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