Husband: Roy DeVaughan Metz
Born: Jul-18-1897 near Hebron, Pleasants Co, WV 1,2
Died: Mar-21-1947 in Woodruff, Spartanburg Co, SC 3
Buried: in Nazareth Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Moore, Spartanburg Co, SC 3
Cause of death: chronic myocarditis 3
Resided: in Woodruff, Spartanburg Co, SC 3
Resided: 1944 in Detroit, Wayne Co, MI 1
Census: 1930 in Greenville Co, SC (see note 1)
Census: 1910, 1920 in Sardis District, Harrison Co, WV
Census: 1900 in Mannington District, Marion Co, WV
Occupation: physician 3
Father: Junius Brutus Metz (1869 - 1933)
Mother: Sarah Elenor DeVaughan (1878 - )
Wife: Gussie Dean Gaston Married: Sep-24-1934 1
Born: Apr- 3-1908 1,4 Died: Oct-24-2002 4 Buried: in Nazareth Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Moore, Spartanburg Co, SC 5 Resided: in Woodruff, Spartanburg Co, SC 5,6 Resided: 1947 in Hendersonville, Henderson Co, NC 7 Resided: 1944 in Detroit, Wayne Co, MI 1 Occupation: nurse 1 Father: Thomas Craig Gaston (1879 - 1942) Mother: Minnie Iola Rogers (1884 - 1970)
Sources: (1) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 41. (2) Pleasants County Birth Records, St. Marys, WV, Identified as (first name blank) Metz, white male, born July 18 1897 at Plumb Run, this being the mother's first child. Father: J. B. Metz, age 30, b. W.Va, carpenter. Mother: Nella Metz, nee Devaughan, 20, b. North Carolina, res. Plumb Run. (Note: Roy DeVaughan Metz was reported with this birth date in Mary Gaston Gee's genealogy of Amzi W. Gaston. The community of Plum Run is located in Tyler County, just across the border from Hebron (Pleasants County), which Roy Metz gave as his birthplace to customs officials when crossing the Canadian border at Detroit.), BR p. 64. (3) South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955 (online), Ancestry.com and SC Dept of Archives & History. (4) Social Security Death Index. (5) Obituary. (6) Social Security Death Index, Social Security card issued in North Carolina before 1951. (7) Death record of husband. Event Notes Note (1) Listed as a boarder at the Chick Springs Hotel Sanitarium, occupation diagnostician.