Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Junius Brutus Metz    
       Also known as: J. Brutus Metz 1
                Born: Feb- 2-1869          in Marion Co, WV  2,1
                Died: Dec- 5-1933           2
              Census: 1910, 1920           in Sardis District, Harrison Co, WV  
              Census: 1900                 in Mannington District, Marion Co, WV  
             Resided: 1896                 in Marion Co, WV  1
          Occupation: 1900                 tool dresser (oil)  3
          Occupation: 1920                 driller for oil company  4
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Sarah Elenor DeVaughan   2  
            Nickname: Nella 5
             Married: Aug- 9-1896          in Mannington, Marion Co, WV  1
                Born: Oct-26-1878          in Robbinsville, Graham Co, NC  2,1
              Census: 1910, 1920           in Sardis District, Harrison Co, WV  
              Census: 1900                 in Mannington District, Marion Co, WV  
              Father:
              Mother:
           M Child 1: Roy DeVaughan Metz      
                Born: Jul-18-1897          near Hebron, Pleasants Co, WV  2,6
                Died: Mar-21-1947          in Woodruff, Spartanburg Co, SC  7
              Buried:                      in Nazareth Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Moore, Spartanburg Co, SC  7
      Cause of death:                      chronic myocarditis  7
             Resided:                      in Woodruff, Spartanburg Co, SC  7
             Resided: 1944                 in Detroit, Wayne Co, MI  2
              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  7
                Wife: Gussie Dean Gaston  b. Apr- 3-1908  d. Oct-24-2002  
             Married: Sep-24-1934           2

Sources:
(1) Marion County Marriage Records, Fairmont, WV. 
(2) 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. 
(3) 1900 Census, Marion County, WV. 
(4) 1920 Census, Harrison County, WV. 
(5) Birth record of son. 
(6) 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. 
(7) South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955 (online), Ancestry.com and SC Dept of Archives & History. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Listed as a boarder at the Chick Springs Hotel Sanitarium, occupation
diagnostician.







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