Jacques Mete' Descendants

For those of you familiar with Mendon, the sketches will aid you in visualizing the part Leander played in establishing the present town site. Unfortunately these are 8 1/2 by 11 pages and are not very legible, so if anyone wants copies of them, please contact me. Metty's Addition (first) was bounded by Main, Lake, State and Nottawa Streets. The Second addition was bounded by Main, Nottawa, Kline and the river. The following information appears in the History of St. Joseph County, MI 1877, published L. H. Everts & Co, Philadelphia, PA. p. 220 "... the next comer (to territory of Mendon Township) was Leander Metha, who came in from Monroe in 1835, and settled on the north side of the river on the present site of the village of Mendon... p. 221 "The first hewed log house was built by Leander Metha in 1834, near where Wakeman House now stands." p. 223 "The village of Mendon was first surveyed and platted in 1845, on the 22nd day of November, by Leander Metha, t...

Author: John McClellan Buckley, Vol. 1 page 512, published by Lewis Publisher 1913 FELIX METTY Among the early French settlers upon the River Raisin were several whose vigorous constitutions and simple mode of life carried them to a venerable age, an unusually large number of centenarians having passed nearly their whole lives in Monroe county. One of these notable Frenchmen was Felix Metty, who died here, almost upon the identical spot upon which he had lived for almost a century, at the age of one hundred and two years. The deceased was born in Canada, nearly opposite Detroit, in the year 1756. And at the period of early manhood removed to Detroit, where he participated in many of the perils and sufferings, incident to those times and to this frontier, until after the war of 1812, when he removed to Frenchtown and there remained till the day of his death. The old gentleman retained his vigor of body and mind until about a year before his death, walking regularly from the residence of...

To the union of Solomon and Alice there were born two sons. The eldest, Charles P., was born 10 May 1864 in Pottawatomie County, Kansas. The second was John L., born 25 September 1866 at Louisville, Pottawatomie, Kansas. Ironically, they would both die at a relatively young age, and in each case the cause of death was drowning . Charles drown in Vermillion River while ice skating at age of 24 years and 8 months on 12 January 1889 and is buried in the LaClede Cemetery, LaClede, KS. His younger brother John, met a similar fate at Topeka, Kansas on 19 March 1912, when he fell from a boat into the Kaw river. He 45 years of age. To the best of my knowledge, Charles left no descendants. John however, did leave descendants, some of whom today reside in Kansas, Utah, Texas, Arkansas and Missouri.

This is a copy of the court entry found in the Pottowatomie County clerk of court's office, Westmoreland, Kansas in 1982. It was preserved on microfilm and reads as follows: On the 9th of July 1863, I joined in wedlock Solomon T. Metty & Alice Palmer in the presence of Bernard (sp) Bertrand & Palmer McCartney. (Signature of official illegible) Received for record Aug 21, 1863 @ 12 o'clock. A. P. Smith, clerk

This photograph was taken circa 1954, during a visit by (Margaret) Vera Metty Rue (Mrs. Lester Rue) and her daughter Gloria Jean Rue to Currie, Minnesota. They came from their home in Corvallis, Oregon to visit Vera’s father, Arthur P. Metty and her brothers Arthur Joseph and Clair Metty. Cleo Francis Metty, eldest child of Arthur Joseph Metty, remembers being assigned to chauffeur Vera and Gloria around the Currie area so they could visit family and friends. His driving assignment helped fix the date of the visit because a person had to be at least fifteen years old to obtain a driving license at that time. Pictured left to right: Gloria Jean Rue, Vera Metty Rue, Arthur P. Metty, Robert John Metty, David Clair Metty. David and Robert are the sons of Clair Metty (grandchildren of Arthur P. Metty as is Gloria).

Jacques Mete' Descendants: Clair and Rita O'Connell Metty Felix Metty , Great, Great Grandfather of Clair Hubert Metty , Great Grandfather of Clair Frederic Metty , Grandfather of Clair Arthur Prudence Metty , Father of Clair Arthur Joseph Metty , Older Brother of Clair Cleo Francis Metty , Nephew of Clair

Clair Metty and Rita Veronica O’Connell, parents of David Clair and Robert John Metty. They were married on 7 July 1936 at St. Rose Of Lima Catholic Church in Avoca, Minnesota, a small town in southwestern Minnesota. Clair was born at the small town of Currie, Minnesota, a few miles from Avoca, on 4 July 1914. He remained in that area until WWII when he and Rita went to California to work in the defense industry. After WWII, Clair and Rita returned to the Currie area and stayed until 1954. They moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota that year and remained there until the present. Rita was the daughter of John and Catherine (Kearns) O’Connell, born on 8 April 1910 near Lime Creek, Minnesota. She died on 19 October 2004 at her home in Minneapolis and is buried at Resurrection Cemetary in Mendota Heights, Minnesota.