Daniel Swihart Metz, one of seven children of Eli and Sarah Metz, was born in Defiance county, Ohio February 9, 1861. He died October 26, 1947, the last of his generation, having reached the age of 86 years, eight months and 18 days.
At an early age he moved with his parents to Ray County, Missouri, where he grew to manhood. He came to Lincoln County, Kansas in 1885 and settled on a farm two miles east of Lincoln where he lived continuously for forty years. There he was living when on May 19th, 1892, he married Nellie C. Melrose, there his children were born and reared and spent "the happiest years of his life." and that bit of earth to the time of his death, was to him, hallowed soil. He retired from active farming in 1925 and established a home in Lincoln. His wife, a companion of fifty years died March 21, 1942.
All during his active years he took part in the worthwhile affairs of his community and was keenly interested in politics. He was a man of strong convictions and few men ever held more firmly to those things he believed to be right or was quicker to challenge those things he believed to be wrong. He was rigid and unbending to all that was sinister and bad in government, in morals or human conduct but recognized and appreciated every good act of his fellowmen.
He is survived by all of his five children; four daughters, Mrs. Belle Livingood. Mrs. Florence Cromwell. Minnie Metz and Perl (sic) Metz, and one son, Theodore M. Metz, all of Lincoln: also eleven grand children and two great grand children and other relatives. Dan Metz, and others of his kind, will be missed by a world fast losing his qualities of rug------
