Daggett County Biographies

TINKER, Dr. Fay Waters, was born the son of Lefavor and Ella (Barnes) Tinker on October 5, 1883, in Morristown Lamoille Vermont. He attended Medical College in Philadelphia. After completion of medical college he practiced in Pueblo, Colorado. He came to Green River Wyoming about 1912, he met Elizabeth McCool and they were married January 12, 1913 in Green River. He practiced medicine in Green River until they left in 1914 living at first in Linwood, and then in South Valley. He also practiced medicine in Manila, and was the only Doctor in town. He taught school in Manila, and later served on the School Board.

TINKER, Mary Elizabeth was born December 27, 1885 in Stewartsville, Dekalb county Missouri the daughter of John McCool and Martha Merris she came to Green River Wyoming to teach school. While teaching in Green River she met and married Dr. Fay Waters Tinker. They made their home in Manila. She taught school there and in other surrounding communities. They had five children James, John, Mary Ella, Albert and Isabell. James the oldest died as a toddler when a root cellar caved in on him. In 1933 her husband died, and she taught school to support her family. In the fall of 1938 she taught school at Bridgeport, taking her small daughter Isabel with her. She moved into the old school building which was used as a teacherage. It had no ceiling and was entered via a battered old door. Rats ran around on the logs near the roof. She taught school at several communities in Daggett County. Her two sons and their families currently live in Manila, and Mary Ella lives in Little Rock, Isabell and her family live in Denver. After retiring she liked to travel she took a tour through Europe visiting Paris and London. She also went to Hawaii before it became a state and visited her sister that lived there. She was planning on going to Cuba but at the time there was a lot of political unrest, and she decided not to go. She now lives in Manila, and occasionally walks to the grocery store and to the post office as she never did learn to drive a car.

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