Evelyn Metzger, a pioneer’s story

Evelyn Burner Metzger came to Meeker with her mother and two brothers and two sisters in 1919 in a covered wagon. She was 6.
Her father had been a young Spanish American War veteran who moved from Nebraska to Wyoming with his bride. He was employed at an Indian Agency near Lander. Evelyn’s mother, Effie Burner, was 11 years younger than her husband, and became widowed at age 25 when he died of pneumonia. Mrs.…