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Myrtis lived as a girl with her family in Natchez, a port city on the [[Mississippi River]] until her father moved the family c. 1908 to Mangham in Richland Parish south of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], Louisiana. There he opened a store on the main highway in Mangham.
Myrtis lived as a girl with her family in Natchez, a port city on the [[Mississippi River]] until her father moved the family c. 1908 to Mangham in Richland Parish south of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], Louisiana. There he opened a store on the main highway in Mangham.
===Marriage and family===
===Marriage and fmily===
In Mangham, Myrtis met DeWitt Talmage Methvin, Sr. (1894-1975), also a Mississippi native who had moved to Mangham to work as a railroad agent. Myrtis married DeWitt Methvin in 1923 in the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church in Mangham. They lived for several years in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. They had a son and two daughters. Their son, [[DeWitt T. Methvin, Jr.]], was an [[attorney]] in Alexandria, where he practiced law for more than a half-century.
In Mangham, Myrtis met DeWitt Talmage Methvin, Sr. (1894-1975), also a Mississippi native who had moved to Mangham to work as a railroad agent. Myrtis married DeWitt Methvin in 1923 in the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church in Mangham. They lived for several years in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. They had a son and two daughters. Their son, [[DeWitt T. Methvin, Jr.]], was an [[attorney]] in Alexandria, where he practiced law for more than a half-century.
==The Castor years===
===The Castor years===
The Methvins relocated to Castor in 1929, where they remained until their deaths. DeWitt, Sr., was engaged in selling timber to the Alexandria-based Roy O. Martin, Jr., company and its sawmill in the Roy community south of Castor. Methvin also operated his own portable sawmill.<ref name=dtmjrbio>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012034600/http://www.genealogy.com/users/m/e/t/Mildred-Methvin/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0001.htm|title=DeWitt Talmage Methvin, Jr.|publisher=genealogy.com|accessdate=May 22, 2020}}</ref>
The Methvins relocated to Castor in 1929, where they remained until their deaths. DeWitt, Sr., was engaged in selling timber to the Alexandria-based Roy O. Martin, Jr., company and its sawmill in the Roy community south of Castor. Methvin also operated his own portable sawmill.<ref name=dtmjrbio>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012034600/http://www.genealogy.com/users/m/e/t/Mildred-Methvin/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0001.htm|title=DeWitt Talmage Methvin, Jr.|publisher=genealogy.com|accessdate=May 22, 2020}}</ref>
The Methvins are interred at Gwin Memorial Cemetery in Mangham.
The Methvins are interred at Gwin Memorial Cemetery in Mangham.
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