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 never did care much for airplanes and always preferred traveling by a bus or train,  when she went to Europe and Hawaii she boarded a ship. She walked to the post office and sometimes to the grocery store as she never did drive a car.