......................................................... Alvin Sheckler Married February 4, 1920 Hazel L. Hanks They set up home in Battle Creek The wife of Alvin's brother Linn, ADA, had passed away in 1919. Linn's children and sister Hazel had been boarding on different farms near Colon. Upon their marriage Alvin and Hazel took in these four children pictured at right. Linn's oldest son, Merril remained as a boarder on the farm on Fairfax road. When Linn remarried Lester, Terresa and Lois returned to living with their dad. See: Ada Sheckler Go To: George Sheckler Page Alvin's father

When Ada died, she  boarded on a farm northeast of Colon.
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Lois lived with her sister Teressa on the Bower homestead on Wattles Road.
After about a year Lois and Teressa were taken in by their Uncle Alvin who
had just been married and lived in Battle Creek.