[Editors' note: David Oscar Teets' mother, when she was near death, asked her sister-in-law Sarah Teets (wife of John Teets) to take David Oscar and raise him, which she did. The "he" referred to in the next paragraph is David Oscar Teets, Earl's father.]
He never went back to see his father, sister, and step-mother. He was very bitter that his Mother had given him to her sister-in-law and his father had allowed him to be taken far from the family. In Recent years, a meeting with Lynn and Jeane Teets, Square Dance friends of My Son Otis and his wife Elsie, Lynn's father David M. Teets and his wife Annabell have found they were seeking to trace a baby boy who had been taken away by the widow of John Teets, a baby born May 25, 1864, in West Union, Ohio. We were able to trace that baby to Kansas East and North of Douglass, Kansas, where Aunt Sarah Teets and her Son Lewis Henry had settled with the small son of Alice Purdene Teets and Phillip Teets. There David Oscar grew up, went to school at Waverly District 109, Butler County, Kansas. My Grandparents lived on east and north in the same section; their Children Mary Elizabeth and Anna Margaret also went to Waverly. I have record book of Waverly School showing that Mary Elizabeth Parry, Edgar Garrett, and David Oscar Teets were in the same classes at Waverly. Later Anna Parry went to school. I have no record of Oscar Parry but suppose later on he went to school there. David Oscar Teets grew up and married Clara Bell White, a young lady whose Parents were early settlers near Mount Tabor School in the southern Part of Rock Creek Township. See "A Little Remembrance" written by Marietta Bailey White and typed up by her Granddaughter Maribell White, Daughter of Will White and Winifred Compton White.
David Oscar and Clara Bell White Teets had 5 children.
They moved to Colorado because the Doctor thought Earl was becoming tubercular. They later moved on to Boulder, lived in many places, raised and sold Garden Produce. Earl finished 8th grade at Valmont as did Paul and the twin girls. They lived on the Maris Place across from the Hixsons.