Elmer Angell was born in 1894, 1 1/2 miles north of the Lockert schoolhouse to
   David and Ella Angell. In 1895 grandfather purchased the William Kockert farm,
   which was 3/4 mile north of the present Angell ranch home. It was while they lived
   here in the year of 1899 that grandmother passed away, rather suddenly, at 37 years
   of age, leaving 7 children: Elmer, 6, and Mary 2 years old. After this unfortunate
   happening, they moved to a farm 1 mile south of the Lasswell store and post office
   where dad and his sisters attended Eagle School. Grandfather married Eliza Garner
   of Maryville, Missouri. In 1904 and in 1906, they returned to Maryville, where
   they operated a meat market. It was here dad learned the butchering profession and
   he took pride in his speed; processing a hog or beef in just a few minutes, this
   characteristic of doing things fast persisted and was a way of life for dad.
      The lure of the spacious land to the west was too much to resist and dad longed
   to return to this native land of birth. Uncle Will was visiting Maryville, and dad
   pleaded to return to Kansas. After some resistance grandfather consented and said,
   "Willie, you take Elmer home with you and when he gets homesick, take him to Kiowa,
   put him on the train, so he can come home." Dad never returned to Missouri to live;
   instead he hired out at age 13 to Leanard Ott, a farmer, and over the next several
   years, he worked for several farmers in the neighborhood. From this experience, he
   found some farms short of water, or the water was too hard; he often had to haul
   water with team and wagon. When he went to work on the Jim Statler ranch, he found
   a different situation with water; here there was a spring with plenty of soft water 
   and they dipped it out of a barrell set in the spring. This pelntiful water supply 
   was incentive enough for dad to want the ranch.
      Mother's maiden name was Erma Woodcock, whose home was 2 miles east of Medicine
   Lodge. Dad met mother at a Canema school box supper, wher she taught after postponing 
   her last year of high school to earn financing for her sisters and her own senior
   year. They were married in 1915 and rented the Markham farm where they lived until 
   they were able to buy the Statler ranch and moved here in the spring of 1920 with 
   their daughters Wenonah and Lucklle; Junior, Jerry, Joanne, Darlene, Oliver, and 
   Kendall followed in birth. Here at the ranch during the frought and depression years 
   of the 30's, we children grew up and attended Lockert School. We had all the 
   responsibilities of milking cows, chickens, and garden. We used the cream and egg 
   money to buy groceries and what it didn't buy, we did without. Mother and dad moved
   to Medicine Lodge in 1940 so the children would have better school opportunities. 
   In 1946 they bought a farm in Allen County and moved there, as this was near mothers
   birthplace. In 1950 we returned to Medicine Lodge and the ranch. Mother passed away
   in 1958. Dad married LeEtta Loman of Denver in 1960. Dad passed away in 1971. Dad
   and Mother are buried at Highland Cemetery at Medicine Lodge.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 86 
     Submitted by: Elmer Angell, Jr.