The Frank Bauer family moved to Sharon 72 years ago, preceded by his brother
  Joseph Bauer. The Frank Bauer family moved from Lyon County, Kansas. Eight of 
  the ten children were born in Iowa and the two youngest in Kansas - John and
  Lucy are jayhawkers.
     When Lucy was 12, the family moved to a farm northeast of Sharon which had
  been owned by a man named Vandeveer. The two older boys, Pete and Joe, went to
  Syracuse, Kansas, and took a claim.
     Cornelius was married to Mary Kane in the country community we called Eagle 
  Creek. They moved to Sharon, where Neil did carpentry work. He built the house
  where Dorothy and Edna Ricke now live.
     Margaret and James Bauer married John Kane and Nonie Kane at Sharon in a 
  double wedding. Edward Bauer went to St. Paul, Kansas, to do carpentry work,
  met and married Henry Pinaire whose wife had died from fire burns while they
  lived in Danville, where he ran a grocery store.
     Katherine Bauer joined the St. Joseph's Sisters in Wichita, where she is
  still - age 87. She was the first girl from Sharon to join the Sisters. Lucy 
  and John with the parents moved to Hutchinson, then to Wichita, where Lucy
  married Martin Pinaire. They adopted two children, Gerald and Jeanne Marie.
  Jeanne married Alvin Knoblauch. There were 10 children, six boys and four
  girls. Jeanne passed away in 1975.
     The grandparents of the Bauer children (on the Bauer side) came from Germany
  to Iowa. Frank Bauer's wife was Elizabeth Sommar. Her parents were French and
  German and came from Alsace Lorraine. The name Bauer is a well known German
  name, which means "farmer", and there is a family crest.
     I share a poem I cheris:
     "Resolution"
     I'll light one tiny candle
     To drive away the gloom;
     I'll say one word of kindness
     To lift some heavy heart.
     I'll bring a ray of sunshine
     With me into a room
     And keep a cheerful vigil
     To play a cheerful part.
     I'll recount all my blessings
     Instead of what seems wrong;
     I know so many others
     With burdens hard to bear.
     If there are weak ones near me,
     I'll be the one who's strong,
     To calmly reassure them
     And charm away their care.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 100 
     Submitted by: Mrs. Lucy Pinaire