Charley and Mary Alice Blackmore came to Sharon, Kansas, in 1892 in a covered wagon,
  from Asbury, Missouri, with their belongings and three children, Frank, Eugene, and
  Pearl. Charley bought a farm two miles north and three-fourths west of Sharon from a
  John Woolloms, and they began to build improvements on the land. Later, two daughters,
  Amy and Edna, were born.
     Mr. Blackmore planted great numbers of different kinds of fruit trees, and when they
  matured, he had a wonderful orchard. Peaches, pears, plums, apples, and cherries. Besides,
  he had a grape vineyard, raised peanuts, cantaloupes, and 80 to 100 pound watermelons. The
  farm was known as the Sharon Valley Fruit Farm.
     The driveway was a show place, as he planted different colors of ramblers and big red
  King George roses. On Memorial Day people would stop in to see if they could get some
  flowers, and he always gave them all they wanted. Mr. Blackmore was always generous in 
  giving good measure of his fruit he sold. Peaches, in those days, sold from $1.50 to $2.00
  a bushel. People went home with a full stomach, after eating some real ripe fruit. People
  came from miles around to buy fruit. Some wanted to pick their own. Others wanted it already
  picked. During the ripening season, if there was an excess of fruit, Mr. Blackmore and one
  of their daughters would deliver it to Medicine Lodge by wagon and team. Housewives bought
  generously.
     The children attended the country school close to their home, known as Blackmore School,
  Dist. 66.
     In the meantime, Mrs. Blackmore's health failed, and the family moved to Medicine Lodge.
  Charley did a little truck gardeneing there and would go back and forth to the farm to tend
  his orchard.
     Later on, Mrs. Blackmore passed away.
     Continued dry weather and a grasshopper invasion killed off a lot of the fruit trees; and
  being discouraged, Mr. Blackmore left Sharon and bought a little farm in Edcouch, Texas;
  where he raised oranges and grapefruit. In later years, he came back to Sharon and retired. 
  He died in 1948.
     After graduating from Sharon High School in 1922 and teaching 3 years, Edna married Max
  Rowe in 1924. In 1926 a daughter, Doris, was b orn. Max and Edna bought the Blackmore farm
  and with their daughter, Doris, moved there. Max engaged in farming and raised livestock.
     A son, Charles, was born in 1934. Charles and Doris graduated from Sharon High School.
  Charles helped his father with the farming and in 1958 he married Donna Schiff; three
  children were born to them. Greg, Barbara, and Debra. They live at Sharon.
     Doris married Leslie Mathews in 1945, and they are parents of six children; Lynn, Linda,
  Lori, Lynette and Leanne (twins), and Lowell. They reside on a farm south and west of Sharon.
     In 1972, Max passed away, so Charles and family moved to the Blackmore farm and continued
  farming and stock raising.
     Edna moved from the farm to her home in Sharon.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 106 
     Submitted by: Edna (Blackmore) Rowe