Edward Lee Bolin from Botkins, Shelby County, Ohio, and Ida Bell Weller from
  Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, were married on February 8, 1893, in Stauton,
  Va., and came to Kansas to make their home, except for a few years speint in Missouri,
  Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
     Their family included four boys - Marvin, deceased in infancy, Harry, Webster,
  and Claude - and one daughter, Mabel.
     On April 1, 1915, they came to Lake City, then went 12 miles south to Eagle
  township in Barber County and worked on the ranch for Jim Statler.
     In August our family moved to Medicine Lodge, where my father and older brother,
  Harry, were employed by the Gypsum Mill.
     In later years my father was custodian at Jetmore, KS., grade school. When he
  retired in 1940, they made their home in Newton, KS.
     The Bolins celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1943, and their 60th
  in 1953. Their 62 years of marriage ended on December 9, 1955, when Mother Bolin
  passed away at the age of 88. On April 6, 1959, Father Bolin passed away at the
  age of 92.
     Harry Lee Bolin and Ada Alice Moss, of Medicine Lodge, were married on May 20, 
  1917, by Rev. Mundell, pastor of the Christian Church, at the home of the bride's
  parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Moss, in the Carry Nation home.
     Harry and Ada were the parents of two sons; Willis Edward Bolin, who died at
  age 6 years in Sun City, KS, on January 23, 1925; and Claude Leonard Bolin, who
  died at age 26 years, killed in an aircraft accident off the coast of Arabia on
  July 27, 1948.
     Harry L. Bolin was Assistant Chief of Police in the city of Newton, Ks. He was
  critically injured in an automobile accident on the night of June 16, 1932. He
  died the following night at the age of 36 years.
     Claude Leonard Bolin, the son of Harry and Ada, was born in Newton on July 21,
  1922. Shortly after his father's death, Claude went to live with his grandparents,
  Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Bolin at Jetmore, where he received his grade school education.
  In 1940 he graduated from Jetmore High School.
     Claude enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at Wichita on November 10, 1942, finished
  his training at Amarillo, Texas, and was sent to the Boeing Aircraft factory in 
  Seattle, Washington for special training. He was then sent to the India Theater, 
  then to the Mariannas for a total of nineteen months of overseas service.
     Claude's unit received a Presidentail Citation with two clusters, and he was
  entitled to wear the Good Conduct and Victory medals, American theater and Asiatic-
  Pacific campaign ribbons with six battle stars. With the ending of hostilities he
  received an honorable discharge, later re-enlisting. At the time of his death,
  Claude was a staff sergeant serving with the 63rd Bombardment Group, Davis-Monthan
  Field, Tucson.
     Claude's mother, Ada Alice Moss Bolin, died on NOvember 18, 1968.
     Webster T. Bolin lived in Medicine Lodge from August, 1915, to December 19, 1916,
  when he moved to Newton, where he was employed by Fred Harvey for a time. He was
  then Circulation Manager for the Kansan until he retired.
     Web and his wife, Blanche, a Newton girl, ovserved their 50th wedding anniversary 
  on February 19, 1971. Blanche died on May 14, 1972.
     Claude J. Bolin lived in Medicine Lodge from 1915 until 1925, when he moved to
  Jetmore, where he ran an oil station. In 1947 he purchased his own station in Manzanola, 
  Colorado, which he operated for 22 years.
     Claude died on July 3, 1968. His wife, Eula, a Jetmore girl, and their son, James
  D. Bolin, and family live in Colorado.
     I, Mabel Bolin, lived in Medicine Lodge from 1915 until the spring of 1926, when I
  came to Newton.
     In Medicine Lodge my folks and four children lived on seven acres just east of Elm
  Creek on the south side of 160. In 1917 there was a good big crop of 'sandhill plums.'
  We borrowed horses and buggy from our neighbor, Mr. Pepoon, and loaded food and drink
  for a day's supply, then headed south to gather plums. By night we were home with two
  tubs full of plums. Then the real work began to prepare jelly. All this work became
  good eating for the next years.
     We lived at one time in Carry Nation's house - when I was a high school student.
  When we lived there, we would often have visitors from Wichita and other towns,
  especially on Sundays. The would want to come in and look around. We had other
  visitors too, from out of state.
     At the time there was a Mrs. Springer that knew the Nations. The Springers had
  originially come to Medicine Lodge from just south of there, and their's was the
  place that Mrs. Nation had stopped and borrowed a bonnet - and probably picked up
  some rocks - on her way to demolish saloons in Kiowa.
     When I came to Newton, I met my husband, Charles, and we were married on July 14,
  1927. Charles and I had almost 50 years together. He passed away on July 5, 1977.
  Our son, Richard, his wife, Jane, and son, Stephen Charles Furman, live in Prairie
  Village, Kansas. May this little bit of Barber County history remind them of the
  Ed Bolin family.  
  
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 109 
     Submitted by: Mabel Bolin Furman