My father (Bean Bolin) sold our home and one-fourth section of land in Ellinwood,
  Kansas, for five thousand dollars. That was in 1902 and was considered quite a large
  sum of money at that time. I don't remember too much about that home; but there was
  a picture and story in the 'Ellinwood Leader', a magazine type paper published in
  Ellinwood at that time. I'm very sure either Stella or Mary (my sisters) still have
  this paper.
     My father, Mother, sisters Stella, age four, and Mary, a baby, and myself, age
  five, moved to Barber County. Mary was a very tiny premature baby that weighed less
  than two and a half pounds at birth and had to be carried on a pillow. Uncle Ben
  Bolin had given me a riding horse, which I rode most of the way - and was led to
  believe I was a big help driving stock. We moved in two wagons that carried all our
  belongings plus two dozen Plymouth Rock chickens. The stock, consisting of horses
  and cattle, were driven right along wit6h us. This was all done with the aid of one
  other man, probably one of my uncles.
     My mother and we children stayed in a house that belonged to John Kringle, just
  outside Pratt, Kansas, while my father and the livestock came on to Barber County.
  With the help of Mr. V.C. Sleeper, Father built a two room house on Sand Creek,
  six miles southwest of Nashville, Kansas. We lived in that house about a year. When
  it rained the creek would get up; this worried my father lest one of us children 
  might drown or the building be in danger. With the help of V.C. Sleeper, he moved
  this house one-fourth mile east and built on a verly large room. This was the
  beginning of the home setting on five hundred sixty acres. Father later purchased
  more land, making this a full section.
     Frankie, my only brother, was born here. We children, Stella, Mary, and myself
  were raised here. Also, later my children, Margaret, Roberta, Virginia, and Robert
  Jr., were all born while living at this place.
     During the Second World War, I migrated to the Northwest, doing 'carpentering'
  and settled in Seattle, Washington. Both R.B. and Carol Ann were born in Seattle.
  I purchased a partially finished house, located at 1002 Southwest 102nd Street in
  Seattle, and lived there until I retired. Both R.B. and Carol Ann grew up at this
  location. The last twenty years I specialized in 'finish carpentry' work.
     I now have a home, an ideal retirement spot, on the Big Nestucca River, located
  three miles from the ocean, and fishing and hunting now occupy most of my time.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 110 
     Submitted by: Robert S. Bolin