Otto and Garnet were married Oct. 28, 1917, near Medoc, Mo. Their fourth child
  was a few months old when they decided to join relatives "out west." Otto drove
  his team, pulling a wagon filled with feed for the animals, to a farm South of 
  Kiowa, Kansas, in Oklahoma. The trip took about a week in 1924. His wife, Garnet,
  and four children came by car, while the rest of their possessions were shipped by 
  train.
     Their children are Lucille 1918, Annabelle 1920, Mont 1921-1943, Lloyd, 1924, 
  Billy 1931.
     Otto rented a farm, and along with his farming helped thresh wheat during the
  summer. In the winter he fed cattle for others; and as they lived one mile south
  of Kiowa, he worked for the city of Kiowa part time. Those were Depression days
  when a penny would buy a stick of gum, if you had a penny.
     Garnet's hands were also busy taking care of four little "Missouri Pukes," as
  people born in Mo., were called, and later one little "Kansas Jayhawker." She put
  in a big garden and canned. She also had a bunch of tame white geese that she
  plucked, using the feathers for pillows and feather ticks to sleep on. There was
  no electricity in thier home at this time. They burned wood, coal, and corn cobs
  for warmth.
     In 1927 they moved 5 miles north of Hazelton, Kansas. Here they had a dug well
  with a wooden curb around it, and they drew the water with a bucket on a rope.
  The next year they moved across the road and had a pitcher pump and sink in the
  kitchen. Coal oil lamps and one aladdin lamp were used to light a roomor two. The
  house only had 4 rooms, which made a lot of togetherness for 7 people. Otto farmed
  raising wheat and corn, feeding hogs, and milking cows. Garnet had chickens, and
  their grogeries were bought with cream and egg money on Saturday night, when they 
  drove to Hazelton, Kan., to do their weekly shopping and visit with neighbors and
  friends.
     The children's schools were Kiowa Grade School, a little country school called
  Cedar Hill, and Hazelton Public School.
     About 1937 the family bought land 2 miles west of Hazelton, Kansas, and that is
  considered the old home place. Otto bought a Delco Plant and wired the house, and
  presto, one electric light in each room.
     Otto always had a mule, or a horse of some kind. After he bought a home, he
  started raising quarter horses. He bought a stallion, "Hickey," that won a number
  of trophies in different horse shows over the country. After his death, Garnet had
  a dispersal sale, selling 72 head of registered quarter horses. Otto really loved
  his horses until his death Jan. 2, 1968.
     Garnet keeps busy writing her many friends over the country, attending her club
  meetings, doing hand work, and giving away more than she keeps. With visits from
  friends, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, she often says "Never
  a dull moment."
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 111 
     Submitted by: Garnet Bower and Annabelle Kisling