My grandfather, Eli Buckles, and his wife, Elizabeth (Gibson) Buckles, and their
  nine children came to Kansas from Laswell County, Virginia in the late 1880's. My
  father, Warren Buckles, settled first in Nemaha County, Kansas, where he met and 
  married Clara Isabell Parker, onof four children, daughter of John Parker and
  Margaret Ann (Murphy) Parker, who had come to Kansas from Pennsylvania.
     There were four in our family, Leslie, James, Margaret, and myself, Dwight Eli
  Buckles. Father and Mother moved to Barber County in 1892 and settled on a farm five
  miles northwest of Hazelton. This is where I grew to manhood. I completed the 8th
  grade at the Cedar Valley School. There were a number of years when there were forty
  or more children attending, with all grades included and only one teacher for this
  number, but no one was neglected and these schools produced some very fine students.
     I met and married Gladys Hendricks of Kiowa, Kansas, in 1927. We have three
  children, Curtis, Merrill, and Mauricia. We lived in Barber County until 1940 when
  we moved to a farm near El Dorado Springs, Mo. The only time spent away from this
  farm was ten years spent with Boeing Aircraft. I worked in Functional Testing and
  Operations and Gladys in the Machine Shop. My wife also taught school in Barber County,
  Wichita, and in El Dorado Springs, Mo. Curtis spent 24 years with Boeing Co. and is
  now employed as an engineer with Cessna Aircraft of Wichita. Merrill married Carolyn
  Sue Alley of Kiowa and they have three boys and two girls. Merrill spent 4 years as an
  instructor in the Air Force and 23 years in law enforcement in Amarillo, Texas. His
  wife is a registered nurse. Mauricia married Roy Reeves of Wichita, and they have four
  children. Roy has been with Boeing for 23 years as an engineer. At his writing, Gladys
  and I have nine grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren, and one on the way. I remember
  the first cars that came into our neighborhood, they were Buicks and Reos. They had
  no side doors and used carbide lights, chain drive, and cranked from the side. Lots
  of trials and tribulations came with these. No tractors for farming then, just plain
  horse-power. One thing that fascinated me greatly was a big corn-sheller that was 
  powered by a tumbling rod that extended from the sheller to a turnstile that was
  powered by several teams. A man stood on a platform in the center and drove the horses.
     Wheat in those days was harvested either by a binder or a header. The header cut
  and elevated the wheat into barges that hauled it to a place in the field and stacked,
  to be threshed later by a  big separator driven by a steam engine. The threshing crews
  were fed in a cook-shack (on wheels). At his time, neighbors swapped work, hauling
  wheat to the bin or to town, and hauling bundles to the machine, if the wheat was
  bound. Corn was picked by hand.
     I belong to the Methodist Church at Hazelton, Albert Pike Lodge at Wichita, and the
  Consistory. Gladys belongs to the Methodist Church at Kiowa and is an Eastern Star at 
  El Dorado Springs, Mo.
     We have many friends in Barber County and wish to extend hearty greetings to all of
  them.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 117 
     Submitted by: Dwight Buckles