Clark Bunton and Julie Conine, whose marriage was the first recorded in Old Kiowa,
  January 29, 1878, came to Barber County in the early 1870's. He came from Kentucky -
  she from Texas. Their son, Pearl Bunton, was the first child born in Old Kiowa.
     Clark Bunton was ranch foreman for the large Eagle Chief Cattle Pool in the Indian
  Territory for several years, after which they made their home in New Kiowa, where Mr.
  Bunton was City Marshal from 1906 until 1922, the time of his death.
     Mrs. Bunton continued to live in Kiowa (the name had been officially changed from
  New Kiowa in 1890) until her death in 1940. She had many very interesting things to
  tell of conditions in the early days, such as the story of the first Christmas
  Celebration in that part of the country. Late in December, 1881, the Old Kiowa, someone
  brought into town a large cedar tree. It was set up in a new building which had been
  constructed to hold business meetings for the cattlemen of the Cherokee Strip. The tree
  was placed on the floor and the top nailed to the ceiling. It was decorated near the
  top with a star cut out of cardboard and covered with tin foil that had wrapped tabacco.
  Small gifts were hung on the tree and later distributed to all who attended. Cowboys
  who had ridden many miles to hear the Christmas story for the first time in years were
  pleased to be remembered.
     In 1909 Pearl Bunton was married to Anna Sprague, who had come from Nebraska with
  her parents and brothers for the opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893. She later taught 
  school in Woods County, Oklahoma, near the Bunton ranch, where they lived until 1922
  when they moved to Kiowa. Like his father, Pearl Bunton was City Marshal in Kiowa for
  many years. He died in 1957, and Mrs. Bunton continued on in Kiowa until her death in
  1969 at the age of 93.
     Their only child, a daughter, Susan Julia, was born on the Oklahoma ranch. After
  graduating from Kiowa High School, she was a reporter for the Kiowa News Review for
  several years before her marriage to Gilbert G. NOvle of Lyons, Kansas, who at that
  time was a civil engineer with the Kansas Highway Commission.
     At the present time Mr. and Mrs. Noble live in the Kansas City area. Mr. Noble is
  now retired from the Skelly Oil Company, where he was a department head. Mrs. Noble,
  an artist, is a member of the Greater Kansas City Art Association in Arizona, and the
  National League of American Pen Women. Her work has been exhibited at many shows 
  throughout the Midwest.
     The Noble's only child, a son Dennis George, a graduate of Oklahoma University, lives
  in Lubbock, Texas. He is a professional meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 118 
     Submitted by: Susan J. Noble