Robert and Sarah Burgin filed on a claim in northern Barber County in 1884 with their
  7 children. Five more children were born on this homestead before Robert bought some
  land on the headwaters of Mulberry Creek and moved their house down off the flats to the
  bottom lands along Mulberry.
     Until 1893 they lived in a very small frame and adobe structure, then they built what
  to them was a two story mansion, 3 rooms upstairs and 3 rooms downstairs. It was this
  house that was skidded to Mulberry Creek where porches were added to two sides. The house
  is still in use in the same spot today.
     Robert and Sarah emigrated from Yorkshire, England, with three of their children (the
  eldest is buried in England) to tabor, Iowa, in 1878. LIfe was hard and with their ever-
  growing family a homestead in Kansas looked like the best way.
     Life in Kansas proved to be very hard also. Robert worked at any job he and his horses
  could find, many times many miles from home for days and weeks at a time. Principally he
  helped build the grades for many of the railroads being built at that time across Kansas.
  Sarah not only kept house and took care of the children, but walked many miles to wash for
  others on a washboard, plus she raised wagon loads of fruit and vegetables to exchange for
  other food staples at the grocery stores in Coats, KS.
     They prospered, raised to adulthood 12 children, and were able to retire from the farm
  and ranch in 1910. Sarah died at Coats in January of 1927 and Robert joined her 2 months
  and 4 days later.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 119