My father, William Franklin Burns, was born in Pleasant Hope, Missouri, in 1858, and
  my mother, Alice Amelia Dorsey, in Davis County, Kentucky, in 1857. They were married
  in 1881 in Pleasant HOpe. They and my grandmother Sarah Jane Mayfield Dorsey, came to
  Kansas via covered wagon in 1882. They were homesteaders in Nippawalla Township, Hazelton;
  some of the land remains in the hands of their descendants. They purchased additional 
  pasture land and turned some into farmland where their house was built and where their
  family was reared. We children attended the Cedar Valley Country School.
     I, Beatrice Mae Montgomery, am the youngest of their five children. One son, Ira Louis,
  died at birth. My brother, Roy Franklin, lived in the Hazelton area until his death in
  1962. He married Maude May Chamberlain, and they ahd two children, Ethel Mae (Mrs. Lee
  Blankenship) and Virgil William. Minnie Pearl, a sister, was married to James Everett
  Howard; had two children, Ralph Irvin and Mercedes Nadine (Mrs. Marvin L. Parsons), and
  lived in the Hazelton area until her death in 1945. Another sister, Mary Anna, married 
  Alf Fisher, had two daughters, Eugenia Alice (Mrs. Homer McGuire) and Juanita Irene (Mrs.
  Bill Head). She lived in the Hazelton and Sharon areas until her death in 1966.
     My father loved being a stockman and a farmer. He particularly liked to ride a horse,
  so some of my fondest childhood memories are of horseback riding. My parents were true
  pioneers, surviving in spite of prairie fires, rattlesnakes, droughts, and blizzards.
  They had to travel to Harper to get lumber and to Hazelton to see a doctor or to get 
  food supplies that they didn't produce. Traveling was done then by horse and buggy or
  wagon. My mother would ride a horse to Hazelton or Old Kiowa to exhange her homemade
  butter and eggs for groceries. My father and Joe Burdette ran a threshing machine. They
  threshed for several people over the country. A highlight of their life was their
  attendance at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
     They were members of the Presbyterian Church. My father was a member of the Hazelton
  Masonic Lodge and my mother a charter member of the Order of Eastern Star. My parents
  moved from the farm to Hazelton, where my mother died in 1926. My father died in 1938.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 119 
     Submitted by: Mae Burns Montgomery