My parents came to Kansas in 1892, Mother from Michigan via Nebraska in a covered
  wagon; Father, by train from Ohio to Attica, which was the end of the railroad.
     Both my grandparents came for land to be obtained by the opening of the Oklahoma
  Strip. Being a year early, both families found land to rent in Kingman County, where
  my parents met.
     They were married at Medicine Lodge in 1893 by Probate Judge Stevens. They came to
  Barber County in 1901. Father rented land four and one half miles north of Medicine
  Lodge from H.H. Palmer. By this time there were children, I, the youngest at eighteen
  months. While living ont his farm, Dr. T.A. Coleman brought my sister to complete our
  family.
     Shortly, father bought the Vernon Lytle's 360 acres, and we moved there where father
  his herd of Shorthorns. He expanded by buying pasture land across Elm Creek.
     Since the creek froze in winter, it was difficult to cross with horses to feed his
  cattle. In 1910 he sold the Lytle land and built the improvements across the creek. We
  lived there until his retirement.
     Father had many interesting stories to tell of his early days; how stagecoaches would
  line up at Attica to take the railroad passengers on, and about Indian scares. He often
  spoke of the help Mr. Runyon and C.Q. Chandler gave while he was getting his herd and
  land established.
     I attended school at Grandview Dist. 82, driving to Medicine Lodge for high school.
     Our neighborhood had its own social life. Sunday School and Church, parties, and in
  wintertime box suppers, tafy pulls, and putting on plays. The neighborhood men helped
  each other, working cattle, haying, and filling silos.
     We had a large orchard and garden. Mother always canned and dried our fruit and
  vegetables. We miled cows, thereby insuring our own supply of milk,, cream, and butter.
  We raised chickens, and father butchered and smoked hams and bacon. Mother rendered
  lard and made soap, so that outside of a few staples - sugar, flour, coffee, etc., we
  had everything we needed. Hard work, but a rich, full life.
     In 1920 I married Roscoe Elliot, who was also from a pioneer family. He ahd taken
  employment with the Golden Rule Oil Co. After six months he was transferred to Harper,
  where our daughter, Rosemary was born. Two years later we were transferred to Garden
  City. We were there 13 years. It was there we experienced the dust storms. They were
  something words simply cannot describe. Our son, Donald, was born there.
     We returned to Barber County in 1935, wehre our children finished high school. Both
  are in Kansas; Rosemary at McPherson, Donald at Mulvane. I have eight grandchildren and
  four great-grandchildren.
     We moved to Wichita in 1951, where Roscoe was employed by Boeing Aircraft. He retired
  in 1965 and passed away in 1969.
     After 27 years in Wichita, I still think of Barber County as home.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 124 
     Submitted by: Nola Catlin Elliot