Barber County and particularly the Isabel community has been an important
     part of my life: the days of dust storms, the threshing crews, our first radio
     which was so unique that Daddy and I stayed up all night listening. I graduated
     from the Consolidated Schools there in 1936, and June 7th of that year D.A.
     Cavin and I were married in the Isabel Methodist Church.
          Our families from Barber County were my maternal grandparents, Mr. and
     Mrs. W.G. Phipps, and their five daughters and one son. The daughters married
     John McKay, Charlie Meairs, Roy Parkey, Virgil Gray, and my mother - Ed Miller.
     D.A.'s (whom now most refer to as David) parents also live in Isabel; Jim Cavin
     operated the Co-op elevator for many years. David has four brothers and one
     sister, Alvin, Leaford, Everett, Newt, and Opal. Three were preachers, and
     three of the gransons are preachers. My sister Ruth Weir lives in Cunningham.
          David and I moved to Wichita in 1937. We joined a Baptist Church there
     and in 1939 accepted a call as pastor of the Bible Baptist Church in El Reno,
     Oklahoma. In 1950 we moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where he became pastor of
     Castleberry Baptist Church. We were thankful for great growth in both churches.
          In the spring of 1964 we moved to Springfield, Missouri, where we still
     reside; and David became pastor of the High Stree Baptist Church. It is now 
     the largest church in the state of Missouri. Last year we moved into a complete
     new complex on sixty acres of land located in a new area just off of by-pass 65.
     It has an auditorium seating 3,500, complete recreational facilities including
     a gymnasium, kitchen, small chapel seating 500, and many class rooms with the
     latest in teaching techniques.
          David is President of Baptist Bible Fellowship International consisting of
     over three thousand churches and may missionary families around the world.
     Because of this position he travels quite extensively.
          We have two children and seven grandchildren. Our daughter Ro Jean, lives
     in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and our son, David, is pastor of the Westridge
     Baptist Church in Fort Worth. Wehave three grandchildren in college, one in
     Baylor, one in TCU, and one in Liberty Baptist College in Lynchburg, Virginia.
          We live on a forty acre farm about eight miles east of our church. We have
     a few cattle, four horses, and a small lake. My Daddy who always farmed around
     Isabel thought we had the best crop of rocks he had ever seen.
          I am thankful for the preparatory training we received in our formative
     years and the establishment of the true values of life. Some of our early
     teachers, Maureen Knight, Orpha Boots, Sandy Eaton, Clifford Freeman, and
     Esther Nattier played an important part in this capacity.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 125  
     Submitted by: Maxine Miller Cavin