About 200 guests came to witness and celebrate the marriage of Charles Arthur 
  Clarke, the son of Dale and Donna Clarke of rural Medicine Lodge, to Hannah Louise 
  Mills, daughter of Govan and Margaret Mills of rural Lake City, in the First
  Christian Church of Medicine Lodge on February 15, 1959, where both of them had 
  become baptized members of Christ's family in earlier years.
     Charles and Hannah were hgih school sweethearts, having both attended Medicine
  Lodge High School, so it was no surprise after Charles attended college at Fort 
  Hays State and Hannah went to Kansas State University that they should decide to
  marry and continue their education together at Fort Hays, Charles majoring in
  Agri-Business and hannah majoring in Home Economics and secondary education. They
  would attend school during the winter months, returning home during vacations and
  the summer to the Clarke farm where Charles was actively engaged in farming and
  raising cattle.
     On May 28, 1961, little Miss Linda Louise (after attending nine months of 
  classes with her mother) arrived the Sunday morning of Hannah's baccalaureate 
  service for her graduation. Ten days later (with the help of both Charle's and
  Hannah's mother), Charles, Hannah and Linda returned to rural Medicine Lodge to
  become permanent residents. Their first permanent home was the one vacated by Pop
  and Grandma Nelle when they moved to Medicine Lodge to live at 405 West Central.
  It was while living in this home 8 miles west of Medicine Lodge on Sand Creek
  that Julie Anna arrived to bles the family on August 19, 1963. Charles still
  reminds Julie that she kept him from attending a horse sale that day.
     In 1964 Charles had the opportunity to purchase the farm ground which he had
  been leasing from his Great-Uncle Jim and Great Aunt Anna Clarke, and Hannah
  started teaching that fall at the Intermediate School in Medicine Lodge. After
  teaching 2 1/2 years, she had to quit for health reasons.
     After extensive remodeling, the red brick, two-story house on the Medicine
  River, which Great Uncle Jim Clarke had had build when he was a bachelor over a
  half century before, became the home for Charles and Hannah and their two small
  daughters in August of 1966. On March 21, 1968, Cindy Sue ushered in the first
  day of spring with her arrival.
     The year Linda went to first grade marked the beginning of the bus routes for
  our rural areas. Charles was a school bus driver for several years.
     Charles continued to expand his farming and cattle operation, but after the
  birth of Sue Ann on June 24, 1973, Cheryl Kay on August 15, 1975, and Carol Jean
  on November 11, 1977, he jokingly refers to his Girls' Ranch.
     Charles and Hannah ahve been active members of the Barber County Cattlemen and
  Cowbelle, each having served several years as secretary-treasurer of their
  respective organizations. Charles is presently on the Mingona Township Board and
  the Agricultural Extension Council. The entire family is active in the Christian
  Church at Medicine Lodge. Charles serving as a deacon and he and Hannah together
  helping to sponso youth groups and activities, Hannah teaching SS classes, being
  VBS director, and each of the children being active in SS and their respective 
  youth groups.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 131