John J. Clawson, nine years of age, and his mother, Rachel Benson Clawson Wright, 
  first settled in Ellis Co., Ks., coming from Indiana. In 1884 John came to Pratt county
  proving up land and staked a claim for his mother. She wanted more rolling land so she
  proved up 160 acres which is now owned by her grandson, Robert S. Clawson. Mrs. Wright
  married Isaac Ray of Wellsford in 1892 and made a home south east of Wellsford.
     John J. Clawson and Nannie Walker were married by Rev. Owen at the home of her parents,
  Ben and Elizabeth Walker, west of Sun City on December 19, 1886. John and Nannie were the
  parents of Claude B., J. Timothy, Mary Abbigal (Fulton/Howard), Althea G. (Shutts), Robert
  S., Carl H., Ralph Ray, Audrey (Russell), and Harold who passed away at the age of one.
     The oldest seven children all attended school at the Old Rock School, which was over
  a mile from home, and we walked each day. A school house was built in 1909 near what was 
  known as Kling. It was nearer to the Clawson home.
     Kling was where gypsum was quarried. The Best Gypsum Co. had a string of houses for
  workers to live in. The houses were moved to Sun City in 1919-1920 where the gypsum is
  presently mined.
     At one time John J. Clawson drove a freight wagon from Wichita to Medicine Lodge. He
  said the reason Sun City was so named was because it was surveyed on a Sunday. Sun City
  had a stockade during the Indian scare time also.
     Robert S. Clawson served in World War I.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 132 
     Submitted by: Audrey Russel