Gilbert R. (Gib) and Thelma Compton moved to Lake City in 1936 with two small
  boys, Raymon (17 months) and Dalton (7 weeks). Gib rented a blacksmith shop from
  Agnes Sisk, whos husband, Tom Sisk, the owner had died of a heart attack in late
  1935.
     Gib continued to operate a shop in Lake City until his death, June 6, 1978.
  His business changed through the years, from sharpening plow shares to portable 
  welding equipment, and welding for the many oil companies who were drilling and 
  developing the Barber County oil fields. Quite a few of the tank batteries he 
  helped set and fences he built around the pump units are still in use and a
  monument to his skill as a welder.
     Gib was born in 1909 in Plainview, Arkansas, where he grew up. When a young 
  man he moved to Liberal, Kans., where he met and married his wife, Thelma Cain,
  in 1934. They moved to Lake City in 1936 to escape the dirt storms of the dirty
  thirties. Three more children were born in Lake City; Lester Dale, who died in 
  1968, Dick Russel, and Mary Dell. The children all attended school and church
  in Lake City. Raymon graduated in the last class from Lake City Rural High School
  in 1953, the year the High School was closed.
     Thelma was appointed Postmaster of Lake City in June of 1966, a position she
  still fills and enjoys. The Lake City Post Office serves about two hundred patrons.
     Raymon married Vera Stone. They live in Pratt and have two children, Joe and 
  Sharon, and a granddaughter, Elisa. Paymon works for Foreman Pipeline industires,
  and Vera works for Pratt Abstract Company.
     Dalton married Melba Poppe. They live in Hays where Dick is General Production
  Manager of Central Kansas Power Company. Leora works for the Federal Land Bank in
  Hays.
     Mary Dell married Russel B. Lake III (Rusty). They live in Lake City and have
  one daughter, Courtney. Rusty is the great-great-grandson of Reuben Lake, who
  established Lake City in April of 1873. Rusty still farms some of the Lake Estate.
     In moving to Barber County and the Medicine River Valley area, Thelma was
  returning to the area of her "Roots". Her maternal great grandparents, John and
  Elizabeth Gant, homesteaded just over the Barber County line in Eastern Kiowa
  County in the 1870's. Her mother grew up there, and Sun City was their nearest town.
  Her mother married Oscar Lawrence Cain. He worked for a number of the old time
  families, the Masseys and the Lamberts before moving to Liberal in 1906.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 139 
     Submitted by: Thelma Cain Compton.