My father, James E. Woodward, was born in Elk Falls, Kansas in 1878. His parents,
  Hugh Thompson Woodward and Mary Susan Hough Woodward, moved to Medicine Lodge with
  their family of three daughters and two sons when my father was a very young man. 
  My grandfather owned a mercantile store for several years and my father helped him.
     My maternal grandparents were John Wesley Burton and Sarah Catherine Goff. They
  moved to the Aetna community a short time before my mother, Cora Leona Burton, was
  born in Jan. 1887. Cora grew up on a ranch. My grandfather played the fiddle for
  neighborhood dances and the families in the area attended. My father liked to dance, 
  so he went to the dances and met my mother there.
     They were married in May, 1905. To them were born three children - Ernest in 1907,
  Rex in 1912, and Leona in 1915. We grew up in a happy atmosphere, and I enjoyed the
  years that I spent in Medicine Lodge. My father was a member of and very active in
  the Masonic Lodge for many years. My mother was interested in gardening and had a
  large vegetable garden and many lovely flowers. When the merchantile store was sold,
  my father took up carpentry work. When we were all born we lived in a small house.
  My father built a bigger house about a block away, and we lived in that house until
  we left Barber County in the 30's and 40's.
     We lived not far from Elm Creek, and I can remember many happy times playing along
  that creek. As we grew older, we would drive out to the Gyp Hills and climb some of
  the hills and have picnics. My father had a 1919 Dodge touring car which he used for
  his carpentry work. When I was in high school a group of us enjoyed taking that car
  and driving to football games, to Elm Mills, and other places. It was much better 
  than our newer, more modern car!
     I graduated from Medicine Lodge High School in 1933, attended Kansas State College
  for two years, and then taught one year at the Deerhead school. I was married to Roy
  Crist of Brewster, Kansas, in Aug 1945, and I did not return for many years. In the
  1970's I enjoyed returning to get acquainted again with friends that I had not seen
  for years.
     Roy and I had five children - four daughters and one son. One daughter died at
  birth and is buried in Highland cemetery at Medicine Lodge. Our son, Kenneth Roy,
  went to the Air Force Academy; became a pilot; went to Vietnam, and was killed there.
  He is buried at the Air Force Academy cemetery. He left one son, Kevin. Our daughters,
  Judith, Caroline, and Margaret, were married and moved far away. They have given us
  five grandsons.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 144 
     Submitted by: Leona Crist