The A.E. Crouse family with four sons and four daughters migrated via covered
  wagon from the town "Crouse" in North Carolina to Iowa, later to Barber County,
  southeast of Medicine Lodge to the farm known as "Doc Ayers place" about 1870.
  The first winter they dug two caves in a high bank living in one; the other for
  their stock. Son, Charles, and his bride, Milly Mae Hart, moved to his claim in
  "Cherokee Strip" southeast of Kiowa in Oklahoma in 1895. Five years later Milly 
  died, leaving a small daughter, Rena, 3 years old. Charles remarried and later
  Rena went to Medicine Lodge, living with her Mother's sister, Bell (Mrs. Frank)
  Reed, and attended high school. At the end of her Junior year she entered nurses' 
  training in Wichita then returned to Medicine Lodge to finish high school. She
  went to Wichita to nurse during the flue epidemic of 1918.
     William Myers, son of Joseph and Edith Myers, migrated from Bradford, England,
  on auxiliary ship, "Mayflower" in 1903, landed in Boston, then to Medicine Lodge.
  After death of Joseph, Edith served as clerk of District Court for almost 40 years.
  William was 4 years old when he came to this country; he volunteered during World
  War I for the Medical Corp and served on hospital ship, "Mercy". A year after he
  returned from Navy, he and Rena Crouse were married. They lived in Wichita until
  death of their son, Billy, age 10. William worked for C.E. Crouse in the Clear
  Vision Pump Co. while in Wichita. C.E. Crouse's brother, Emory, invented the clear
  glass gasoline pump, used in service stations in the 1930's and 1940's. Charles
  manufactured the "springless shade" which was the forerunner of the venetian blind.
  William and Rena moved to their farm southeast of Kiowa in Oklahoma, where their
  daughter, Shirley, was born. She graduated from Wichita State University as a
  teacher. She married R.W. Kilmer, from Medford, Oklahoma, who was vice-president
  of the First National Bank in Wichita. Since his death, Shirley and their three
  children, Robin Ann, Robert William II, and Susan Lea live on the farm settled by
  her husband's family shortly after the Civil War.
     William's younger brother, Tom, served in Navy during World War II. He has a
  daughter, Ann, living in Anthony and a son, Stanley Thomas, graduate of the University
  of Kansas, living in San Francisco, who is an engineer with the Monsanto Company.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 144