John Price and Lora Cullison and baby son, Samuel, joined a wagon train in the
  late 1850's and migrated to Topeka, Kansas. They eventually settled at Lanape,
  Kansas, a short distance away. There John bought a saw mill to provide for his wife
  and the six children who eventually arrived: Sam, Mary, Eleanor, John, Lora, and
  Ben.
     When John (Junior) grew to manhjood, he came to Coffeyville, Kansas, to visit an
  "Uncle Cal,: Rev. Calvin Cullison, John's father's older brother. From there he
  came to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, where his brother, Sam, and family lived.
     Here he met and married Mary Jarett, daughter of the Salvation Army captain,
  Thom Laffette Jarett. John and Mary settled in a basement house, where the
  stockade is located now on Highway 160.
     At the death of his wife Lora, my grandfather, John Price Cullison, and his 12
  year old Ben, came west to be near his sons. He visited his brother Cal at
  Coffeyville a while and moved on to Cullison, Kansas, where his father's (John
  Lewis Cullison's) oldest brother had settled and was a judge there. The town
  Cullison was named after this great uncle of mine.
     Grandfather bought a store there and ran it for three years. Men would come for
  miles around to get him to play his beloved Steiner violin for their dances. He was
  offered a good sale on his store and moved on to Medicine Lodge to his sons, Sam
  and John R. He bought a general merchandise store (about 106 South Main Street) 
  which he ran until he became too old and sick. At his death he was buried in 
  Highland Cemetery, where later his son John R., as sexton there, was to spend so 
  many hours ehlping the bereaved. He lies just west of the chapel; his stone reads:
  John Price Cullison, born June 28, 1836, died June 20, 1907.
     In 1929 John R. and Mary built the first cabin camp here at 211 North Iliff Street.
  Their children were Mamie, Sylvia, John Sterling, and Ben. About this time John R. 
  became caretaker of the cemetery, which he ran until he became sick and had to
  retire (around 1942). At his death his children buried him west of the chapel,
  near his father. He also was an expert viiolinist - the tones of their old Steiner
  violins circle around the ether waves into the great beyond.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 146 
     Submitted by: Sylvia M. (Cullison) Shriner