Ron, son of Bert and Mabel Ross Davis, and I, Corinne Miller Davis,
  daughter of Percy and Dorothy Davis Miller, feel fortunate to have
  "grownup" in Barber County.
     My first home was at Hazelton, in southern Barber County, where my
  father was a teacher and coach. My parents helped chaperone school
  activities, so I got in  on the fun of taffy pulls, roller skating parties,
  senior trips, and athletic events. Summer evenings were always full with
  my Dad taking part in town team softball and baseball games. All twelve
  grades at Hazelton were housed in one two-story building, and this gave
  us a happy and close relationship to all classes. In my seventh grade school
  year, my family moved to Medicine Lodge where Ron and his family lived.
     Ron's father, Bert Davis, was a state tax auditor for southern Kansas.
  Ron was the seventh child of nine Davis children. He remembers "hunting"
  eggs in Zeal Johnson's Annual Easter Egg Roll on the Courthouse lawn and
  then later, helping "hide" them with his Boy Scout troop. He enjoyed
  hunting, fishing, baseball, and basketball. Ron had all of his education
  in the Medicine Lodge schools, and we both graduated from Medicine Lodge
  High School in 1948 in a class of 56 students.
     We always think of Barber County as "scenic country:, and particularly
  recall the beauty of Medicine Lodge when approaching it form the east on 
  the Peace Treaty Hill. We had loved its two steeples (old Court House and
  Grade School buildings) that graced the treetops, spotlighting it against
  the colorful Gyp Hills background.
     I graduated from Wichita State University in 1952 and taught high school 
  at Rose Hill, Wichita High School NOrth, and Wyandotte High School, Kansas
  City, Kansas, while Ron took his undergraduate work at Wichita State
  University and earned his dental degree from the University of Missouri at
  Kansas City in 1959.
     Ron was in the Counter intelligence Corp of the Army stationed in Peoria,
  Illinois, when we married. It was after his two-year Army service during
  the Korean War that he decided to be a dentist. He has had his dental
  practice in Wichita since graduation, and for the past two years has held
  the office of Editor of the Kansas State Dental Association.
     We both enjoy various organizations but are primarily involved with our
  church, Eastminster United Presbyterian, and our children: Mark 21, a Senior
  at Wichita State University; Alan, 17, a Junior at Wichita Southeast High
  School; and Steven 10, a fourth grader. Our second child, Carla died in
  infancy in 1960.
     We feel very fortunate that our sons are able to spend part of their
  summers in Barber County where they are learning agriculture on their
  grandparents' farm - a farm once owned by Sam Stewart, their great-great
  grandfather.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 151 
     Submitted by: Mrs. Ronald Davis