My family history began by my reviewing the Civil War discharge papers of
  my grandfather, Charles A. Pool, born 1843 at Wilthmoville, Missouri. He was
  mustered out August 27, 1864, from Clarksburg, West Virginia. Wounded in 
  service, his left leg was amputated ten inches below the hip, and he walked
  with crutches until he died at 85.
     Soon after his return home, he married his sweetheart, Mattie A. Dobbs, 
  who had waited for him. Their daughter Etta, Elizabeth (my mother), born
  in 1872 came to Greensburg, Kansas, with her perents. While living there she
  met and married John Enos Williams in 1890. He was a ranch hand with the
  McQuay Spread, Belvidere, Kansas. I grew up with Medicine Lodge folklore
  since it was our trading post. My dad knew personally Sockless Jerry and
  Carrie Nation.
     My dad and grandfather made the Oklahoma Run, but someone purposely 
  crashed into their buggy, ruining a wheel; they failed to stake a claim. 
  Their disappointment caused them to move with a covered wagon to Nevada, 
  Missouri, where Dad ran a horse-drawn cab service. That was my birthplace.
  Dad operated a grocery store in Moundville, Missouri, a few years, I took
  my first train ride when we moved to a farm near Mountain View, Missouri.
  Our two houses were made from lumber sawed at the mill.
     By this time our family was three girls and four boys. Dad cleared and
  farmed very rocky ground with a yoke of oxen. I can truthfully say I drove
  them even though I wasn't very old. The whole family picked up rocks and
  put them in the rail fence corners. Our living was made by making railroad
  ties, and anyone old enough helped.
     The family moved to Coldwater, Kansas, in 1917 and worked on the Melvin
  Marley Ranch. At this home Kittie Anna Pearl Williams was married to Isaac 
  Henry Deyoe. We farmed there until dry weather and grasshoppers caused us
  to go busted.
     In 1924 we worked all summer on the Roy Platt Ranch. A few years later
  their ranch was destroyed by a tornado. I'm thankful it didn't hit that year!
     That fall we worked near Jetmore, Kansas, with a threshing crew. I cooked
  in the cookshack, and Isaac drove a water wagon. Jetmore was his hometown;
  he came there from Missouri when 12 years old.
     In later years we owned and farmed land near Kalvesta, Kansas. We carried
  three star mail routes for 10 years while living in Dodge City.
     Having no children of our own, we adopted a brother-sister team, ages
  five and six, who were our pride and joy.
     We farmed three years in eastern Colorado. We operated a motel and gas
  station at Sharon Springs, Kansas, before buying three properties in Attica,
  Kansas, in 1948.
     Our son, Larry, served in the Korean War and two years after returning
  he was killed in a car accident. My husband died November 12, 1961.
     My daughter, Betty, married Bill Howe Sears, a native of Barber County;
  they now live here.
     A highlight of later years was going to Dodge City and riding as a guest
  on the Centennial Wagon Train to Fort Dodge. I moved to Indian Hills Lodge
  February 17, 1972. I don't want to live anywhere else because I love Medicine
  Lodge and the friendly people here.
     
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 155 
     Submitted by: Kittie Deyoe