A.L. Duncan was born in Bristol, Tennessee, and his wife, Fannie Kinslow,
  was born in Glascow, Kentucky, but they chose to pioneer the great West and
  homesteaded in Barber County when Medicine Lodge was still just a fort in
  1873. Their son, Ralph, was the first white child to be born in Barber
  County. They first settled near the river, but later moved to high country
  (about four miles south of M.L.) where they could see the Indians approaching.
  Once they mistook dust from a herd of buffaloes for Indians and rushed to
  the stockade, but Fannie remained unruffled as she took her churn along, still
  churning. At times they had to hide the children in plum thickets for fear of
  Indian attacks.
     Unfortunately they lost two sons, but raised Ralph, Raymond, Edward, William
  Brice, and Dora Elizabeth on the farm and sent them all to the Pleasant Hill school.
     A.L. supplemented their income by selling buffalo hides - it took a month
  to make the trip to Wichita and back. Mr. Duncan was a three-year veteran of
  the Confederate Army and one of the first memebers of Delta Lodge No. 77. A.F.
  and A.M. He participated in all community events and helped search for the
  bank robbers after that infamous act.
     Ralph Duncan married Ada Springer and they had one daughter, Helen (Brock).
  Raymond lost his wife, Elizabeth, and never remarried. Edward married Annie Ash 
  and fathered two sons, Alvin and Kenneth, and two daughters, Lucille (Valentine)
  and Earline (Holcomb). Alvin and Kenneth graduated from MLHS before the family
  moved to Fredonia. William Brice married Emma Haner, and their two children, 
  Beuford Brice and Joan (Whelan), both graduated from MLHS. Elizabeth, or
  Lizzie, married Lawson Coombes by whom she had two sons, Curtis and Wendell,
  both of whom died in infancy.
     A.L. lived to see granddaughter Helen and grandson Alvin, but died of lung
  congestion in 1914. Fannie, who had been an invalid for some time, died two
  years later. Both are buried in Highland Cemetery just west of the old Chapel.
     The Duncan sons continued to farm for the raminder of their lives, although
  Ed sold his Barber County farm and bought land in Fredonia, Kansas, where he 
  lived until his death.
     After the death of Raymond in 1945, William Brice inherited the original
  homestead and share-farmed it with his son, Beuford. When Brice's health
  failed, it was necessary to sell the farm. However, Beuford and his very young
  son, Larry, had lived and worked on the old homestead, so the sturdy two-storied
  house had sheltered four generations before it was razed by its new owner to make
  room for more wheat.
     Gone are the buffaloes, Indians, horses, windmills and wagons ... and the
  wind whispers like spirits through the golden waving wheat, remembering -
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 161 
     Submitted by: Edna Gordon Duncan