Benjamin English was born in Kentucky and as a child moved with his family to
  Cass County, Missouri. As a young man he met Rebecca WArnstaff and they became
  engaged. She moved to Lake City, Kansas with her family, by covered wagon, and
  Ben followed shortly afterward. He and Becky were married at Lake City in 1883
  on January 1, and homesteaded a farm a few miles out of town.
     Their daughters, Bertha English Bateman and Maude English Burton, and their
  son, Auga English remembered their telling of occasional hard-riding cowboys
  coming by the farm to warn of danger from raiding bands of Indians. This meant
  hurring by wagon to the nearest protective stockade. With no doctor available,
  Becky English developed an interest in caring for sick neighbors as well as her
  own family, and it wasn't unusual for the family to have to get along without
  her for several days at a time, as she was off with her horse and buggy to
  someone requiring her help.
     Ben's family moved out from Missouri to be near him, and his sister, Orpha, 
  married Harry Stone. They were long-time residents of Medicine Lodge. Ben's
  brother, Bob English, later married Nellie Ross of Medicine Lodge and they lived
  there until his death in 1910.
     The Ben English family lived in Lake City and Coats where their children, 
  Maude, Effie, Aura, and Bertha were born. He later had a grocery store in Medicine 
  Lodge before the family moved to Attica, Kansas, in 1910. He farmed there until
  his death in 1933.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 172 
     Submitted by: Bertha English Bateman