Jonathan H. Fair married Elizabeth Flethcher in 1866 in Elizabethton,
  Tennessee. After Jonathan served in the Vicil War as a corporal and
  sergeant, they lived in Elizabethton a short time and then moved west to
  Illinois and on to Centralia, Missouri. They came to Barber County to
  "prove up" a farm a few miles northwest of Sharon in 1889. At that time
  the Fairs had five children: James (Jim), Amanda, Larsen, Roy and Charles.
     Jonathan received his patent for 160 acres on February 18, 1890, and
  paid off his mortgage in 1892. In 1907, he sold his farm to his brother,
  John D. of Sharon, whose family consisted of C.C. (Charles), H.D. (Hal),
  H.HY. (Hyder), J.R., and Julia who married Tandy Trice.
     In 1891 Jonathan's eldest son, Jim, married Burnetta (Nettie) Rule,
  daughter of Wm. Rule of Sharon. Paul R. was born to this union in 1892.
     In 1893 James A. (Jim) made the "run" into the Oklahoma Strip by horse-
  back. He secured some land which he later sold to establish a store and 
  home at Driftwood, Oklahoma, where three other children were born, i.e.,
  Esther, Dale and Merle. His wife, Nettie, operated a post office in the
  front room of their home.
     About 1907 Jim Fair was offered the management of the Metz Lumber Company
  in Medicine Lodge. He preceded his family there to obtain a home in the
  south west part of town. He chose a place where he could raise hogs, chickens,
  keep a cow and have a large garden. Later Nettie, his wife, and the four
  children drove a horse and buggy from Driftwood to Kiowa, Kansas, leading a
  cow. They spent the night with her sister and brother-in-law, John and Amanda
  Whitaker, and the next day drove on to Medicine Lodge to their new home.
     About ten years later, Logan More Lumber Company of Kansas City, Missouri,
  hired Jim to manage its new lumber yard in Sharon.
     In 1917 Paul Fair married Merle Balding whose father owned a farm between
  Medicine Lodge and Sharon and they moved to Blackwell, Oklahoma, where Paul
  was employed by a lumber company.
     Gordon Lindley, son of T.L. Lindley of Medicine Lodge, and Esther Fair
  were married June, 1916. Their first home was in Sharon where Gordon
  operated the bank.
     Dale studied law under "Poley" Tincher for a time, went to law school in
  Ann Arbor, Michigan, joined the navy and after the war came home to practice
  law in Wichita with Congressman Bill Ayres.
     By this time Jim (J.A.) and family had moved to Wichita where he became
  auditor for the Golden Rule Oil and Refining Company established by Elbert
  S. Rule.
     Merle graduated from high school in Wichita and went to K.U. for her
  degree. She taught for a year in Beloit and then married W.A. (Bill) Kahrs,
  an attorney associated with Dale Fair and Congressman Ayres.
   
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 173 
     Submitted by: Merle (Fair) Kahrs.