Paul Rule was born October 7, 1892 to James Andrew and Nettie E. Rule Fair
  at Sharon, Kansas. He was one of four children: Merle (Married W.A. Kahrs),
  Dale, deceased, (married Christine, then Ann) and Esther (married Gordon
  Lindley, deceased). Paul graduated from Barber County High School in
  Medicine Lodge in 1910 and then attended Kansas University at Lawrence, 
  Kansas.
     Merle L. was born September 15, 1891 to Lewis J. and Ella Belle Ligon 
  Balding east of Medicine Lodge. Around 1899 her parents and family moved to
  the Balding place across the road, west of the Walstead School, where they
  all attended school. She had one sister, Florence, deceased, (married Otis
  Shore, deceased), four brothers: Ray, deceased, (married Ada Kritzmeyer, 
  deceased, then Cora Wells, deceased), Robert, deceased, (married Lois Hart
  Whitaker, deceased), John (married Carrie Springer), and Lewis (married
  Mildred Warren).
     Paul and Merle were married February 14, 1917 at Sharon, Kansas. They 
  livedin Blackwell and Ponca City, Oklahoma and then moved to Wichita in 
  1924. Paul worked for the Rock Island Lumber Company, Jackson Walker, Boeing,
  and for Goldsmith Athletic Equipment Company.
     Paul played professional baseball with Oklahoma City in the Oklahoma
  League and later in the Texas and Texas-Oklahoma Leagues. He was inducted
  into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1970, served as secretary-treasurer
  of the Wichita Men's Association for 26 years and was associated with the
  National Baseball Congress in several capacities. He played in the first
  NBC Kansas Tournament in 1931. In 1935 he umpired, as well as played, in
  the state tournament.
     Paul and Merle had three daughters: Eleanor (married Dudley Tankersley
  and lives in Abilene, Texas), two daughters, Claudia (m. Tom Ainsworth) and
  Carolyn Mildred (married Lyle Willis aned they live near Valley Center, 
  Kansas), and Virginia (married Sam McGuinn and they live at the west edge
  of Sedgwick, Kansas, where they farm). Virginia and Sam have four sons:
  Tom (married Jerri Hart and lives in Wichita); Michael "Mick" (married
  Joyce Johnson and they have three sons; Micheal, Scott, Steven and dauaghter
  Michelle, they live in Sedgwick); David lives in Springfield, Missouri; Jim
  (married Renea Marsh and theylive in Halsted, Kansas).
     Paul passed away November 15, 1973 in Wichita, where Merle continued to
  maintain her home until 1977, when she moved to Sedgwick Convalescent Home 
  in Sedgwick, Kansas; here she is close to two of her daughters and their
  husbands, and some of her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren.
     Paul's interment is in Resthaven Gardens of Memory, 10216 West 54 Highway,
  Wichita, Kansas.
     In 1978 Paul was posthumously inducted into the Kansas Bowling Hall of
  Fame.
     Merle died on February 5, 1980.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 174