My parents, Huber and Helen Farney live on a place that was called 
  Rosewood Park in the early eighteen hundreds.
     In 1888, Mr. W.E. Campbell built a home and a large barn one mile
  east of Kiowa. He was a cattleman and breeder of race and cow horses.
     At one time this ranch consisted of 18,000 acres. J.P. Farney
  bought 1,700 acres of this ranch. The location started one mile east
  of Kiowa. There was a house and a very large barn built on this place.
  In 1911, the frame house burned, and J.P. Farney built the present
  three-story brick home in 1912 and 1913. It has 11 rooms and 3 large
  porches.
     The landscape consisted of fruit trees on the east and south, with
  forest trees on the west, outside of the yard. Forty acres was in
  orchard, consisting of apples, peaches, pears, plums, apricots, walnuts
  nectarines and Almonds. There were eighty acres of forest trees. Roses
  lined the driveway, and other flowers and shrubs were in abundance.
  North of the barn were five acres of pines and cedars planted twenty-five
  feet each way.
     The main barn was 106 feet long, 40 feet wide, and had a 40 by 40 foot
  three story high extension on the west. On the east there was a 24 foot
  extension for work stock and cow horses. A hay loft extended the entire
  length of the barn. All upper floors were of 3-inch tongue and groove
  flooring. The west extension had feed mills and hppers on the third floor.
  The hoppers and granaries had sloping floors leading into grain chutes.
     Grain from below the ground was carried to the third floor by elevators;
  it was ground and returned to the mixing box on the ground floor by gravity.
  A double headed windmill with two power wheels 72 feet from the ground
  furnished power for elevating and grinding. At the peak of their growing
  season about 33,000 bushels of wheat and over 18,000 bushels of oats and
  corn were produced in a single year.
     There were many box horse stalls with a 16-foot driveway through the
  center, an office, a harness and saddle room and an 800 barrel rain water
  cistern. The barn was made of 12 by 12's and 8 by 8's angle braced with
  4 by 4's. All joints were morticed and doweled with oak dowel pins or
  square nails. All lumber used was Georgia hard pine.
     In 1959, the big barn had seen its usefull days. Dad and his uncles,
  Pete and Reuben Farney, and Geroge Stasbough tore the barn down.
     In 1900, my great-grandfather, Joseph P. Farney, purchased Rosewood
  Park, and in 1922, my grandfather, Ben FArney and his family lived there
  and farmed the land. The place soon became known as "The Farney Place."
  The present site consists of 570 acres, all cultivated land.
     My father, Huber, has lived here all of his life, and brought his 
  bride Helen Frieden here, where they raised their two children: Thomas
  Eugene, and Aleta Joan. Aleta Farney Banwart is an RN, working as Basham
  McKenna Clinic in Fort Scott, Kansas. She and her husband Don, have two
  children: Justin Ray and Alesha Dawn.
     Thomas Eugene Farney is presently employed as Office Manager at the
  Hazelton Coop and helps Huber with the farming operation. He and his wife
  Gay Lee Webs Farney, have two children: Brandon Thomas and Kristen Jill.
     Tom graduated from Fort Hays State College, a soil scientist, and went
  on to KSU in Manhattan to receive his teaching certificate. He taught in
  the Arkansas City, Kansas, school system before joining Farmland industries.
     Aleta attended the Wesley School of Nursing in Wichita to become an RN.
     
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 174 
     Submitted by: Aleta Farney Banwart