Feltner-Winter
Ellen Moffett Platt's family were Barber County Pioneers. Archibald
and Mary Feltner are listed in the 1885 census in Lake City, where
they ran the hotel. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Winter, were also
county residents, but no dates are known. Some of the families home-
steaded in Woods County, Oklahoma, not far from the Platts. Mr. and
Mrs. Feltner returned to Medicine Lodge to live until their death and
burial at Lake City. Some of the family are buried near the Yellowstone
River in Woods County.
The Feltners had three daughters: Julia, Ellen, and Angeline. Julia
married Patrick Gallagher. They ran a store and post office neamed
Gallagher on Mule Creek, near Deerhead. Their four children, Mattie
Wood, Frankie (Mrs. Blaine) Jones, Tom, and Jim are all deceased.
Ellen married Walter Moffett wo was engaged in railroad building in
Kansas and Colorado. Both died in 1893 in the flu epidemic, leaving
three small children: Charles, Edgar, and Ellen.
Angeline Feltner Matthews and her husband, J.D. Matthews, took the
children into their home to raise, on a very modest income. J.D.,
commonly known as Uncle Dick, was a Commanche Pool rider and early Barber
County Sheriff. He ran a livery barn in Medicine Lodge. They had four
children, Pearl, Orie, Bill, and Frances. Pearl Simpson moved to California
and died recently. Orie lived in Colorado and is also deceased. Bill
married Carrie Nurse of Medicine Lodge, both deceased.
On a personal note, J.D. Mathews was always Grandpa to us as children.
When he moved to Colorado in the 1930's, Uncle Bob Platt's children and
grandchildren also thought of him as Grandpa, and all loved this fine
gentleman as much as our own fathers. He died in LaJunta, Colorado.
Frances married Bill English and now lives at Bernice, Oklahoma. She
has three children: Paul in Utah, Jim in Arkansas, and Billie Frances
Utter in Colorado.
Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 175
Submitted by: Mike Platt and Joyce Reed