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 

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