I was born in Nashville, Kansas, to pioneer parents, Frank Pleasanton
  Hewitt and Ida Levira Sleeper Hewitt. We moved to Medicine Lodge in the
  summer of 1911 so that my oldest brother, Floyd V. Hewitt, could attend
  high school there. My other brothers were Ivan (Jibo) and Orville; my
  sisters are Ruth E. and Vivian.
     My father and mother would take all six of us to the Presbyterian
  Church, and I remember one of my Sunday School teahcers, Mrs. Cook. I
  can also remember my father gathering us smaller children around him,
  telling us stories of his pioneer days. How we enjoyed them, and also
  the times we gathered around the organ with Mother playing and Father
  playing the harmonica and we children singing the old hymns.
     In high school we would hike into the hills and country around town
  to picnic. I was very daring in those days and wore a pair of my brothers
  overalls.
     My father was a carpenter and built many houses in Medicine Lodge,
  also in Wichita. We children attended grade school and later the new
  high school. I graduated in 1924, and the following August 9th, I married
  Dorris Alfred Froggate (whom I met on a blind date three years previous).
  We went on our honeymoon to Colorado, sightseeing and visiting relatives.
     We settled on the Froggate Homestead in Harper County, Kansas. My
  husband's father, Abram Froggate, was an early pioneer settler, coming
  from Michigan. My husband was a farmer and a mechanic. We lived on the
  farm until 1935, during which time two children were born to us, Frank
  Dean and Helen Dorean.
     Due to the drought and dust storms, we were forced to sell our farm, 
  and we lived in Attica for about two years. We left Attica and became
  nomads, I guess, as we lived in Colorado a short while, then Phoenix,
  Arizona for four years, then on to California where I lived for 35 years.
     I lost my husband in 1956 and have never remarried. I now live in the
  Big Sky Country of western Montana and love it. I am near my daughter
  and family.
     I have six grandchildren and 4 1/2 great-grandchildren - all of whom
  I am very proud. Thank you for letting me tell you about myself.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 182 
     Submitted by: Faye Froggate