Roots in Medicine Lodge is a fact in my life of which I'm quite proud.
  My great-grandparents on my maternal side were P.B. and Fannie Cole. Their
  daughter, Sallie, married my grandfather, Will Fuller, Sr., and they were
  the parents of three children, one of which is my mother, Mamie. My mother
  received all of her schooling in Medicine Lodge, graduating from high
  school in the class of 1917. In 1918 she married my father, Lloyd Gibbs,
  whose parents were J. Verne Gibbs and Pearl Lonker Gibbs, (the daugher of
  Wm. Lonker and Martha Ellen Moore Lonker). My grandfather Gibbs taught
  school in Barber County, and he and my grandmother operated a grocery
  store and post office at Deerhead.
     I was born in Medicine Lodge in 1921 and lived there only seven months,
  as my father died at that time. My mother moved to her parents' home in
  Lyon County, Kansas, where I've lived - in that vicinity or Coffey County,
  the remaninder of my life. Mother remarried and had seven children in her
  subsequent marriage.
     I spent the summer of 1938 in Barber County, visited a few times since,
  and was privileged to witness my great-aunt Mayme Cole Grigsby lead her
  last Peace Treaty Pageant Parade.
     I am a graduate of Emporia State University with a B.S. in Education
  and an M.S. in Psychology. I am now teaching my twenty-sixth year of
  school, twenty-two in my hometown. My husband, Irvin Courtney, (who is a
  farmer) and I are the parents of one son, David Courtney, a graduate of 
  Wichita State University. He is married and lives and works in Wichita.
     My mother (Mamie Fuller Gibbs Simkins) now resides in Sunset Home,
  Concordia, Kansas, but continues after eighty years to call Medicine Lodge
  "home".
     I join her in our proud roots in Medicine Lodge and Barber County.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 182 
     Submitted by: Mrs. Irvin (Joyce) Courtney