Frank E. Axtell was born September 29, 1894, at Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
  She was the seventh child of William Allison Axtell and Florence Isabel
  Vennum. The younger Axtell girls loved to ride horses, who were part of
  the family and remembered by name. Proper care of their animals was
  learned at an early age. Walnut Street was often the reacetrack for the
  girls riding bareback in unladylike fashion, their long hair blowing
  straight back from their heads!! A neighbor told Will that Frank E. was
  running her horse too fast. His reply was, "If the horse can't take it,
  I'll get her one that can."
     After graduating from Medicine Lodge High School with the class of
  1914, Frank E. taught in the Barber County Schools. January 19, 1919, she
  married Donald Grigsby who had also graduated in 1914 at Medicine Lodge.
  Donald graduated from Armours Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois,
  in 1918. They were both employed by Pullman Car Company in Chicago. Frank E.
  spent her vacations visiting her family in Medicine Lodge and returned for
  many funerals.
     Having spent the summer of 1932 assisting his father, C.L. Grigsby, with
  the wheat harvest Donald was returning to Chicago. Mrs. Kenneth (Marian)
  Grigsby, whose family lived in Chicago, and Florence Kimsey (Albright) were
  with him when they had a car accident near Eldorado, Kansas. Donald was 
  killed instantly and Marian died a few days later.
     Frank E. continued living in Chicago until she retired from the Pullman
  Car Company in 1959. At that time she returned to Medicine Lodge. She lived
  with her sister, Coy Mitchell Davis, visiting quite often at the ranch with
  Mr. and Mrs. James Mitchell. Frank E. spent some time in Caldwell helping
  care for her sister, Mary Hybsha, who was ill. The only one of the Axtell
  family to live very far from their birthplace, Frak E. died at Medicine Lodge,
  January 21, 1973.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 207 
     Submitted by: Virginia Woodward Measday