Mary, otherwise known as Mamie, was born in Medicine Lodge in 1902. She was the
  oldest of the five living children of John R. Cullison and Mary Ann Jarrett Cullison.
  Her brothers and sisters were Sylvia, John Sterling, Lora and Ben.
     Mamie's childhood memory recalls that she had few toys to play with,but she
  remembers with pride how her Mother taught her to make do with what they had at
  hand, which was corn cobs and corn stalks. From the corn cobs they made pig pens
  and pigs, and from the corn stalks her mother taught her to make dogs and dolls to
  play with. Mamie recalls being quite content with such simple playthings.
     Relatives from both sides of Mamie's family settled in Medicine Lodge. Her
  maternal grandfather, Thomas Lafayette Jarrett and his wife, Nancy Rebecca Brown
  Jarrett, originally came from Georgia to the "west", and in the late 1800's,
  eventually came to Medicine Lodge. Tom was a carpenter and built a house on the
  southwest corner of Market and Second Street. (It's still there; but stuccoed). He
  was a beekeeper and harvested honey by the tubs full. Tom was active in the Salvation
  Army and was their captain until the Salvation Army Headquarters moved to Wichita
  after Carrie Nation's death.
     Mammie's paternal great-grandfather Samuel T. Cullison, born in 1809, originated
  from Scotland. It was Mamie's grandfather John Louis Cullison who came from Ohio to 
  what is, now, Cullison, Kansas, in 1885 to put in the "Cullison Supply Center". He
  loved playing the violin and others seemed to enjoy hearing him play it, wherever
  he went. He sold the "Center" in 1887 to put in a store at Sun City, which he sold
  in 1890 to put in a furniture store in Medicine Lodge. He lived in Medicine Lodge
  until he died in 1907 at age 71.
     Before a railroad was established between Sun City and Medicine Lodge, Mamie's
  father, John R. Cullison, hauled gyp down from the mine in a wagon pulled by three
  pair of mules. In 1912 he started a cafe on Main Street across from where the theatre
  is now. Later he built the Depot Cafe that stood on the northwest corner of Iliff and 
  Kansas Avenue. (The building has since been moved north of that location and is now
  used for storage.) Mamie's father did a big business there until the flood washed
  out the railroad between Medicine Lodge and Kiowa. When Mamie was only twelve years
  old, she worked all alone in her father's cafe cooking, waiting tables, and making
  change. Later her father made an addition to his home on the southwest cornier of
  Iliff and Second Street, which served as a grocery store and gasoline station. He ran
  the Cedar Forks Cabin Camp at that location also.
     As a young women, Mamie worked as a telephone operator. After she married Fred
  Hamilton (her partner for 42 years) she seldom worked in public. Mamie always enjoyed
  crocheting and completed many fine pieces of work. In her retirement she took up
  painting landscapes as a pastime and while Mamie was able, she enjoyed travel. She
  is now in a rest home in Colorado, but wherever she may be, her heart stays in 
  Medicine Lodge - it's HOME.
    
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 214 
     Submitted by: Mary R. Hamilton; Van Hamilton Mitchell