My grandfather, Henry H. Hardy, was discharged from the Union Army before
  the end of the Civil War because of illness contracted from severe exposure.
  He returned to his home at Shelbyville, Ill., where he married Theressa
  Lockwood, a teacher, after promising her that her mother and sister, Abigail
  Lockwood, might share their home.
     Abigail taught in the Shelbyville schools until the family decided to 
  come to Kansas, hoping to benefit Henry's health.
     They arrived in Barber County in March, 1880, and first lived on a farm
  on Cedar Creek, west of Medicine Lodge, where their half-dugout home was
  damaged in the flood of 1885.
     Abigail taught the No. 10 school, where the Hardy children Fred, 15, 
  Sherry, 13, and Abigail ("Babe"), 10 years of age, attended.
     After moving into town, Henry was Probate Judge for awhile; and in 1887
  he and Henry Durst built a cotton gin, which was not successful.
     In the mid-80's two young brothers "Lem" and "Wib" Ellsworth, came from
  Fontana, Kansas and rented a farm 5 miles northwest of Medicine Lodge, but
  had no plow. Wib went to town to see if he could borrow the necessary $6
  for the plow. He asked a man on the street if he knew anyone who might loan
  him the money. Looking down the street, the man saw Grandpa Hardy, and he
  was "sure" that man will loan it to you, if he has it" - which he did.
     From that friendship followed the double wedding of Babe Hardy and Lemuel
  Ellsworth and Fred Hardy and Minnie Hunter, Dec. 23, 1888, at the Hardy
  home. Rev. Sanderson of the Methodist Church officiated.
     In 1898 Henry and son, Sherry, opened a grocery store on Main Street, 
  which they operated until Sherry's death, June 27, 1919. He never married.
     Henry died at the family home, the site of Gus Palmer's present home,
  Dec. 5, 1901.
     Abigail Lockwood never married. She taught in the Newkirk, Roundup, Ash,
  Elsea, Parker, Doles, Mingona, Forest City, and Kling schools. She boarded
  with anyone who had a room for her and her morning bath was often in a cold
  bedroom, in cold water poured from a pitcher into a washbowl on a washstand.
  She often walked a mile to the one-room school, where she started a fire in
  the heater to get the building warm before the pupils arrived. She died at
  the Hardy home, July 8, 1912.
     Theressa Hardy was so deaf that she never went to public places, but had
  many friends who visited her. She died Jan. 7, 1928.
     The Ellsworths had two daughters: Allie, born at Medicine Lodge, Dec. 3,
  1889, and Maria, born March 20, 1893. Their family also moved to Alva in
  1898. In 1899 they moved to a farm near Capron, where they lived until 1910,
  when they came to Colorado. Medicine Lodge and Oklahoma will always be "home"
  to us.
     We girls spent much of our summers in Medicine lodge, also much of our
  early school years. I attended high school there.
     Maria married Carl Staley, at Beulah, Colo., Nov. 11, 1911. Carl died in
  July, 1942.
     I married Fred Chariton of Beulah, at Medicine Lodge, March 18, 1912. 
  Fred died Dec. 21, 1965.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 219 
     Submitted by: Allie Chariton