I, Wanda (Brown) Harris, was born between Medicine Lodge and Sharon to 
   Gaines and Florence Brown in 1928. I was the fifth of six children. While
   I was still a small child, we moved to Medicine Lodge, where we lived
   until 1941.
     As a small child, one of the most memorable times for me was while in
   the second grade, we had a bad dust storm. The teacher, Miss Miller, had
   us tie wet hankies over our faces to kep out some of the dust. Then she
   took us all to our homes, so we wouldn't get lost. Another time, there 
   was a hard rain up at Elm Mills, and a six foot wall of water came down
   Elm Creek. It took a two-span bridge by our house. Such a huge amount of
   water, I had never seen. I remember, also, the long hours of practice for
   the Indian Peace Treaty Pageant, when I was in the second and seventh
   grades. Then the exciting days when all the Indians came to take part. 
   Most of all the Pageant itself. We have attended four pageants since. We
   took our youngest son to the last one, and he thought it was really some
   thing. He also enjoyed the Stockade Museum.
     On Easter Sunday in 1940 I was baptized in the First Christian Church
   by the Rev. J.I. Brimberry. Also baptized that day were the twins, Ruth
   and Robert Brimberry.
     After I finished the seventh grade in 1941, we moved to Luray, Kansas
   for three months, then to Marquette, Kans. I finished my education with
   my graduation from Marquette High School. In June of 1946, I married 
   George C. Harris. We had seven children. They are Yolanda, who is married
   to Max Buffinton; they have three children; Georgia, Marica, and Harris
   live in Marquette. Marketta and her husband, David Ray, live in Newburg,
   Mo.; their children are David Paul, and Michella. Clifton and Amber, his
   wife, and son Chance Reo, live in Belton, Mo.; Richard and Becky, his
   wife, and daughter, Melissa, live in Tonganoxie, Kans.; Gaines lives in
   San Luis Obispo, Calif.; Theresa and husband, Larry Rohrer, and two
   children, Denny and Genia, live in Spring Hill, Kans. Greg is a freshman
   in the Louisburg High School.
     We have moved 42 times in our married life. In Sept. 1951, we lived in
   Medicine Lodge, where my husband, who is a bulldozer operator, helped
   build a new highway. He was working for M.W. Watson at the time. We lived
   in the Emory Miller apartmetn, just south of the Carrie Nation home. 
   George is now in his 21st year with Reno Construction Co.
     We still visit Medicine Lodge, as George has an uncle and aunt, Paul and
   Helen Williams, and two cousins, Betty and Shirley, living there. We also
   visit friends, Jim and June Jost, who live in Attica. June and I graduated
   from high school together.
     Daddy died in August of 1969. Mother now lives in the Riverview Estates
   in Marquette, where we visit her as often as possible.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 220 
     Submitted by: Wanda Brown Harris