George W. and Minerva (Hayes) Henrickson came to Barber County in 1875
     from Jackson County, Missouri. George, of Holland Dutch descent, born in
     Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1848, to Jesse and Mary Ann (Teter)
     Hendrickson, first came to Jackson County, Kansas, with his parents just
     before the Civil War, when George was nine.
       The father was preparing to engage extensively in freighting across the
     plains with sixty yoke of whork oxen when the Federals took them all from
     him, along with a large number of young stock. Young George lived in evenful
     times. When his father became wagon master, freighting from Leavenworth  to
     Fort Scott, Fort Gibson, and Fort Smith, George learned many lessons of
     pioneer living. The family moved to Jackson County, Missouri.
       George married Nancy Minerva Hayes, daughter of Sterling and Celia (Mills)
     Hayes at Pleasant Hill, Missouri, in 1871. The Hayes and Mills families 
     were from east Tennessee. George farmed in Missouri, until 1875, when they
     came to Barber County, Lake City Township, where he purchased a large number
     of the Osage Trust and Diminished Reserve Lands. As a stockman, George
     became known over large areas of Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and even
     New Mexico. He agreed with the Barbour County Mail; "It is a fact beyond
     all controversy that Barbour County surpasses all other counties in Kansas
     in its adaptablity to stock raising." It also claimed "the best watered
     county in the state."
       The Hendricksons moved to Medicine Lodge in 1903. At his death in 1908
     George's obituary said: "Probably no man now residing within the county
     confines dates his settlement in the county earlier and none has seen and
     experienced more of the vicissitudes of life incident to frontier settlement
     with all its privations, its hardships and its inevitable dangers."
       Their son, William, born in Missouri, became a rancher near Lake City.
     His wife, Maggie Glick, was daughter of Joseph and Lucinda Ann (Palmer)
     Glick. Mr. Glick was a Dunkard minister. "Willie" died in 1915, leaving 
     farm operations to Maggie and children, Earl, Laura, and Fred. When Maggie
     died in 1921, the three courageously continued their high school education
     in Lake City. Earl married Gladys Berry. Their children are Edwin, Leon,
     Jay Dee (deceased), and Rita (Melton). Laura married Will W. Winters, a
     farmer in the Aetna community. Their three sons are Church, who married
     Naomi Miller; Robert Dean, who married Zella Cola; and Delbert who married
     Lulabelle Potter. Fred never married. He served in the U.S. Army several
     years, stationed most of the time in the Philippines.
       Lulu, daughter of George and Minerva, was born near Lake City and married
     her former teacher, Melvin L. Newland of Sharon. Melvin abandoned teaching
     for cabinet making, blacksmith, and foundry work with notable success, both
     at Sharon and Harper before moving to Oklahoma. Their children, Harold,
     Vernon, and Nellie are written up in "The Newland Family" elsewhere in this
     publication.
       Minerva Hendrickson, a legend of integrerity, candor, and generosity, was
     not oly a living grandmother to six orphaned grandchildren, but when his
     mother died, she assumed the care of Bert Hayes, infant son of her brother,
     Sterling Hayes. I am the only one living of all these. Bert served his 
     country in World War I, surviving severe fighting in Germany. He married
     Leona Warren and worked many years for the Gypsum Milling Co. Other members
     of the Hayes family who settled in Barber County for a time in early days
     were Minerva's father and mother and brothers - Hamilton, who made the "Run"
     into the Cherokee Outlet and settled there, and Anderson who died within a
     few years.
     
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 224 
     Submitted by: Nellie Newland Lovell