Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Hill moved to Medicine Lodge on April 1, 1978 - not
     as an April Fool trick, but to be near their daugher and son-in-law,
     Iree and Joe Boyter.
       Mr. and Mrs. Hill are transplanted Texans, having been cotton farmers
     near Amarillo, Texas, until 1944. They then moved to Dodge City, Kansas,
     where they operated a self-service laundry until 1967. After retirement,
     they lived in Arkansas on Bull Shoals Lake for eleven years, fishing, 
     gardening, hunting driftwood, and enjoying the beauties of the Ozarks.
       It is one of those strange coincidences of fate that Mrs. Hill who as
     a baby born in the territory of New Mexico in 1904 and given the name of
     Carrie Nation Walls, should 74 years later live in the hometown of her
     namesake. But having been teased and tormented during her childhood about
     her celebrated name of "Carrie Nation, saloon smasher," she changed her
     name to Carol when she was in her early teens.
       Carol Walls Hill enjoys making beautiful quilts and working with her
     flowers, but above all, reading good books and writing poems and songs.
     Some of her songs are published in church song books. Both she and Mr. 
     Hill have been active members of the Church of Christ for over 65 years.
       Willie Richard Hill is an avid reader, enjoying particularly tales of
     the old West, but finds time to go daily to "oversee" the work at Boyter
     Tires, Inc., where he hears the news of the town, the world, and politics
     as the men come and go.
       The Hills have six children: lucy Jo McMillen, Dodge City, Kansas; Iree
     Boyter, Medicine Lodge, Kansas; Laura Jane Underwood, Derby, Kansas; David
     Hill, Lindsay, Oklahoma; Patricia Lawson, Rheems, Pennsylvania; and Mina
     Faye Davenport, Dodge City, Kansas, as well as 20 grandchildren and 10
     great-grandchildren to love and cherish them in their old age.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 230