I, Lenora B. Hoagland, married HOmer Fred Hoagland in 1919. This is our
     story: Homer Fred Hoagland (1880-1973) was a Barber County Commissioner
     from 1928 until 1942. He was a vital part of the county's growth. Homer
     was brought to the county from his native Rolla, Missouri in a covered
     wagon in 1884. His parents, William S. and Cassandra Hoagland, first
     settled a claim south of Coats in Barber County. In the late eighty's
     they moved their family to Sun City, leasing the old Whitaker Hotel
     before purchasing the Jimmy MIles Hotel.
       Homer remembered 1898 as a busy year. He was one of forty men in the
     last General Round-Up in Barber County - Jack Larkin was foreman and
     Denver Boggs was cook. Later, Homer was in Dodge City when Teddy
     Roosevelt and his Roiugh Riders came through. Brother Ed kept Homer from
     joining them. He worked at the Turkey Track Ranch near Ashland and later
     for Mrs. Rawley on the Dickerson Ranch until she sold the ranch in 1901
     to Charley S. Marty.
       Alice Marian Rawley was born in Sun City September 18, 1881. Homer
     married her in 1902. They bought the Lockert house west of Sun City where
     Lon was born in 1903. Homer built a brick home in Sun City where Fred
     Homer was born in 1912. This house was later sold to the Ward family.
       In 1910 when Ed Stewart established the Sun City bank the officers were:
     Geroge Lott, President; Homer Hoagland, Vice President; and Ed Stewart,
     Cashier.
       Homer was in business with Lundy Hawkins for two years before buying
     his ranch east of Sun City from Wolleslagels in 1914. They were living
     there when Alice died February 9, 1918.
       My parents, Alfred S. and Hattie B. Coles were living in Dayton, 
     Missouri when I was born on November 20, 1894. We moved to Barber county
     in 1903. I was teaching in Sun City when I met Homer Hoagland. He was a
     member of the school board. We were married July 27, 1919. Our son, Ralph
     was born November 8, 1920.
       We lived on the ranch and in 1928 built our house east of Sun City.
     Homer loved cattle. He enjoyed telling us how he started his herd with a
     $5.00 Jersey steer and a $10.00 one-eyed white face.
       Homer and Alice and Lon were converted and joined the Sun City Baptist
     church in 1912. I was a Baptist when I married Homer and we continued to
     be active in the church. I played the organ and taught Sunday School.
       Lon married Alma Barnard of Medicine Lodge in 1927. Ralph married Gladys
     Maudine Reipe of Sun City in 1939. Fred married Elizabeth Covington, a
     Missouri native in 1941.
       In 1965, Homer and I moved our house to 506 North Adams in Medicine
     Lodge. Last year I moved to the Indian Hills Lodge where I enjoy being
     near many of my long time friends.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 233 
     Submitted by: Lenora B. Hoagland