Henry Frost Hollar was a native of Gail, Texas, born there May 17, 1908,
     next to the youngest of thirteen children. His grandfather had come to
     Tedas in 1850 from Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Frost grew to manhood in
     a warm family environment but with many hard times. His father died when
     he was a youngster. He worked as an apprentice plumber to help pay high
     school expenses at Cisco, Texas.
       Frost hired on as a roughneck in the oil boom of the late 1920's and
     thus began the work he would pursue for the next twenty years.
       Ruby Mae Lytle was the first child of George and Lola (Williams) Lytle,
     born September 2, 1912. One of her earliest memories was an alphabet toy
     with which she played and learning to spell words from the newspaper. That
     was when she decided she would some day be a teacher. As the oldest of a
     large family, she helped with all chores, harvest, and farm work.
       She learned to love the land, especially the Gyp Hills, which she would
     later use as the subject of her landscape paintings. In 1929 she began
     teaching at Dry Creek on a two year State Normal Training certificate.
       In November, 1929, Frost's crew happened to be working on a rig in
     Barber County and when driving by a little country schoolhouse, his
     attention was drawn to a very pretty young lady on the school grounds. 
     His companion, Dutch Shaffer, also noticedher, and they made a wager as
     to which one of them could acquire the first date. The young lady was
     Ruby, and Frost won the bet. They eloped on April 10, 1930.
       Four daughters were born to them: Ruth Arlene (Selmon), Bucklin, Mo.
     February 10, 1931; LaVada Carol (Hine), Manhattan, Kans, December 16, 1932;
     Verda Faye (Hicks), Hutchinson, Kansas, January 18,m 1934; and Marily (Daily)
     Broomfield, Colorado, December 15, 1936.
       In 1944 they bought the Knight property, 308 W. Stolp. Ruby taught 
     school for thirty three years and Frost began a plumbing-heating business
     in 1948. She retired in 1975. Both are buried in Highland Cemetery; he
     died on April 12, 1966, and she died on April 9, 1976.
       The following is an excerpt from an autobiography Ruby wrote as part of
     an assignment.
       "I've had time for some hobbies and fun: sewing, which I've always
     enjoyed; ceramics and leathercraft; crocheting; knitting, which I finally
     succeeded in learing to do; bowling; rock-hounding; fishing and rabbit
     hunting with my husband; writing a little poetry now and then when it
     keeps singing through my mind until I have to put it into writing; even
     composing some music to fit a lyric or two I've written; all these seem
     to go into the make-up of me as a teacher."
       Living in stone's throw
       Of where I was born -
        Loving each rock and rill
        And dry dusty hill,
       The oceans of wheat and soldiering
       corn.
        I'm living in Kansas
          Dry and parched,
          Or misty and wet;
        I love that dear homeland -
         Love it -
         - Still, - Yet.
         
         By Ruby Hollar.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 235 
     Submitted by: Marilyn Daily