Hulbert E. (Hullie) Hoss came to Barber County in the fall of 1916
     with his wife, Esther, and two little girls, Harriet and Ellinor. We 
     lived in a one room cabin with a lean-to room and two other rooms made
     of stock board for three years. We endured a flood that swept through
     the house and a fire that resulted in loss of clothes and personal
     property. Nearby we had a cold spring of water, used as refrigeration 
     for our butter, cream and milk. The Rock School, District #14, was on
     our ranch, about one quarter mile from our house; all our children 
     attended there in the grades. Ellinor taught there for five years and
     Harriet one year, also our son-in-law, Cecil Bible, taught there one
     year.
        Hullie raised cattle, sometimes selling the calves in the Fall and
     sometimes feeding them out; he also pastured cattle for other cattlemen.
     That was the life he loved. Hullie and the family worked hard to make
     ends meet. During the war years, Depression years, dust storm years, and
     crop failures, the good times far surpassed the hard times.
        Buffalo Smith, a man who hunted buffalo, had the ranch before Hullie
     acquired it. Hullie ordered a ready-cut house from Sears-Roebuck; it was
     shipped by freight from Kansas City in the summer of 1919. Hullie with
     the help of hired hands built thehouse near a rock barn that was built of
     native stone. These hired hands received $30 per month salary for ranch
     work. We moved into the new house, and in September, 1922, Harold was born
     in the front bedroom. Ellinor was married in the same house in 1937, and 
     her daughter, Connie, our first grandchild, was born in that same house. 
     We have six living grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.
        Harriet, our oldest daughter, made teaching her career. She married
     Curtis Brickey, a contractor. They had two children; a girl, Karyl Lee,
     who is a registered nurse, and a boy James Hulbert, who died in infancy.
        Ellinor, our second daughter, made teaching and hair dressing her
     careers. She married Cecil Bible, a school teacher; they had three children,
     Connie, Mitchell, and LeAnn.
        Harold, our youngest, married JoAnn Washburn of Mulvane. They had two
     children, Herbert and Janet. Harold worked for Halliburton Company for
     eighteen years then came back to the ranch, where he is ranching at the
     present time.
        God wonderfully blessed us more ways than we could count. We never had
     a death in our family until a year ago in May, when Hullie passed away;
     we were married for 68 years. Hullie and family worked and enjoyed life;
     we wouldn't trade Barber County for any other place that I know of.
        Esther's parents were James Perry Long, born in Pennsylvania, and Harriet
     Cornelia Spenser, born in Connecticut; Hullie's were Mellville Mitchell
     Hoss and Mary Baker, both born in Indiana.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 239