LeMonte Hoyt was born November 8, 1878, at Mercer County, Pennsylvania;
     Alice Longmate, at Lupton, England. She came to the United States when she
     was eight years old.
        Monte and Alice were married in Medicine Lodge in 1901. They spent their
     wedding night in the Johnson Hotel located just west of where the First
     National Bank is now located. They told of Mrs. Johnson's p[arrot which
     had learned her language from Zeal and the many fellows who teased her. 
     Some of it was not fit for a ladies ear!
        Alice's folks were sent to Harper County where they bought a farm. They
     then moved to Scammon, Kansas, where her father worked in a coal mine. He
     was killed by horses ina runaway, and the family moved back to the farm at
     Harper, near Sharon. Later all the family moved to Washington except my
     mother.
        My folks lived east of Sharon in 1900, then moved to Beaver County,
     Oklahoma, where they took up a claim and built a one-room sod and dugout
     home. Four children were born there; Carlton, Jeanetta, Ray, and Arthur.
        In 1908 we moved to Sharon by covered wagon pulled by mules. Some other
     families moved with us, fording the river south of Medicine Lodge with men
     on horseback helping pull the wagons across. The stock drifted down and
     across the river.
        We lived south of Sharon on a farm several years, then moved into
     Sharon where Fred was born and died in 1910. Later Jewell and Joyce were
     born. About 1910 Dad worked for the Rules. He drilled water wells with
     horsepower. He also had a horsepowered hay bailer and corn sheller. He
     pulled one of the first merry-go-rounds in Sharon and surrounding towns
     with horsepower.
        Monte and Alice Hoyt moved to Isabel in 1922, and he worked at the
     Isabel Co-op, hardware, and I.H. implement store, then moved to Pratt, and
     then to Parsons where Monte died in 1946 and Alice in 1957.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 242
     Submitted by: Ray Hoyt