John Elmer Hull, son of George and Caroline Parmenter Hull, and the
     father of George H. (Harry) Hull, came west from Central Missouri to
     homestead a farm six miels northeast of Hardtner, Kansas, in the Crown
     Point school district in the early 1880's. John Hull was a brother of 
     Julia Hull Graves, wife of George L. Graves, Sr., who lived on the 
     adjoining farm, 3/4 mile est and 3/4 mile south of the John Hull 
     homestead. Grandpa, John Hull, and my great uncle, George Graves, Sr.
     came from Missouri together, leaving their families in Missouri and
     'proved up' their land. Grandpa Hull built a dug-out in which the family
     lived for two years after they came from Missouri to join him.
        John Hull was married to Ruby O. McNett, whose family also came to
     Barber County, Kansas, and Woods County, Oklahoma, around the same time.
     The children of John and Ruby Hull were Nettie (Mrs. Frank Wright); Effie
     (Mrs. Arden Hall); Dave; Pearl (Mrs. Lee Cormack); Chauncey; George H.
     (Harry), my father; Dollie (Mrs. Dwight K. Sailor); Grace (Mrs. Charles
     Cogswell); and Fern, who died in early childhood.
        Harry Hull, my father, was born in 1889, two years after the family
     came by covered wagon to the Kansas homestead to live. Harry was married
     to Edna Jinkens, daughter of Harrison and Rozella F. Jinkens in 1911. The
     children of Harry and Edna Hull are Loye (Mrs. Rex Olmsted); Yuma, Arizona;
     Lois (Mrs. John B. Kaiser) Augusta, Kansas; Louise (Mrs. Amber Dial) Wichita,
     Kansas; Joyce (Mrs. Larry Garlow) Loveland, Colorado; Jonnie (Mrs. Gerald
     Riggins) Yuma, Arizona; and Patti (Mrs. Gale Price) Wichita, Kansas.
        After their marriage, Edna and Harry Hull moved to the John and Ruby
     Hull farm where all six of their daughters were born and where they lived
     until the Depression of the 30's. Several years after Pattie's marriage to
     Gale Price of Zenda, Kansas, she and her family lived for a time on the
     John Hull farm, so at least four generations of Hulls have lived there.
     Harry and Edna later lived on the Neil Harrington farm north of Alva,
     Oklahoma, and back in the home community on the William Graves farm near
     Hardtner. Shortly before his death in 1941, Edna and Harry moved to the
     Medicine Lodge community where Edna lived and made a home for her daughters,
     raising her youngest daughter, Patricia (Patti). Edna Hull was saleslady
     for the Brooks Spencer Drygoods Store in Medicine Lodge until her retirement
     in 1955. She enjoyed her work and her retirement in the Medicine Lodge
     community until her health failed. After that she spent the remainder of
     her life withher daughters to whom she was always and inspiration. Edna
     passed away in 1968.
        All the children of John and Ruby Hull are deceased. John and Ruby Hull
     are buried in Kiowa, Kansas. Edna and Harry Hull and her parents, Rozella
     and Harrison Jinkens, are buried at Hardtner.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 245
     Submitted by: Loye (Mrs. Rex) Olmsted