Charles Rollin Inslee was born in Chase County, Kansas, in 1883. When
     a year old he came to Barber County with his parents (Mr. and Mrs.
     Theophilus D. Inslee) in a covered wagon. He grew to manhood near Isabel,
     going to country school until the 8th grade and doing things most boys do.
     He loved horses and did a lot of horse trading. Charley and his two brothers
     (Redford and Dee) dug a lot of water wells. Isabel was known for the large
     number of windmills in the city.
        Charley bought a small farm in Barber County, one mile west and 2 1/2
     miles south of Unity School House. He and his friend (Charley Eckert) 
     batched there in a little two room house for a few years, until Charley
     met Lulu Frances Bunch at a church ice cream social in Isabel. She had
     come on a train to Isabel from Deepwater, Missouri, to help her sister
     (Mrs. Delia Huey) care for a new baby daughter (Vera). Lulu loved to live
     in Isabel. She got a job as clerk in Bell's Dry Goods Store, which had
     a variety of articles and lots of dressmaking materials for sale. She also
     sang alto in the girls' glee club.
        On the way to his wedding, Charley's suitcase containing his wedding
     suit was lost in Kansas City, as he changed trains in Deepwater, Missouri.
     After he got to Lulu's home, he hitched the horses to the surrey and drove
     to Clinton to buy another suit. They were married June 20, 1909, at the
     home of her parents (Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Bunch), near Deepwater, After the
     wedding supper, the whole family attended church at their little country
     church (Park Grove). Their only honeymoon was a train ride back to the
     little two room house in Barber County. It was in this house I was born.
        The little farm wasn't large enough. My grandparents in Missouri found
     a larger farm to rent near them; so my parents shipped their livestock
     and household goods on a train to Missouri, where we lived for about two
     years. My brother (Dale) was born there.
        Charley didn't like to live in Missouri; so they shipped everything 
     back to the little farm in Barber County, where we lived until I was old 
     enough to go to school. They rented the Tom Evans farm one mile west of
     Unity School. Charley raised wheat, corn and feed for his horses and cattle.
     He had two seats on his horse-drawn machinery - one for him and one for us
     kids.
        This farm sold; so they rented the Grant Randolph farm, now owned by
     Harry Randolph. He raised wheat and corn on this farm and hauled most of
     it in a wagon to Nashville, where they also sold cream, eggs, and butter
     to Figge and Bennett.
        In the early 1920's they bought the Hatler farm, five miles north of
     Sharon. This farm had a creek, so Charley built several ponds. It was the
     setting for lots of picnics for family and the community.
        My parents spent 53 happy years together.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 248
     Submitted by: Bertha Inslee Rucker