The Knorp family left their home in Missouri and came to Barber County in
  1902. William and Margaret Knorp, their three sons and wives, Henry and Ila,
  Lewis and Ella, Charley and Birdie, and one daighter, Mollie, and her husband,
  Ed Kuntz. Altoghether, they owned 3 1/2 sections of farmland in south east
  Barber County, south of Hazelton.
     The Baptist church was founded at Kings College rural school house. Grandpa
  Knorp gave the land for the church to be built one mile west of the school. 
  The church was later moved to Hazelton. The church was their social life -
  they would have big basket dinners and spend all day at the church.
     The neighbors would all help each other on butchering day. As many as 4 or
  6 hogs for each family, they would help with the scalding, cutting up the
  meat, and rendering the lard. They would exchange work at other busy seasons.
     The Knorp families sold out and moved away, one by one. Only Charley Knorp
  remained living in Barber County after they raised their family. They had two
  daughters Jewell and Pearl, and two sons, Ray and Dale. Jewell married V.C.
  Forsgren and is a CPA living in Hayward, California. Pearl married Roy Lane
  and lives in Dallas, Texas. Dale and his wife, Ina, won the Otasco Store in
  Anthony, Kansas. Ray married Ethel Cohoe and was engaged in farming and 
  livestock operation. When Charley and Birdie retired in 1943 and moved to
  Oregon, we bought the old homestead and remaining quarters and continued to
  farm until we retired and moved to Kiowa in 1974. We have 3 children, Verna, 
  Darryl, and Cheryl. Verna married Richard Parsons. He works for Kodak, and
  they live in Carrollton, Texas. Darryl married Judy Hall; he works for Nuclear
  Medical Laboratories and lives in Hastings, Michigan. Cheryl teaches special
  education and lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
     We were married in 1931, starting out in the Depression, when wheat was
  22 cents a bushel and weaning pigs were 25 cents a head. Ray, actually traded
  a weaning pig for a haircut. We were actively engaged in farming in Barber
  County all our lives. We are thankful we were both born and raised and are
  still living in Barber County.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 262 
     Submitted by: Ray and Ethel Knorp, Kiowa, Kansas