Winnie Hamilton Knox, with her son, Harold, and her mother, Margaret Mosley
  Hamilton, came to Medicine lOdge to make their home in September, 1913. They
  were preceded in a very early day by Edmund Mosley, Mrs. Hamilton's father, an
  Indian trader, said to have been the first white man in Barber County, and her
  brother, John. The father was killed July 30, 1872, in a confrontation with a
  band of renegade Indians near Old Kiowa at the Leonard homestead. Mosley Street
  in Wichita commemorates him. John served in a Company of State Militia based
  at Lake City for the protection of settlers. He ranged the West for many years,
  living on a ranch near Aztec, New Mexico, when he died. Mollie Mosley Jones
  and her husband, Tom, were also early arrivals in Barber, pre-empting a
  homestead in the Mingona Community. My mother and grandmother were very proud
  of these Barber County pioneers.
     Mrs. Hamilton's daughter, Gail, married Troy Stockstill, a native of Medicine
  Lodge, in 1907 and was living there, together with their children, Winnie Mae
  and Jack, when we arrived. Troy was employed as a lineman by Waldron Chase,
  who owned the telephone company and a large hardware and had the telephone
  office in a corner of the store. I assume Troy was instrumental in mother's
  being employed as a telephone operator upon arrival at Medicine.
     Mrs. Hamilton had three other children - Lee, Jessie, and Robert, who were
  never residents of Barber County, but Robert's daughter, now Peggy Singer, made
  her home with her grandmother Hamilton and aunts, Winnie and Gail, until her
  marriage to Kenneth. Their children, Shannon and Robert, no longer reside in
  Barber. Peggy worked some 30 years for the telephone company, and she and
  Kenneth lived and farmed on the Ridge.
     Winnie Knox, my mother - what can I say of her residence in Barber County
  that has not been said before? I feel proud that its citizens saw fit during
  her lifetime to give credit where it was due. She was an instigator, a promoter,
  a driver, a bombshell when aroused for a cause she considered just and in need
  of advancement. She worked for the telephone company at Medicine Lodge for
  nearly 41 years. Whe she wasn't working for the telephone company, she was
  busy organizing and promoting civic projects. In 1930 she was the prime mover
  in organizing the local Business and Professional Women's Club, was its first
  President, and later Seventh District Director. She was President of the
  Chamber of Commerce in 1951. She was quite active in organizing the Barber
  County unit of UNESCO and in 1950 traveled to Clervaux in Luxembourg, its
  adopted city. She led the campaign for funds to purchase an X-Ray machine for
  the hospital at Clervaux and had quite a battle after the unit arrived in 
  Europe to abate import duty unexpectedly assessed and for which the hospital
  had no funding. Whe worked for the Government Grant for the levee that protects
  City Park and for park improvements, and gave her personal attention to the
  details of construction. She started the ball rolling for the rest area on
  Highway 160.
     In 1954 mother retired from the telephone company, but not from Barber County.
  She remained active in the Cancer Society, the BPWC, the Red Cross, and the
  Barber County Arts and Crafts Store and School, and Ladies Lounge originally
  sponsered by the BPWC. She remained active in these and other civic affairs
  until only a few weeks before her death on December 26, 1972, exactly one
  month before her 84th birthday.
     I graduated from Medicine Lodge High School in 1928, worked as a stenographer
  for Albert L. Orr, and for a short time in the summer of 1928, for Tincher and
  MacGregor, attended Wichita University one year, and in September 1930 bought
  the Credit Bureau from the estate of Roger Thom, its organizer. I continued
  in the Credit Bureau to September 1936 when I entered the Federal civil service
  and removed from Barber County.
     Only Peggy Singer of all the family now remains in Barber County, but the
  County and many more memories that I can record here are very special to me.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 264 
     Submitted by: Harold Edmund Knox