My father, Jefferson Long, came to Kiowa, Kansas in 1886. He managed
     the Cockins-Long partnership in a cattle adventure, headquarters near
     Aetna. On arriving he was classed as a "tender-foot cowboy" and learned
     the ways of the West the hard way. Of the Comanche Cattle Pool he said,
     "I knew some of the Pool riders. I never worked for them but I was on
     the outfits general roundup. Cowboys came from as far as the Colorado
     line. It looked like an army camped on the prairie."
        My mother, Addie Collins, came from Missouri with her mother and
     stepfather, Jane and James White. They settled near Sharon in 1880. At
     age seventeen she became a Barber County teacher. Often she was younger
     than her pupils. Pay was $35.00 a month.
        Addie Collins and Jefferson Long were married in 1889. For a time
     they lived at Aetna. The Cockins-Long partnership disolved. In 1902
     the Longs bought a ranch north of Liberal, Kansas. They returned to
     Barber County in 1910 when they purchased the C.B. Currie farm. A large
     part of this land is now Regnier Addition to the City of Medicine Lodge.
     This land was sold. They bought a home in Medicine Lodge and a farm
     near Gerlane. My mother passed away in 1916.
        The Longs had five children - Cockins, Wes, Ruth, Jeff Jr. and Addie.
     Wes and Ruth spent the rest of their lives in or near Medicine Lodge. Wes
     bought his father's farm near Gerlane, added to his holdings and was a
     successful farmer and cattleman. In later years he was a cattle commissioner.
     Ruth married H.E. Nixon. She owned and managed the Nixon Dress Shop for
     many years. They had two children - Jane and Harrison.
        In 1922 my father formed a partnership with R.A. Bauman in the Long-
     Bauman Produce Company in Medicine Lodge. He retired in 1944 but was active
     in his various farm interests until his death at age 98. In 1930, Jeff Long
     married Anna Dye, a long time resident of Medicine Lodge.
        I am a Medicine Lodge High School graduate. I attended Emporia Normal
     School and taught in Medicine Lodge Grade School. After I married Dillman
     Shaw, we lived on the Shaw Ranch in Comanche County. Farm life was different
     in the 1920's. Farm work was mostly done with horses and mules. Harvest was
     a long process, with crews of men. Cattle were driven to Sun City and shipped
     by rail to Kansas City market. Next came trucks, tractors and combines which
     were hard to pay for in depression times. In 1938, Dillman's parents, A.D.
     and Jessie Shaw, were in failing health and we moved to the family home at
     200 S. Walnut to care for them.
        We have two daughters, Geraldine and Josephine. Gerry married A.C. 
     Johnson, Pensacola, Florida. Jo married Robert Gilmore, Medicine Lodge. 
     We have four grandchildren. Dillman died in 1963. I continue to live in
     the Shaw home.
        It's good to have lived many years in a community, to have coped with
     changing times and to have counted treasured friends in four generations.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 280 
     Submitted by: Addie Long