Nute Martin, son of Henderson and Jane (Garten) Martin came to Barber
     County, Kansas by wagon train from Monroe County, West Virginia. In the
     wagon train were Nute's parents, three uncles, Jim, Charles, and John
     Garten, and one aunt, Sarah (Garten) Wiley. They arrived in the year
     of 1873.
       Nute had three brothers, Plunket, James, and John. He also had three
     sisters, Lottie (Hastings), Georgia (Pharo), and Ella (Morris).
       In the year of 1874, they settled on a homestead three miles east of
     Lake City. The family lived their first winter in a stockade along with
     several other pioneer families.
       On April 10, 1886, Jane died, leaving a young family. A very short
     time later John Martin died.
       In the fall of 1887 there was a great prairie fire in that part of
     the county. Nute, his father, and brother, Jim, plowed a fire guard
     and saved the house, but everything else was destroyed.
       April 6, 1892, Nute married Elizabeth (Root), who was also from a
     pioneer family. Jacob H. and Susanna (Large) Root brought their children
     to Barber County in 1885.
       The family was living west of Medicine Lodge at the time of the big
     flood of 1885. The flood drove them from their home at night. Seven feet
     of water stood in their home, soaking their entire belongings. The Root
     family soon moved to a claim on higher ground. The Root family, (with the
     exception of Elizabeth who had married the previous year) moved to Ames,
     Oklahoma in the fall of 1893.
       Nute, his father, and brothers, made the run in the opening of the
     Cherokee Strip on the morning of September 16, 1893. They went in a
     covered wagon and on horseback. Nute and Elizabeth, with their young
     son, Earl, settled on a claim near Galena, Oklahoma, Galena is about
     nineteen miles south of Alva, Oklahoma. Oscar and Pete were the sons born
     to them in Oklahoma Territory.
       In the year 1899, Nute an dElizabeth sold their claim and bought their
     Aunt Nancy Garten's farm located at Forest City. Forest City is between
     Medicine Lodge and Lake City. They had three more sons, Michell, James A.
     (Jim), and Wayne and one daughter, Ruby (Mrs. Lee) Rucker.
       Nute and Elizabeth had twelve grandchildren: Marjorie (Wathey), Maurine
     (Hunt), Maxine (Small), Mary (Massey), Betty (Keller), Barbara (Patee), 
     J.D., John, Jay Martin, Gary, Don, and David Rucker.   
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 317 
     Submitted by: Ruby (Martin) Rucker