Laura Mae, daughter of Charles and Elsie N. Peck Pemberton, was born 
     March 19, 1894, in Beaver County, Oklahoma, on Crooked Creek on a claim
     staked by her father.
       Clayborn Delbert, son of Silas and Gladys Elsie Sweet Mathews, was born
     September 4, 1887, in Lincoln County, Kansas. He travelled with his parents
     and four brothers in a covered wagon to Cici, Oklahoma, where they made
     their home for one year. They returned to Lincoln County and lived for
     three years before returning to Vici to the same claim they had held.
       C.D. staked a claim two miles east of Pemberton claim in Township 6 in
     the northwest corner of Beaver County. He built a dugout and lived there
     two years. Their oldest son, Olen Marion, was born July 10, 1914. The
     family then moved to Dewey County, Oklahoma, where Gladys Elsie was born
     September 11, 1916. They lived there for three years before returning to 
     the homestead.
       In 1916 they bought a house in Englewood, Kansas, and moved it eight
     miles southwest of Englewood and lived there until 1920. Arlie Linn was
     born April 8, 1919.
       In the spring of 1920, they traded the claim to J.C. Lowery for a quarter
     section of land northeast of Knowles. They moved the house. It was taken
     down over the hill and across the Cimaroon with 24 head of horses and mules
     hitched to it. They had a man witch for water and set the house down near
     that spot. They lived there 14 1/2 years and always had plenty of good water.
       Other children born to his couple included: Leslie Elbert, June 9, 1920;
     Harvey Leon, July 25, 1921; Archie Robert, March 8, 1924; Clayborn Edwin,
     November 2, 1925; Etna Mae, February 25, 1930; Ina Vinita, September 9, 1932.
       Leslie and his dad drove two teams with wagons loaded with machinery and
     came to a farm seven miles east of Sharon in July of 1934. In September,
     they returned to Knowles and moved the family to Kansas. On March 1, they 
     moved to a farm on the Barber-Harper County line near Sharon.
       Olen remained at Englewood where he worked on a ranch. Harvey stayed in
     Capron where he lived and worked with Roy Pierce. He came to Sharon in 
     September, 1935. Vera Iona was born December 6, 1935, on the farm near
     Sharon. Olen came to Sharon in 1936.
       The family lived there until 1944, when they moved to Wichita where C.D.
     worked for Boeing until he retired. They continued to make their home in
     Wichita. They celebrated their 62nd. anniversary before Laura passed away
     February 14, 1975.
       Claybonr enjoys good health and is quite active for a 91 year old gent,
     drives his car, enjoys visiting his family in nine states and on foreign
     country, and helps his neighbors and family whenever he can.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 319 
     Submitted by: Leslie and Harvey Mathews