The Morris children, Dale, Mary and Glen, grew up on a farm southwest of
     Medicine Lodge. The land where the house stood was homesteaded by our
     Grandpa, Dal Morris, and was given to our father, Wiliam Morris, and our
     mother Florence Elizabeth Saunders Morris at the time of their marriage in
     1905. In later years our father bought land along the Medicine River. We
     spent hours fishing, picnicing, and playing on the river and in the
     timberland.
       Our father worked for the county, building bridges. It was from his
     bridge building equipment that my accident occurred, when I was four years
     old.
       My brother drove two large spike nails in a board, it fell bottom side
     up on the porch. I was playing on the porch and fell on the spike nail. My
     mother pulled me off and called Dr. Gilbert, who drove a buggy out from
     town to our farm to see me. It was several months before I could walk again.
     I still have the spike nail scars at the middle of my left leg, one where
     it went in and one where it came through.
       We all three learned to swim in the Medicine River, ride horses and have
     fun in the community. We all three attended the Pleasant Hill School, and
     graduated from Medicine Lodge High School.
       After graduation, I taught school in Barber County. I married Marvin
     Strait in 1933. We moved to Marvin's home place in Pratt County when our
     daughter, Glenda, was nine years old, and lived there for nearly thirty
     years. Glenda graduated from Coats High School and married Harvey DeWald
     from Russel, Kansas. We now have three grandchildren, Debbie, Jim and
     Phillip, who live in Arizona.
       Three years ago we wished to retire and moved back to Medicine Lodge. We
     are living on North Main Street in the house owned by my mother, who had
     moved to town soon after father's death in 1953. Mother died in 1959.
       Glen taught Vocational Agriculture and woodworking in a Rural High School
     near Topeka, Kansas. Dale was with a copper mining company in Ioa, Peru,
     South America for 15 years. Both brothers are retired. Glen lives in Tecumseh, 
     Kansas and Dale in Pima, Arizona.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 337