My father, I.K. Morrow, and my mother Emma Carey Morrow, were born in
     Coffee County, Kansas and were married at Yates Center, Kansas. There
     were five of us children: Frank, Fred, Clifford, Elsie and Orist. I was
     seven years old when in 1909 the family moved to Hardtner, Kansas from
     Woodward, Oklahoma so my father and Frank could work on the railroad
     that was being built from Wichita to Hardtner. Everyone at the railroad
     camp just east of Hardtner and later moved into town lived in tents for
     a while. My father and Frank later worked with their teams doing various
     kinds of work, stacked wheat in harvest, hauled water for a steam engine
     of a threshing machine all summer and fall, and later farmed.
       There was no school until abou the first of January, 1910, when a
     schoolhouse was moved into town and the summer of 1911 a new schoolhouse
     was built. The high school was started in 1914 with three high school
     students and several eighth graders, and one teacher, Miss Emma Whitton 
     of Kiowa.
       Frank served in the navy in World War I, had a homestead in Baca County,
     Colorado, and lived there many years. He married Minnie Hardin of Hardtner
     and had a daughter, Peggy. After Minnie's death he married Maude Rorex of
     Springfield, Colorado, and after her death he spent three and a half years
     in my home before spending some time with his daughter. Peggy and her
     husband, Robert Tolley, have three children: Shirley, Donald, and Judy. 
     They live in Woodbridge, Virginia and Robert is a teacher employed by the
     Fairfax Board of Education. Peggy is a graduate of Western State College,
     Gunnison, Colorado. Robert is a graduate of West Virginia Tech, Montgomery,
     West Virginia, and Western State College, Gunnison; and he served in the
     Army from 1952 to 1954. Shriley attended Victors Beauty, Alexandria, Virgina
     and is employed as a teacher there; and her husband, Charles Moon Jr., is
     in the Marines. Donald is 18 and Judy is 14.
       Fred served in the army in France in World War I, married Bertha Myers of
     Hardtner, and was a farmer and mechanic.
       Clifford married Lousie Sutton, now Mrs. Louise Rebel of Alva, Oklahoma
     and they had three sons; Allan, Charles and David, who is deceased. Allen
     spent twenty years in the Navy and he and his wife, Mary, live in Oxnard,
     California. They have three children: Donald, 13; Brenda, 11; and Felecia,
     seven months old. Charles is a graduate of Alva High School and Northwestern
     Oklahoma State University, Alva, Oklahoma. He served in the Oklahoma National
     Guard and is a farmer northwest of Alva, Oklahoma.
       Elsie is also a graduate of Northwestern, Alva, Oklahoma, and taught
     school for four years in Barber County. She married Cecil Houston and they
     farmed and ranched near Hardtner before they moved into town. Cecil was a 
     son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Houston and spent most of his life in this 
     area.
       Orist served in the Air Force in World War II and was a farmer and 
     mechanic.
       My husband, parents, brothers, nephew, and two sisters-in-law are buried
     in the Hardtner cemetery.
       
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 337 
     Submitted by: Elsie Morrow Houston