I came to Medicine Lodge with my mother (Lulu Hendrickson Newland) and
      two brothers, Harold and Vernon, to live with Grandmother Hendrickson
      when my father, Melvin L. Newland died in Wagoner, Oklahoma in 1912. Four
      years old, I was the youngest. Father was a 'rising young pedagogue in
      the county: when he and Mother were married in 1895 near Lake City, but
      he soon established his own blacksmith and cabinet making shop, work in
      which he excelled, at Sharon. He built a foundry and machine shop in 
      Harper before moving to Oklahoma. He was an ordained Elder of the Reorganized
      Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Now, home again, Mother became
      the operator for the telephone company. She died when I was six.
        After high school, Harold taught school at Aetna, kept the post office and
      store and married Florence Baker. He moved to Medicine Lodge, where he
      sold farm implements. After divorce, he married Dorothy Van Ert. During
      World War II, he was mechanic at the government air base at Independence,
      Kansas, and Anchorage, Alaska. Ill health brought him back to the State.
      He died i Phoenix, Arizona, 1969. He had no children.
        Vernon worked in First National Bank during later high school days and
      graduated from Phillips University with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of
      Arts degrees in College of the Bible. Later he received the Bachelor of
      Divinity degree. He married Mona Watson of Tulsa, Oklahoma. They were
      missionaries in Western China, Tibetan Border, and Cebu, Philippine Islands.
      They were prisoners of the Japanese for 2 1/2 years. After release, to 
      combat liberalism in churches Vernon devoted the remainder of his life to
      establishing Bible Colleges to train true-to-the-Bible ministers. He was
      killed in a plane crash in 1974. His wife and five children survive: Melvin,
      Marcia (Haverly), Neal, Paul, Marilyn (Grogan).
        After finishing high school, I became its first secretary; later I taught
      briefly the Eldred School near Isabel. At Phillips University I married 
      Neal M. Lovell, Christian minister. I received the A.B. degree from the
      College of the Bible. We hled pastorates in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri,
      retiring in Enid, Oklahoma, after 47 years of ministry. Our daughter, Willo
      Lou (McHarg) teaches in California.
        Grandfather Dorphyn Newland, farmer, born in Virginia to Javez and Mariah
      Newland married Dianora Williamson of Kansas. With gold he mined in Utah,
      Grandfather bought a farm in Missouri. They came to the Sharon community
      about 1891 with their five children. May married James Lumpkin, a school
      teacher from Sharon; Clara, married Alex Harris (Elmer Harris, Sharon, was
      a son); Melvin; Annie; and Leva. Annie and Grandfather made the  "Run"
      into the Cherokee Outlet, staking a claim southwest of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
      The family moved to the homestead, 1893, but Melvin continued teaching and
      blacksmithing in Lake City until his marriage to Mother.
        I know few people now when I return but the precious memories of home,
      church, schoo, friends, and relatives (the Mills families) remain an
      integral part of me.  
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 345 
     Submitted by: Nellie Newland Lovell