Jesse T. Peterie was 20 when the Peteries arrived in Valley Township in
     1902. He married Blanche Ethel Bailey, March 17, 1906. She was a native of
     Barber County, having been reared by the Lester White family after her
     mother, Nettie White Bailey, was killed by lightnening on July 8, 1889.
       At first, Jesse, and his brother, Buck, farmed together in Pratt County,
     living near their brother, Dayton. Other neighbors were, Wheatleys, 
     Ashcrafts, Wholfords, Muellers, and Blairs.
       In August 1912, Jesse and Blanche and small daughters, Fanelle and Edith,
     moved back to the Isabel community. They lived south of town on the Cole
     place. Claudine was born while they were living there, and school days for
     the other two began. Roy Parkey told of driving a horsedrawn sleigh to
     school, with the Peterie girls and the Kilmer children. The Gene Houghtaling
     familiy were also neighbors who lived on the corner to the south, and the
     Valentines to the north.
       They had a sale in 1916 and moved to Isabel, where Jesse ran the dray and
     oil company. In 1918 they bought the homestead of Layton White, adjoining
     Isabel on the southeast, and returned to farming. During the year spent there
     in the little New England salt box style house, the most important event was
     the birth of a son, William Gerald. Back at farming, their first wheat crop 
     was ruined by heavy rains that came and continued through harvest time. They
     delivered milk to homes in Isabel by buggy, driving the horse "Dolly." This
     was the winter of war and 'Flu.'
       Jesse, Blanche, and the four children moved to the W.G. Peterie farm, west
     of the cemetery. It had just been vacated by the Bert White family and had
     been homesteaded in pioneer days by Joe and Ellie Morris. This was the home
     of the Jesse Peteries until 1960, when they retired and moved to Medicine
     Lodge.
       Blanche was busy with all the myriad details of caring for four children.
     She was no stranger to hard work. While living in the White home, her Aunt
     Susan died when Blanche was eight years old, and she continued to care for
     her Uncle Lester and the four boys. She was a member of Rebekah Lodge and
     a lifetime member of the Methodist Church. It was her Grandfather White who
     died of a heart attack while conducting Sunday School at the old Bethel
     School and Church on the Chan Kilmer place.
       The White homestead was the present Loren Rolf farm, and Blanche remembered
     seeing the continuous southward trek of covered wagons pass by (or stop to
     camp), going to the opening of the Oklahoma Stri. Carry Nation was often a
     visitor to their home.
       During the growing up years of the children, Jesse served on the Isabel
     School Board through consolidation and the building of two new school
     buildings. He later served on the cemetery board for many years. He was a
     member of the Methodist Church and a devoted Odd Fellow. He was a loyal
     Kansan, loving the fields and open space. Kansas was always HOME. Their
     children are Fannelle - Mrs. Charles Lamkins; Edith - Mrs. Merle Hoyt;
     Claudine - Mrs. Norman Raleigh; and son, Gerald. 
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 362 
     Submitted by: Edith Peterie Hoyt, Claudine Peterie Raleigh