William G. and Mary Elizabeth (Davis) Peterie moved west from Loredo,
     Missouri, seeking a better life for themselves and their family. W.G.
     was Civil War veteran, along with his brothers and uncles. He had spent
     time in a southern prison camp after the battle of Shiloh. Their Missouri
     neighbors (the W.H. McGuire family) had followed the White family to Valley
     Township, so they chose to settle there also. Their new home was the Chan
     Kilmer place south of Isabel, which was by now a town.
       W.G. and Mary Elizabeth were accompanied by their children, who were
     young adults. Following a Missouri custom, one of their first chores ws
     planting a large orchard on the long slope leading to the road.
       Ben H., the youngest son, was still attending school. After business
     training in Wichita, he became a banker at Adams, Kansas. He married Goldie
     Murray, but died at an early age leaving no children.
       Emma had married Albert Robertson, so stayed in Loredo. Her two children,
     Frances and Velma, were reared by relatives after her death.
       J. Dayton (the eldest) had married Fidelia Barr (sister of Mrs. W.H.
     McGuire) so they too made the journey to Barber County. Their first home
     was the Bently farm across from the Eldred School on the county road. They
     moved to continue farming in Pratt County. After Fidelia's death, J.D.
     returned to the Elm Mills community in Barber County for some ranching
     with his son, Borbley (a World War I veteran), and his wife Maude (Brown),
     a school teacher of the Sawyer community.
       Matilda Maybelle accompanied her family to Isabel, but she was a business
     worman. She often visited 'home' on vacation from work or school. She married
     Robert E. Wright. They published the Isabel News around 1940 and at one
     time sold real estate and ranched in Western Kansas. I remember her stories
     of herding turkeys over the pasture land.
       W.G. and Mary Elizabeth retired in Isabel about 1910. The big red barn
     that housed their driving horse, her offspring, and their milk cow is gone.
     Gone is the bludgrass so carefully tended by Mary Elizabeth. The four acres
     were owned by Rose andBuck Peterie and now by Merle and Edith (Peterie)
     Hoyt.
       After attending nephew Richard Raleigh's ceremony when he received his
     law degree at Topeka, Fanelle and Edigth, Charles and Merle went on to
     Loredo - home of the Peteries. At the cemetery and in the town we met other
     Peteries and visited the graves of aunts and cousins, fellow soldiers of
     W.G.'s Civil War days - Granny and Grandpa Davis. There on that hillside
     in Missouri the bludbirds flitted from tree to tree among the monuments.
       W.G. took pride in Memorial Day Services. American Legion Members -
     'His boys" - came for him, so that he could be with them to participate
     in that day which held great significance for him.   
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 363 
     Submitted by: Edith (Peterie) Hoyt