My grandfather homesteaded east of Pixley and that is where my father and I were
  born. My grandmother died when father was born, so I never knew her. Grandfather
  raised daddy and did much of the raising of me, living with mother and father for 
  the remaining part of his life.
     When I was little, Grandfather lived for his grandchildren and would take me with
  him when he went anywhere. I would ride the train often from Pixley to Medicine Lodge,
  Sharon, and a few times to Wichita with grandfather. What fun it was for me. I might
  mention I was the largest baby Dr. Hardin Gilbert ever delivered, but never grew to
  be very big.
     I started to school in Medicine Lodge, graduating in 1941. I worked on the farm
  after graduating, until I went to World War II. After the war, I started in the 
  mail service; up to now I have 33 years to my credit.
     I am hoping to live until our present courthouse is condemned, as I have in the
  cornerstone an item that will be of interest to the U.S. Postal Department. Will
  Austin gathered items for the cornerstone. I hope my boy and girl will be around, as
  it will be a small memento for them to remember me by. I am sorry I have no dates as
  of now, but I had an old time atlas with them in it, which I don't have now.
     Much of what Myrtle Rodgers Chapin wrote, I have heard from my mother, Flossie
  Maud Reed - perhaps the two ladies went to the same school at one time.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 370 
     Submitted by: Ralph Porter