John Robert Powell was a young school teacher in Dallas County, Missouri,
     when he met pretty Della Lamona Engle, one of his students. John R. was
     born in Dallas county on September 21, 1869, the son of Edmund Wilsons and
     Frances Welch Powell. Della, the daughter of William Joseph and Mary
     Elizabeth Alfrey Engle, was born in Dallas county on October 25, 1876.
     They were married on August 15, 1892, and became the parents of seven
     children - Eunice (George), Mamie (Welch), Efton, Leone (Horney), Earl,
     Chester, and Glenn.
       On October 10, 1916, the Powells arrived in Medicine Lodge, where John
     R. became the bookkeeper for Skinner & Fair, the new Ford dealers in town.
     He later served as Assistant Postmaster.
       In 1924, after the death of his wife on June 2, John R. moved to Wichita
     to work. At the time of his death on NOvember 23, 1935, he was living on
     a dairy farm near Dodge City.
       Eunice became Mrs. Tom George and moved to California, where she still
     resides in Huntingdon Beach. She had four children - Howard, Virginia,
     Marjorie, and Kenneth.
       Mamie became Mrs. Lawrence Welch and lived in Ozark, Missouri, at the 
     time of her death from tuberculosis in October, 1928. She had four children -
     Shamus, Jack, Calvin, and Jerry Bob.
       Efton worked in a bank in Kansas until illness forced him to return to
     Medicine Lodge. He died of tuberculosis on April 14, 1918, at the age of
     20.
       Leone was graduated from BCHS in 1919 and in 1924 she became Mrs. George
     Horney. She remained in Medicine Lodge, where she has been active in the
     community. She taught in the county and city schools for 20 years. She has
     one daughter, Beverly Horney McCollom, who also lives in Medicine Lodge,
     as do Leone's gransons, Robert George and William Girard McCollom.
       Earl, known to everyone as Zeek, was graduated from BCHS in 1923. He
     spent his working life in the hotel and food management business. He began
     working at Harry Luallen's T-Bone Cafe in Medicine Lodge when he was 14
     and in 1936 opened "Zeek's Cafe" on South Main Street. Zeek married Mary
     Coleman of Sharon, and they had one daughter, Roxie Ann. Roxie married
     Frank Smith of Amarillo, Texas, and had two daughters, Kelly Kay and Tracy
     Ann. Roxie died on March 22, 1967. Zeek died in Amarillo on March 10, 1979.
       Chester was graduated from BCHS in 1925 and worked at Vail Jewelry in 
     Wichita before becoming active in Republican politics in Kansas. He and 
     his brother, Zeek, worked in the Landon campaign in 1936, and later Chet 
     spent several years working in the State Treasurer's office in Topeka. He
     served in the Army in WWII. AFter the war, he became a clothing salesman
     with a sales territory in Kansas and Missouri. Chet died in Springfield,
     Missouri, on November 20, 1978.
       Glenn was graduated from BCHS in 1927 and lived in California for several
     years before moving to Richmond, Indiana, where he had a tire business for
     many years. He has a daughter, Andrea Lynn, and a son, Chris. He has retired
     in Seminole, Florida, and has come to make his home in Medicine Lodge.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 370 
     Submitted by: Leone Powell Horney