One of the pioneer and well known families of Barber County was the
     Rankin family. Their farming operations were in the extreme part of
     northeast Barber County, some nineteen miles from Medicine Lodge, along
     the Ridge Road, Twp. 31 South, Range 10 west.
       My grandfather was Henry Rankin and my grandmother Mary Ann Archibald
     Rankin. Henry Rankin was born October 23, 1826, in Antrim County, Ireland.
     He married Mary Anne Archibald December 25, 1852; died March 23, 1910; 
     and was buried in Highland Cemetery, Medicine Lodge. He acquired his farm
     land from 1898 to 1902. Mary Anne Archibald was born June 18, 1839 in
     Scotland; died November 26, 1906 in Harper, Kansas; and was buried in
     Highland Cemetery, Medicine Lodge.
       They had eleven children, Jeanette Kernohan, James, Hugh, Grace,
     Margaret Harrison, Mary Anne, Henry, John, Archibald, George, and Emma.
     All are deceased.
       They came to the United State in 1869, living in Pennsylvania where
     Henry worked in the coal mines. Later they moved to Fountain County,
     Indiana, and in 1883 moved to Sharon, Kansas. They resided in Harper,
     Kansas, later and died at the George Rankin farm on the Ridge Road some
     seven miles southeast of Nashville, Kansas.
       My father, George Washington Rankin, son of Henry, was born September
     16, 1878, Cold Creek, Indiana; died November 29, 1936; and is buried in
     Highland Cemetery, Medicine Lodge. He was a farmer and stockman, his 
     land being in Sections 1,2,3,5,11,12, Township 31 south, Range 10 west
     along the Ridge Road. At one time he was elected State Representative for
     Barber County.
       He married Harriet Mae Osborn and to this union seven children were born:
     1. Hazel (Mrs. Raymond Donovan), Medicine Lodge; 2. Gladys (Mrs. A.L.
     Griesinger), Anthony, Kansas; 3. Eugene Osborn, who married Ruby L. Mitchell
     of Kiowa, Kansas; he passed awayy 18, 1962; buried at Kiowa; 4. Mary Evelyn
     (Mrs. Kenneth R. Grigsby), Sun City, Arizona; 5. Merle Emmerson, Vancouver,
     Washington; his wife is Leola J. Toombs from Medicine Lodge; 6. Laile
     George, Amarillo, Texas; his wife is Joleta Beck of Amarillo; 7. Jack
     Maurice, Broomfield, Colorado; his wife is Carol Price from Anthony, Kansas.
       My mother, Harriett Mae Osborn (Hattie Mae), was born March 25, 1883, on
     a farm near Cheney, Kansas. Her father was John M. Osborn and her mother
     was Evaline Nichols. Mother died January 30, 1970, buried in Highland Cemetery,
     Medicine Lodge. At the time of Mother's death she had twelve grandchildren
     and nineteen great-grandchildren.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 375
     Submitted by: Gladys Rankin Griesinger