Carl Riepe and Edna Ruth Saunders were married at Sun City, March 2, 1910,
     on Ruth's eighteenth birthday. They had a public wedding and officiating
     was Ruth's grandfather, the Rev. J.M. Adams. Ruth was born March 2, 1892,
     of parents Frank and Mary Saunders, early Barber County residents. Carl
     was born March 18, 1885, at Altamont, Kansas. His father was a Civil War
     Veteran, a member of the Iowa Volunteer Calvalry.
       By chance, only, did Carl come to Sun City to teach at Rock school north
     of Sun City. Having worked the 1905 summer with a Sumner County family, he
     returned to the same farm the following summer, but this time bringing his
     younger sister, Lotus, to work in the home. When the summer work was over
     Lotus got married under a tree on the farm; but first she wrote several
     letters to western counties, trying to get Carl a teaching job. He had
     graduated from high school with a teacher's certificate, but he had no
     intention of using it. Through his sister's efforts he got several schools,
     the closest one, the Rock school. Later, Carl's sisters, Elsie and Pearl, 
     and his daughter, Pauline, each taught their first year at Rock school. 
     Sturdy Rock school still stands, now a part of the Hoss ranch.
       Moving seemed to be much of Carl and Ruth's early married life, as Pauline
     was born at Altamont, Kansas; Wayne in Sun City; Maxine near Old Freedom,
     Oklahoma; and both Don and Maudine on the Earl Bowman place west of Sun
     City.
       Carl and Ruth livedon several rented farms, mostly in the Sun City area,
     until they purchased their first quarter of land to keep in 1927, where
     they built a home in the spring of 1928.
       Neighbors were families of Andy Hargis, Jim Gaddis, Marian McLain, George
     Bodenhamer, Homer Hoagland, and their closest neighbors, George Hastings
     and Bert Carr.
       The quarter section purchased was the same one Ruth's grandfather, Rev.
     Adams had chosen in the fall of 1872 and homesteaded in the spring of 1873.
     Although the quarter section had been out of the family for twenty years,
     with the exception of one acre it is presently owned by family members.
       All of Carl and Ruth's sons and sons-in-law were farmers most of their
     lives. Wayne married Wauneeta McKanzie; Pauline, Fred Meisner; Maxine (now
     deceased)(, Milton Coffman; and Maudine, Ralph Hoagland. Ralph is from
     Sun City and the others are from northern Barber County, near Coats, Kansas.
     Maxine passed away in August, 1955.
       Carl lived to age 77 and died June 3, 1961. Ruth died April 2, 1974, at
     the age of 82 years and one month. Both are buried in the Sun City cemetery,
     only about a quarter of a mile from the land they purchased in 1927.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 385 
     Submitted by: Don Riepe