Grover Roessler and his wife, the former Alvina Wehling, were residents
     of Valley Township.
       My father was born on the Andrew Roessler farm, which was homesteaded
     by Andrew Roessler. I have the patent which was granted to my Grandfather
     by President Benjamin Harrison. According to the history of the family,
     I found out that my father was the first white child born in Valley
     Township in 1885.
       The social life of this community ws centered around the country school
     of Franklin, which was a mile north of the Roessler farm. The young folks
     had many socials and spelling bees.
       My father was a firm believer in going to church on Sunday; he served as
     Sunday School Superintendent of the Nashville, Kansas, Presbyterian Church
     for fifteen years.
       My father was also interested in sports as he played baseball when a 
     young man, then when he could no longer play, he managed the baseball
     teams in the community.
       My parents celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1967.
       The farm was his life. He planted his last wheat crop at the age of
     ninety.
       My father had a sister who attended high school at Medicine Lodge and
     drove a horse and buggy to school each week.
       I was also born in Valley Township, in the same house as my father.
     Years later my daughter was born in the same house as her Grandfather and
     mother.
       I attended the Isabel school and was very fortunate that they had school
     busses. Across the road, I had cousins who went to the Cream Valley School
     and they had to walk, the bus passing them, walking to school.
       My husband, Loren, who was also from a pioneer family that lived in Pratt
     County, moved to Valley Township at the age of ten and attended school in
     Isabel, as did our daughter Juanita Mae (Rolf) Binford.
       My life also has been farm life, as that is where I have always lived,
     helped in the field when needed, tended the livestock. During the blizzard
     of 1971, I spent three days in a trailer, three miles from home, without
     food, only water to drink, trying to save the baby calves.
       I served as president of the Barber County CowBelles for one year. I
     feel fortunate to have lived in Valley Township and shared the joys and
     sorrow with the oldtimers of this community. No plans for retirment to 
     city life.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 388 
     Submitted by: Wilma (Roessler) Rolf.