My grandfather, Wm. Fredrick Rose, was born 14 February, 1842, in
     Brounschweig-Holstein, Germany. He was the Duke of Brunswick and a man of
     means. Young men were required to serve in the armed forces. He believed
     this to be wrong and determined to leave his wealth and homeland. He
     arranged with a boat captain to be placed in a barrel and loaded onto the
     ship. When the vessel was out to sea, he was released and allowed to work
     for his passage. When he reached America, he had only fifty cents in his
     pocket. He later applied for and received his citizenship papers.
       My grandmother, Elizabeth (Elsabe) Gosch, was born 1 October, 1851, in
     Schlisswing-Holstein, a citizen of Denmark. She was educated in Denmark
     and Germany. On 6 August, 1871, she and Jacob Ohm were married and came
     to America, homesteading at Peace, a frontier settlement that later became
     Sterling, Kansas.
       Mr. Ohm died in a typhoid fever epidemic three months after the couple
     settled in this country. His widow went to Illinois and made her home with
     an aunt and uncle in Kankakee, Illinois. On 18 March, 1874 she and W.F.
     Rose were married at Nakomis, Illinois. The couple returned to his farm at
     Sterling, Kansas.
       This was their home until 1906. At that time Mr. Rose purchased the
     Sunflower Ranch - complete with house furnishings and livestock (about 6
     sections). The Sunflower Ranch joined the grist mill at Elm Mills (now
     owned by the Elm Mills Power and Irrigation Co.). The original pipe used
     to turn the grist mill is now used to supply water to the resort swimming
     pool.
       The Sunflower Ranch house was a typical two story house with an outside
     door for every room. In 1936 a new ranch home was built.
       W.F. Rose died 23 June, 1914. Mrs. Rose lived with her son, Leo, until
     her death 15 February, 1939. The Roses' eight children were Minnie, Wm. 
     Fredrick II, Emma Elizabeth, Edward Charles, Herman Walter, Leonard Grant,
     Herbert Grover, and Bertha Mae. Leonard Grand (Leo), my Dad, was born 5
     November, 1886, at Sterling. After finishing high school, he attended
     business college at Quincy, Illinois. He was employed at Ellinwood bank
     for several years before coming to help his ill father operate Sunflower
     Ranch.
       Leonard Grant Rose married Bertha Lena Combs at the home of her parents,
     Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Combs, at 1:30 in the afternoon 3 December 1913 by the
     Rev. T.S. Carlin.
       Leo and Bertha lived on the ranch until their first daughter, Lyndell,
     was six years old. They lived in Sterling two years, then in Hutchinson
     where Lyndell completed high school.
       In 1933 they returned to the ranch. The second daughter, Eleanor Eileen,
     married Bernard L. Cook 25 December, 1946. Eleanor and Bernard have two
     children, Judyth Ann (Mrs. John Olson) and David Len.
       After college, Lyndell taught Elm Mills rural school two terms. She
     married Virgil F. Young Jr., 14 June 1941, in the Christian Church at Ft.
     Scott, Kansas. Mr. Young worked for Santa Fe Railroad, until his induction
     into the army, April, 1941. He served in the U.S., then overseas 3 1/2
     years. While he was overseas, Lyndell went into Civil Service and worked
     at Pratt Army Air Base in the photo Lab until his return.
       They came to Sunflower Ranch where Virgil helped Leo on the ranch; Lyndell
     taught school. On 16 May 1955 Leo died suddenly. Mrs. Rose was in poor health,
     so the Youngs cared for her until her death 17 July 1967. Lyndell operated 
     the ranch for her mother and for ten years following her death.
       Virgil worked for R&R Tank Company twenty years. They have two children;
     Stanton Leonard, born 17 September 1955, and Nola Beth, born 20 August 1970.
     Nola attends Medicine Lodge school. Stanton married Debra O'Toole. They
     have a daughter, Samantha.
    
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 392 
     Submitted by: Lyndell Rose Young