Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Wesley Schnelle arrived at Sharon, Kansas, in early
     1900, coming from north Missouri, near Unionville. They had five sons and
     one daughter. My father, Robert, was 16 years old. He came on a cattle
     train with his brother, Harve, and sister Ida's husband, Carl Shriver.
     They brought 3 car loads of horses, cattle and supplies. His parents,
     Fred, Francis, Chester, and Ida came ont he Emigrant Train.
       Grandpa had come earlier, purchased 2000 acres of land north and west of
     Sharon. A homne was built west of Sharon in 1900, and there in late December
     their sixth son, John Royal, was born.
       The Schnelles came to Kansas because of the good land around the beatiful
     Sharon Valley. Also, they had heard of the Christian Colony established at
     Sharon. They became Christian Church members in Unionville, and drove nine
     miles each morning and evening to revival meetings in the "old spring wagon."
       My father later built his home across the road from his parents and married
     Wava Davis, daughter of Ellis and Effie Davis. Their children were Dorene
     (Phye), Florence (Cox), Dayle, Floyd (deceased), and twins Philip and Fred.
     The twins ere a few days old when our mother and Fred died. Our father
     managed to do his farm work, and with the help of Grandmother Schnelle, Uncle
     Francis's wife Bonnie, and the Good Lord, he reared his "motherles crew."
     Five years later he married Emma Allenson of Texas, who helped take over
     the big job.
       Robert and Francis purchased a grocery store in Sharon, which they managed
     for several years. Finally Francis moved to Belle Plaine while Robert
     returned to the farm.
       We attended school, each graduating from Sharon High School, participating
     in music, athletics, etc. (Floyd was a member of the team that won the State
     Basketball Championship for Class C Schools.).
       Each of us went to Phillips University at Enid, Oklahoma. Dorene and I
     each taught school, financially enabling all of us to attend college.
       Dayle became a Christian Church minister and is now in Alvin, Texas,
     having served the church for 43 years.
       Floyd played basketball every year he was in Phillips. After graduation
     he was employed to teach and coach at Coats, Kansas. In November he became
     ill, was sent to Wichita hospitals, where he died February 2, 1943.
       Philip, who was reared by Uncle Harve, has been a research engineer for
     DuPont for many years. He now lives in Pennsylvania. He attended Manhattan
     State College and worked at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the time of the first
     atomic bomb, which was his first assignment.
       I have spent many years teaching in the public school in Barber County,
     Anthony, and Wichita. In 1974 I married Keith Cox of Watonga, Oklahoma,
     and we are now living in Medicine Lodge.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 404 
     Submitted by: Florence Cox