Lee Simpson and Violet Marr were married in 1927 and had two children,
     Dawn, in 1928 and Lucky in 1929. We grew up throught the dirty thirties
     and were so near the same size we were frequently mistaken for twins.
     After ten years of this arrangement, Roger, our little brother, came
     along and I gladly gave up my title of "baby of the family," to him.
       My first two years of school at Mingona were memorable. I still
     remember the prize-winning sand box scenes of Kitty Schmidl and if she
     ever got second prize, I never knew it. It was while attending Mingona
     school that Mis Schmidl foiund the man who hanged himself in the school
     barn.
       In 1938 we moved to the adjoining farm and to the Number 10 school
     district. All three of us children rode horses to school. Out of six
     years of riding, there were three years I never missed a day, even in
     rain and snow. About this age I took to trapping furs for spending
     money. Many a day the school was perfumed by skunk odor. One winter I
     had forty-three skunks, from which I bought my first cow.
       All three of us children went to school at the Reutlinger school and
     were the third generation to sit in that building. I attended Enterprise 
     Academy (Enterprise, Kansas)  and was the only one to finish college.
     In fact, I finished three times, with a BS in Agriculture at KSC, a BS 
     in Arts and Science and a Veterinary Degree at KSU in 1960.
       While in a college course 'Introduction to Business,' I met Ruth 
     Williamson of Almena, Kansas, who became my wife in 1952.
       My Army years were 1953 to 1955. The years 1956 and 1958 gave us two
     sons, Ronnie and Gary. Those two boys have grown so tall that I am again
     the 'baby of the family.'
       From 1960 to 1962 we operated a range cattle Veterinary Practice in
     Pierre, South Dakota. In 1962 we moved to Fountain, Colorado, where we
     lived and worked through 1970. We lived the mountains and spent many
     happy days in the high country.
       In 1971, we came to Hanna, Alberta (Canada), and have every thing we
     have had before, range cattle Veterinary Practive, mountains for hunting
     and prairie rearing grounds for geese and ducks.
       In nearly fifty years of out-of-doors activities, I have taken nearly
     every species of game bird, big game animal and furbearing animal in both
     countries.
       While living in six states and two countries, I have found people are
     facinated by the tales of history which have originated in Barber County.
     The Peace Treaty, Carry Nation, Bank robbery, gypsum production, cattle
     raising, bootleg liquor and golden grain fields have all had a part in
     making Medicine Lodge what it is today.
       One can wash that red Barber County soil out of his hair but he cannot
     erase it from his mind. When these Canadian winters get too cold and the
     Rocky Mountains get too steep, I would like to again live in the land of
     red soil, green grass and blue skies.   
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 418 
     Submitted by: Lucky Simpson