I was born June 26, 1914 on a farm twelve miles northeast of Medicine
     Lodge. In December 1918 my parents, Luman Guy and Daisy Mae Singer, died
     of the flu, leaving four children: Oliver, Bertha, Kenneth and Winona.
     Winona died of quinsy the following spring.
       We children went to live with our maternal grandparents, James A. and
     Lucy E. Louthan. We moved to Kingman, Kansas, where we lived six years
     and then moved to Medicine Lodge, where I lived until 1934.
       My early memories are of the literaries and ciphering and spelling
     matches at Mumford and Unity Schools, taking drinking water to the harvest
     crews on a burro when I was four, later putting the hay and grain out for
     24 to 30 head of work horses, cultivating corn with two horses on a single
     row cultivator, going to the farm from Kingman in the winter with lots of
     hot brick and comforts for warmth in an open car.
       My grandfather, John Singer, was the coroner when they hung the bank
     robbers in 1884. He was a bootmaker in Medicine Lodge in the late 1800's.
     I remember him telling of going down on the river bottom and cutting
     dogwood, out of which he split the pegs to fasten the shanks and heels.
     All the rest of the boot was hand sewn, using an awl and waxed linen thread.
       When my grandmother, the former Bertha Story, died, he stayed home and 
     cooked and kept house for their nine children. He was a damned good cook
     and housekeeper.
       In September 1933, I married my high school sweetheart, Carmen Louise,
     (Peggy) Hamilton. Peggy lived in Medicine Lodge with her grandmother,
     Margaret Hamilton, and two aunts, Winnie Knox and Gail Stockstill. Her
     grandmother was night operator for the telephone company for 14 years.
     Winnie Knox was chief operator for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
     for 44 years. Peggy had 28 years of service with Southwestern Bell when
     she retired. Peggy's great grandfather and his brother, John and Edmund
     Mosley, were Indian scouts and traders in the 1800's. They plowed a furrow
     with an ox team from Medicine Lodge to Hutchinson to mark the freight trail.
     Until a few years ago, the ruts of the trail were still visible where the
     trail crossed a corner of our farm.
       Peggy and I moved to the farm on the Ridge in the spring of 1934, where
     we farmed until we retired and moved to Medicine Lodge in May, 1974.
       We have two children and one grandchild. Our daughter Shannon Gail is an
     associate professor at the University of texas, teaching nursing sciences.
       Our son, Robert Luman, is a machinist for Consolidated Rebuilders in
     Hutchinson, Kansas. Rober and his wife, the former Glenda Kimball, have a
     daughter, Jennifer Ilene, who is the pride and joy of Peggy and me.   
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 419 
     Submitted by: Kenneth Singer