In October 1878, as newly weds, Ed and Carrie Smith came to Barber County,
  making a home of a dugout two miles east of present Kiowa, near the Medicine
  River. They were the parents of Bertha, my mother.
     Grandpa was born in Vermont, coming to Kansas as a stage coach driver for
  Wells Fargo. He met Grandma Carrie Solander at Junction City, working in a
  Harvey House Restaurant. Born in Illinois, she migrated to Kansas after the
  Civil War. Being the seventh of thirteen children of William and Lucy Secrest
  Solander, Amish people, Grandma told of walking all the way to Kansas as a 
  twelve year old, because the wagon was full of younger children and there
  were not enough horses for her, and of begging their parents many times along
  the way to stop and live before reaching Kansas.
     Their first children, two daughters, Adelaide and Anna, were born in the
  dugout, then a house was built over another dugout three miles south of
  Hazelton where two sons, Harry and Edward, were born. Part of this farm is
  included in the farm David Combrink now owns. Losing the next two sons, Willie
  and Bennie, of "Summer-complaint" after only living a few months, Rose Hill 
  Cemetery records show Ed Smith purchased the first lot in 1887, where they
  are buried. Harry Smith, at ninety years, is buried in the same lot. Roy and
  my mother, Bertha, were born in a new two story farm home one mile south of
  Fairview Country School, where all the children attended. Grandpa made the
  Oklahoma Strip Run in 1893 but sold the claim.
     Adelaide and Anna taught in country schools and a contract shows a six
  months term paid $30 a month. Going on to Salina Business College, Anna became
  Salina County Abstractor and Adelaide taught in the College, marrying Wilbur
  Frye. Bertha and Roy attended school in Kiowa after moving to 211 N. 14th in
  1903.
     Bertha was married to David O. Combrink, here on December 11, 1911.
     Ed was vice-president of Kiowa National Bank, dying in 1930, and Carrie
  in 1934.
     David and I were born in the farmhouse one mile east of Fairview school. 
  We attended the school then graduated from Hazelton High. After attending
  college at Alva and Emporia, I taught two years at Gerlane. Harold Hanna and
  I were married in 1939 and had two daughters, Sylvia and Nancy, born in 1943
  and 1944.
     Harold was killed in a farm accident in 1949, and in 1954, I married School 
  Supt. Clair Rucker. He retired in 1968 and we moved back to Hazelton after 
  living in Pawnee Rock and Ingalls and working in these schools. My daughters
  graduated from Pawnee Rock and Wichita University. Sylvia is my only living
  daughter, Nancy died in 1976. Sylvia is a flight attendant for Braniff. We 
  have had many plane vacations to South America, Europe, Hawaii, Canada, Hong 
  Kong, Japan and the Caribbean Islands.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 425 
     Submitted by: Betty Adelaide Combrink Hanna Rucker.