Charles Michael Spicer was born to James t. and Huldah Virginia Spicer,
     January 5, 1893, at Colby, Kansas. He lived there until he was past two
     years old. Then he came tot he vicinity of Hazelton, Kansas, with his
     parents and some of his brothers and sisters. They settled north and east
     of Hazelton near Crisfield, where they lived until they moved in 1903 to
     3 miles north of Hazelton where Donald Spicer now lives. He stayed there
     and worked ont he farm raising mostly corn, cattle, and hogs with his
     father. He always liked mules and horses, and when he was old enough he
     went into the horse and mule business. He bought horses for the First
     World War. He drove far and near and knew everyone miles around in Oklahoma
     and Kansas.
       In 1920 he married Mabell Henderson from Amorita, Oklahoma. They lived
     most of their married life 1/4 mile east and 1/4 mile north of Hazelton.
       He and his brother, John, were in the mule business together for a number
     of years.
       He and his wife had one son, Kenneth, and when he was old enough he went
     into the mule business with his father. They also farmed together.
       Kenneth was married to Ethel Daughhetee and they had 3 daughters: Marcia,
     lives in Wichita, Sandra (Mrs. Gene Logan), lives in Richmond, Virginia
     and has 2 children; and Partricia (Mrs. Bob Stranathan) lives in Shawnee,
     Kansas, and has 2 children.
       Charles and Mabell celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1970.
       In 1949 thry built a rock home in Hazelton.
       In 1950 Kenneth died and left his wife and three girls.
       While Charley was in the mule business, he shipped them home on the
     railroad or roaded them in, as they called it then, - he would send a man
     on a horse and he drove them home - or the trucks came in and he trucked 
     them home. Sometimes he had close to a hundred head of mules at home. He
     sold them at markets at Wichita, Fort Worth, Nashville, Tennessee, and he
     shipped many of them to Florida.
       Charles died May 7, 1972. His wife, Mabell, still lives at the home in
     Hazelton, Kansas.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 431 
     Submitted by: Mrs. Charles (Mabell) Spicer.