John Stewart and his wife, Callie Augusta Stover, with their nine-month
    old daughter, Lulu Ann, came from a farm near Wakomis, Oklahoma, to a farm
    two miles North and 1 1/2 miles west of Hazelton in April, 1900. They
    retained ownership of this farm until the death of John in 1962. John was
    born in Cook County, Illinois, the son of Harrison T. Stewart and Mary
    Cook, who later moved to Oklahoma. Callie and Lulu were born near Council
    Grove, Kansas. Their ancestors were active in Kansas Territorial Government.
      I remember the dust storms, the visiting of neighbors and attending church
    in a school house, the fun of going to Hazelton on Saturdays in a lumber
    wagon and looking forward to seeing people and a special treat of a sack
    of candy. The farmers banded to cut their wheat with a header and the
    excitement of helping my mother get dinner for the men and later the coming
    of the threshing machine, engine, and cook shack to thresh the wheat that
    had been stacked in large stacks.
      There was always the peddler with his pots, pans and variety of other
    things, the joy and wonders of the telephone and later the coming of our
    mail delivery.
      One son, Clyde L., was born before we moved to Hazelton. John was engaged
    in several businesses, owning and operating a livery stable, a poultry
    house and creamery and managing an elevator. His main interest was that of
    a trader, buying and selling cattle, which he continued to do the rest of
    his life.
      Their daughter, Mary, was born soon after they moved to town. All the
    children grew up in the community and graduated from high school. Clyde
    attended Ottawa University and Fairmount College, now Wichita State. I
    graduated from Southwestern College doing work at Emporia State and Columbia
    University. While working for my degree, taught in a number of rural schools
    and after receiving my degree, I taught in the high schools of Corwin, Kansaws,
    and Hardtner.
      In 1925 I was married to John C. McWilliams Jr., whose parents were among
    those who made the famous run into the "Oklahoma Cherokee Strip" and home-
    steaded a 160 acre farm near Burlington, Oklahoma. This land still remains
    in the McWilliams family.
      We established a home in Hazelton, returning there after living in Colorado
    and Nebraska. We had one son, J. Stewart McWilliams, who graduated from
    Wichita University and Kansas University Law School. He is a lawyer living
    in Prairie Village, Kansas, with his wife, Margaret Ann and two year old
    son, John Nolan.
      I have enjoyed living in the Hazelton community, where I was an active
    member of the United Methodist Church and UMW for 57 years; additionaly
    I am a 50 year member of the Hazelton Order of the Eastern Star, a charter
    member of the Past Matron Club and the Barber County Association of University
    Women; a member of the Poinsettia Club, and a member of the Barber County
    Republican Central Committee.
      I now live at Lakeview Village, Lenexa, Kansas, a twenty-minute drive
    from my son.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 438 
     Submitted by: Lulu Stewart McWilliams