In 1873 Luman and Charity Storey, with their five children, came from
     Lucas County, Iowa, to Kansas, bringing their possessions and homesteaded
     in Barton County. It was here that my grandfather Clarence Wilber and a
     daughter Nora Amber were born. In 1875 Naomi, the oldest child, married
     John Wilber at Ellinwood.
       Luman was not satisfied farming and in 1878 sold the homestead and started
     doing carpenter work at Ellinwood. In 1882 they moved to Wellington; about
     a year later they moved to Medicine Lodge.
       It was about Medicine Lodge and Sharon that Grandfather told me so many
     stories of his youth. He described a slate that took a special pencil to
     write on it. The family operated a hotel in Medicine Lodge and all the
     children helped. It was here that his sister Bertha married John Singer in
     1884 (see Singer story). Later the Storey family moved to Sharon where Luman
     operated a store for a while before returning to carpentry.
       In 1888 Charity's mother, Alice Maydole, died and a stone with the inscription
     "Our Mother" marks her grave in the Sharon Cemetery. According to fmaily 
     tradition, after Luman's father, Freedom Storey, died his mother married
     Charity's father, John Maydole.
       Two Storey children married in 1890. Alice was married to a local farmer, 
     Charles Moore, by Justice of Peace T.W. Davis. George Robinson, a Methodist 
     minister, married Mell Storey and Clara Latham. In 1895 Nona and Harry Morton,
     the railroad agent of Sharon, were married by Rev. Cain. December 19, 1897,
     my grandparents, Clarence and Nannie Storey, were married at Rev. Robinson's 
     home three miles east of Sharon. All four couples were married in or near
     Sharon.
       My garndmother's name was Nannie Dorman; she was from Hickory County, 
     Missouri. She visited her sister, Mrs. Nettie Rule, and met my grandfather
     at Sharon. Clarence and Nannie lived at Sharon about four years, where he
     worked as a section hand for the railroad. My father Claud was born in Sharon,
     January 9, 1899.
       About 1902 the William Gaddie family and the Storey family moved by wagon
     to Indian Territory. The Storey's settled along the Cimarron River in what
     is now Harper County, Oklahoma. Grandmother died in 1909; Clarence and his 
     two sons, Claud and Clint, lived in Oklahoma until 1928, when my folks and
     grandfather moved to Stanton County, Kansas.
       The only child of Luman and Charity whom I haven't mentioned is Freedom.
     He also lived in Sharon. In 1900 he listed his occupation as "Magnetic
     Healer;" there has been much speculation as to what a magnetic healer did
     in 1900.
       Of course grandfather didn't tell me all that is written here; since 1967
     I have researched the family name of Storey. Much information was obtained
     from Luman's Civil War Pension Records; he serve in Company H with the Iowa
     Calvary Voluntters four years and eight months.
       About 1903 Luman and Charity moved from Sharon to Caldwell, after several
     years they moved to Wichita.
     
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 442 
     Submitted by: Myrtle Jones