I am so proud to have the opportunity to tell the history of our family
     in a wonderful part of the State of Kansas.
       I, Myrtle Moad, traveled alone from Astoria, Oregon, arriving in the
     small Barber County community of Sun City on my 16th birthday, September
     30, 1907. With Kansas my destination, I had left Astoria following the
     death of my mother in order to live with my uncle, William Moad, and his
     family who farmed a few miles west of Sun City.
       At the age of 19, I married Ora Adams, a grandson of Rev. Johnson M. 
     "Bud" Adams, a Barber County pioneer. We reaised three sons and one
     daughter. Each went through the Sun City school system and graduated from
     Sun City High School, a school that no longer exists.
       Our oldest son, Glen Roscoe, was nicknamed "Bill" at a very early age
     and still carries that name. Bill married Sybil Thompson, and they have
     one child. They moved to Pratt, Kansas where Bill served as manager of the
     Chamber of Commerce for thirteen years. He is now retired and resides in
     Kansas City, Missouri. Neil graduated from Kansas State College, Manhattan, 
     in 1939, and following World War II pursued a successful career in
     electrical engineering. He and his wife, Patty, reside in Springfield,
     Missouri. Bob is the Chief of Police in Hutchinson, Kansas, and he and his 
     wife, Jean, reside in Hutchinson. Our daughter, Barbara, and her husband, 
     Cletus Reichenberger, operate a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Alva, Oklahoma.
     Many Barber County communities are serviced by their delivery trucks.
       During Wold War II, we lent two of our sons to the U.S. Army. Our second
     son, Neil, served in the Signal Corps in the South Pacific; and our third 
     son, Bob, served in the 35th Infantry Division throughout the European
     Theater.
       From December, 1945, to September 1951, our sons, Bill and Bob, along
     with Ora, were the co-owners and operators of the Adams Oil Company, a
     retail petroleum business located in Sun City.
       My husband, Ora Adams, died in 1964; and upon my marriage to Lewis Stoy
     January 12, 1972, I left the Sun City community and moved to Medicine Lodge. 
     Lewis is an oil field operator and was employed by Aylward Drilling Company
     for thirty-four years, spending twenty-six of those years working in Barber
     County and living in Medicine Lodge. He retired in December 1978.
       Lewis has three living sons, two grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
     Lewis is a member of the Baptist Church, and I am a member of the Assembly of
     God Church, both in Medicine Lodge. Lewis died in May, 1979.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 444 
     Submitted by: Mrs. Lewis Stoy