Eleanor Anne Herr Thomas, daughter of F. Floyd and Esther Herr, was born
     December 30, 1932, in Sumner county, and came to Medicine Lodge at age two
     and one-half when her daddy, Floyd Herr, became Superintendent of the Medicine
     Lodge Schools. She positioned herself out by the front sidewalk as they were
     moving in and said to passersby: "You must come and see my mother. She is
     expecting you."
       She attended Medicine Lodge schools through the first five grades. One
     day when she and Carrie Montgomery walked home from kindergarten, they took
     a side trip through the lumber yard. She had a handful of big spikes to 
     play with that evening. The next day her father took her to school in the
     car, and whilehe waited outside, she returned the spikes. Mr. Ives seriously
     accepted them, but doubled over in laughter later over that little girl
     bringing back those nails. She learned that the Herrs were honest to the
     last spike!
       The three Neal children lived nearby and often came to play with Eleanor
     and her sister, Margaret. They walked in single file - first Terry, then
     Joy, then Len - always the same order.
       When Eleanor moved to Topeka, she attended Lowman Grade School. There she
     educated her teacher and fellow classmates on how "we did this in Medicine
     Lodge."
       Eleanor has BS and MS degrees from Kansas State and is a counselor in two
     high schools in the Clay Center area. The Henry Thomas' live on a farm six
     miles from Clay Center and have one boy and two girls.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 453