I, Grace Coleman, married John L. Tincher at Sharon, Kansas in 1911.
     The following year our son Jasper was born. We moved to the J.N. "Poly"
     Tincer - Dr. Hardin Gilbert Ranch four miles south of Medicine Lodge.
     We lived there fourteen years. In 1912 we spent the wheat harvest season
     living in a cookshack, pulled by a team of horses, and leading a cow so
     we could have milk for baby and cooking. Twenty-five cents worth of steak
     was enough for a large table of people. We had a bunk-house on a ranch 
     where the hiredhands slept. There was no electricity or running water in
     our houses. When it rained a down-spout carried the water from the roof
     into a cistern. When the cistern went dry, we hauled water. We heated 
     water in an iron kettle out in the yard where we washed clothes on a wash
     board.
       When daughter Vayla was born January 1, 1915 the telephone was out of
     order. We had company that morning, Ervin Lake. He hurried back to town
     on his motorcycle to get Dr. Gilbert. There was a blizzard. It was pretty
     bad. Viola Crick was working for us when daughter Maxine was born June 1917.
       The men worked the fields with as many as eight horses and mules hitched
     to one implement. Our trips to town were made by wagon or buggy. It was 
     later that we bought a car. I could never learn to drive. I gave up after
     I drove through a gate in the pasture. One day a car ran over one of our 
     little pigs. I took Jasper's wagon to pick it up, scalded and butchered it.
       Our rural mail carrier was Harvey Pelton. A black family by the name of
     Carter sold fresh fruit and vegetables to the farmers in the spring. The
     ice man came once a week. We placed a card in the window showing how much 
     ice we needed. Our wages were thirty-five dollars a month cash. Also we
     were paid for meals for hired-men. Our hosue rent was free. The children
     attended Pleasant Hill School. There were lots of ice-cream socials, oyster
     suppers, box suppers, square dancing and fishing outings. Lots of lemonade
     and fried chicken. We bought supplies from Trice Mercantile Co. Leaford
     Cavin was a clerk. Our son John C. was born in 1925.
       Some of our neighbors were Ed, Ralph and Brice Duncan families, Amos Ash,
     Lou Kinkaid, Noah Thomas, Goerge Vatter, Ed Coyle, Bob Kenny, George Poindexter,
     and Jim Urton. Guy and Ida Sears were killed in the May 7, 1927 tornado.
       We moved ot town in 1927 and lived there until 1951, when we moved to
     Garden City, Kansas. My husband died in 1963, Jasper in 1973. John C. lives
     in Lyndon, Kansas, Maxine in Haysville, Kansas; I have eight grandchildren,
     twenty-one great grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
       I am eighty-six years old and live with Vayla and husband Guy Palmer in
     Kingston, Oklahoma.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 456 
     Submitted by: Grace (Coleman) Tincher