George and Margaret (Bodenhammer) Urton and daughter, Elizabeth Catherine,
     came to Barber County, in 1884. Lizzie, as she was affectionately called,
     was three years old. She was born in Saline County, Missouri in 1881, and
     traveled to Barber County by covered wagon.
       The family settled three miles south of Pixley, living in a dugout in the
     red Cedar Hills. That first winter they used buffalo chips for fuel.
       Some years later they moved to Medicine Lodge where Margaret was a popular
     seamstress, and George worked at varioius jobs for the city and did some
     farming.
       Carrie Nation was a frequent visitor in the Urton home, and was very annoyed
     with George's pipe smoking, to the extent she sometimes took the liberty to
     remove it from his mouth!
       Before the railroad came west to Medicine Lodge, George would travel to
     Anthony by team and wagon, meet the train and deliver freight to Medicine
     Lodge. He received flour as his compensaton for this two-day trip.
       When the railroad reached Medicine Lodge, he continued to do dray work.
     During the hot summer months he used his team hitched to a sprinkling wagon 
     to sprinkle the dry, dusty streets of the city. He plowed gardens around 
     town in the spring with his horses hitched to a waling plow. During the 
     winter he delivered coal to business places and residences.
       We do not know if the Urtons did not attempt to make the run at the opening
     of the Oklahoma strip, or if they attemted the run and did not succeed; but
     we do know they were there in their covered wagon on that day in 1893 with
     their two older daughters, Lizzie, and Artie Jessie who had been born to the
     Urtons in 1887. The Urtons had a third daughter, Lora Gail born in 1900.
       Lizzie learned homemaking duties working along side her mother while Artie
     was called a "Tomboy" because she loved the outdoors and everything in it
     and hated household duties. Artie enjoyed horseback riding which she did 
     with style and grace, and she helped with the farm chores which Lizzie shied
     away from.
       Lora was eight months old when Lizzie, after teaching school, became Mrs.
     Frank Stone, and only five years old when Artie became Mrs. Fred Phye. Lora
     was a town girl, but like her two sisters, she married a farm boy and became
     Mrs. John Moore. She, too, was a school teacher and found it took some adjusting
     to farm life. They owned their own farm in Mingona Township, and became the 
     parents of Vera Irene and Harold Glenn.
       Charlie Adolphus and Margaret George were born to Artie and Fred Phye and
     Lizzie and Frank Stone had two sons, Clarence Urton and George Earl.
       Margaret Urton died in 1918, and George Urton continued to live in their
     home until his latter years when he moved to the farm where Lizzie was
     maintaining her residence with her son, George, his wife, LaVon and their
     son Dwight, bringing four generations to their household. He died there in
     1931.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 462 
     Submitted by: LaVon Stone (Mrs. George).