Jim and Eula Wagnon were born in Western Oklahoma in 1902. They grew up
     on ranches. Eula was teaching school, and Jim was ranching when they 
     married.
       In 1940 with four small children they moved to a ranch west of Englewood,
     Kansas. Their youngest daughter was born in Ashland, Kansas. The four older
     children graduated from high school at Englewood.
       After seventeen yeras, they moved back to Arnett, Oklahoma, for four years.
     In April 1961 they moved to Barber County on the Nora Hopkins Ranch. The
     first few years Jim and sons, Jim R. and Tom, lived in Lake City and helped
     operate the Shaft, Lake, and Hopkins Ranches. Later the boys moved away.
     Jim and Eula still operate the Hopkins Ranch running around 250 Hereford
     cows, year 'round. Jim is of the old school and thinks you can't operate
     a ranch without good cow horses. He has some nice quarter horses. They both
     still ride horses when necessary. They enjoy ranching and don't look forward
     to retirement.
       As for their children, Jim Jr. is manager of the Walter Merrick Ranch at
     Elk City, Kansas. Tom is with the Comanche Cattle Company, Coldwater, Kansas,
     and also ranches and orber buys cattle.
       Twila, wife of Dr. Jack A. Richey, lives in Duncanville, Texas. They ranch,
     and he sells real estate. Twanda, Mrs. John Wyckoff, lives in Alva, Oklahoma.
     She is with Special Education, and he is with a consulting firm.
       Trella, Mrs. Mac Suthers, lives near Arnett, Oklahoma. They raise purebred
     Hereford cattle and farm. The Wagnons are proud of their family. They have
     twelve grandchildren and one great-grandson. The oldest grandson is a college
     graduate. There are five 'grands' in college.
       Eula has a hobby she 'rides' very hard. It is doing sewing on a 'Quiet'
     book for Union Chapel Ladies Aid. Jim and Eula remember a lot of inconveniences
     of the "good old days," such as going horseback wherever you went, carrying
     water, smelly kerosene lights, washboards, flatirons, hand corn shellers,
     woodburning cook stoves, and a little house with a path out back.
       They still drive seven miles to the mail box. They enjoy all kinds of sports.
     Barber County has been good to them, and they are happy to have lived here.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 467 
     Submitted by: Jim and Eula Wagnon