Charles Berton Wainscott and wife, former Pernecy Jane Evans, and eight
     of their nine children arrived at Hazelton, Barber County, March fourth,
     1902. One of the older boys came through with their belongings in an
     immigrant car. The rest of the family came by passenger train. I can still
     remember getting off the train at the old Santa Fe station and looking
     around at the place that was to be our new home. It was a clear, mild,
     rather windy day. My parents had both lived in Missouri most of their 
     lives and on a farm in Polk county before coming to Kansas. Before coming
     to Kansas my father had several severe sick spells and since his doctor did
     not know what was the matter with him nor how to help him, he suggested that
     he try a dryer climate. With this suggestion in mind my father contacted
     a former neighbor and close friend, John Thompson, who had come to Kansas
     the year before and bought a farm north of Hazelton. My father bought a
     farm west of Hazelton.
       Farming was quite different then from now. Corn was a major crop then,
     much of it tended with a double shovel or one row walking cultivator. Our
     family produced with a large garden; chickens and geese, milk cows, and a
     bunch of hogs were raised every year and fattened, and three or four
     butchered at home. For fuel we used corn cobs and coal.
       The five younger children attended school at Hazelton. I graduated from
     high school in 1915, then attended Kansas State College at Manhattan, Kansas,
     for two and half years. I entered the armed service in 1918 was discharged
     following the end of WWI.
       My father died in 1916; after returning home, I farmed with my mother a
     few years, later rented the family farm. On May 22, 1923, I was married to
     Margaret Ellen Dixon of Kiowa, Kansas. We have two children, Jean and Donald;
     both were graduated from the Hazelton schools and later from Kansas State
     College at Manhattan, Kansas. I was appointed postmaster at Hazelton, Kansas,
     September 1, 1934, and retired December 30, 1965.
       My parents and all my brothers and sisters are now deceased. My sister
     Ethel (Mrs. Fred Pfaff) and sister Allie (Mrs. Floyd Clark) lived in Barber
     County until their deaths, and both have children still living in Barber
     County.
       In 1974 on account of our age and health we deceided to move to Ponca
     City, Oklahoma, to be near our daughter. We enjoy living in Ponca City;
     but after more than seventy years in Hazelton and Kiowa community, we 
     still feel very much a part of Barber County.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 467 
     Submitted by: Luther Wainscott.