As a small child, I recall sitting in the Clell Adams parlor, listening
     to Mrs. Adams sing, "The mill will never turn with the water that has
     passed." My parents were Elmer and Eva Davis. Ruth, Jessie, and Aileen
     were my sisters, and Howard and Marvin, my brothers. We lived seventeen
     miles west of Hardtner. Some neighbors were Lola and Grover Andricks, 
     Elmores, Naughtons, Wolgamotts, and the Wisemans.
       Ruth, Jessie, and I attended Yellowstone and Little schools. We had to
     cross Salt Fork and watch for quicksand. We walked through pastures and
     watched for rattlesnakes, tarantulas, and bulls. Ruth said it was more
     than three miles because they didn't measure the uphills and downhills!
       Sometimes we three rode two horses to school. I always had to ride behind
     the saddle on "Peanuts." Every night Ruth and Jessie fought over who had to
     ride side saddle on "Snip." The Wiseman boys, Potter boys, Willie Mavity,
     and Charlie Wimmer rode horses our way. They waited until we got down the
     road, then came racing from behind. 'Snip,' a retired racehorse couldn't
     be held. One night Snip's saddle slipped and thre Ruth under him. Those
     scared boys never did that again.
       At one school classmates were Cecil, Gene, and Gilbert Moore, the Rogers,
     and Ericksons. Rogers drove donkeys hitched to a cart. When the river froze
     over, we all helped push cart and balky donkeys across.
       In my class were Edgar Wiseman, Glenn Elmore, and Hattie ARndt. In 1919
     we moved to Kingman. I graduated from high school there with a Normal
     Training Certificate and taught school at Nashville. Max Deweese and Dwaine
     Shinliver were pupils.
       I married Albert (Poly) Lawrence. We bought the John Rankin place on the
     Ridge. We lived there thirty years, through Depression and Dust Bowl. When
     Layle was born in 1932, Dr. McCarty took a load of maize as payment. When
     dirt blew hardest, Mae and George Rankin and Merle would come over, and 
     we'd play cards. (Jack and Layle were in school.) No one cooked ham and
     navy beans and homemade sauerkraut like Mae. Other neighbors were Ralph
     and Inez George, Dot and Ves Haynes, Alice and Socks Rankin, Manteys, Phil
     Randolphs, and Bonnie and Harry Randolph. We helped each other butcher,
     fill silo, thresh, or whatever! What good times we had!
       Our children, Kent, Layle, and Marily (Mrs. Walter Lenkner) were born on
     the Ridge. The farm now belongs to Kent and Marlyne. Their children, Karran
     (Mrs. G. Westerman), Tracy (Mrs. K. Chung), and Darcy (wife, Nancy Burenheide),
     were born there and went to school at Sharon. Marilyn's children, Robert and
     Carol, attended Medicine Lodge School. Layle married Joyce Cook, (daughter
     of Bob and Lois Cook) and teaches at West Virginia University. Their children
     are Lora and L.D. After Poly's death in 1959, I moved to Kingman and returned
     to Medicine Lodge in 1972.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 470 
     Submitted by: Millie Lawrence Wallace