John William (Jack) Warwick was born in Medicine lodge, Kansas, in 1888.
     He was the oldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth Hunter Warwick. He had two
     brothers, Thomas Hunter, born 1890, and Robert Henry, born 1891. Their
     mother died in 1895. They grew up under the supervision of a strict father
     and spent a lot of time with their Aunt Hannah (Mrs. Tom) Richardson, a
     sister of their mother. Jack used to tell the funny stories of his child-
     hood. One time when he was staying with his aunt, they sent him out into
     the pasture to bring in the milk cow, it was getting rather late and he 
     was wearing a pair of new corduroy pants. As it bagan to get darker and
     darker, he became aware of a swishing sound behind him. The faster he
     walked the closer and more clear the swishing sound came. He finally had
     the cows running, and he was so scared he didn't dare look back for fear
     the noise would get him. He was a very surprised boy to find it was his
     new corduroy pants were making all that noise!
       His father was thrifty and believed only worn out things should be
     replaced. One time when his brothers received new shoes and he didn't, he
     became angered and left home. He went out on his own; at the time he went
     to live with Axtells, where he worked at the steam pump which pumped city
     water. He was 13 years old.
       There was a livery stable on the north side of the block located on the
     same block where the intermediate school now stands. It belonged to a Mr.
     McCalla and somehow caught fire. The firemen told Jack, who was manning
     the city pump, "Give it all you've got, Jack!" and he did! The force of
     the water was so great, it blew the boards off with the pressure.
       Beulah McKaig, daughter of Annie Starks and L.F. McKaig, was born in 1893
     and came with her parents, four brothers - Dewey, Ernest, Fred, and Frank -
     and a sister, Faye, to settle in the Union Chapel and Lasswell Community.
     Her father had freighted on the ice on Lake Erie before coming to Barber
     County.
       Jack and Beulah met at Union Chapel. Jack was running threshing machines
     and working for Gordie Smith. They were married in 1914 and lived on the
     Charles McKee place. In 1918 they acquired the Warwick place from Elmer
     Angell. A Mr. Pruitt had homesteaded the land but gave it up to make the
     run in the Cherokee Strip. Granny Barnett and her sons, Bill and Roy, once
     owned it before Angells.
       Jack and Beulah had two sons, Jack Leslie who was born in 1922 and a son
     who died soon after birth. They moved into Medicine Lodge in 1952 and turned
     the ranch over to their son and family. Beulah passed away in 1961, and
     Jack passed away in 1974. He spent the last five years of his life with his
     son and family.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 473 
     Submitted by: Jack and Vera Warwick