Claude W. Werner, born in Maryland, November, 1886, migrated westward to
     Butler County, Kansas, with his parents, Jacob V. and Amelia Werner. There
     he married Agnes Cotton, daughter of Henry M. and Marium Cotton, in February
     1908. 
       Claude and Agnes lived in Blaine County, Oklahoma, druing the years 1908-
     1920. We three oldest children, Claudine, LaVon, and Glenn, were born there.
     In March 1920 our parents purchased a farm three miles east of Sharon in
     Barber County, and we began life as Kansans. We attended Enon rural school
     one-half mile east of our home and the Enon Baptist Church one mile east.
     This church was moved to Sharon in 1922, and the family remnant continues
     to worship there.
       A fourth child, Dale was born in 1923 and still resides on the farm where
     we all grew to adults.
       We children attended grade and high school near and in Sharon. We partici-
     pated in school, church and community affairs. Papa and both brothers served
     as board members to the rural and Sharon schools. I was a teacher there for
     ten years and Maurine, Glenn's wife, was school secretary for twenty-two years.
       We children all married Barber Countians. I, Claudine, married Lonnie Skaggs,
     deceased 1965, son of Clint and Grace Skaggs. We reared two sons, Robert of
     Greensburg and Herschel of Wichita, and a daughter, Lonita, deceased, 1978.
       LaVon wed George Stone, son of Frank and Lizzie Stone. Their family is
     Dwight of Medicine Lodge; Doris, Mrs. Jerry Thompson, of Kansas City; and
     JoAnn, Mrs. Horace Eaton, Guymon, Oklahoma.
       Glenn married Maurine Newsom, deceased 1978, daughter of Arthur and Ethel
     Newsom. Three children blessed this home: Harlean, Mrs. Gilbert Shockey, of
     Wichita; Gale, deceased of polio in 1952; and Larry of Chanute.
       Dale and wife, Edith, daughter of Elmer and Ruth McDaniel, raised three
     children, Dalene, Mrs. Robert Dohm; and sons, Wayne and Daryl. They all
     reside in Barber County at this writing.
       My parents were successful farmers because of hard work and management.
     During the 1920's, the crop income was supplemented by raising hogs and
     milking cows. Every day Momma churned by hand ten or twelve pounds of butter,
     moldedit, and delivered it to the grocery in Sharon for a premium price of
     fifty cents per pound. Each family member was important because all had a
     contribution to make toward out livihood.
       Our mother died in 1970, and Papa married a former girlfriend, Lura Bacon,
     of Butler County. Lura died in 1975.
       Christmas Eve, 1928, our parents hosted a fresh oyster fry and oyster soup
     supper for their hcildren and two sons-in-law. Three quarts of oysters were
     plenty for serving the eight present. The oysters cost $7.00 per gallon. This
     oyster supper became a tradition, as we have had this family gathering every
     Christmas Eve including the off-spring. The year 1978 marked the fiftieth
     occasion with a great inflation of family and cost. Papa purchased four
     gallons of oysters at $39.94 per gallon, and the family now numbered fifty-
     three - children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grand
     children were present.
       Papa, now ninety-two plus years, lives alone in his home one-half mile
     south of Sharon. He drives his car to the Baptist Church, in Sharon every
     Sunday. We, his children, live near him and feel fortunate to have had the
     rich heritage provided by our parents, Claude and Agnes Warner.
     
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 480 
     Submitted by: Claudine Skaggs