Harley Wilson, born in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma to Edd and Flora
  Wilson, came to Barber County as a small boy in 1908. They settled in the
  Eagle Community, where Harley grew up with his brother, Fred, and sister,
  Bertha. A young teacher, Everett Shell, taught at the school where the
  Wilson children attended.
     After high school, Harley went into farming on the McKee place. At this
  time he was courting a teacher, Miss Gail Kenney. They married in 1926 and
  became active in the Union Chapel Church and community. I was born in 1933.
  Our social life was helping and visiting neighbors, attending church at
  Union Chapel on Sunday afternoon, church dinners, wedding showers, revivals,
  and 4-H Club.
     During these years, my parents farmed for Earl Holmes and his brother.
  In 1948 one rainy June day during wheat harvest, a tornado blew our home
  away. The friends and neighbors came to our rescue with household goods,
  food, love, and compassion to help us start over again.
     Later the family moved to the Wilson ranch. In 1970 they moved to 
  Amarillo, Texas to retire.
     Some of the events I remember most were my father playing Lewis of the
  Lewis and Clark Expedition for the Peace Treaty, my mother giving
  devotionals for Ladies Aid and a member of the Union Chapel Board, fighting
  frightening prairie fires, Saturday movies with Gene Autry, riding a horse
  to school, axle-deep mud roads, and summer fireflies.
     My father died in 1978. My mother, husband, Bill, and son, Robert, live
  in Amarillo, Texas. My parents moved to Texas, but they continued to be
  Kansans at heart.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 491 
     Submitted by: Pat Wilson Downing