Richard D. (Dick) Blue and his wife Sarah (Adkins) lived in Wichita
     from childhood and married in 1903. They and their seven children moved 
     from Hardscrabble to the Isabel community in March of 1918. They lived 
     on the Curlin place, just east of town.
          Dick farmed and did cement and carpenter work. He built and stuccoed 
     houses, put in storm caves, sidewalks, etc. He was a "jack of all trades",
     helping his friends and neighbors in harvesting, building, butchering, and
     anything he could. While living east of town, they had four more children,
     two of which were stillborn.
          The family moved to the Smith's farm one mile east and one-half north
     of Isabel, where they farmed and the youngest child was born in 1926. Dick 
     had a threshing machine and did lots of threshing for neighbors. In 1927
     they moved to town and Dick and the boys farmed around Ingalls for a few
     years.
          All the children attended school at Isabel. Richard, Robert, Charles 
     and Ralph were in the Armed Services. A number of the children worked at
     airplane plants in Wichita. Emerson, the oldest, married nad lived in 
     Garden City until his death.
          Nellie, Robert and Ralph live in Wichita. Charles lived a number of
     years in Derby, then built a home in Mulvane. Claude married a former
     Isabel school teacher and they moved to Colorado Springs. Richard lived 
     in Wichita until his death in 1975. Clara lives in Medicine Lodge, and
     Ferrie in Hutchinson.
          Jack lived and had a business in Isabel. He was the only one to stay
     in the Isabel community, but we all call Isabel home.
          Dick passed away in 1950, Sarah in 1954. They and their two sons, Jack
     and Richard are buried in the Isabel cemetery. 
             
     Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987,  pg. 47
     
     Submitted by: Farrie (Blue) Thornhill