Ed Boots was born October 21, 1873 in Randolph County, Indiana, to Solomon
     and Sarah E. (Tinkle) Boots. He married Olive G. Meairs January 25, 1899 in
     Wichita, Kansas. They were both raised in the Westphalia, Kansas area. They
     farmed near Lawndale in Pratt County on the old Sun City Road. Their son
     Clyde S. Boots was born December 24, 1899 at this location. About 1903, the
     family moved to Isabel, Kansas. Florence L. Boots was born August 5, 1905. 
     Florence married Orville V. Nanniga August 21, 1929.
          Ed Boots engaged in the grain business, building the first elevator in
     Isabel. After a number of years the business was sold to a farmers organization
     which later became the present Farmers Co-op Equity Company. In 1905, Ed Boots
     organized the Isabel State Bank and was the principal stockholder and an
     officer until his death in 1953. The bank was in a frame building on the
     northwest corner of the intersection of Main Street and Ethel Avenue until
     about 1909, when it was destroyed in a fire which started in the Runkle
     Hardware adjoining it. A new frame buildeing was built at the location of
     the present bank building and it was also destroyed by fire in 1914. This 
     building was replaced by a brick structure as was the building next door.
          When they came to Isabel, the Boots family had built a new home just
     north of the elevator. They leived there until 1912, then they bought the
     dwelling where Ira Mabie now lives.
          Ed was also engaged in farming northeast of Isabel, where he buld some
     of the first concrete silos for the purpose of feeding cattle. He had farming
     and ranching interests in Finney County, where he built two farmsteads and
     later sold them to Wesley and Luther Bell. His grandson, Edwin, now farms
     some of this land.
          Ed was an avid fisherman and traveled in an early day camper pulling a
     boat. Ed and Olive spent many winters in Port Isabel, Texas.
          Olive was involved for many years in the Rebekah and Eastern Star Lodges.
     Ed was involved in Masonic Lodge and IOOF Lodge.
          Riley Edwin died February 4, 1953. Olive G. Boots died December 25, 1975.
     Both are buried at the Isabel, Cemetery.
          
               
     Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987,  pg. 50 
     
     Submitted by: Edwin E. Boots.