Roy Douthett
In 1874 Newton B. Marshall and his wife Mary, with their two children,
Armeda Idella born 1868 and Charles Newton born 1872 came from Indiana to
homestead a farm seven miles southeast of Isabel. They built a home and
farmed the ground that is still in the family. Both are buried in the
Isabel Cemetery. Charles Newton Marshall married and moved to Pratt, Kansas
and owned and operated a hardware store there until his retirement and death.
Armeda Idella went to school in Atchinson, Kansas and learned to make
hats and had a small shop ther until she married William Douglas Brown, who
was born 1869 to Archibald and Eliza C. Brown. William worked for McPike,
Fox Drug Store in Kansas City before moving to Isabel. They lived on the
farm owned by her parents for several years before moving to Wichita, Kansas
where he again worked for the drug store under their new name Fox Veliet
Drug. Their three children were Bertha, Edith and Marshall.
Bertha went to school in Kansas City and graduated from Normal teaching
school and taught several years before moving with her parents and new
husband Roy Everett Douthett, son of Richard C. and Mary Douthett. Edith
also went to school in Kansas City and married Charles B. Latham who died
at a young age and later married Louis B. Burhrmann. Both are deceased. They
resided most of their married life in Aurora, Illinois. Marshall Brown
graduated from Isabel high school in 1920 and Kansas University Medicial
School and he practiced medicine in New York State until his death.
Bertha taught school one year at Cream Valley and 26 years in all in
Barber and Sedgwick County. Roy Douthett farmed and drove the Standard Oil
farm delivery truck out of Isbael until they moved in the 50's to Wichita,
where he worked at Beech Aircraft and Bertha taught school until both
retired. Roy died in 1971. Bertha still resides in her home in Wichita. They
raised five children who were all students of Cream Valley School and graduates
of Isabel High.
Roy Everett Jr. married Virginia Barngrover and lives in Wichita.
Robert Brown was killed in a gun accident in Isabel at the age of 16.
Mary Armeda married Walter S. Robinson and resides on the family farm
near Nashville, Kansas.
William Bailey married Daisy Mott and lives in Topeka.
Doris Lucille married Floyd C. Peek and resides in Wichita.
Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987, pg. 69