Irna was born March 13, 1886 two miles north and two west of Isabel.
     Her mother, Sue Ruble came from Pennsylvania with her two brothers and
     Sue homesteaded on this place. Her father Mortimer Herbert Carter came
     to Pratt County from McPherson County where he farmed with oxen. After 
     they married they lived on this quarter and farmed with horses. One of 
     the first things they did in thos days was dig a well to have water for 
     the family and livestock. They hauyled lumber from Kingman in a wagon to 
     build the house. They had four children: Leo lived in Oklahomna then to
     California; Bardell, who later lived on and farmed the place; Irna married
     Roy Rose and lived at Isabel; Reno married John Rhea.
          Irna attended school at Sand Creek, a country school one mile west of
     where she was born. Her father taught school there at one time. Those were
     the "good Ole days". They gathered cow chips to burn, carried water from
     the well, and worked hard. Her family had a large orchard and raised a
     garden to feed the family. Some of the neighbors were the Hatfields, who
     had four children Will, Zula, twins Roy and Ruth. They also attended Sand
     Creek School and lived a mile south and west, where John Brant now lives.
     Another neighbor was M.G. (Gid) Davis with two daughters Bertha and Vera.
     They lived one-half mile south of Sand Cree where Guy Warren lives. Bertha
     married Fred Swinson and Vera married Albert Neuenschwander.
          Irna married Roy Rose in 1904; they first lived south of where John
     Hamm lives on the west side of the road for two years on land owned by
     Larabees. They moved two miles north of Isabel and lived in a two room
     house, later moving in a whouse where they lived thru the married years.
     They had four children: Archie Woodson, January 7, 1906, died September
     1907; Milan, May 24, 1908 living at Isabel; Vita, February 26, 1910 now
     deceased; Allen, April 7, 1928 living at Isabel.
          In 1938 Roy and Milan were in Gray County, Kansas farming when a 
     tornado went thru. Only Irna and Allen were in the house and it took the
     roof off the house, barn and granary, destroyed the machine shed and chicken
     house. Fortunately they didn't go to the storm cellar. The storm laid the
     windmill down on it and they would have been trapped. This is the same
     tornado that destroyed the Gus Hartman farmstead.
          Roy Rose was the son of S.S. Rose who was born in Ohio, living with
     an uncle in Iowa before moving to Uniontown, Kansas. His mother's name was
     Sutton, the daughter of a doctor who was also a preacher in Bourbon County
     later moving to Washington County. Roy was born in 1879. He had a brother
     Warren and sister Addie. When Roy was nine years old the S.S. Rose family
     went to Richfield in MOrton County in a covered wagon. Being a dry year and
     no crops they went back to Bourbon County. Still having a desire to go to
     western Kansas they shipped their belongings to Kendall in Stanton County.
     After a year they went back to Haddam in Washington and stayed until moving
     to Pratt County in 1900. They bought the place Ken Blackwelder lives on and
     built the house and barn living there until 1918 or 1919. Mrs. Rose had died
     in 1916 and Mr. Rose moved to Isabel and lived in the house where Margaret
     Westphal lives until his death in 1937.
          Roy Rose passed away in 1952 and is buried at Goshen Cemetery. In 1960
     Irna married Guy Goeller and they lived in Eaton, Colorado until his death
     in 1970. She moved back to the farm at Isabel with Allen. At the present time
     she resides with her son, Milan and wife Thelma on the same quarter section
     they lived on and raised their family. In March 1986 she celebrated her 100th
     birthday with open house at Milan and Thelma's home with her two living 
     children, seven grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren, four great great
     grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.
     
               
     Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987,  pg. 78