Richard H. Hart (or Dick, as most people called him) was born in
     Missouri in 1883 and came to Kingman County when he was small with his
     parents, Albert and Elizabeth (Laird) Hart. He grew to manhood there and 
     then he filed on a claim near Plaines, Kansas.
          He met Myrtle Bennett, who was from Cheney, while working at a livery
     stable in Plains. She was visiting her sister's family, Scott and Adelia
     Pierson. Dick and Myrtle were married in Plains on October 25, 1910.
          Dick traded the claim in Meade County for an unimproved farm in Pratt
     County, 7 miles north of Isabel on what is called the "Sun City Road". The
     Hart's lived in a covered wagon for a while then a tent while the house 
     was built. This place is now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bolt.
          All six of their children were born while they lived on this farm:
     Elizabeth, Marguerite, Lillian, Dorothy, Robert and Donald. A Mrs. Glascock
     presided at most of the births but Dr. Updegraff did come for some of the
     younger children.
          The older children attended the Hardscrabble School about 3 miles east 
     of the Harts. There were over sixty children in school in all 8 grades. There
     was a school day that stands out in everyone's memory - the day the horse
     barn burned down. Nearly all the families sent their children to school 
     with a horse and buggy. All the horses were in the barn, and all were
     destroyed except one.
          There was a small town east of the school that was called Lawndale. It
     was hit by a tornado that did a lot of damage. There were quite a bunch of
     mules there and they were so terribly injured that all had to be destroyed.
          The Hart's took their eggs and cream in a spring wagon to Isabel and
     traded at the Williams Store.
          In 1924 the Harts moved to Sedgwick County, south of Cheney to be
     closer to some of Mrs. Hart's family. Then in 1935 they moved to Kingman
     County. Elizabeth married Lloye Krase and they live close to Murdock;
     Marguerite married Paul Krase (he died in 1982) she lives north of Norwich
     with her son Dick. Lillian married Robert Seaton (he died in 1979), and
     lived for many years in Commerce, Oklahoma. She now lives with her daughter,
     Becky Moore, in Wichita. Dorothy married Gaylord Carver (he died in 1980),
     and lives in Andover. Robert married Marjorie Bruch, he was killed in an
     auto accident in 1966. Donald married another Isabel "baby", Joyce Reece,
     and they now live in Wichita.
               
     Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987,  pg. 87 
     
     Submitted by: Donald Hart and Lillian Seaton