Henry W. and Wilhemenia Hellman movd to Herington, Kansas from Illinois.
     Carl was born in Herington in 1895. There were five boys and three girls in
     the family: Fred, Henry, Bill, Mary, Sophie, Otto, Carl and Melinda. Fred
     came to a farm west of Nashville before the rest of the family came in 1908.
     The mother was the first to be buried in the Lutheran cemetery in 1908. The
     father died in 1912. As Carl grew up he helped other farmers shucking corn
     and feeding cattle here and around Lincolnville. It was really cold in the
     winters and snow would blow in through cracks in the houses. Horses and trains
     were transportation. Carl helpd his brother Fred move to southern Texas and
     spent nine and one-half days on a freight train, three to come back on a 
     passenger train.
          Elizabeth Anna Flentje's family moved to Barber County (Ridge) in 1910 
     from Missouri, bringing machinery and cattle on a freight train. Mr. Flentje
     had come to Missouri from Germany. The family was Ernest, Marie, Anna, Emma,
     Elizabeth, Lena, Henry, and Esther. Farming didn't turn out to be as good
     as they were told it would be so they sold the farm and ran a restaurant in
     Nashville. It burnt down so they ran the cream station and Grandpa also
     worked on the railroad.
          Brothers married sisters - Anna and Marie married Kraemer boys, Emma
     and Elizabeth married Hellman boys. Otto and Emma were married May 9, 1918.
     Carl and Elizabeth were married November 3, 1921. Many good times were had
     by all. Emma and Anna, widowed, live in Nashville.
          Carl (Skeet, as he is known) and "Lizzie" farmed west of Nashville till
     the depression. They moved several times before going to Wichita to live
     with their daughter Betty and children Tom and Susan. Susan was 2 months old
     and had cancer of the liver when her father was killed in an airplane crash.
     Susan was cured and now lives in Oklahoma City and has a daughter and son. Tom
     isn't married and lives in Idaho. Betty married Marcus Holcomb, a lawyer, 
     from Buffalo, Oklahoma. They had a son, twin boys and a daughter.
          Carl and Lizzie moved back to Nashville in 1968. Lizzie passed away in
     August 1984. Carl lives by himself and is active yet. He has 10 grandchildren
     and 8 great grandchildren. Gene was their only son. He attended school at
     Isabel, Nashville Lutheran School and Medicine Lodge High School. He served
     in the Army during World War II being in the Battle of the Bulge and was
     recalled for 10 months during the Korean War. September 1951 we moved to the
     Hudson farm northeast of Nashville. We have farmed all these years.
               
     Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987,  pg. 91  
     
     Submitted by: Eunice Hudson Hellman.