Ernest Leland Huitt and Golda America Gibson Huitt celebrated their 50th
     wedding anniversary in 1959. They were still living on the farm they had moved
     to not long after their marriage, at the Gibson ranch home, on March 9, 1909.
     They also observed their 57th anniversary there.
          Ernest was born near Ellinwood, September 6, 1879, and Gold was born in
     Sullivan County, in northern Missouri, April 11, 1884. Ern, as his friends knew
     him, grew up around Ellinwood and worked at various jobs during his teen years.
     He learned the well-drilling trade and for a while was the delivery man for
     ice and kegs of beer for M.K. Wolff Mercantile in Ellinwood.
          He moved to Isabel with his folks in 1901, and lived one mile east of
     town. He joined the Navy and served for four years, much of this time on the
     U.S.S. Marblehead. He went to Alaska, the Phillipines, Hawaii, the Panama
     Canal and the west coasts of both North and South America. He was among the
     navy personnel taken ashore to help, after the big San Francisco earthquake
     and fire in 1906.
          Golda Gibson moved with her family to Barber County in 1897. She went
     to school at the old Grandview school north of Medicine Lodge and they lived
     on a rance on Elm Creek. Later they moved to a ranch southwest of Isabel. She
     sewed beautifully, and when Chester I. Long of Medicine Lodge, was a senator
     from Kansas, she accompanied his family to Washington D.C., to help with their
     girls and the sewing.
          Ern and Golda lived one mile southwest of Isabel and farmed, raised gardens,
     animals and trees, and enjoyed their neighbors and country life. They had
     two children, Lloyd, born in 1913, and LaVeda, born in 1918. Lloyd became a
     lawyer, LaVeda a housewife and teacher. Ern liked his machinery and Golda was
     very successful with her gardens and flowers. Ern died in 1966, Lloyd in 1970,
     and Golda in 1972. Ern and golda are buried in the Isabel Cemetery. Lloyd is
     buried in a Tulsa cemetery. His widow and three children and their families still
     live in the Tulsa area. LaVeda lives in Pratt, Kansas.
               
     Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987,  pg. 100  
     
     Submitted by: LaVeda Huitt Carpenter