Charles Rollin Inslee was born in Chase County, Kansas in 1883. He had
     six brothers and two sisters. When he was about one year old, he came to
     Barber County with his parents (Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus D. Inslee) and older
     brother (Redford) in a covered wagon. They homesteaded a farm near Isabel 
     known as the C.C. Campbell farm. In 1890 they bought the farm now owned by
     William Inslee three miles east of Isabel. There was no house there, so "Ted"
     with the help of neighbors built a house. While the house was being built, the
     children went to a country school nearby.
          Charley grew to manhood near Isabel, going to country school until 8th
     grade and doing things most boys do. He loved horses and did a lot of horse
     trading. He raised a lot of mules which were in great demand because they were 
     stronger than horses and could do a lot more work. Charley and his brothers,
     Redford and Dee, were in the well drilling buisness for awhile and did their
     banking business with Isabel State Bank. They put up a lot of windmills in
     Isabel which was known as "Windmill City" because of the large number of
     windmills in the town.
          Charley bought a small farm in Barber County one mile west and two and
     one-half miles south of Unity School House. He and his friend Charley Eckert
     bathched there in a little two room house for a few years untill he met Lulu
     Frances Bunch at an ice cream social in Isabel. She had come to Isabel from
     Deepwater, Missouri on a train to help her sister Mrs. Delia Huey care for a
     new baby daughter, Vera. Vera was born October 21, 1902. Lulu loved to live
     in Isabel with the Walter Hueys. She got a job as a clerk in Gibson's Dry
     Goods Store which had a variety of articles and lots of dressmaking materials
     for sale. She also sang alto in the girls glee club.
          On June 20, 1909 Charles and Lulu were married at the home of her parents
     Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Bunch near Deepwater, Missouri. After the wedding supper
     the whole family attended church at their little country church, Park Grove,
     where the minister introduced them as Mr. and Mrs. Charles Inslee. Their
     only honeymoon was a train ride back to the little house in Barber County.
     They were blessed with three children: Bertha Emma married Clarence Rucker of
     Sharon; Clifford Dale married Zelma Rucker, both deceased; and a baby died at
     birth.
          After several years of renting farms and raising wheat, corn and feed,
     raising cattle, horses and mules they bought a farm five miles north of Sharon,
     Kansas. Their farm had a creek, so Charley built several ponds and stocked
     them with fish. It was a setting for lots of picnics for family and community.
          Charles and Lulu celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary on June 20,
     1959 at the home of their daughter. Lulu passed away October 14, 1962 and
     Charley passed away November 4, 1967. They are buried in Sharon Cemetery.
          
               
     Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987,  pg. 101 
     
     Submitted by: Bertha Inslee Rucker