This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JN2.2ACIB/1496 Message Board Post: This is the only info I have on my great-grandparents. It was written by my aunt about 25 years ago. My father, I.K. Morrow, and my mother Emma Carey Morrow, were born in Coffee County, Kansas and were married at Yates Center, Kansas. There were five of us children: Frank, Fred, Clifford(Jason's grandfather), Elsie and Orist. I was seven years old when in 1909 the family moved to Hardtner, Kansas from Woodward, Oklahoma so my father and Frank could work on the railroad that was being built from Wichita to Hardtner. Everyone at the railroad camp just east of Hardtner and later moved into town lived in tents for a while. My father and Frank later worked with their teams doing various kinds of work, stacked wheat in harvest, hauled water for a steam engine of a threshing machine all summer and fall, and later farmed. There was no school until abou the first of January, 1910, when a schoolhouse was moved into town and the summer of 1911 a new schoolhouse was built. The high school was started in 1914 with three high school students and several eighth graders, and one teacher, Miss Emma Whitton of Kiowa. Frank served in the navy in World War I, had a homestead in Baca County, Colorado, and lived there many years. He married Minnie Hardin of Hardtner and had a daughter, Peggy. After Minnie's death he married Maude Rorex of Springfield, Colorado, and after her death he spent three and a half years in my home before spending some time with his daughter. Peggy and her husband, Robert Tolley, have three children: Shirley, Donald, and Judy. They live in Woodbridge, Virginia and Robert is a teacher employed by the Fairfax Board of Education. Peggy is a graduate of Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado. Robert is a graduate of West Virginia Tech, Montgomery, West Virginia, and Western State College, Gunnison; and he served in the Army from 1952 to 1954. Shriley attended Victors Beauty, Alexandria, Virgina and is employed as a teacher there; and her husband, Charles Moon Jr., is in the Marines. Donald is 18 and Judy is 14. Fred served in the army in France in World War I, married Bertha Myers of Hardtner, and was a farmer and mechanic. Clifford married Lousie Sutton, now Mrs. Louise Rebel of Alva, Oklahoma and they had three sons; Allan, Charles and David, who is deceased. Allen spent twenty years in the Navy and he and his wife, Mary, live in Oxnard, California. They have three children: Donald, 13; Brenda, 11; and Felecia, seven months old. Charles is a graduate of Alva High School and Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Alva, Oklahoma. He served in the Oklahoma National Guard and is a farmer northwest of Alva, Oklahoma. Elsie is also a graduate of Northwestern, Alva, Oklahoma, and taught school for four years in Barber County. She married Cecil Houston and they farmed and ranched near Hardtner before they moved into town. Cecil was a son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Houston and spent most of his life in this area. Orist served in the Air Force in World War II and was a farmer and mechanic. My husband, parents, brothers, nephew, and two sisters-in-law are buried in the Hardtner cemetery.