calling square dances when a small boy and later around the Emmett neighborhood. He is now employed as Superintendent of the Ted Thompson Dehydration Plant. Margaret Mary has done clerking and booking periodically. Kenneth graduated from Washburn University and had one year of post graduate work in law and is now assistant manager of a Topeka business firm. His wife, Nancy, graduated from Kansas University at Lawrence, Kans., and teaches elementary school. Mary Kay attended Washburn University and one year then beautician school. The family enjoy sports as Ken played football for two years at Washburn and Mary Kay was cheer leader for two years. Robert Eugene Perry is overseer of the hay crew at Thompson's Dehydration Plant. His children, Diana, Ronald and Peggy are in high school at Shawnee Heights High School near Topeka. Lawrence Melvin Perry grew up in the Mount Olive and Buck's Grove communities, graduating from Havenoville High School where he played football and spent his extra time working on a farm doing both dairying and general farm work. In 1947 he became a lineman for Neale Construction Company of Topeka. During this time he was married and continued working through the mid-west states. After spending two years in the service, he returned to his family in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, and was employed by Western Power Telephone Company and a line- man. At present he works as an installer for the company. Larry enjoys bowling and has participated in bowling competition. Lorna Mae Perry lives near Topeka and in addition to carying for her active family, is active in 4-H work. She operated a 4-H stand at the Mid America Fair in Topeka recently (1964). Her daughter, Linda, attends Seaman Rural High, Connie is in junior high school and the other children attend Rochester grade school. Her husband, Ora Graves works also. All of Leroy's girls and Lorna's girls are expert seamstresses and in spite of being young, they make most all of their clothes. Clyde Sipes is very interested in art and did a great deal of art work while in high school.

ORLENA LOUGHMILLER BEACH

     Orlena Loughmiller Beach, born in New Albany, Indiana, 1848, came to Easton, Kansas, with her parents when she was six years old. Later she moved with her parents to Jackson County, Kansas, and married Joseph Fish Beach in 1870. They started their home in one of the three rock houses, landmarks for nearly a century in the Buck's Grove community. Simeon, Joseph and Obil were the three Beach brothers, sons of Obil Oren and Rachel Beach, very early settlers from Ohio. Simeon married Sarah Dunn and Obil lost his wife, Eva Loughmiller, after a short year of marriage. The Beaches had a rock quarry in the hills on their land. All the rock was cut by hand, but they developed and built several stone houses. Grandmother Beach asked for the roof design, taken from a picture in the family Bible. The houses


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