We stayed In Oklahoma about three weeks. They had plenty of rain, everything looked nice, and crops were good. Good land was selling for $15 to $20 an acre. George liked the country and bought a 160-acre bottom farm for $2,500.
     We left the team and wagon with John and came home on the train. George sold his farm to Samuel Bottom and loaded his household goods and implements into a freight car at Holton and send them to Weatherford, Oklahoma the closest station. The farm was about 25 miles away. The new country developed slowly, a dry year or two and things didn't go to well. They stayed a few years and decided they could raise their family better in Kansas. They chose to farm four miles west of Winfield and reared their family there.
     Note: Arch added this comment after telling the story. "Those were the good old days."


EDNA KROTH

     Edna, third daughter of the family, born March 19, 1879, and died September 21, 1911, fell down the cellar steps when she was about four years old. From the head injury she became afflicted with epileptic seizures which continued throughout her life, regardless of much doctoring and every possible care.
     Edna was a bright girl and a good seamstress. She went to school with her cousin, Laura Loughmiller, who was nearly the same age. But the affliction grew no better and the family thought it better that she did not attend after she was eleven.
     She loved to go to church with her mother and her sisters and brothers and was very anxious to stay well. She would say, "Now, I'm not going to eat much so I won't get sick while we're at Church."
     A faith healing organization in Kansas City drew much attention to its "Temple of Faith." Ednals mother took her by train for regular monthly treatments. They stayed in a hotel and went to the temple but there was no marked improvement. A doctor from Kansas City came to the home to give treatments and for many years Edna was doctored by Dr. Reed from Havensville.
     When her mother became ill, Edna lived with her sister, Ella until she was about 30.
     Edna Kroth died in a home in Parsons, Kansas, and was brought to Havensville, Kansas, by train and is buried on the family lot in Buck's Grove Cemetery.


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