Again they moved to a farm on East Chestnut Ave., where we lived for 18 years. After a few years they moved to a farm east of Arkansas City where 1, Gertrude, was born in 1903.

In 1898 they come by covered wagon to Cowley County with five children & lived east of Arkansas City on an island between the Walnut River & the Arkansas River where my brother Roy was born in 1899. Scott, Kansas for a number of years where Leroy worked in the strip pit coal mine. The families moved west & settled near Sedalia, MO where Leroy Thurber & O'Levia Williams met & married in 1882. The Williams family came from Ireland & settled in Ohio. The Thurber family originally came from Scotland in the 1750s & settled in Indiana. The Thurbers of Cowley County are descendants of Leroy & O'Levia Williams Thurber. Scanned out of the Cowley County Heritage book. They own Dust Excavating in Glenville Corners. Patricia married Ronald Dust, 1 January 1966. They raise Paint Horses south of Winfield at Fox Den Stables. Gwendolyn married Ralph Fox, 23 May, 1958. Traci married Kenneth McNutt III, 25 July, 1987. Day Builders, having built many beautiful homes in and around Winfield. They have always taken an active toll in the leadership of their church, and are devout Christians. Gladys was a Red Cross chapter executive, homemaker and mother to their four children, Gwendolyn, Shirley, Kenneth G., and Patricia. In the 1960's he bought a farm south of Winfield, now known as Glenville Corners. Kenneth was a meat cutter by trade, a carpenter and raised cattle. Kenneth and Gladys have lived in Cowley County since 1936. His mother was a sister of the Wittmer brothers in Ponca City, who built the Marland Mansion in 1927-28. Glen was part Creek Indian, German, Dutch, Irish. His daughter Mima married Glenville Anderson, 11 August, 1917. When the Strip opened for claiming, John was there. Not finding his brother, but finding a wife, he eventually moved south. The cattle arrived in Kansas City, but the brother didn't. John went to Kansas City, searching for a brother who disappeared after selling cattle in the Cherokee Strip.

He grew up when Jesse James was active in that County. Gladys'grandfather was John Bowman, Irish, born in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1858. Kenneth married Gladys Anderson, 1 December, 1936. They had six children, Clarice, James Samuel (Sam), Doris, Curtis, Marie, and Kenneth. They moved to a farm in Winfield, where Snyder Clinic now stands. Lee married Lula Curtis, 4 December, 1901 in Dexter. He lived in Winfield while he was sheriff of Cowley County, two terms, chief of police six years and representative in the Kansas legislature, He had six children Earl, Seward, Clara, Leatha, Bonnie, and Li3e. He eventually traded the farm for a store in Dexter. Cowley County Heritage Book, Cowley County, Kansas Cowley County Heritage Book

Gladys kilmer died