Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....LeRoy, Katie 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

MRS. KATIE LEROY

THE struggle and privations of earlier days on the farm in Barton Caunty were
still fresh in her memory when Mrs. Katie LeRoy was left a widow, in 1899, with
six dependent boys, the oldest being about twelve. But she has proven that she
was equal to the task of rearing them and managing her farms at the same time by
the condition of both; for the boys are as fine, healthy and gentlemanly a bunch
of youngsters as one meets any day, and the fields are in a high state of
cultivation. It is true that some of these boys are young gentlemen now, and all
are able to do a man's work on the place; but this was not always so, and the
mind that controled them and the hand that guided deserves to be revered above
all others. Women farmers are rare and deserve great praise when unhampered by
other ties, but when we find one who has carried a double burden through to
success we feel that all should worship at her shrine and say "well done." That
she has made a great success is proven by the fact that she owns one hundved and
sixty acres where she resides, eight miles west of Great Bend, and another tract
of eighty acres one and one-half miles south and six and one-half miles west cf
the same city. Both of these tracts are improved and under cultivation, and the
home farm has a large frame residence, surrounded by a beautiful grove of forest
trees, a large barn that will-house the stock of the farm, and numerous other
buildings that have their uses on a place like this. The sons, one and all, must
follow the lead taken by their mother and must all be rustlers born, because the
farm looks as well tilled as any of the adjoining fields, and we saw the very
best span of young mules, bred and broken on this farm, that has been produced
in the county in years.

[photo] Farm Home of Mrs. Katie LeRoy

  Phillip O. LeRoy and Miss Katie Geil were married in Barton County, March
20th, 1896, and Mr. LeRoy died January 31st, 1899, and lies buried in the
Lutheran cemetery, near the farm of George A. Geil in the western part of the
county. Mrs. Katie LeRoy is the daughter of Jacab and Louise Geil, who came to
Barton County in May, 1878, and settled in the western part of the county. She
is the mother of six boys: Andrew, George, Harry, Jacob and Ray and Roy, the
latter two being twins.


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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