ERNEST - married Lavina Quinn and they have three children, of which Lewis died when young. Herbert and wife have one daughter Arlene. Louise married Elmer Tillberg and they have two children, Rodger and Janet. ALBERT  married Thelma Gawith and they have three children. Robert who is married and has eight children. Helen who is married and has three children. Louis is single and lives at home. GEORGE married Pearl Smith. They had no children of their own. HARRY - married Bertha Bright. They had four children: Raymond who married Phyllis Collins and they have one son, Curtis; Fern married John Blazicek and they have two children, Charles and Theresa; Ruby married Woodrow Ritcha (deceased) and there were no children; Jean married Lee Sellichnow and they have three children, Linda, Douglas and Debra. BERTHA - married Murphy Akins and to this union was born one son, Keith, who is married and has six children. CHESTER - married Elta Batcheller. They have two sons: Norman, who is married and has two children, Kevin and Kelly; and Larry who is married and has two daughter, Shellah and Sandra HARLEY - married Dott Bruce. They had no children. Mr. and Mrs. Jeremaih Watts are deceased; he in 1921 and she in 1950. They were followed in death by four children, Ernest, George, Bertha and Harley. The remainder of their children and a large number of the descendants are still residing in this community HORACE A. WAITE FAMILY By Horace A. Waite I Horace Alphy Waite, oldest son of Alphy A.. and Sarah Waite, was horn in Wadena, Minnesota, April 8,1888, in a log house on a farm. Two feet of snow was on the ground. I moved to Kansas with the family in February, 1906, locating nine miles nnrthwest of Marland in Graham county. I have Three brothers, Fred and Ed in Oklahoma, and Raymond in Illinois, and three sisters, Lillian Sawyer in Illinois, and Ruth McNay and Maybelle Waite in Denver, Colorado. In 1909,1 attended The Kansas Wesleyan Business College in Salina taking a commerical course after which I returned to Marland. On September 13,1908,1 accepted a job with a local elevator and continued there until May, 1912. On September 20,1911, I was married to Winifred Pruiett of Marland; her parents were from northeast Kentucky. In July, 1912,1 went to work for the Shellabarger Mill and Elevator Co. in Morland; In May, 1915, the elevator was sold and the Shellabarger Company sent me to Bennington to take charge of their elevator there. Except for the years of 1922 and 1923, which we spent in Idaho Springs, Colorado, I have been a resident of Bennington. I left the Bennington Elevator July 1, 1942. In August, 1925, as a side line, I took up watch and clock repairing; I studied four years with the Milwaukee Institute of Harology. Since July, 1942, watch and clock repair has been my main occupation. At one time during the war I had 150 watches ahead of me to repair. Winifred and I had two sons. Alphy Leroy - who married Velma Karn. They have one son, Alan; Willard Dale - who married Leota Rotrock. They have two children, Judy Beth, who married Donald White, Jr. and has a little girl, Allyson; and Curtis Dale who has one more year of college at Fort Hays; When we arrived in Bennington, main street was still a dirt street, no filling stations, no trucks, but a few cars and plenty of hitching posts. There were a  few tractors of experimental design. There were no marked highways. .The past fifty years have witnessed a vast.mechanical change. I have been a member of the Methodist Church since the fall of 1915 and I have held Various offices in the local church and was treasurer for 20 years. I spent sixteen years as a city councilman, six years as police judge, four years as mayor of Bennington. I also spent ten years as clerk of school board district no. 3. RETURN NEXT